Episode Thirty Eight - Hands Over the City

We return with Joakim sharing his experiences on India, a catch up on what we have been watching before a look at Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City.

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Episode 37 - Conversation with Craig Keller

In special episode we are joined by Masters of Cinemas very own Craig Keller for a chat about all things Masters of Cinema and film in general.

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Episode Thirty Six - Le Amiche

The podcast returns with a look at Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche with special guest Fredrik Gustafsson.

From Masters of Cinema:

''A key film of Antonioni’s middle-period, Le amiche [The Girlfriends] finds the Italian master expanding his palette in the realm of traditional narrative cinema by way of his powerhouse direction of an ensemble cast, while entrenching his devotion to expressing the emotional makeup of the modern woman. Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) embarks from Rome to set up a fashion-salon in Torino. Shortly after arrival, she finds herself caught up in the (melo)dramas of a bourgeoise circle of acquaintances (including the iconic Valentina Cortese), and their attendant attempts at suicide, their class prejudices, and the romantic alliances that threaten to transform the social clique into an emotional tar-pit. Le amiche represents the epitome of Antonioni’s ’50s period, and although it lays the groundwork for such ’60s breakthroughs as L’avventura and La notte, it proves itself no less brilliant than those later works.''

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Episode Thirty Five - A Time to Love and a Time to Die

This week we take a look at Dounglas Sirks, A Time to Love and A Time to Die. Enjoy!

From Masters of Cinema:

''Douglas Sirk — the master of the Hollywood melodrama — turns back to his native Germany at the time of the Second World War for the film that would stand as his penultimate American feature: A Time to Love and a Time to Die. A CinemaScope production staged on a grand scale, Sirk’s picture nevertheless pulsates with an intimacy that has known longing for too long, and seethes with the repression of emotions poised to explode like bombs.

John Gavin plays Ernst Gräber, a soldier on the Russian-German Front in 1944 venturing home to Hamburg on a rare furlough. Upon arrival, he discovers a city that bears little resemblance to the one he left behind — and so, through the rubble of the air-raids, he searches desperately for fragments of his family’s shattered lives. But amid the shards, he falls in love with Elisabeth (Liselotte Pulver), the charming daughter of his parents’ doctor, and thus activates a magnetism that compels both individuals toward one another in love, even as it hurtles them headlong into epochal death.''

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Episode Thirty Four - Red River

First show of the new year and its cracker, Melissa Johnson joins Joakim for a discussion on Howard Hawks' Red River.

You can find Melissa at johnsonmel16@gmail.com

From Masters of Cinema:

''One of Hollywood’s most iconic westerns, Howard Hawks’s Red River launches cinema’s grandest cattle drive, and one of the screen’s most powerful father-son dramas. One of John Wayne’s most intense roles inspired one of his finest performances, and in his debut leading role, Montgomery Clift instantly leapt to the forefront of Hollywood’s young actors.

After the Civil War, ranch owner Thomas Dunson (Wayne) leads a drive of ten thousand cattle out of an impoverished Texas to the richer markets of Missouri, alongside his adopted son Matthew Garth (Clift) and a team of ranch hands. As the conditions worsen, and Dunson’s control over his cattlemen gets ever more merciless, a rebellion begins to grow within the travelling party.''

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Episode Thirty Three - 2014 Review

The year is coming to an end so it must mean wrap up show time, this year we are joined by Craig Skinner to have a look back at Masters of Cinema in 2014. Enjoy!

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Episode Thirty Two - The Passion of Joan of Arc

We return with a look at a Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc and who better to join us than a podcasting titan in the form of Joe Johnson one half of the brilliant husband and wife team that produced the Watching the Directors podcast.

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