The Cinematologists Podcast

Sinners, Warfare and One to One: John and Yoko

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dariollinares.substack.com Welcome Friends A bonus release this one, for my paying subscribers. I’m curren

Best films of 2025 and our final podcast.

Welcome friends. As always, our final episode of a calendar year is a look back at our cinematic highlights, structured around Neil’s and my top ten films lists. We alwa

The Clinical Trials of David Cronenberg w/Violet Lucca

The final regular episode of the podcast, not just for the season, but yes, for good, is a doozy. Writer Violet Lucca returns to the podcast for the first time since 2017

Taxonomy of the Lone Killer

Welcome, friends. I have to admit that I’ve experienced a questionable amount of pleasure in researching for this latest episode of The Cinematologists Podcast. When I s

Bonus Episode - Evoking The Cinematic in Sorry, Baby and Nickel Boys

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dariollinares.substack.com The notion of the cinematic is an oft-floated term: a kind of critical get-out c

Culture & Creativity w/ Gwenno

Gwenno, on the set of her short film, Tresor (2022) [Copyright: Bosena / Alex Fish] We have the perfect theme song for our podcast, courtesy of the musician, artist and

David Lynch's Lost Highway (featuring director Mark Jenkin)

As always on The Cinematologists podcast, we like to address topics of salience, but in our own way and in our own time. The death of David Lynch left an irreplaceable ho

London Film Festival 2025

It felt apt that Neil and I were both in London for this year’s edition of the festival. Over the years of The Cinematologists, we’ve covered a range of international eve

Don't Look Now and Then (w/Justin John Doherty)

Filming Don’t Look Now. Copyright: Peter Cassell. Neil and Justin John Doherty have been friends since 1995. To mark thirty years of friendship, in the latest episode of

PTA's latest, Redford reflections and some big podcast news

We are back! Season 22 kicks off with a stellar, loose, multi-layered, melancholic, heated and nervy, shambling odyssey of an episode, which befits the central discussion

The Cinematologists Present: Students on Screen

This special episode of The Cinematologists is a contribution to the Students on Screen  project convened by Dr Kay Calver and Dr Bethan Michael-Fox, to coincide with a s

Terrence Malick (w/John Bleasdale)

For the final [main] episode of this season, the 21st, we are delighted to welcome writer and podcaster John Bleasdale (Writers on Film) to the show, to discuss his excel

Pavements (& Videoheaven w/Alex Ross Perry)

Welcome friends. Thanks for stopping by and welcome to the many new free subscribers that have signed up in the last few weeks. A very special thanks to Helen , Blu

On being Audio-Viewers: A response to FilmStack Challenge #4

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dariollinares.substack.com Welcome friends, It’s been an somewhat frustrating uneven week of film watching

The Learned and The Learner

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dariollinares.substack.com Welcome friends. Thanks for lending me some of your valued attention. This wasn

Ryan Gilbey (It Used to be Witches)

With the podcast half-way through its tenth year it is a privilege to welcome back a former contributor to the show - read his piece on Clueless for The New Statesman tha

Tornado (w/director John Maclean)

A decade ago John Maclean made his debut feature, the brilliant Western Slow West (2015).It followed a run of brilliant short films and music videos, as well as some of t

Crime, Genre, Class, Race, Gender

We're back with an episode featuring just Neil and myself discussing a cinematic topic we both are invested in: The crime/heist genre. The core of this chat is an examina

The Doors & Val Kilmer (w/filmmaker Mark Jenkin)

In late March 2025 we screened Oliver Stone's 1991 epic myth of 1960s America, The Doors, at Newlyn Filmhouse at the invitation of regular Cinematologist, filmmaker Mark

Polish Filmmaker Wojciech Has w/Michael Brooke

As part of this year's Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, currently running in London, Michael Brooke has curated a complete retrospective of the criminally under-known Polis