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Celebrating Cinema

From cult classics to today’s popular movies, Celebrating Cinema, from Amsterdam’s LAB111, explores the films that shape how we see the world. Each week, Laura Gommans (film journalist), Hugo Emmerzael (film critic), Kiriko Mechanicus (filmmaker), and Tom Ooms (film programmer) take turns diving into movies old and new — revealing what they tell us about ourselves, our culture, and the times we live in. Insightful, nostalgic, and sometimes delightfully absurd, this is a podcast for anyone who loves

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00:18:47

Splendid Isolation (2022): A Conversation with...

Celebrating Cinema ·

2022/07/08

Here to discuss her latest film Splendid Isolation (2022) and the poetry of cinema, Urszula Antoniak candidly shares why this is a film to be experienced. A 73-minute allegory that invites us all to reflect on our collective confrontation with death in recent years. Find out why Urszula sees this as an uplifting story of our own mortality. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lab111/message

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00:47:35

Tilda Swinton: Renaissance Woman, Chameleon & Muse

Celebrating Cinema ·

2022/07/07

With Joanna Hogg's sequel to her highly autobiographical film The Souvenir (2019), we take a look at one of its stars - Tilda Swinton. There has always been a certain indefinable quality to her iconic acting, refusing to ever be type-casted to a particular role. Tilda has continued to evolve with her incredible range of performances, becoming the muse for many auteurs. What makes her otherworldly, androgynous presence so unique and how does it relate to the roles she picks? Listen to our personal

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00:25:19

Nowhere Special (2020): A Conversation with Uberto...

Celebrating Cinema ·

2022/06/23

Listen to Uberto Pasolini's journey to becoming a filmmaker. After leaving the banking industry early on to pursue a career in film, it was only a matter of time before Uberto would transition from producer to director. With his latest film Nowhere Special (2020), a tender portrait of an intimate father and son relationship, we hear how Uberto develops true stories into touching cinematic moments and the fortuity of getting the best from child actors. --- Send in a voice message:

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00:43:27

Dispatch: Cannes Film Festival 2022

Celebrating Cinema ·

2022/06/15

Recorded live from the French airport Nice, Hugo & Tom recap their rollercoaster experience of Cannes Film Festival. This dispatch finally arrives from the delayed luggage carousel packed with hot takes and films to look out for, as well as stories of Tom's lavish escapades. From Tom's maiden voyage to Hugo being a seasoned attendee, does the spectacle of Cannes live up to its grand illusion? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lab111/message

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01:08:50

The World of David Cronenberg: Crimes of the Future...

Celebrating Cinema ·

2022/06/02

With David Cronenberg's latest film Crimes of the Future (2022) out now in cinemas, we delve deep into the Cronenberg universe, exploring this polarising figure and his portrayal of everything grotesque, sexual and visceral. Are we afraid to be physically moved by cinema or do we enjoy the perversions we are shown? Find out if we can stomach (literally) all things Cronenberg. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lab111/message

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00:51:44

The Soundtracks of Ennio Morricone (with Kim Kokosky...

Celebrating Cinema ·

2022/04/29

When it comes to film composers, is there anyone more iconic, influential and inimitable than Italian composer Ennio Morricone? We explore the answer with the new, comprehensive documentary Ennio: Il Maestro (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2021) as our guide. In this episode we celebrate the maestro, delving deep into his musical archive. Our first returning guest, director Kim Kokosky Deforchaux, joins us this time as a crazed-fan, offering his personal favourites of Ennio and exploring what made his style so

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00:21:23

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021): A...

Celebrating Cinema ·

2022/04/26

Once proclaimed the most beautiful boy in the world by Italian director Luchino Visconti, former teen star Björn Andrésen has forever been marked by this and what followed after starring as Tadzio in Visconti's Death in Venice (1971). Speaking with Elliot, Björn candidly shares what it was like to revisit these experiences during the filming of the newly released documentary The Most Beautiful Boy In The World (Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri, 2021). --- Send in a voice message:

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00:26:07

Hatching (2022): A Conversation with Hanna Bergholm

Celebrating Cinema ·

2022/04/07

A teenage girl discovers an egg that starts to hatch... Finnish director Hanna Bergholm joins Hugo to discuss her gripping feature debut Hatching (2022), which made its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2022. This body-horror, coming-of-age drama certainly packs a punch. From 70s horror films to working with the best animatronic designer out there, find out Hanna's journey to creating this thrilling debut. --- Send in a voice message:

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00:56:31

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - An Exploration

Celebrating Cinema ·

2022/03/31

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." It's about time we celebrated one of the greatest films in cinema - Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award-winning achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion, but what's the deal? Why is this film a timeless classic? Here to try make sense of it all, we discuss what this film means to each of us and how it's shaped our perspective of film and science fiction cinema. --- Send in

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01:49:21

Paul Thomas Anderson: Boogie Nights, Fuck Boys &...

Celebrating Cinema ·

2022/02/17

Back for season 2 and here to grace you with a two hour special all about writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson! Licorice Pizza (2021) has finally hit screens, so it's only right we take a look back at his career. PTA certainly has an obsession with co-dependent relationships, creating sympathy for unruly characters, and a true connoisseur of fuck boys but does it always pay off? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lab111/message

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00:56:11

Transcendental Style in Film (with Viktor van der Valk)

Celebrating Cinema ·

2021/12/30

With Paul Schrader's must-read book Transcendental Style In Film - suggested by director Viktor van der Valk - as a stepping stone for the last Celebrating Cinema podcast of 2021, our hosts discuss the different varieties of transcendental filmmaking and the way it impacts us as viewers. They talk about their film club pick, Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), and mention essential filmmakers like Andrei Tarkovsky, Chantal Akerman, Yasujiro Ozu, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Terrence Malick

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00:50:51

Christmas Cinema Comfort Food

Celebrating Cinema ·

2021/12/16

With both the festive season upon us and new restrictions imposed on cinemas, the mack is back and we're here to discuss our cinema comforts! We discuss our chicken-soup films that we watch religiously, as well as try to determine the common themes tying our movie choices that can reveal what we find comforting about our picks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lab111/message

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00:49:31

Challenging Guilty Pleasures (with Basje Boer)

Celebrating Cinema ·

2021/12/02

It’s about time we absolve ourselves of the guilt we feel when enjoying our personal favourites! Writer Basje Boer joins us again to discuss why we should be liberated from the stigma of loving overtly shlocky action films, non-sensical comedies, and schmaltzy teen dramas and romcoms. We question what exactly we are suppose to feel guilty of and how this can limit your own unique love of cinema. - We want to know what your supposed “guilty pleasures”! Send them in to celebratingcinema@lab111.nl with

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00:42:49

Gagarine (2020): A Conversation with Fanny Liatard &...

Celebrating Cinema ·

2021/11/11

With the release of their feature debut Gagarine (2020) in cinemas here in The Netherlands, we spoke with directors Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh to discuss the duality of Paris captured on screen. We explore how their magic-realist drama bridges the tensions between the romanticised dreamlike city and its neglected suburbs, united by a universal ability to dream and the importance of utopian images. Special thanks to Cinéarte for organising this episode. --- Send in a voice message:

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00:58:49

Clint Eastwood & (The Fall of) The American Hero

Celebrating Cinema ·

2021/10/07

To “celebrate” the release of Clint Eastwood’s latest film Cry Macho and maybe his final swan song, Hugo & Tom get together to discuss their very different relationships to this Hollywood 'icon'. On the surface this may appear to be a review of one man's career in film, but perhaps it reveals something about our own attitude to cinema. Is this the Clint Eastwood spin-off show Hugo has always wanted...? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lab111/message

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00:50:29

What is Expanded Japanese Cinema? (with Julian Ross)

Celebrating Cinema ·

2021/09/23

In conjunction with the upcoming Camera Japan Festival at LAB111, a celebration of upcoming and contemporary Japanese films, we explore our own personal relationship to what Japanese cinema offers. The wealth of Japanese films are too rich to ever justly cover in a single episode, so instead we are joined by programmer and researcher of Japanese cinema Julian Ross, to explore an overlooked genre of Japanese film - Expanded Cinema, a radical form that subverts our understanding of what cinema can be

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00:48:26

(The History of) The Summer Blockbuster

Celebrating Cinema ·

2021/09/09

It's the big bang of both our 10th episode and the origins of the summer blockbuster, although this episode is not quite like the high-end production of your usual Hollywood films! With Hugo at Venice film festival, Kiriko & Tom attempt to determine the definition of a (summer) blockbuster, is it more than just a "box-office hit"? In conjunction with the upcoming Suspicious Minds program, a retrospective of Denis Villeneuve's work, we also explore what is a so-called "intelligent blockbuster",

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00:47:21

Dispatch: Cannes Film Festival 2021

Celebrating Cinema ·

2021/07/22

Before our Celebrating Cinema podcast takes a summer hiatus, we had the chance to check in with our film critic Hugo, for a special episode on Cannes Film Festival! Hugo, part of a jury in Cannes and chatting to us from the French Riviera, joins LAB111 programmer Tom, who wrestles with his fomo, as Hugo considers this the greatest edition of the renowned festival. With his love for lists Tom runs us through his own picks and potential inspirations for future programs at LAB111, mixed with Hugo’s

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00:45:01

Framing Foods & Tomatophilia (with Joost...

Celebrating Cinema ·

2021/07/15

A director is much like a chef, and it is no surprise that directors often use cooking analogies when describing their own process. However, what is perhaps unclear is how a tomato actually symbolises the very essence of cinema, and why eating a blood sausage or a strawberry risotto could correlate to watching a Quentin Tarantino or Sofia Coppola film. Joining us in this celebration of food and cinema is film critic Joost Broeren-Huitenga, who together with his wife, Nienke Huitenga, also explores

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00:40:27

Special: Back in Business!

Celebrating Cinema ·

2021/06/24

We are back in business! Cinemas have finally reopened and we are here to celebrate. 4 proclaimed cinephiles and yet only one of us has enjoyed the grand reopening. We have our first casualty already caught up in the summer blockbuster heatwave. Join us as we revel in all the glories cinemas have to offer now they are finally open again! Tell us what has made cinemas reopening so special to you - celebratingcinema@lab111.nl --- Send in a voice message:

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