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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 #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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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #82: Summer of...

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2024/07/06

Our Summer of Remakes podcast series continues with its second episode: after June’s Hitchcock double bill, we’re changing country (at least once) but staying with thrills and suspense. Imagine being stuck in a dead-end town, together with other men with… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: June 2024

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2024/06/15

Our June espresso is a special one: differently from the vast majority of our podcast episodes, this one had Alan and Matt recording in the same room, talking into one mic – and the topic of their conversation is the… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #81: Summer of...

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2024/06/01

It’s that time of the year again: A Damn Fine Cup of Culture is dedicating its next four main episodes to a single theme. After 2022’s Summer of Directors and last year’s Summer of Collaborations, this year’s hot months are… Continue reading →

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