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Queen is Dead - A Film, TV and Culture PodcastTaiwanese New Wave & The Value of Slow Cinema | Taipei Story | Vive L'Amour | Millennium Mambo #161In this very special episode, Dhruv welcomes back Prakhar Patidar (previously appeared on the "All We Imagine as Light" ep!) to discuss the Taiwanese New Wave of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s because, well, they both love its particularly sad, introspective, and -- yes, that dreaded word -- SLOW -- depiction of loneliness that engulfs every fabric of one's being as they stumble around a city so intent on looking upwards (to urbanization and Americanization) that it ends up looking down upon those who don't want to be swept up by all of it.
2025-09-021h 58
Queen is Dead - A Film, TV and Culture PodcastAll We Imagine as Light & The Gently Surreal Cinema of Payal Kapadia #138Hello, Hello, Hello!
In this very special, if slightly delayed episode, Dhruv & Amartya are joined by returning guest Cris (now "not the token queer representation for QID"), reincarnated host-cum-guest Aryan (from America), and first-time-but-hopefully-recurring-guest Prakhar Patidar, to talk about the film every Indie Awards Circuit talk show and Indian cinephile is currently talking about -- Payal Kapadia's "All We Imagine as Light."
Because everyone already seems to have written all sorts of essays and reviews on AWIAL (some of them are linked below!), we decided to expand the discussion beyond t...
2024-12-081h 50
Around The World In 8mm20. Dark | Popular DestinationThe question is not where, but when? Imagine a mind map, the kind you see detectives make on a board when they're solving a crime. Dark is like entering that mind map. You don't know where it begins or ends but you're sure having fun.EP 20 - DarkTitle: SecretsYear: 2017Director: Baran bo OdarWriter/Screenplay: Jantje FrieseCast: Louis Hofmann, Julika Jenkins, Andreas Pietschmann, Maja Schöne, Lisa Vicari, and others.Genre: Sci-fi, mystery
2022-04-0706 min
Around The World In 8mm19. Who Killed Sara? | Popular DestinationWho Killed Sara starts off with a bunch of teenagers, two families specifically, the Guzman siblings - Alex and Sara Guzman and Lascano brothers having the time of their life on a boat that is till Sara accidentally falls straight into the water while paragliding and dies. Accidently? Not really.EP 19 - Who Killed Sara?Title: It Wasn't a MistakeYear: 2021Director: David RuizProducer: Perro AzulWriter/Screenplay: José Ignacio Valenzuela & Rosario ValenzuelaCast: Manolo Cardona, Ginés García Millán, Carolina Mira...
2022-04-0607 min
Around The World In 8mm18. Alice in Borderland | Popular DestinationEveryone has suddenly vanished and the ever-bustling Tokyo is a ghost town. Alice in Borderland is all about lasers and deserted towns. You play or you die. Title: Episode 1Year: 2020Director: Shinsuke SatoAdapted from: Alice in Borderland by Haro AsoProducer: Akira MoriiWriter/Screenplay: Sato, Yoshiki Watabe, and Yasuko KuramitsuCast: Kento Yamazaki, Tao Tsuchiya, Yūki Morinaga, Keita Machida, Ayame Misaki, Nijirō MurakamiCinematography: Taro KawazuEditors: Tsuyoshi Imai, Shoukichi KanedaGenre: Sci-fi thrillerWatched by: 18 million accounts
2022-04-0607 min
Around The World In 8mm17. Schitts Creek | Popular DestinationIn a pilot if nothing, an interesting character will make you stay. That’s what happens with the Schitt's Creek pilot.Title: Episode 1: Our Coup Runneth OverYear: 2015Director: (Ep 1) Jerry CiccorittiCreated by: Dan Levy, Eugene LevyProducer: Colin Brunton, Kosta OrfanidisCast: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie MurphyGenre: Sitcom
2022-04-0607 min
Around The World In 8mm16. Maid | Popular DestinationWe follow the story of Alex, a young mother fleeing her own home with her daughter Maddy, in the quiet of the night. There is no time to settle in, even though she isn’t doing anything wrong it seems like Alex is on the run. Why this pilot works so well is it takes us into Alex’s mind, it shows her what she is going through and it all seems so tough that your heart is always in your mouth.Title: Episode 1 - "Dollar Store"Year: 2021Director: (Ep 1) John WellsCr...
2022-04-0607 min
Around The World In 8mm15. Money Heist | Popular DestinationThe professor, who is the mastermind behind this heist brings together a team of 8 people, people with very little to lose…the first hook to get the viewer interested - a lot must have happened with a person who is left with very little to lose and we want to know these stories. We are introduced to these characters - there’s a calm father - hothead son duo, the likable geek, the serious leader, the quirky wild girl, two men whose answer to everything is force. The professor sets two rules for them -no personal relationships and no bloo...
2022-04-0607 min
Around The World In 8mm14. Lupin | Popular DestinationThe conman of the pages leaps to the screen and we get Assane Diop following the footsteps of Arsene Lupin. Disclaimer: I call both of them Lupin, distinguished by a poorly attempted French accent when speaking of the one from the book and the normal Indian English accent when speaking of the series character. The Netflix series Lupin isn’t a direct adaptation of the book but heavily inspired by it, it’s kind of meta, the series inspired by Arsene Lupin has a protagonist heavily inspired by Arsene Lupin…so the plot and the protagonist's actions take i...
2022-04-0609 min
Around The World In 8mm13. All of Us Are Dead | Popular DestinationI watched something that is our childhood fantasies brewed out of boredom in geography class. Remember in the last episode I said this one onward we are going on a new trip: it is called around the world in 8mm - popular destination edition, I know that’s an unnecessarily long name but the original name of the podcast isn’t the haiku of names either.Title: All of Us Are DeadYear: 2022Director: Lee Jae-kyoo; Kim Nam-suCinematographer: Homayun PayvarProducer: Film Monster by JTBC Studios; Kim Jong...
2022-04-0610 min
Around The World In 8mm12. Iran - Taste of CherrySometimes, unfortunately, and unfairly, life becomes too much for some people, and Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 Palm O'Dea winning film makes you wonder can something as simple as wanting to taste the cherries again keep one going?Title: Taste of CherryYear: 1997Director: Abbas KiarostamiCinematographer: Homayun PayvarProducer: Abbas Kiarostami Screenplay/Writer: Abbas KiarostamiCast: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri., Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi Genre: Minimalist cinema Rating: IMDB-7.7 Rotten Tomatoes - 82%Awards/Accolades: Palme d'Or [Cannes, 1997]
2022-03-2712 min
Around The World In 8mm11. South Korea - The HandmaidenIt is the 1930s, Korea is under Japanese colonial rule, a con-man who goes by the false name Count Fujiwara, perpetually after earning money through fraud, this no strings attached with anything guy and an asshole, decides to con a Japanese heiress Heideko into marrying him for her inheritance. To help him with this scam, he heirs a petty thief Sook-hee to go work as Heideko’s handmaiden. And then begins the games to keep you guessing who is conning whom and who will betray whom because all three characters begin with similar motivations – a certain kind of freedom that mone...
2022-03-2118 min
Around The World In 8mm10. UK - Shaun of the DeadWill you survive a Zombie apocalypse?In this episode we look at Shaun; a modern-day zombie fighting the good old Romero-style zombies in a bit to save himself and his loved ones in the iconic sharp-cuts-synced-with-great-score visual comedy style Edgar Wright has mastered. Title: Shaun of the DeadYear: 2004Director: Edgar WrightCinematographer: David M. DunlapProducer: Nira ParkEditor : Chris DickensScreenplay/Writer: Edgar Wright and Simon PeggMusic: Pete Woodhead; Daniel MudfordCast: Simon Pegg Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Dav...
2022-03-0314 min
Around The World In 8mm9. New Zealand - What We Do In The ShadowsDid you go through a director phase as a kid? Also, what makes anything funny? We look at the art of documentary films, talk about second-hand embarrassment as a story-telling tool and try dissecting humor via Waititi and Clement's vampire flick What We Do In The Shadows.Title: What we do in the shadowsYear: 2014Director: Taika Waititi, Jemaine ClementCinematographer: D. J. Stipsen, Richard BluckProducer: Taika Waititi, Chelsea Winstanley, Emanuel MichaelScreenplay/Writer: Taika Waititi, Jemaine ClementMusic: Plan 9Cast: Taika W...
2022-02-1917 min
Around The World In 8mm8. Germany - “Nosferatu” in “The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari”Why are these films special? Not only did they pioneer a particular style of filmmaking, german expressionism which Furness describes as a style of art that focuses more on vital emotions, dynamic powers of the description...a creation from within, an intense subjectivity which had no reluctance in destroying the conventional picture of reality in order that the expression is more powerful. This week we look into german expressionism. Title: The Cabinet of Dr. CaligariYear: 1920Director: Robert WieneCinematographer: Willy HameisterProducer: Erich Pommer and Rudolf MeinertS...
2022-01-2617 min
Around The World In 8mm7. Russia - LeviathanZyagenstev's Leviathan is a tragedy that befalls a commoner as he clashes face to face with the high and mighty of the town. This is not an unheard story but that's exactly what makes for compelling it's a story that could have been set in India or Ghana or Canada or any country as easily as it's set in Russia because all countries and all societies rely on institutions such as the state religion, family so on for relatively less chaotic functioning and everywhere imperfect institutions and the flaws in human characters join hands to makes things complicated
2022-01-0718 min
Around The World In 8mm6. USA - Taxi DriverTaxi Driver is the story of a deeply troubled man. He can’t sleep despite working all day and spending hours at porn theatres so he decides to drive a taxi in New York at night. He doesn’t have any qualms about going to any parts of the city, just wants to get through the night. He clearly is struggling with PTSD, a term that didn’t even exist at the time the film was written and made. Well of course the disorder existed, we just hadn’t defined it properly. He is deeply dissatisfied with what he sees around h...
2021-12-0818 min
Around The World In 8mm5. Greece - DogtoothWhat works well for this film is that it has weird written all over it from the plot to the acting to the stylistic choices to the absurdist humor, everything calls for discomfort. The kind of discomfort we all need from time to time to be shaken into thinking about our lived realities.Title: DogtoothYear: 20009Director: Yorgos LanthimosCinematographer: Thimios BakatakisProducer: Iraklis Mavroidis; Athina Rachel Tsangari; Yorgos TsourianisScreenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis FilippouCast: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Christos Passalis, Anna KalaitzidouEditing: Yorgos MavropsaridiRuntime: 1hr 37mGenre: Drama ThrillerRating: IMDB 7.3, Rotten Tomatoes 92%Awards: Prix Un Certain Regard, Prix de l...
2021-11-2116 min
Around The World In 8mm4. Hong Kong (China) - In The Mood For LoveIn the film, we follow two people stuck in unhappy marriages so it's pretty clear that something will happen between them. This is not a spoiler that much the poster and the title itself give away. What leads to it, what is it that happens, and what happens after it is what the film is about. You might think that the setup is fairly predictable but don’t be too sure even with this predictable set up the film manages to surprise you more than once. Title: In The Mood For Love Year: 2000 Director: Wong Kar-wai Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle, Ma...
2021-11-1217 min
Around The World In 8mm3. Italy - Cinema ParadisoWhat is your earliest memory related to films?If you can’t think of the earliest ones, just think of any prominent memory you have related to cinema. The point I am trying to make is that cinema seeps beyond the screen. It gives us countless experiences, memories, and conversations. And you know who makes this point way better than I ever can? Giuseppe Tornatore with his award-winning ode to films and romance: Cinema Paradiso. Title: Cinema ParadisoYear: 1988Director: Giuseppe TornatoreCinematographer: Blasco GiuratoProducer: Franco Cristaldi and Giovanna Romagnoli Screenplay: Giuseppe Tornatore (story)Cast: Jacques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Leopoldo Trieste, Marco Leon...
2021-10-2918 min
Around The World In 8mm2. Lebanon - CapernaumThis isn’t a film that makes you cry, it leaves you desolate. It's a film that breaks your heart for so many children who have faced things you can’t even imagine in your worst nightmares. Nadine Labaki, the brilliant Lebanese actress and director, takes you into the mind and life of that child who stands by your window on traffic signals to show what it feels to be invisible. Let's talk Capernaum, the story of a 12-year-old boy Zain who like many children caught in difficult circumstances, has to trade his childhood for survival. Title: CapernaumYear: 2018Director: Nadine LebakiC...
2021-10-2219 min
Around The World In 8mm1. India - Pather PanchaliAll the good things you have heard about Satyajit Ray's debut film; PATHER PANCHALI, are true. If you haven't then you have come to the right place, let's talk about why makes this iconic film, well, iconic. How do you make a podcast in India about world cinema and not start with Satyajit Ray?It's got everything working for it, masterful direction, stunning visuals, natural performances, but more than anything, this is a film that takes you back to simpler times.About the filmTitle: Pather PanchaliYear: 1955Director: Satyajit RayCinematographer: Subrata MitraProducer: Gov. of BengalScreenplay: Ray, adapted from Bibhuti Bandopadhyay’s no...
2021-10-1519 min
Around The World In 8mmTrailerHi, fellow cinema lover! How would you like to travel the world one film at a time? Around The World In 8mm is a podcast on world cinema, created as a part of the podcast lab by India Film Project in association with Anchor by Spotify
2021-09-2600 min