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Our March episode is maybe our most film-packed episode yet! We review big cinema releases, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part II and Radu Jude’s Don’t Expect Too Much from The End of the World, both out in cinemas this month.

Plus we give our full coverage of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival 2024 including a review of Tummy Monster, La Chimera, and an interview with John Archer, director of Janey, the festival’s closing film.

On our February edition of the Cinetopia Show, our team Amanda Rogers, Simon Bowie, and Garry Arnot, preview the IberoDocs Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival plus review the recent films AMERICAN FICTION, THE ZONE OF INTEREST, and OCCUPIED CITY. Amanda also sits down with the director of THE CASTLE, Martin Benchimol, to discuss his award winning documentary-fiction hybrid film set in the Argentinian Pampa region.

On our first episode of 2024, show co-producer Jim Ross and show regulars Clara Strachan and Simon Bowie join Amanda from Cinetopia (https://cinetopia.co.uk) to discuss three new release films in the UK, POOR THINGS (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos), PRISCILLA (dir. SOFIA COPPOLA), and SCALA!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits (dir. Ali Catteral & Jane Giles). Amanda also sits down with Rowen Henderson, one of the founders of Edinburgh's local non-profit THE FILM CULT and talk about some of their fantastic initiatives they've organised in Edinburgh.



Show times:

1:12 - POOR THINGS (directed by Yorgos Lanthimos)

40:11 - PRISCILLA (directed by Sofia Coppola)

1:09:20 - Accidental discussion of SALTBURN (directed by Emerald Fennel

1:22:38 SCALA!!! (dir. ⁠Ali Catteral & ⁠⁠Jane Giles⁠)

1:37:40 Interview with Rowen Henderson from THE FILM CULT - https://www.thefilmcult.com/

On the November edition of the Cinetopia Radio show and podcast, Cinetopia's Amanda Rogers is joined with show regular Garry Arnot and Amaya Bañuelos Marco as we review the palme d’or winning, Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) plus new release films including the Scottish documentary Loch Ness: They Created a Monster (John MacLaverty), which was screened at the Inverness Film Festival and the British film Femme (Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping) which featured this year at Edinburgh International Film Festival this year.

Amaya Bañuelos Marco and Amanda Rogers talk all things documentary covering IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2023, reviewing three films together, El Echo (Tatiana Huezo). Alreadymade (Barbara Visser), The Cemetery of Cinema, (Thierno Souleymane Diallo). Amaya also chats with director Juan Palacios who directed the film As the Tide Comes In which was part of the festival’s international competition. 

Amanda also sat down with Yi Wang, director of the Queer East Festival which is coming to Edinburgh starting from the 28th Nov-2nd of December (https://queereast.org.uk/).

On this October edition of the Cinetopia radio show and podcast, Show co-producer Jim Ross and show regular Simon Bowie reviewed films from the London Film Festival including 

Emerald Fennel's Saltburn as well as Martin Scorsese KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON as well as EILEEN.

Amanda sat down with Paul Bruce Director of the Edinburgh Short Film Festival and Jamie Robson, an actor who features in two films as part of this 13th edition of the festival.

 

On the September episode the Cinetopia show, the team (this month Jim Ross, Clara Strachan, Simon Bowie, and Amanda Rogers) cover four new release films that are currently out in cinemas: FREMONT (dir. Babak Jalali), PAST LIVES (dir. Celine Song), EL CONDE (dir. Pablo Larraín) and BROTHER (dir. Clement Virgo). Amanda also interviews Anna Hints, director of the acclaimed film, SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD. Anna won the best direction award for World Documentary competition at Sundance 2023.



Show running order:

07:00 - FREMONT (dir. Babak Jalali)

20:45 - PAST LIVES (dir. Celine Song)

49:00 - EL CONDE (dir. Pablo Larraín)

1:13:00 - BROTHER (dir. Clement Virgo)

1:29:00 - Interview Anna Hints director of SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD