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Film Critic Soma Ghosh
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A multi-cultural, polysexual podcast about womxn on screen and behind the camera. Film critic Soma Ghosh, often joined by top feminine artists & thinkers, deep-dives the latest and classic TV and films, combining English & non-English works. Clever, fun & badly behaved.

  1. Female friendship in Indian and Sri Lankan-UK films

    29/11/2024

    Female friendship in Indian and Sri Lankan-UK films

    Irish LGBTQ+ film festival curator, audio journalist, artist, poet, DJ and actor Caoimhe Lavelle joins film critic Soma Ghosh to discuss Taste of Mango and All We Imagine As Light, two films set in India, Sri Lanka, and British Suburbia, about female friendship, sex, male violence and love.

    40 min
  2. Women in Space & on the Edge of the World

    15/11/2024

    Women in Space & on the Edge of the World

    Comedian, journalist and poet Suchandrika Chakrabarti joins Soma Ghosh to explore why we like seeing women in space and at the edge-of-the-world in film and TV. We're watching Rebecca 'Dune' Fergusson anad Harriet Walter in the new Season 2 of Apple TV's Silo, extraordinary Swedish film Aniara - with its tender, existential queer love story - and the maternal side of the Alien films. Catch Suchandrika's live comedy show here: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/suchandrika-chakrabarti-doomscrolling

    43 min
  3. Mothering and Sadism: Ama Gloria and Presumed Innocent

    12/06/2024

    Mothering and Sadism: Ama Gloria and Presumed Innocent

    Writer, TED talker and Professor, Pragya Agarwal joins Soma Ghosh to talk about the "beautiful, sublime, heart-rending" Ama Gloria by Marie Amouchekeli and Apple's Presumed Innocent, directed by Anne Sewitsky and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ruth Negga and Renate Reinsve. We discuss alternative mothering, the healing wisdom of a child's point of view and whether a female director can rescue the screen obsession with brutalising women.

    37 min
  4. Mommy's gal, Daddy's gal

    19/03/2024

    Mommy's gal, Daddy's gal

    Losing your daughter to ISIS or drink: this episode, film critic Soma Ghosh takes a closer look at the big ideas in Kaouther Ben Hania's Four Daughers and Emma Westenberg's Bleeding Love, starring Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara. Let's think about destructive co-dependencies, the relationships between daughters and their mothers and fathers, and the truths families can't tell.

    27 min
  5. A Valentine's love letter to Juliet Binoche

    13/02/2024

    A Valentine's love letter to Juliet Binoche

    How Binonche is redefining the creative and sexual appetites of women over 40 in her roles today, including Pot Au Feu (The Taste of Things) and as Coco Chanel in The New Look.

    27 min
  6. Season 1 Finale: The Babysitter - is it OK to joke about MeToo?

    19/08/2022

    Season 1 Finale: The Babysitter - is it OK to joke about MeToo?

    Film critic Soma Ghosh probes a problmatic vein, in TV & film, of fake feminism that glamorises female trauma and MeToo abuses, while taking us through the Monia Chokri's zinging new comedy thriller, The Babysitter. Also touching on popular TV like The Undoing, The Morning Show and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Ghosh asks, "Is it OK to joke about MeToo?"

    29 min
  7. The Essex Serpent

    13/05/2022

    The Essex Serpent

    Avant garde historical author Nell Stevens joins film critic Soma Ghosh to discuss queerness, polyamory and watery bodies in Clio Barnard's handsome adaptation of period drama The Essex Serpent, starring Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Squires.

    40 min
  8. New Queer Cinema: Sirens & Camilla Comes Out Tonight

    23/03/2022

    New Queer Cinema: Sirens & Camilla Comes Out Tonight

    Want emotional nuance and alternative film-making in your queer screen stories? Maybe even some moral ambiguity and irony? Soma Ghosh considers what kinds of stories and cinematography queer female audiences want. She reviews two new films from the BFI LGBTQ Flare festival, uplifting rock doc Sirens & the Argentinian, sympathetically moody teenage story Camilla Comes Out Tonight (available to stream on BFI Player).

    29 min
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A multi-cultural, polysexual podcast about womxn on screen and behind the camera. Film critic Soma Ghosh, often joined by top feminine artists & thinkers, deep-dives the latest and classic TV and films, combining English & non-English works. Clever, fun & badly behaved.

Informations

  • Création
    Film Critic Soma Ghosh
  • Années d’activité
    2022 - 2024
  • Épisodes
    17
  • Classification
    Contenu explicite
  • Copyright
    © Soma Ghosh
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