José Arroyo

Thinking Aloud About Film: The Killers (1946 & 1964) In the podcast we compare the two films, a noir and a neo-noir, the 46 version made stars of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. We then compare both to the Tarkovsky 1956 student version of the…

Richard and I compare two versions of The Killers (with a sideline to a third, Tarkovsky's student film): notesonfilm1.com/2023/07/14/t...

Criss Cross and The Killers are masterpieces, and Criss Cross an undersung one.

Robert Siodmak: Dark Visionary A retrospective dedicated to one of Hollywood’s most enduringly influential yet too-little-celebrated Film Noir helmers, featuring an assortment of new 4K digital restorations of his signature films.

BOTD #FilmNoir maestro Robert Siodmak!! MCCT5 5)Cry/City 4)File on Thelma J 3)Criss Cross 2)Phantom Lady 1)Killers
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French president and wife sue rightwing US commentator Candace Owens for defamation Owens has claimed that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man, and that French president is controlled by CIA

Good. Defamatory lying on social media is the aggressive business model of the 21st Century - pioneered by Alex Jones and copied by Candace Owen. It’s like a hostile takeover bid on a personal level. Horrible, disturbed and disturbing.

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Where have they gone?

449 – Bring Her Back Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. YouTubers-turned-directors Danny and Michael Philippou demonstrate a real eye for visual design and an ability to cr…

There were times near the beginning where I was tempted to walk out of this one. Why I didn't is discussed in the podcast. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/02/4...

Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) The BFI’s screenings of JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES were all sold out. Luckily, we were both able to see it on a big screen elsewhere. In this podcast we discuss why this is…

I've listened to a few podcasts about Chantal Akerman's JEANNE DIELMAN… since I saw it earlier this year, but particularly enjoyed listening to @josearroyo.bsky.social & Richard Layne discussing it on their "Notes on Film"
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Thank you!

The #CineRedis25 UK & Ireland wide tour is available Aug 2025 – Jan 2026 supported by BFI awarding funds from #NationalLottery

More info on all the films touring & those being released by partner distributors + support available can be found here: www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis...

THINKING ALOUD ABOUT CINEMA: CINEMA REDISCOVERED 2025 WRAP-UP If a week ago we podcast on what we were looking forward to at the CINEMA REDISCOVERED festival, this is the bookend reflecting on what we actually saw. We are once again full of praise for the org…

If a week ago we podcast on what we were looking forward to at the CINEMA REDISCOVERED festival, this is the bookend reflecting on what we actually saw: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/30/t...

A clear illustration of governments against the people.

Eavesdropping at the Movies: 448 – Jurassic World Rebirth The seventh instalment in the Jurassic Park (now Jurassic World) series, Jurassic World Rebirth might be the first of the sequels to really come close to capturing the kind of wonder, excitement an…

Proof that Scarlet Johansson can carry an action franchise, especially when her on-screen interactions are with her gay best friend, Jonathan Bailey. notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/28/e...

This is a great book.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.

Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

Instagram says it finds the above image offensive #homophobiaatwork

In Conversation with Sam Shahid on his beautiful new film on arguably the 20th Century's foremost photographer of the male nude HIDDEN MASTER: THE LEGACY OF GEORGE PLATT LYNES: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/23/j...

Today at 10:

Tomorrow at ten:

447 – Superman (2025) Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. DC, which for the best part of two decades has failed to put together a cinematic universe of comic book adaptations…

I liked it, Mike didn’t: the conversation as to why is the podcsdt eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/07/25/4...

‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40 We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved

Fabulous interview in The Guardian today with Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi ahead of tonight’s SOLD-OUT UK Premiere of a new restoration of My Beautiful Laundrette 40 years after its release.

See it in UK cinemas from 1st Aug c/o Park Circus.

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Highly recommend the UK Premiere of Fernando Lopes’ Portuguese boxing film Belarmino (1964) at @wshed.bsky.social, #Bristol during @cineredis.bsky.social today at 4:20PM: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1336...

The Gold Diggers + Short: The London Story Made with an all female crew, Sally Potter’s (Orlando, The Tango Lesson) ground-breaking first feature is a key film of early ‘80s feminist cinema.

I'll be in Bristol for @cineredis.bsky.social this weekend!

Intro'ing 2 x magical Marxist feminist musical THE GOLD DIGGERS. Fill ur eyes w Julie Christie 🤩

Sat 26 July, 11 am, @wshed.bsky.social
Sun 27 July, 1 pm, Curzon Clevedon (come at 12 for cinema tour!)

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Stephen Woolley at cinema rediscovered. Photo in preceding post shows him with Julian Temple

Preceded by a fascinating talk from Woolley on the early days of Palace / the UK video market / Film on Four etc etc

Great start to @cineredis.bsky.social in Bristol - Julien Temple and Stephen Woolley introducing a 35mm screening of “Absolute Beginners”. Judging from his comments at the end the sold out audience enjoyed it a lot more than Julian Temple did! #filmsky

Cinema Rediscovered

Trump pulls US out of Unesco in blow for UN culture and education agency White House cites Unesco’s focus on ‘divisive social and cultural causes’ in latest withdrawal from global bodies

U.S. now pulls out of UNESCO, the most important global education project.

446 – F1 Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Hollywood collaborates with the FIA, the motorsport governing body, to try to convince us that Formula One is not, i…

Pitt in top form, Javier once more gorgeous and charming (I'd missed that about him), extraordinary images. Superb car chases/ I loved seeing it but....and there are many buts....discussed in the podcast below.
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Like In A Mirror - Journal - Metrograph A new translation of Victor Erice’s tribute to Nicholas Ray.

Lovely piece by Victor Erice on Nicholas Ray; metrograph.com/like-in-a-mi...