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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

Join us every month for a cup of freshly brewed culture! Matt, Julie and friends talk about films, TV series, books or games that have grabbed their attention.

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #92: The...

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2025/05/03

Does a killer title make for a killer movie? When Philip Kaufman adapted Milan Kundera’s early-’80s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being for the big screen, it made a huge splash at its release in 1988, drawing audience numbers that,… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: April 2025

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2025/04/19

Back in 2022, we did our first summer series: the Summer of Directors. The episode led by Alan focused on Robert Altman, the “grizzly-bear genius of American cinema”, as Ryan Gilbert put it in The Guardian. Back then, we discussed… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #91: Three Sherlocks

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2025/04/05

To many fans of detective fiction, he’s the greatest sleuth of them all: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. He’s figured in many stories, novels, films, TV series and video games, to mention just a few of Mr Holmes’ exploits. He… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: March 2025

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2025/03/15

What do our baristas do when they’re not podcasting or writing blog posts about Korean series, animated favourites, or their addiction to the Criterion Collection? In Sam’s case, he teaches at a Swiss grammar school – and he regularly stages… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #90: And the Oscar...

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2025/03/01

This Sunday, the 97th instalment of the Academy Awards, more commonly known as the Oscars, will be awarded in Hollywood. In keeping with the times, it has been an uncommonly heated lead-up to this year’s awards, and not everyone is… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: February 2025

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2025/02/15

For our February espresso podcast, we’ve got a very special treat: this month, Matt and Julie talk to British writer, critic, curator and film historian Pamela Hutchinson. Pamela, a regular contributor to the Guardian and to Sight & Sound, joins… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #89: Second...

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2025/02/01

It’s that time of the year again, when we look at films we didn’t enjoy originally and give them another chance. This time it’s Sam and Alan having another look at movies they’d previously bounced off of, and both films… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: January 2025

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2025/01/18

Sometimes they come back: in late 2024, Robert Eggers broke with his series of films titled “The” followed by a proper noun with the release of his remake of Nosferatu. Following F.W. Murnau’s 1922 version, a rip-off of Dracula so… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #88: Century

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2025/01/04

Welcome to 2025! We’re taking the new year as an opportunity to look both forward and into the past – and to do something we’ve never done before: for the very first time (no, Robin Beck, we don’t mean you!)… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast Christmas Special...

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2024/12/24

It is that time of the year again: snow, carol singing, and Bruce Willis crawling through air vents muttering to himself before he delivers the presents. Which also means: it’s time for our Christmas Special! This year, we’re taking the… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #87: Snowpisode!

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2024/12/07

It’s December – which means, it’s time for snow! And since the actual white stuff falling from the sky is becoming rarer and rarer in many places, your cultural baristas at A Damn Fine Cup of Culture are talking about… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: November 2024

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2024/11/23

We’ve covered remakes extensively this summer, but what about their often derided sibling, the sequel? We’re taking the recent release of two high-profile sequels, Joker: Folie à deux and Gladiator 2, as an opportunity to talk about sequels. Are they… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #86: Stealth remakes

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2024/11/09

For this year’s summer series, A Damn Fine Cup of Culture focused on remakes, from men who knew too much and trucks bearing explosive goods to planets that create their own remakes and finally to stars being born and dying.… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: October 2024

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2024/10/19

On the podcast, we’ve talked about festivals before, both about specific festivals (such as Queersicht, the annual LGBTIAQ+ film festival held in Bern, Switzerland) and about the experience of going to cultural festivals of any kind. Autumn is festival season,… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #85: Halloween...

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2024/10/05

The 1970s were a bad time for men travelling in Europe, doubly so if they were following the traces of a mysterious girl, and triply so if they weren’t good at listening to advice. Before you know it, you meet… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: September 2024

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2024/09/21

We’ve talked about the Alien franchise before on our podcast, so we didn’t want to miss the opportunity presented by the release of the latest addition to the series, Alien: Romulus, which came out in August. Join Sam and Alan… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #84: Summer of...

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2024/09/07

Our Summer of Remakes is coming to an end, with a conversation about not one, two, three or four films, but a whopping five, starting with What Price Hollywood? (1932), which was adapted in 1937 into A Star Is Born… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: August 2024

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2024/08/17

Imagine not only being a cinephile, and not only writing and talking about film – but doing this professionally: being a film critic is something many of us in the blogosphere dream of. Meet Alan Mattli: Alan is not only… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #83: Summer of...

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2024/08/03

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972), an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 novel, is classic sci-fi cinema: as can be expected of a film by Tarkovsky, it is intriguing, hypnotic, at times sublime, but undoubtedly also confounding and even frustrating at times.… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: July 2024

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2024/07/20

Summer is a good time to catch up on films and series – in this case, the Netflix series Ripley, created by Steven Zaillian and released last spring. The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted before, most famously as Plein… Continue reading →

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