No.1737
Does anyone here listen to film podcasts? What's good?
No.1772
>>1737Fighting in The War Room
The Seventh Art (love that discussion of A Perfect Getaway)
The Cinephiliacs
They Shot Pictures
No.1854
I think the fatal flaw for film podcasts is spoilers. You can either watch every film – in advance – that a podcast discusses, or you hear half the plot of a bunch of films you might want to watch later.
I like The Commentary Track because it usually takes a broader focus – directors' and actors' careers, historical trends, film studios, etc. Plots points rarely come up because single films are only referenced in passing.
No.2008
>>1737The cinema snob podcast is pretty good
No.2015
>>1772>>2008What are these shows about and what do you like about them?
No.2020
>>2015they tend to talk about mostly about shot on video stuff or so bad movies in general and other type of stuff of that sort of film and other related topics
it's entertaining enough to listen 2
No.2034
Brett Easton Ellis podcast
Hate his books, but his take on film is quite patrician.
No.2043
>>2015>Fighting in the War Roomgeneral releases with a heaver focus on indie/arthouse stuff
good discussions overall
>The Seventh Artinterviews with filmmakers
>The Cinephiliacscome for the labuz, stay for the guests
>They Shot Pictures director spotlights
No.2045
Confessions from the Dark City – Noir podcast which seems to have stopped after 6 episodes. Too bad, because the format and production were excellent by the last episode.
Out of the Past – Another noir podcast. Two professors discuss many of the well-known noirs throughout cinema history.
The Projection Booth – There are a lot of general film discussion podcasts, but I like the range of selections here. They talk about Welles, blaxpolotation, Criterions, Manos. I doubt any other podcast would devote nearly 3½ hours to Waterpower.
The Lost Picture Show – Focuses on "neglected gems". Their episode guide probably contains a few promising titles you missed. Another cool show that has unfortunately stopped.
B-Movie Cast – Huge archive of episodes discussing hundreds of movies, mostly classic scifi and horror.
No.2124
Hey, I have been listening to How Did this Get made a lot recently.
I haven't felt motivated to watch a lot of films lately, but HDTGM really helps me. Only problem is that they focus on bad movies. The podcast is fun, but I'm getting tired of watching Tyler Perry movies.
Anybody got a alternative, that focus on good films. I have looked around myself and found this:
>Criterion Cast
The films they watch are great. But they mostly talk about stuff related to the criterion release. Image quality and such. The actual film discussion isn't that engaging.
>F This Movie!
Didn't actually listen to it, seeing as they only watched fedora core shit.
So yeah, anybody knows of a good "film club" style podcast.
No.2125
Shooting Down Pictures is pretty good.
I'm not sure if they would be considered a podcast though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wuAfkn7FnU No.2188
>>2124HDTGM is pretty entertaining, although I haven't heard it in a while.
I used to like The Flop House too (a similar podcast). Eventually the host that did 85% of the talking started to get annoying.
No.2519
>>2034Haven't heard many episodes, but I'm liking his recent conversation with director James Gray. Lots of talk about the evolution of filmwatching environments and the atmosphere/storytelling limitations of TV series.
No.2523
No.2680
If you aren't looking for super art house/critical acclaim film reviews. The Reel Nerds Podcast is pretty good. They review mainstream movies and oscar stuff primarily. The podcast is mostly about their opinions on other films though. The best part of every episodes is the What We've Been Watching part. Like I said, they don't usually talk about small time stuff but their commentary on bigger films can sometimes be really funny.
No.2918
This soundtrack podcast looks pretty cool.
http://eldiabolik.com/ No.2939
>>2918nice recommendation, i like this. and there seems to be a lot of film talk in between songs.
i also regularly listen to Johnny Trunk's OST Show on resonancefm.
No.3520
>>1854>The Commentary TrackEarlier this month it had a write-up in HuffPo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-paul-leiva/movies-on-the-radio-lend-_b_6607494.html
> Movies are no longer a curiosity. But being the big art elephant in our culture they are certainly worthy of our curiosity, the desire to understand how they came about, how they were made, what makes them work, and what makes them work on us. Professionally, this curiosity is the stamp of a hardy band of obsessives known as film historians. And in the best of them, that curiosity is melded with great passion and deep love for this now quite sophisticated infant art form. This is a grand thing and deserves to be celebrated. No.3862
I've enjoyed listening to the last few episodes of Ben Model's podcast. He composes and performs music for silent films and it's interesting to hear his approach to his work. Lately he's also had successful kickstarter campaigns to get a batch of "new" films on DVD.
http://www.silentfilmmusicblog.com/https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/silent-film-music-by-ben-model/id534447043?mt=2I mentioned his fascinating youtube channel in the silent film thread:
>>3745 No.3964
>>1772>The CinephiliacsI'm just heard this guy on the Masters of Cinema podcast. He made a good impression yet I remain a little skeptical that the academic world of film criticism isn't more than an excuse for longwinded overanalysis.
No.4466
>>3964
>>1772
>The Cinephiliacs
Can you recommend some episodes? I tried a couple and never finished them.
The host is trying to do a Marc Maron thing. But as with Maron, I think younger guests make for boring episodes. They usually don't have enough interesting ideas/experiences to make for a compelling hour+ conversation.
No.4473
>>4466
Personally, I love the following episodes:
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Matias Pineiro
Dan Sallitt
Gina Telaroli
Andrew Sarris Roundtable
Year-End Roundup (2012/2013/2014)
Kent Jones
Matt Lynch
J. Hoberman
Dave Kehr
Alex Ross Perry
Fernando F. Croce
They all proceed pretty similarly, but I'd say that all of them have something really interesting. The key is just to power through, finish some episodes and see if you like the whole thing. The film discussion at the end of each episode is always enlightening.
No.4480
>>4473
Thanks. Part of the problem is I didn't want to listen to discussions of films I haven't seen yet. So the episodes I chose were based on the film rather than the guest, but then the interviews went on forever.
I definitely want to check out people like Kent Jones, so maybe I'll give the podcast another shot (if I can track down Spawn of the North).
No.5056
>>4473
He released a James Gray episode yesterday
Anyone here listen to The Audio Assault?
No.5057
>>5056
What is The Audio Assault (they aren't big on descriptions) and why should I know about it? It looks like people from twitter talking to each other..
Thanks to the person who recommended The Projection Booth. I especially enjoyed the Logan's Run and Rollerball episodes. They actually interviewed the creators of Logan's Run who are in their mid 80's.