Eavesdropping at the Movies
A podcast by Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass
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430 Episodes
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429 - Joker: Folie à Deux
Published: 10/9/2024 -
428 - Megalopolis
Published: 10/2/2024 -
427 - Alien: Romulus
Published: 8/27/2024 -
426 - Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
Published: 8/24/2024 -
425 - Deadpool & Wolverine
Published: 8/14/2024 -
424 - Trap
Published: 8/12/2024 -
423 - Dune: Part Two
Published: 3/7/2024 -
422 - Perfect Days
Published: 2/19/2024 -
421 - All of Us Strangers
Published: 2/12/2024 -
420 - Argylle
Published: 2/9/2024 -
419 - American Fiction
Published: 2/7/2024 -
418 - Maestro
Published: 2/5/2024 -
417 - The Holdovers
Published: 2/2/2024 -
416 - The Zone of Interest
Published: 1/30/2024 -
415 - The Beekeeper
Published: 1/23/2024 -
414 - Poor Things
Published: 1/21/2024 -
413 - Priscilla
Published: 1/19/2024 -
412 - The Goldfinger
Published: 1/16/2024 -
411 - The Boy and the Heron
Published: 1/12/2024 -
410 - Ferrari
Published: 1/10/2024
"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.