Cinema Rising Jake

I know we haven't done a new episode in ages but as we greet the new year, we thought we'd look back at 2022, and look ahead to what 2023 holds.Featuring:Our holiday viewing, including Avatar: The Way of Water.A film directed by our very own Felix Dembinski - Letters to the PostmanOur general relationship to cinema over the last year.A run-through of new releases seen and not seen in 2022.In memoriam - Jean-Marie Straub & Jean-Luc Godard.The Sight & Sound list.What we're looking forwa...

“Nothing is more anarchic than power” This quote by one Pier Paolo Pasolini is the guiding theme behind the latest pairing from FelixWe talk two films about the unchecked cruelty of the ruling classes enacted on the less privileged.Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) The pro-torture porn classic by Pasolini follows four rich, insane libertines who force eighteen teenagers to participate in a series of torturous, humiliating rituals. Who’s Minding the Store? (1963) Directed b...

With our screening of Gamer coming up on August 2nd, we pair Neveldine and Taylor's anrachic, ahead-of-its-time cult favourite with Eugene Kotlyarenko's Spree. Both films explore the role of technology in an increasingly divided society, incorporating new media into the directors' vision. We also talk about Baz Luhrman's Elvis for a bit.Gamer (2009) We barely scratch the surface of Neveldine & Taylor's unfairly maligned masterpiece, but you can find out more about ...

Season Four is here. We start our deep dive into how the theme of "chaos" has been explored on film with a classic pairing from Felix. We take a look at Andrzej Żuławski's controversial folk horror/erotic thriller Szamanka (1996) and the 1994 disasterpiece Clifford (1994).Szamanka (1996) Starring Boguslaw "The Polish Bruce Willis" Linda and the then first-time actress Iwona Petry, Szamanka explores the violently intense sexual relationship between an archaeology professor (Linda) and a ...

Just a quick one - come and see Gamer on August 2nd with an introduction from critic and author Steven Shaviro and music after the film.Tickets here:https://www.cinemarising.com/screenings

For this season finale, we break format to pair a film, not with another film, but with a concept. Pushing the structure of a double-feature podcast to breaking point, we look at Billy Wilder's 1950 noir classic, then look at how contemporary film culture has transformed us all into a strange version of Gloria Swanson's iconic femme fatale - Norma Desmond.Desmond lives in a memory palace built from her years of stardom, fruitlessly longing for another moment in the spotlight, desperate ...