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Podcast: Sundays and Cybele - Elements of Beauty

In this edition of the podcast, Graeme Hobbs looks at the 1964 Best Foreign Film Oscar winner, Sundays and Cybele, a profoundly moving and beautiful film.

A profoundly moving and beautiful film, Sundays and Cybele is characterised by wonderful monochrome photography by Henri Decae, and a script and setting in harmony with its subject of a traumatised airman recoveri...

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8th February 2010

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Podcast: Peter Watkins' Privilege, a prescient satire

Graeme Hobbs's takes a look at the latest release from BFI Flipside - famed British director Peter Watkin's 1967 film about the cult of vacuous pop celebrity.

Made after the BBC's banning of Watkins' 1965 film The War Game, Privilege is a prescient satire on the cult of vacuous pop celebrity and its relationship to media manipulation. Eluding easy reduction, it raises p...

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6th January 2010

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Podcast: Herostratus - 'the most influential of unknown films' and a key film of the 1960s

Graeme Hobbs looks at Herostratus by Don Levy, one of the latest releases from BFI Flipside and discovers one of his films of the year.

Described as 'the most influential of unknown films', Don Levy's Herostratus, conceived in 1962, shot in 1964 and 1965, assembled into a final edit in 1967, given its premiere in May 1968, and all but unseen since...

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27th November 2009

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Podcast: Maurice Pialat - Love and Death

In the latest edition of our postcast, Graeme Hobbs examines two films by Maurice Pialat on the big subjects of love and death.

Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble and La Gueule Ouverte are raw, honest depictions of a love affair breaking apart and a woman dying, yet Pialat treats these difficult subjects with such compelling honesty that wat...

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4th November 2009

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Podcast: The Marc Isaacs Collection - poignant and heartening snapshots of life

Graeme examines The Marc Isaacs Collection from Second Run in which Isaacs pieces together poignant and heartening snapshots of life that reveal people's deeper dreams, fears and motivations.

Graeme examines The Marc Isaacs Collection from Second Run. The three films - Lift, Travellers and Calais - are all based in transitional areas, from a tower block lift or a railway carriage to a channel port. Fro...

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9th October 2009

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Podcast: sleep furiously - The Aesthetics of Restraint

In this latest editon Graeme Hobbs looks at sleep furiously, a poetically-rendered portrait of a small farming community in mid-Wales due for release on DVD in October.

Graeme Hobbs looks at Gideon Koppel's beautiful documentary portrait of a farming community and village in west Wales. The film shows an exquisite aesthetic sense, born of a respectful restraint and an allowance o...

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3rd September 2009

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Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame - Education in the shadow of destruction

Graeme's latest podcast looks at this beautiful, poetic film which was made in the shadow of the now-destroyed Buddhas of Bamyan in Afghanistan.

In this edition Graeme considers Hana Makhmalbaf's film which was made in the shadow of the now-destroyed Buddhas of Bamyan in Afghanistan. It follows a young girl as she tries to go to school but runs into nu...

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21st July 2009

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Ken Loach's Kes - A few thoughts on Billy Casper

A chance encounter with a sparrowhawk while reading J.A. Baker's book The Peregrine led to a viewing of Ken Loach's 1969 film, Kes. Graeme Hobbs shares his thoughts on the film and its protagonist.

A chance encounter with a sparrowhawk while reading J.A. Baker's book The Peregrine led to a viewing of Ken Loach's 1969 film, Kes. Graeme Hobbs shares his thoughts on the film and its protagonist.

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17th April 2009

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L'Argent (Money) - a timely tale from 1928 of bankers and greed

The tale of an innocent man getting caught up in the wreckage created by the speculations of rival bankers is an apposite one for our times. This week Graeme considers Marcel L'Herbier's 1928 film L'Argent - Money.

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3rd March 2009

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Rivers and Tides - Andy Goldsworthy and the forms and rhythms of nature

Graeme Hobbs takes inspiration from last week's surprise snowfall and looks at Rivers and Tides - a portrait of artist Andy Goldsworthy, who uses the materials of the natural world to create sculptures

The recent heavy snowfall in Britain, and the unselfconscious wonder it provoked in many people, put me in mind of a lovely film portrait of an artist who spends his life trying to understand the forms and rhythms...

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13th February 2009

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Podcast: A Film for Winter - Alexander Sokurov's A Humble Life

Graeme Hobbs finds a hidden winter treasure in Sokurov's 1997 work A Humble Life, a bonus film on Artificial Eye's DVD of Mother and Son.

In Sokurov's 1997 film A Humble Life (which is a bonus film on Artificial Eye's DVD of Mother and Son), he shares with us a few all too brief and enticing moments in the life of a Japanese woman, Umeno Matshueshi,...

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16th January 2009

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Podcast: A Spooky Tale for Christmas - Ancient Lights

With the nights dark and Christmas just around the corner, this is a traditional time for ghost stories and tales of the supernatural. So, in a special edition of our normally film-centric podcast, Graeme reads Algernon Blackwood's 1914 story, Ancient Lig

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22nd December 2008

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