Eavesdropping at the Movies

A podcast by Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass

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429 Episodes

  1. 428 - Megalopolis

    Published: 10/2/2024
  2. 427 - Alien: Romulus

    Published: 8/27/2024
  3. 426 - Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

    Published: 8/24/2024
  4. 425 - Deadpool & Wolverine

    Published: 8/14/2024
  5. 424 - Trap

    Published: 8/12/2024
  6. 423 - Dune: Part Two

    Published: 3/7/2024
  7. 422 - Perfect Days

    Published: 2/19/2024
  8. 421 - All of Us Strangers

    Published: 2/12/2024
  9. 420 - Argylle

    Published: 2/9/2024
  10. 419 - American Fiction

    Published: 2/7/2024
  11. 418 - Maestro

    Published: 2/5/2024
  12. 417 - The Holdovers

    Published: 2/2/2024
  13. 416 - The Zone of Interest

    Published: 1/30/2024
  14. 415 - The Beekeeper

    Published: 1/23/2024
  15. 414 - Poor Things

    Published: 1/21/2024
  16. 413 - Priscilla

    Published: 1/19/2024
  17. 412 - The Goldfinger

    Published: 1/16/2024
  18. 411 - The Boy and the Heron

    Published: 1/12/2024
  19. 410 - Ferrari

    Published: 1/10/2024
  20. 409 - Next Goal Wins

    Published: 1/7/2024

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"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.