Eavesdropping at the Movies

A podcast by Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass

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430 Episodes

  1. 309 - The Suicide Squad

    Published: 8/17/2021
  2. 308 - Old

    Published: 8/13/2021
  3. 307 - Space Jam: A New Legacy

    Published: 8/9/2021
  4. 306 - Fast and Furious 9

    Published: 8/8/2021
  5. 305 - Black Widow

    Published: 8/7/2021
  6. 304 - French Exit

    Published: 7/30/2021
  7. 303 - The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

    Published: 7/22/2021
  8. 302 - In the Heights

    Published: 7/13/2021
  9. 301 - Come and See

    Published: 6/28/2021
  10. 300 - A Quiet Place Part II

    Published: 6/24/2021
  11. 299 - Cruella

    Published: 6/22/2021
  12. 298 - Witness for the Prosecution

    Published: 6/14/2021
  13. 297 - Spiral

    Published: 6/11/2021
  14. 296 - And Then There Were None (1945)

    Published: 6/6/2021
  15. 295 - Suspiria (1977) and Suspiria (2018)

    Published: 5/12/2021
  16. 294 - The Two Popes

    Published: 5/7/2021
  17. 293 - Promising Young Woman

    Published: 4/24/2021
  18. 292 - Affair in Trinidad

    Published: 4/23/2021
  19. 291 - Sound of Metal

    Published: 4/17/2021
  20. 290 - Godzilla vs. Kong

    Published: 4/15/2021

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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.