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Eavesdropping at the Movies

Eavesdropping at the Movies

著者： Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass
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"I have this romantic idea of the movies as a conjunction of place, people and experiences, all different for each of us, a context in which individual and separate beings try to commune, where the individual experience overlaps with the communal and where that overlapping is demarcated by how we measure the differing responses between ourselves and the rest of the audience: do they laugh when we don’t (and what does that mean?); are they moved when we feel like laughing (and what does that say about me or the others) etc. The idea behind this podcast is to satiate the urge I sometimes have when I see a movie alone – to eavesdrop on what others say. What do they think? How does their experience compare to mine? Snippets are overhead as one leaves the cinema and are often food for thought. A longer snippet of such an experience is what I hope to provide: it’s two friends chatting immediately after a movie. It’s unrehearsed, meandering, slightly convoluted, certainly enthusiastic, and well informed, if not necessarily on all aspects a particular work gives rise to, certainly in terms of knowledge of cinema in general and considerable experience of watching different types of movies and watching movies in different types of ways. It’s not a review. It’s a conversation." - José Arroyo. "I just like the sound of my own voice." - Michael Glass.All rights reserved アート
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  • 485 - Verity

    485 - Verity
    2026/10/23
    We love a good thriller, and Verity is one... depending on your expectations. It's reliant on three excellent star performances, Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett all charismatic and committed to getting the best out of the entertainingly daft screenplay. Verity does tricks on the tightrope between sincere and self-knowingly nonsensical, and is dramatic and funny in equal measure. On top of this, we discuss the nuance - such as there can be, in the context of a somewhat absurd thriller - of the characters' actions, how the opening sets a tone that might be easy to overlook, and the layers of irony and uncertainty built in to the themes of truth and villainy. And we consider some depressing aspects of the real world that the film reflects, including the general societal illiteracy and stupidity it unwittingly reproduces in its dialogue and the novelistic and journalistic writing we're shown; the new media environment in which the podcast interview has become at least as important as legacy media; and the sizeable and vocal section of society that's devoted to demonising women as manipulative, psychopathic, murderous liars. Recorded on 21st October 2026.
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    35 分
  • 484 - Digger

    484 - Digger
    2026/10/16
    Tom Cruise is great fun to watch as a boisterous Texan oil magnate in Digger, an ambitious satire from Alejandro González Iñárritu. It's a risky film, which we respect, and easy to enjoy. It's also a little too in love with its own conceit (a conceit kept from the trailers in order to spring a surprise on the audience, and which doesn't add a whole lot) and deeply unsubtle; arguably not too significant a problem for a film partially working in a register of farce, but still, we'd have liked to have felt a little more had been going on beneath the surface. Recorded on 4th October 2026.
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    42 分
  • 483 - It's My Time

    483 - It's My Time
    2026/10/13
    Birmingham's Mockingbird Cinema hosted the European premiere of Chinese comedy-drama It's My Time, about a troublemaking old lady who enters the world of speedcubing - solving Rubik's cubes as quickly as possible. We remark upon the various ways it makes the competitions exciting, its range of themes and its ability to treat them with both levity and gravity, and the contradiction between its subtextual and explicit messages. Recorded on 2nd October 2026.
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    31 分
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