Cinéclub Podcast

Episode #24 - Claude Chabrol with Catherine Wheatley

Cinéclub Podcast number 24 is a conversation with Catherine Wheatley about Claude Chabrol. Chabrol is a favourite of mine and I’ve wanted to do an episode on him ever si

Episode #23 - Lorenza Mazzetti with Brighid Lowe and Henry K. Miller

Cinéclub Podcast number 23 is a conversation with Brighid Lowe and Henry K. Miller about Lorenza Mazzetti. Mazzetti was an Italian-born filmmaker who met her best-known

Episode #22 - Skate videos with Neil Macdonald and Dan Magee

Cinéclub Podcast #22 is a conversation with Neil MacDonald and Dan Magee about skate videos. This is a topic that’s been on my wishlist of episodes for a long time. When

Episode #21 - Scorpio Films with Nico B.

Cinéclub Podcast number 21 is a conversation with Nico Bruinsma, usually known as Nico B., of the Blu-Ray label Cult Epics. Nico’s name has come up on the show before, be

Episode #20 - A Ghost Story for Christmas B-sides w/ Ray Newman

The BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series ran from 1971 to 1978, and there are just eight episodes. But there is also a whole constellation of other films that have a

Episode #19 - La Machine (Paul Vecchiali, 1977) w/ Nick Newman

Cinéclub Podcast number 19 is a special episode because it’s a tie-in with the release of the second edition of the Cinéclub fanzine. This issue features an article on Co

Episode #18 - Ed Wood with Will Sloan

Cinéclub Podcast #18 is a conversation with Will Sloan. You may know Will from his own podcasts: The Important Cinema Club which he co-hosts with Justin Decloux and Micha

Episode #17 - Marleen Gorris with Sue Thornham

Cinéclub Podcast #17 is a conversation with Sue Thornham on the Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris. Gorris made her debut with A Question of Silence in 1982. A provo

Episode #16 - Greta Snider

Cinéclub Podcast episode 16 is a conversation with the San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker Greta Snider. (In the podcast intro I say it’s episode 15 and I can’t fi

Episode #15 - Stag movies with Dan Erdman

Cinéclub podcast episode #15 is a conversation with Dan Erdman. As Dan mentions in the episode, his background is in archiving and preservation, and he works for the Chic

Episode #14 - Dogma 95 at 30 with Richard T. Kelly

In March 1995, the Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier stood on stage in the Odeon cinema in Paris, then holding a conference celebrating cinema’s first century, and read the

Episode #13 - James Williamson

When the French film historian George Sadoul coined the term ‘The Brighton School’ in 1945, he was primarily referring to two important filmmakers who began working in th

Episode #12 - John Smith

Happy new year, and welcome to Cinéclub podcast number 12. For this episode I was very lucky to talk with John Smith, a London-based experimental filmmaker who has been w

Episode #11 - The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum with Julian Preece

Cinéclub Podcast #11 is the second edition of the podcast designed to tie in with the release of the Cinéclub fanzine, which came out last month. The zine features a big

Episode #10 - Film fanzines special w/ Teal Triggs and Jay Hinman.

This is a very special edition of the podcast because it’s a celebration of the first Cineclub Fanzine which is now available. It’s 52 pages and covers cinematic represen

Episode #9 - Toby Amies

Cinéclub episode #9 is a conversation with Toby Amies. Toby is a documentary filmmaker, director of the features The Man Whose Mind Exploded from 2012, and In The Court o

Episode #8 - Metahaven on Digital Tarkovsky

Cinéclub Podcast #8 is a conversation with Daniel van der Velden, who works alongside Vinca Kruk under the name Metahaven. They are based in the Netherlands and produce a

Episode #7 - John Higgs on Bond, The Beatles and the KLF on film

Cinéclub Podcast #7 is a conversation with John Higgs, author of books such as William Blake vs The World, I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary and Strang

Episode #6 - Film clubs special, with Ciné-Real and Electric Blue

In 2024, things might look bleak for communal film culture. Cinema attendance has been stubborn to return to pre-pandemic levels, and the abundance of choice on streaming

Episode #5 - Waldemar Januszczak on Beijing Swings

Content warning: Beijing Swings contains some difficult, disturbing imagery that’s not for everyone. Some of the links on this page should be approached with caution, and