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PODCAST

The Brattle Film Podcast

The Brattle Theater, Ian Brownell, Ivy Moylan, Ned Hinkle, Alissa Darsa

The official podcast of Boston"s unofficial film school: The Brattle Theatre. Since 1953 the Brattle has been a home for film lovers to gather and share great cinema; showing an eclectic mix of classic, cutting-edge, foreign, cult, and art-house movies on 35mm film, digital projection, and now virtually.

tv & film visual arts

All Episodes

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Episode 65: Lost In Alphaville: Noir & Technology

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/11/14

For this year's Noirvember, we look at crime and caper pictures that center on technology as well as dark dramas that deal with noirish themes of identity and mistrust. Film Noir and Science Fiction are two great cinematic genres that taste great together, and we have a grand old time discussing how the tropes, subtexts, and visual styles of each criss cross and complement each other.

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01:30:28

Episode 64: Talking Documentaries with GlobeDocs...

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/10/15

We discuss our love of documentary features and the Brattle's legacy of screening non-fiction, sometimes in conjunction with one of our series partners. We're then joined by the programmer of one of those series: GlobeDocs Film Festival Director of Programming Lisa Viola, who gives us a history of that series and a preview of 2023's line-up.

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01:42:50

Episode 63: Walken on Sunshine - Christopher Walken...

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/09/19

Diving deep into the ‘80s filmography of one of our favorite actors, we discuss the unique performance style of Christopher Walken; his sense of humor, sense of menace, skills as a dancer, the many commercial failures he made as a leading man during this decade, and why we think all his '80s movies are all worthy of revisiting. Along the way, we get into many cultural aspects of the decade: Madonna power ballads, the Roger Moore era of James Bond, Golan-Globus fairly tale musicals, pre-CGI special

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01:40:26

Episode 62: RIP Paul Reubens & William Friedkin

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/09/02

We pay tribute to the late great Paul Reubens and his iconic film Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Then we take a deep drive into some of the lesser-known works of New Hollywood legend, Billy Friedkin.

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01:36:44

Episode 61: Thrill Ride Horror

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/07/18

For the dog days of summer, we strap in for an episode that asks, if there is such a thing as "elevated horror," then what the devil is unelevated horror? We try to answer that question with a summer series of Thrill Rides featuring giant monsters, killer AI, and demons from hell.

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01:28:42

BONUS: Quarantainment Favorites Revisited

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/07/01

In this rerun, we revisit an early episode that highlighted some small movies (and a couple of big ones) that are very much worth checking out.

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02:45:09

Episode 60: Reunion Week: 1948, 1973, 1998

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/05/23

We embark on our annual journey into movies celebrating their 25th, 50th, and 75th anniversaries in conjunction with our annual Reunion Week series. (Actually 10 days not a week this year, so this is a double episode!) With our upcoming Noir City Boston program entirely comprised of 75th-anniversary crime pictures, we spend some time on those as well.

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01:26:43

Episode 59: 20 Years of Independent Film Festival Boston

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/04/24

We welcome Brian Tamm and Nancy Campbell back to the podcast to talk about the twenty-year history of the Independent Film Festival Boston and the line up for the 2023 fest.

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01:37:21

Episode 58: Celebrating Celluloid

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/03/28

To celebrate "Reel Film Day" and in honor of the Brattle's commitment to screening 35mm prints, we dive deep into why we love showing films on film and why Boston is such a unique and abundant city for repertory cinema. We talk with our fellow programs and projectionists at some of the other five cinemas in Boston and beyond that continue this rich tradition. And we chat with some of our patrons, visitors, and fellow podcaster as to why they love the celluloid experience.

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01:53:51

Episode 57: More Of The Best Of 2022

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/02/21

We continue looking back on 2022’s best films via some listener suggestions for their favorite films of the year. We then discuss the Oscars nominations, the Best Actress “controversy,” the various rules and non-rules of the Academy’s nomination process, the pros and cons of digital color grading, and many other Oscar-adjacent topics we have strong opinions about. There’s never a dull moment around awards season.

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02:10:06

Episode 56: Some Of The Best Of 2022

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/01/17

We look back on the ups and downs of 2022, a year that saw some huge successes and some huge disappointments and some disturbing trends. This episode focuses mostly on the smaller films that people may have missed, but we start out with Top Gun Maverick and Everything Everywhere All at Once because we can't talk about 2022 in film without going deep on the two films that got people back to the cinemas.

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01:42:16

Episode 55: The Adventures of Antoine Doinel

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2022/12/08

We take a look at the Antoine Doinel cycle of five films made about the same character over a twenty year period by director François Truffaut and actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. We're then joined by Truffaut scholar Annette Insdorf for some detail on the iconic French New Wave filmmaker and her insights into these particular films.

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01:54:39

Episode 54: Marilyn Beyond Blonde

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2022/11/08

Andrew Dominik’s contentious new film Blonde, an ahistorical biopic anti-fantasy about Marilyn Monroe provides plenty of fodder for a lively discussion about the film and the legendary actress at its center. We take a deep dive into many of Marilyn’s movies, her status as an icon of cinema and of womanhood, and why so many people still feel so passionately about her after all these years.

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01:36:28

Episode 53: Strange Invaders

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2022/10/03

We herald the return of co-host Alissa Darsa with this spirited, all over the place conversation about alien invasion movies: sci-fi/horror settings, practical vs digital creature effects, blending sci-fi and horror with comedy, and squiggly little wormlike creatures that can take over human beings if we're not careful!

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01:30:03

Episode 52: The Story of Film a New Generation

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2022/09/03

Ian, Ned, and Ivy dive deep into Mark Cousins' own deep dive into that last decade of cinema. We explore Cousins new documentary The Story of Film: A New Generation as well as some of the films it highlights.

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01:59:50

BONUS: Summer Jobs Revisited

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2022/07/25

We drop our first rerun, both to celebrate the summer session and to bring back the voice of our co-host Alissa Darsa, who is still on hiatus. But first we play some more listener voicemail about favorite movie theaters, and Ned, Ivy, and Ian share some Brattle updates and news.

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01:55:45

Episode 51: Lost in American Road Movies

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2022/07/01

After listening to some listener voicemails, Ned, Ivy, and Ian talk about Road Movies and the Brattle's July 2022 series "Lost in America: the joys and terrors of being lost on the road in the United States."

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02:29:48

Episode 50: Reunion Week: 1947, 1972, 1997

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2022/05/17

For our epic 50th episode Ian, Ivy, and Ned are joined by the Brattle's head manager Alex Kittle for a deep dive into movies celebrating their 25th, 50th, and 75th anniversaries.

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01:04:55

Episode 49: We're All Going to the World's Fair

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2022/04/19

Ian, Ned, and Ivy are joined by writer/director Jane Schoenbrun to talk about their debut feature, inspirations, and early years falling in love with cinema at the Brattle.

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01:37:26

Episode 48: Thirty Years of Rom-Coms

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2022/03/22

We welcome writer and critic Scott Meslow for a rollicking conversation about one of the most love and most maligned film genres, and we discuss his new book "From Hollywood with Love: The Rise, and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy."

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