discursion: a film podcast

Dominic Lash and Steven Roberts
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A podcast about classic, cult and contemporary films recently released on home media, with Dominic Lash, Steven Roberts and guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Episode 21 - Twilight

    04/17/2025

    Episode 21 - Twilight

    The year 1990 saw the release of both Twilight and Twin Peaks, detective films set on the periphery which do not share the same level of recognition. In this episode, Dominic and Steven celebrate the former, Hungarian hidden gem and consider aspects of auteurism and audiovisual style at the end of the Cold War. Our reference copy was a Blu-Ray released by Second Run, following the film's restoration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    46 min
  2. Episode 20 - Right Now, Wrong Then

    03/07/2024

    Episode 20 - Right Now, Wrong Then

    In episode 20 of discursion, Dominic and Steven take a second look at the twisty Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sangsoo, 2015) in its Grasshopper Blu-Ray edition, a film that provides two different versions of one filmmaker's travels to a festival where he will meet and become enamoured of a young painter (twice over, with different interactions and outcomes that we are invited to observe). As Dennis Lim writes in his recent book on the South Korean director, it is also possible to find in this film that 'repetition is both the realm of the banal and the otherworldly'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    56 min
  3. Episode 19 - Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

    11/04/2023

    Episode 19 - Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

    In episode 19, Dominic and Steven turn back the clock to 1941 with an almost forgotten Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, recently resorted and released for home viewing by the British Film Institute. The director's stylistic trademarks are prominent enough to rediscover and discuss in this story of family negotiating their paternal inheritance and wartime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    42 min
  4. Episode 18 - Infernal Affairs

    08/15/2023

    Episode 18 - Infernal Affairs

    Steven and Dominic return with an exploration of secret identity and stylish standoffs in the Hong Kong-set action thriller, Infernal Affairs, recently remastered and released on home video for the Criterion Collection. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    42 min
  5. Episode 17 - Medium Cool

    05/15/2022

    Episode 17 - Medium Cool

    Dominic and Steven reconsider Medium Cool (1969). This American cinéma vérité film was directed, shot and scripted by Haskell Wexler, who extensively used handheld cameras before the era of Steadicam technology, partly to track the violence surrounding the Democratic National Convention of 1968 in Chicago. Concludes a mini-series on the mobile camera (episodes 14-17). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    44 min
  6. Episode 16 - The Last Laugh (Part 2)

    11/04/2021

    Episode 16 - The Last Laugh (Part 2)

    Dominic and Steven examine a key sequence involving the moving camera in the second of two episodes dedicated to The Last Laugh (F. W. Murnau, 1924), available via Eureka's Masters of Cinema DVD series. Part of a mini-series on the mobile camera (episodes 14-17). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    37 min
  7. Episode 15 - The Last Laugh (Part 1)

    10/02/2021

    Episode 15 - The Last Laugh (Part 1)

    Der Letzte Mann (released as The Last Laugh in the USA), directed by F.W. Murnau, is well known for its 'unbounded' moving camera techniques. The film has now been re-issued within a boxset by Eureka Masters of Cinema. Dominic and Steven examine this German silent film across two episodes, beginning with the sympathetic story of a hotel porter stripped of his rank and community status in an archetypal 1920s modern European city. Part of a mini-series on the mobile camera (episodes 14-17). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    35 min
  8. Episode 14 - Madame de...

    08/01/2021

    Episode 14 - Madame de...

    Dominic and Steven revisit the Max Ophuls French classic 'Madame de...' (1953) which has been released by the BFI on Blu-Ray/DVD. Episode 14 beings a new mini-series of podcasts on interesting camera movements, the theme of which emerges in the course of discussing the film's visual style, performance and use of jewellery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    36 min
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A podcast about classic, cult and contemporary films recently released on home media, with Dominic Lash, Steven Roberts and guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Dominic Lash and Steven Roberts
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Dominic Lash and Steven Roberts
  • Show Website
    discursion: a film podcast