Talking Films podcast
Episodes
Trailer
What makes a film revolutionary?
Let's have a first look at Martina Drago's new podcast, Talking Films.
Episode One
Martina Drago and Frank Krutnik explore Orson Welles' masterpiece, highlighting its revolutionary technical developments, which changed cinema forever.
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Episode Two
Martina Drago and Frank Krutnik explore the social impact of Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955), illustrating the film's revolutionary approach to the topics of adolescence, toxic parenthood, and rebellion.
Episode Three
Martina Drago and Frances Smith discuss Barry Jenkins's new approach to black community representation in cinema, highlighting how the director combined narrative and technical aspects to create "visual poetry".
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Episode Four
Martina Drago and Andy Nall-Cain explore techniques and narrative of one of the best sagas ever made, Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings.
Episode Five
Martina Drago and Frances Smith discuss the social impact of one of the most successful and popular sagas ever made, Harry Potter.
Episode Six
Martina Drago and Catalina Balan explore a French classic, pioneer of the Cinéma Vérité, highlighting how it challenged conventions and issues related to ethnographic documentary and the problematic "gaze".
Episode Seven
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Martina Drago and Catalina Balan explore the power of memories and pain in a film that revolutionised the romantic genre, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Episode Eight
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Martina Drago and Irene Fubara-Manuel analyse animation filmmaking through the groundbreaking techniques of the first computer-animated feature film ever made, Toy Story (1995).