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Episode 8 – Stories We Tell with Leanna Petronella

Episode 8. Stories We Tell with Leanna Petronella Welcome back to Season 2! And we’re starting with a banger. Truths are revealed, and crafted, in Sarah Polley’s documen

Episode 7 – The Handmaiden with Jacqueline Avila

This film has everything! Beautiful costuming, gorgeous locations, amazing camera work, but also some very adult scenes … and a live octopus. So viewer and listener discr

Episode 6 – Whisper of the Heart with Moctezuma Seth Gonzalez

This week I’ll trade you film talk for some book talk. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1996) puts us in a cozy mood to reminisce and share origin stories. Antiquar

Episode 5 – LSD 2 with Eleni Palis

When authenticity is marketed like a brand and “reality” is performed for the camera, LSD 2 asks: what happens when we can’t trust what we see? Replicating the visual lan

Episode 4 – Portrait of a Lady on Fire with Deborah Beck

Can we escape our fate? Why do we go back to a story we know well? In this episode of Watch Next, we revisit the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as depicted in Céline Sciama

Episode 3 – Gully Boy with Yuki Ueda and Koya Edoho-Eket

From the streets of Mumbai to the royal courts of Hindustan, poetry has always found its voice. What do the rap battles of Gully Boy have in common with the royal qawwali

Episode 2 – Battle of Algiers with David Salkowski 

From the rousing sounds that fuel resistance to the elegiac music that reminds us of our shared humanity, in this episode of Watch Next we take a closer look at the music

Episode 1 – Queen with Brittany Murray

In this episode of Watch Next, we talk with Dr. Brittany Murray, Assistant Professor of French at the University of Tennessee, about the 2014 Bollywood film Queen. The fi