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[originally aired on EFHM 21st March, 2023] On our March edition of the Cinetopia Radio show and podcast, Cinetopia's Amanda Rogers is joined by Amaya Banuelos Marco to talk about the recent activity of the Save Filmhouse campaign and the recent protest outside the building. Also on this episode, show regulars Garry Arnot and Simon Bowie recap their time at the 2023 Glasgow Film Festival including reviewing the following films: Typist Artist Pirate King, Other People's Children, Sanctuary, and March on Rome. Amaya joins Amanda again to talk about the 2023 Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival.

For our February episode of 2023, Amanda Rogers from Cinetopia was joined by Garry Arnot to discuss our OSCAR predictions as well as review new release films: BLUE JEAN, a debut feature directed by Georgia Oakley, SUBJECT, Directed by Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall, NOSTALGIA, director by Mario Martone; We also preview the 2023 Glasgow Film Festival including reviewing the festival's opening film, GIRL. Amanda also sat down with the documentary director, MARIE LIDEN, who was recently nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer, for her direction of ELECTRIC MALADY

For our first episode of 2023, Amanda Rogers from Cinetopia was joined by Garry Arnot and Simon Bowie, and together they reviewed the following new release films: TAR, directed by Todd Field and starring Cate Blanchett; ENYS MEN, Mark Jenkin's latest feature film; SAINT OMER, documentary filmmaker, Alice Diop's first narrative feature, and Jerzy Skolimowski's EO. Amanda also interviewed Sean Lìonadh, director and writer of TOO ROUGH, a Scottish short film that has already won the Scottish BAFTA awards among many others in 2022.

Check out Simon's new film review project reviewsperminute.simonxix.com and Garry's review blog as well, https://cinemaperspective.com/. 

a trailer of Sean Lìonadh's TOO ROUGH can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Y8-pbBY9o

On the final episode of 2022, Cinetopia's Amanda Rogers is joined by film critics Stephanie Brown and Simon Bowie to review some of Netflix's biggest hits, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and Roar Uthaug's Norwegian monster flick, Troll. They also review Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave on Mubi as well as Nikyatu Jusu's film Nanny.

This month, Cinetopia co-founder and Director Amanda Rogers is joined by show co-producer Jim Ross (TAKEONECinema.net Editor-in-Chief) and show regulars Simon Bowie and Stephanie Brown to review the following films this month: Banshees of Inisherin, The Oil Machine, and Causeway. Amanda Rogers also interviews Jim Hickey, former Director of the Filmhouse and Edinburgh International Film Festival (from 1979-1993) who shares an incredible history of these two Edinburgh film institutions and their importance for both the city but also UK and international cinema, as well as Patti Mroz and Ali Campbell, two former Filmhouse supervisors and Bel Ingham, a former FOH member of staff who set up the Former CMI Staff Welfare Fund

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This month, Cinetopia co-founder Amanda Rogers is joined by show co-producer Jim Ross (TAKEONECinema.net Editor-in-Chief) and Clara Strachan to discuss the demise of Edinburgh's Filmhouse and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and the impact on the festival scene in the city and Scotland. The team also review Marilyn Monroe biopic BLONDE and Palme D'Or winner TRIANGLE OF SADNESS.

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02:25 - Edinburgh's Filmhouse & EIFF in administration

34:41 - Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh

36:34 - Blonde (Dir: Andrew Dominik)

58:50 - French Film Festival UK

1:00:44 - Triangle of Sadness (Dir: Ruben Östlund)

1:19:22 - Edinburgh Short Film Festival

1:21:57 - ShortCom Film Festival

1:23:10 - Outro and the month ahead

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