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Talking Images is the official podcast of ICMForum.com.

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01:24:28

WTH Happened to Godard in the 70s

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2020/10/21

In 1967, Jean-Luc Godard made a film called Weekend, famous for its beautiful tracking shot of a traffic jam and the collision that caused it. To many fans of Godard's work up to this point it is as if he was one of the casualties, or more potent: that this car crash is an apt metaphor for the next 12 years of his career. But why? Why do even ardent Godard fans, including those who followed and loved his work in the 80s, 90s, and throughout the 21st century hate or dismiss his 70s work? Why did he

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01:08:45

Rewatches: Broken Hearts, New Lovers and Lying Memories

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2020/10/08

Chris, Lauren, Sol and Tom try to decipher the power of rewatches. We will talk about: How our memories can be deceitful liars The films that broke our hearts Stories of rags to riches What actually change between each viewing And so much more

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02:05:10

Best Films of 2019: Our Top 5s

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2020/09/23

The time has come to reveal our very favourite films of 2019. In this episode Chris, Clem, Matthieu, Sol and Tom go through their top 5 films in detail. We also give each film more and more time to each film as we get closer to the top. The big shock here is that there were only 3 films that are on two lists, and even more shocking, no films were on more than 2 lists. There were 25 possible slots, and in this episode, we will cover 22. Pretty incredible, and some really big films did not make it

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01:09:07

Classic Westerns vs Spaghetti Westerns

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2020/09/13

Warning: In this episode Chris will compare Shane to Funny Games ... Hi all, In this episode Chris, Adam and Tom pull out their guns and join one of the Internets (and pre-Internets) longest standing shoot-outs - the battle between classic westerns and spaghetti westerns. You may also end up reaching for your guns and aiming them at us actually ... Why? Because we have picked two films to compare and contrast and neither are by John Ford or Sergio Leone. We will center today's episode on the most

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00:55:00

Film Addiction

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2020/09/01

Have you ever been in a situation where you realized that you were losing control? That you were watching too many films and that is was negatively affecting your life? Worse yet, have you ever experienced literal withdrawal symptoms? In this episode Tom, Sol, Lauren and Adam take on the somewhat gruelling topic of film addiction, and explores the difference between cinephilia and genuine addiction, and talk about how they manage their film obsessions.

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01:32:11

Film Purism: How Extreme Are You

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2020/08/27

Are you a film purist? And if so, are you an extremist? In this episode Sol jumps into the host's chair to see just how many of film purist Tom's buttons he can push before he breaks. Co-hosts Adam and Lauren join in for this gut-wrenching human drama of perfect cinema conditions and absolute respect for the artists vs. workouts, cleaning, internet browsing, eating and watching films on 1.5x speed - on your smartphone. The way that we consume movies has a changed a lot over the past 125 years. It is

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00:53:09

The Bizarre Origins of ICMForum.com

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2020/08/17

Can anything really go wrong if you just want to chat about films? Well ... yes it can! In this episode ICMForum.com co-founders Adam & Lauren are back to talk about the bizarre origins of ICMForum.com.

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00:43:54

The Decline of Film Forums: What Caused It?

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2020/08/05

In this episode we talk about a topic near and dear to our hearts: The Decline of Film Forums. Once upon a time there was an endless horde of IMDb forums, each with their own subculture. We had Mubi (the auteurs), RottenTomatoes and many, many more. Then, they slowly started to disappear, to the point that only ICMForum.com, and a few others, mostly the IMDb clones, which have copied the archives and kept some of the same users, are active and popular. What happened? Fittingly, both the co-founders

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01:09:08

Please Do Disturb: The Most Disturbing Films We Have...

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2020/07/24

In this episode we will explore the idea of "Disturbing Cinema", and try to figure out exactly what disturbing even means. To do this we will go on a personal journey exploring what disturbs us and why, and of course, to do this we will indeed list: The Most Disturbing Films We Have Ever Seen. So, please do disturb, as Tom takes the host's chair to explore his love for disturbing cinema!

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01:17:17

Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs Cycle, Part 2

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2020/07/16

In part 1 we looked at the first 3 films of the cycle: The Aviator's Wife A Good Marriage Pauline at the Beach We saw how each of these 3 films built and expanded on the same conflict of love and relationships between men and women. Honestly, they would have worked perfectly as a trilogy in their own right. However, one of the most exciting things about Rohmer's cinema is one of contradiction - thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Each of the three first films had this inherent dialectic within them,

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01:15:01

Contemporary Silent Cinema

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2020/07/07

In this episode we will talk through all of the major contemporary silent films, or rather, the few there are: Silent Movie Juha The Call of Cthulhu Brand Upon the Brain Dr Plonk La Antena The Artist Blanchieves And ask the following questions: 1. Are silent films simply the result of [b]unfortunate technical limitations[/b], which the medium luckily overcame - or are they a [b]unique style with its own merits[/b]. 2. Why did it take such a long time from the decline of silents to any kind of

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00:53:20

Mainstream Cinema: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly

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2020/06/27

In this episode Tom, Sol and Matthieu attempts to figure out what "Mainstream Cinema" even is.

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