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Celebrating CinemaDispatch from Cannes (2025)Reporting from the Croisette, host Hugo Emmerzael is joined by fellow film critic Savina Petkova who together reflect on two unforgettable selections from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival—films that stood apart amid a blur of screenings and industry spectacle.Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, led by a luminous Renate Reinsve, is a quietly devastating meditation on memory, loss, and emotional inheritance. Meanwhile, Óliver Laxe's Sirat propels us into a dystopian rave-scape, where pulsing techno and stark imagery evoke a world on the brink of collapse.Together, Hugo and Savina unravel the layers of these two very...2025-05-2825 min
Writers on FilmWriters On Cannes 5 with Savina Petkova and Maja KorbekaCritics Savina Petkova and Maja Korbeka join me to talk Sentimental Value, A Simple Accident and Resurrection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-05-2337 min
Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies PodcastThe Monkey + Oz Perkins & Theo James | I’m Still Here | September SaysOn Truth & Movies this week we review three new releases. First up it's the horror comedy The Monkey and we spoke to its director Oz Perkins and star Theo James. Next we tackle the horrors of 1970’s Brazil in Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here. Finally, we review Irish coming-of-age tale September Says.Joining host Leila Latif are film critics Savina Petkova and Katherine McLaughlin.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has al...2025-02-211h 03
The Final Girls: A Horror Film PodcastSERIAL KILLERS 18 • Orphan (2009) + Orphan: First Kill (2022)Brilliant critic Savina Petkova stops by to discuss and defend the prolific serial killing girl Esther from Orphan (2009) and its prequel Orphan: First Kill (2022) Join our Patreon for extra horror content including bonus reviews and a monthly horror book club.Discover what films we're covering next on our Letterboxd.***Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. Artwork by Ewa Ferdynus.Music by "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.***The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.2024-06-291h 33
The AwardsWatch PodcastEp. 231: 'I Saw the TV Glow' Review and Our Favourite A24 Films On episode 231 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch contributor Dan Bayer to review the latest film from A24, I Saw The TV Glow, and give out their Top A24 films. Since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, audience have been raving about Jane Schoenbrun’s psychological drama, I Saw the TV Glow, which is a fascinating examination of our consumption of media as well as a queer allegory about trying to find yourself within a small town that doesn’t accept you. The movie is co...2024-05-132h 18
Is Paul Dano OK?John Wick: Chapter 4 (with Savina Petkova)For the final episode of season, Matt and Daryl are joined by returning IPDO guest, journalist, writer, and educator, Savina Petkova to discuss John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023). You can find Savina on Twitter (@SavinaPetkova). Here's a link to her work. You can find all season artwork designs (from the ridiculously talented Stephen Trumble) on our Teepublic store. We also have our intro themes and interludes over on Bandcamp. As with Greers, the opening theme to Won't You Take Me To... Clancy Brown was performed and produced by Mike Hall and Daryl Bär. Please d...2023-08-071h 32
Flixwatcher: A Netflix Film Review PodcastEpisode # 303 Another Round with Anna Smith and Savina Petkova Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-06-1436 min
Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies PodcastThe Eight Mountaints | Plan 75 | Cannes Preview | Logan’s RunOn Truth & Movies this week, friendship is tested in a journey across The Eight Mountains, the elderly are coerced into an early demise in Plan 75 and a dystopian future is revisited in Logan’s Run. Plus we’ll be talking about some of the most anticipated titles that are about to debut at CannesJoining host Leila Latif are film critics Rafa Sales Ross and Savina PetkovaTruth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Trut...2023-05-121h 01
Flixwatcher: A Netflix Film Review PodcastEpisode # 294 The Swimmers with Anna Smith and Savina PetkovaAnna Smith (Girls on Film podcast) and Savina Petkova (MUBI Notebook, Little White Lies) join Flixwatcher remotely to review Anna’s choice The Swimmers.The Swimmers is a 2022 biographical film directed by Sally El Hosaini that tells the incredible true story of Syrian refugee sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini (played by real life sisters Nathalie and Manal Issa).The film begins in Damascus with both Yusra and Sarah as aspiring Olympic swimmers, against the backdrop of bombs their normal life is changed forever. With their cousin they leave Syria and take the perilous bo...2023-04-1239 min
The Cinematologists PodcastSight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022 (Part 2)
In part 2 of our Sight and Sound special, Dario talks to the managing editor of Sight and Sound Magazine Isabel Stevens about the collation and publication of this list. With over 1600 hundred critics contributing their top tens (up from 800 in 2012), the move towards greater diversity is clear. Dario drills down into that with Isabel, along with unpacking some of the other key trends that have emerged. Isabel also takes us through her selections.
Also on the show, we welcome back Savina Petkova for her take on being invited to contribute, the issues with lists in g...2022-12-0253 minThe Cinematologists PodcastLondon Film Festival - Part 2
The centre piece of our second episode is guest host Savina Petkova's interview with Ruben Östlund about his latest film Triangle of Sadness. This follow-up to the The Square, which also won the top prize at Cannes, is another acerbic satirical intervention into the hypocrisies of liberal capitalism. "Triangle" is perhaps more laugh out loud funny than his previous work, but draws on similar socio-political observations that are all too familiar but presenting them through a thought experiment which reverses hierarchies of power around wealth, value, class and social roles.
Also, Dario talks to the LF...2022-10-171h 22The Cinematologists PodcastLondon Film Festival - Part 1
Above: Christine Molloy in The Future Tense (2022)
This is the first of two episodes we will bring you from the London Film Festival. Dario is joined for both by Savina Petkova as co-host. Savina is published in Film Comment and MUBINotebook and many other places. She is on the editorial board of @photogenie_be, Is a programmer for the upcoming Cambridge Film Festival and and is soon to complete her PhD at Kings College London.
As is our style on The Cinematologists, our festival coverage in not a comprehensive overview of the festival o...2022-10-141h 35
Writers on FilmLive from CannesGuests from Cannes: Luke Hicks, Savina Petkova, Staphanie Zacharek, and Jason Solomons.Listeners and guests: Cai Ross and Ian Killick. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-06-221h 22Is Paul Dano OK?Dagur Kári's The Good Heart (2009)On this episode Matt and Daryl are joined by film critic, Savina Petkova to discuss writer/ director, Dagur Kári's 2009 film, The Good Heart. The Good Heart stars Paul Dano, Brian Cox, Stéphanie Szostak, Isild Le Besco and Nicolas Bro. You can find Savina on Twitter (@SavinaPetkova). Please drop us a Five Star Review us at Apple Podcasts. Find us on Twitter and Instagram (@ispauldanook), and drop us an email at ispauldanook@gmail.com2021-11-081h 14The Cinematologists PodcastLondon Film Festival 2021: Part 2
The second episode in our coverage of the London Film Festival is a bumper one with Dario and Neil discussing a ton of new movies from all over the world. They are joined by regular visitor to the pod Savina Petkova, who Dario talked to at the festival itself as it wound down, who added discussions about new films by Joanna Hogg, Terence Davies and Julia Ducournau to the mix. Neil waxes lyrical about the Japanese masterpiece Drive My Car by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Hit The Road, the debut feature by Panah Panahi. Dario meanwhile loves P...2021-10-201h 29The Cinematologists PodcastKala Azar (w/ dir. Janis Rafa)
In this episode, Dario talks to visual artist Janis Rafa about her sensuous, enigmatic first feature, Kala Azar. Set in a nameless Southern European wasteland, a stoic young couple exist in a semi-feral periphery, they survive by collecting and cremating deceased pets for owners who need the fantasy of ritualized passing. But they also cannot help but clean up the number of dead animals which they regularly encounter lifeless by the roadside. A film that challenges the material and ideological distinction between humans and animals and forces a confrontation with uncomfortable realities of a dystopian existence that...2021-06-191h 19
Good Mourning, Nancy PodcastEp. 90: MIDSOMMAR (2019) - Pagan PoetryIt's the season 9 finale! This week your favorite ghouls are discussing Ari Aster's sophomore film, Midsommar!
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Blood and Tears and Potions and Flame: Excesses of Transformation in Ari Aster’s Midsommar By Sandra Huber
ht...2021-05-251h 26The Cinematologists PodcastBerlinale 2020 Part 1It's Berlinale time. Our annual sojourn to our favorite European Film Festival is one of the highlights of the year and the programme looks intriguing with a host of big names in art-house cinema showing their latest work. This is the first of a two-part episode in which we bring our thoughts to bear on the big competition entries and fiction and documentary films from other sections of Berlin's extensive programme. We also interview various critics also in the city no only on their festival picks but on any emergent themes of this year's event. Wild mushroom picking, toxic...2020-03-011h 26The Cinematologists PodcastLondon Film Festival 2019
While the London Film Festival is fresh in the mind, The Cinematologists bring you this round-up of some of the best films in this year's event. In order to help with this task, we have enlisted two smart and articulate young film critics to give their in-depth, considered opinions. Dario talks to Savina Petkova (MubiNotebook, Electric Ghost Magazine, Girls on Tops Tees) and James Maitre (Director's Notes, Albums in the Attic) about their festival highlights.
Before that Dario also talks to London Film Festival senior programmers Kate Taylor and Michael Blyth about the or...2019-10-161h 36The Cinematologists PodcastFilm-Philosophy Conference 2019 (part 1)
Season 10 of the Cinematologists podcast kicks off with a double bill of episodes from the Film-Philosophy Conference held at the University of Brighton in July. Hosted by our very own Dario Llinares the event which boasted an internationally renowned line-up of keynotes and delegates.
Both episodes are made up of interviews we managed to grab as the conference progressed and, we hope gives you a sense of the eclectic mix of themes, methodologies and films that were discussed. Neil and Dario are joined on interviewing duties by Kat Zabecka, who studies at the University of E...2019-09-192h 04