Edinburgh Film Podcast

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Dr Pasquale Iannone (Lecturer in Film Studies) is joined by staff and students from across the University of Edinburgh as well as guests from the world of film and TV to discuss all aspects of screen media.

DEC 16 · VIDEO

EFP 51: Kobayashi's Kwaidan at 60

On the 60th anniversary of its release, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Film Studies PhD student Sam Warnock to discuss Japanese writer-director Kobayashi Masaki's extraordinary ghost story anthology Kwaidan. Shot entirely on studio sets in sumptuous widescreen and lavish, saturated colour, Kwaidan adapts ghost stories by author Lafcadio Hearn and is undoubtedly one of the most visually and aurally striking films of the 1960s. Kobayashi's biographer Steven Prince has described it as the director's 'most overtly and extravagantly stylized film'. Sam and Pasquale discuss the work of Kobayashi and Hearn more broadly as well as the remarkable contribution of composer Takemitsu Toru. They then move onto a close analysis of the four episodes themselves, discussing elements such as narrative structure, adaptation strategies, use of colour, set design as well as the film's textured soundscape.

39 min
DEC 3 · VIDEO

EFP 50: Film Phenomenologies (Part 2 with Prof. Lucy Bolton and Dr David Sorfa)

This is the second of two episodes focusing on Film Phenomenologies, a new collection of essays from Edinburgh University Press edited by Dr Kelli Fuery (Chapman University). Host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Professor Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London) and Dr David Sorfa (University of Edinburgh) to discuss their essays, both of which explore recent star biopics from phenomenological perspectives. Lucy discusses her piece 'The Posthumous Phenomenology of the Star Biopic: Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg in Seberg (2019)' while David tells Pasquale about his chapter 'The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe by the Coward Andrew Dominik' which takes a Sartrean approach to the controversial 2022 film Blonde. While this episode is stand-alone, the previous episode features editor Kelli in conversation with Pasquale. She unpacks the concept behind the collection, provides an overview of all 13 chapters and takes a closer look at her own essay, 'The Khôra-Screen: Responsibility as a Precarious Intimacy in Agnès Varda’s One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977).

52 min
NOV 20 · VIDEO

EFP 49: Film Phenomenologies (Part 1 with editor Dr Kelli Fuery)

This is the first of two episodes in which host Dr Pasquale Iannone and guests discuss Film Phenomenologies, a ground-breaking collection of essays from Edinburgh University Press which explores work by filmmakers such as Céline Sciamma, Agnès Varda, Bill Viola, Alex Garland and Barry Jenkins through a phenomenological lens. In this first episode, Pasquale is joined by the collection's editor Dr Kelli Fuery (Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at Chapman University, California). Kelli discusses her interest in feminist film-phenomenology, provides an overview of all 13 chapters and then takes a closer look at her own piece - on Agnès Varda’s feminist musical One Sings, The Other Doesn't (1977).The next episode of Edinburgh Film Podcast (EFP 50) includes conversations with Professor Lucy Bolton and Dr David Sorfa, who discuss their respective chapters.

35 min
NOV 3 · VIDEO

EFP 48: French Film Festival UK 2024 with Richard Mowe

In this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone previews the 32nd French Film Festival UK in the company of its co-founder and director Richard Mowe.Pasquale and Richard look back at the festival's beginnings in the early 1990s before exploring the 2024 programme which includes a diverse range of titles from France, Belgium, Switzerland and beyond. New titles mentioned include Toni (Nathan Ambrosioni), Boléro (Anne Fontaine), The Marching Band (Emmanuel Courcol), One Year, One Night (Isaki Lacuesta) and Dog on Trial (Laetitia Dosch). Also discussed are the shorts and classics strands.The French Film Festival runs across the UK in various venues throughout November an December. Full information is available on their website www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk.

25 min
SEP 28 · VIDEO

EFP 47 - Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival 2024 Preview

In this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone previews the 2024 Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival in the company of ESFF founder and director Marian A. Aréchaga and programming assistant Gustavo Herrera Taboada. Pasquale, Marian and Gustavo discuss the background to ESFF and explore some highlights from the programme, including opening night film, futuristic thriller Artificial Justice and music documentary Soy Rebelde. There is also discussion of the festival's guests and special events. The Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival runs between 2nd and 26th October in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Tranent and Inverness. For more information, please go to www.edinburghspanishfilmfestival.com

19 min
SEP 1 · VIDEO

EFP 46: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 Highlights

In this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone looks back at some highlights from the 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival. Pasquale talks to writer-director Jack King about his film The Ceremony, the film that won EIFF's inaugural Sir Sean Connery Prize for Excellence in Feature Filmmaking. He also speaks to BAFTA-winning writer-director Daisy-May Hudson about her film Lollipop. Pasquale offers some thoughts on two of EIFF's In Conversation events, the first featuring Gaspar Noé, the innovative, boundary-pushing director of Irreversible (2002) and Enter the Void (2009), the other featuring Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, best known for her long collaboration with director Martin Scorsese on films such as Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990) and, most recently, Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

36 min
AUG 12 · VIDEO

EFP 45 : Dr Sarah Artt on Women and Silence in Contemporary Cinema

On this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Dr Sarah Artt (Lecturer in English and Film at Edinburgh Napier University) to discuss her new book Quiet Pictures: Women and Silence in Contemporary British and French Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2024). In the book, Sarah draws on the work of Lynne Ramsay, Joanna Hogg, Lucile Hadžihalilović and Céline Sciamma to explore the different uses of silence which, according to Sarah, leads to new ways of looking, staring, and gazing. Sarah and Pasquale discuss the use of silence in film more broadly as well as the idea of silence as a ‘feminist aesthetic’.

43 min
JUL 25 · VIDEO

EFP 44: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 Preview

In this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone previews the 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival in the company of Director Paul Ridd and Producer Emma Boa.Paul and Emma discuss their vision for EIFF and its position in the wider Film Festival landscape as well as the advantages of staging the event in August.Other topics covered include the choices of opening and closing night films, the Midnight Madness and Experimental strands as well as the new prizes named after Sean Connery and Thelma Schoonmaker. The 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival runs from 15th - 21st August 2024 in various venues across the city. For more information, please see their website edfilmfest.org.

33 min

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Dr Pasquale Iannone (Lecturer in Film Studies) is joined by staff and students from across the University of Edinburgh as well as guests from the world of film and TV to discuss all aspects of screen media.