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Podcast: This is the Turksib crossing the border...Graeme revisits a standout release of 2011 from the BFI - The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail, which presents the Russian film Turksib next to five British documentaries that it influenced, including the evergreen Night Mail. In this podcast Graeme looks at the fascinating recent BFI release, 'The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail', which allies Viktor Turin's mighty 1929 film, Turksib, with a number of British documentaries...
1st February 2012
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Podcast: Le Quattro Volte - a film for the earsGraeme delves into the mysteries of one of MovieMail's Films of the Year and finds the cycles of life conveyed as much by sound as through images. A film to listen to as much as watch, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte is a beautifully composed wordless meditation on mineral, plant, animal and human life in the hills of Calabria. In what the direct...
21st December 2011
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Podcast: Szindbad - Irresistible BeautyGraeme is intoxicated by recent Second Run release Szindbad, a beautiful, sensuous film filled with deliriously lovely colours and extraordinary visual poetry. A beautiful, sensuous film filled with deliriously lovely colours and extraordinary visual poetry, Zoltan Huszarik's Szindbad is drawn from the essence of Gyula Krudy's stories about the character as he recalls pa...
17th October 2011
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Podcast: The Earth Dies Screaming - Classic home counties sci-fi from Terence FisherIn his latest podcast, Graeme celebrates the release of Terence Fisher's long-unavailable sci-fi film The Earth Dies Screaming, a spare, unfussy and atmospheric little film lent distinction by music from Elisabeth Lutyens. Lovers of classic British science-fiction films will be overjoyed to see the release of Terence Fisher's previously unavailable The Earth Dies Screaming (1964), a spare, unfussy and atmospheric little film lent di...
15th August 2011
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Podcast: FW Murnau's City Girl - writing, repetition and human architectureIn his latest podcast, Graeme looks at FW Murnau's silent film City Girl, and the way written information advances the story, and, when combined with the repeated actions of its characters, makes for an enriching viewing experience. FW Murnau's silent film City Girl is filled with written information that advances the story, which, when combined with the repeated actions of its characters, makes for an enriching viewing experience. In this...
17th June 2011
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Podcast: Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten DreamsIn his latest podcast, Graeme sets Werner Herzog's recent 3D documentary into a more general reflection on cave painting, and its relationship to us as humans now. In Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Wener Herzog descends into the Chauvet cave in France, home to some of the earliest and finest human paintings discovered so far, filming in 3D to make the experience of the cave and i...
11th May 2011
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Podcast: Lunch Hour - Looking Forward to the 1960sIn his latest podcast, Graeme examines an upcoming release from BFI Flipside - Lunch Hour, an intriguing little film from 1961 about a thwarted lunchtime tryst, made more notable by the inclusion of 'Trade Test' colour films. An intriguing little film from 1961 about a thwarted lunchtime tryst, James Hill's Lunch Hour, adapted by John Mortimer from his own play, expands from its modest circumstances to look forward to the decade ahead,...
16th March 2011
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Podcast: Articles of Separation: Karoly Makk's LoveIn his latest podcast, Graeme looks back on a much-admired DVD from Second Run of Karoly Makk's film, Love. Set in 1950s Hungary, the film creates a sublime web of visual poetry. Karoly Makk's 1971 film, Love, is a beautiful film detailing the relationship between a woman, her husband, who is imprisoned as a political prisoner in 1950s Hungary, and her mother-in-law, whom she visits, maint...
22nd December 2010
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Podcast: Shadows of Progress: Everyday CourageIn advance of its release on Monday, Graeme Hobbs looks at three films from the essential BFI collection of post-war documentaries, Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-war Britain (1951-1977). Containing 32 films totalling over 12 hours, Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-war Britain, 1951-77 is a major look at the changes and challenges to society, as captured by the documentarians of the ti...
19th November 2010
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Podcast: Vapor Trail (Clark) - Committed political cinemaGraeme Hobbs examines one of the highlights of DocLisboa, a political documentary about toxic contamination in The Philippines that explores its colonial history along the way. An object lesson in contemporary committed political cinema, John Gianvito's Vapor Trail (Clark) is an extensive documentary about toxic contamination from a decommissioned US airbase in The Philippines. Lookin...
1st November 2010
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Podcast: Disappearing World - a triumph of documentary filmmakingGraeme Hobbs explores this pioneering anthropological series from Granada Television originally screened in the early 1970s and finds some strikingly good filmmakers at work. Granada TV's landmark anthropological series, broadcast over three decades, remains a triumph of documentary filmmaking. In this podcast, Graeme takes a look at some programmes from the first volume to be released...
20th September 2010
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Podcast: Diamonds of the Night - startling and thrillingly originalGraeme Hobbs explores Second Run's latest release, an extraordinary debut film that follows the tense and desperate journey of two teenage boys who successfully escape from a train bound for a concentration camp. Diamonds of the Night was the extraordinary debut film from Czech director Jan Nemec, director of The Party and the Guests. Beginning with the escape of two boys from a train transporting them to a concentration c...
7th May 2010
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