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   25 Nov 2025 · 1 hr 46 min

   Culture & Creativity w/ Gwenno

   Gwenno, on the set of her short film, Tresor (2022) [Copyright: Bosena / Alex Fish] We have the perfect theme song for our podcast, courtesy of the musician, artist and writer Gwenno. In Bristol in September, for the Encounters film festival, Neil took some time to chat to Gwenno at length about culture, social media, memory, capitalism and community, to put on [tape] some shared thoughts about life and art, before the podcast winds down. Even before writing and recording the theme tune to the Cinematologists - available to purchase and stream here - Gwenno was a friend of the show, and Neil…

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   5 Nov 2025 · 1 hr 59 min

   David Lynch's Lost Highway (featuring director Mark Jenkin)

   As always on The Cinematologists podcast, we like to address topics of salience, but in our own way and in our own time. The death of David Lynch left an irreplaceable hole in the fabric of cinema and, rightly, prompted immediate tributes from collaborators, as well as countless reflections on his status as an artist and filmmaker. The spectre of his influence has found its way into many episodes over the years: Scott Tanner Jones discussing Lynch’s impact in this episode on Physical Media , also in Neil’s conversation with Bertrand Bonello on The Beast , and in my conversation with Michel…

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   20 Oct 2025 · 1 hr 2 min

   London Film Festival 2025

   It felt apt that Neil and I were both in London for this year’s edition of the festival. Over the years of The Cinematologists , we’ve covered a range of international events, always striving to capture not just our critical responses to the films, but something of the atmosphere, the resonance of the experience itself. Living in London, I usually don’t feel that full, immersive festival bubble. There’s always the pull of everyday life at the edges. By contrast, attending an international festival abroad brings with it a heightened sense of dislocation—a kind of lived difference that…

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   17 Oct 2025 · 1 hr 11 min

   Don't Look Now and Then (w/Justin John Doherty)

   Filming Don’t Look Now. Copyright: Peter Cassell. Neil and Justin John Doherty have been friends since 1995. To mark thirty years of friendship, in the latest episode of the podcast they talk about Justin’s latest creative peak, an art-book with amazing, never seen before, behind the scenes photos and production artefacts, love letters and conversations, about his favourite film, the Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland starring, Don’t Look Now. The conversation starts with Neil’s reminisce of how the film has been Justin’s favourite as long as they have known each other, upon meeting at…

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   3 Oct 2025 · 1 hr 14 min

   PTA's latest, Redford reflections and some big podcast news

   We are back! Season 22 kicks off with a stellar, loose, multi-layered, melancholic, heated and nervy, shambling odyssey of an episode, which befits the central discussion, centred as it is around the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. The timing of the release of the new PTA is fortuitous as he is a filmmaker that we have circled around over the years, given my love for the filmmaker, as well as his place in contemporary American cinema. It’s also good timing as the film has found itself lodged at the centre of film discourse in so many ways since its release last…

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   21 Jul 2025 · 1 hr 32 min

   Terrence Malick (w/John Bleasdale)

   For the final [main] episode of this season, the 21st, we are delighted to welcome writer and podcaster John Bleasdale ( Writers on Film ) to the show, to discuss his excellent book on Terrence Malick, The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick . Neil talks to John about his approach to research and interview/archive given the glaring lack of a central subject's voice, Malick and John's own relationship to the big themes around philosophy and faith, the power of understanding Malick's later period work anew through the lens of [auto]biography, and the ways that Malick's…

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   11 Jul 2025 · 1 hr 28 min

   Pavements (& Videoheaven w/Alex Ross Perry)

   Welcome friends. Thanks for stopping by and welcome to the many new free subscribers that have signed up in the last few weeks. A very special thanks to Helen , Bluetrue , R.J. MacReady , & sukhveer kang for becoming paid subscribers. I really do appreciate your support. Postcards should be coming your way anytime (if you haven’t yet DM’d me your address, please do that if you want a little physical media token of my gratitude). Subscribe now I’m working on a couple of longer written pieces, to be published next week. These are articles that have been on my mind for a little while and I…

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   10 Jul 2025 · 47 min

   On being Audio-Viewers: A response to FilmStack Challenge #4

   This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dariollinares.substack.com Welcome friends, It’s been an somewhat frustrating uneven week of film watching and writing. London’s recent heatwaves have nudged my daily routine into what has become a typical summer cadence - work kicking off around 6am and tapering off by early afternoon. It’s a strategy to placate my internal productivity tyrant: my focus is aided by the cooler mornings by 2pm I’ve kinda reached the limit of writing energy. This week though, the humdrum churn of life-admin has thrown a wrench into that flow. Those…

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   4 Jul 2025 · 9 min

   The Learned and The Learner

   This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dariollinares.substack.com Welcome friends. Thanks for lending me some of your valued attention. This wasn’t the post I intended for today. I’m working on a longer exploration of current debates unfolding on Film Stack—particularly around questions of what Film Stack actually is—and the recent flurry of posts that allude, explicitly and implicitly, to a shared agenda or set of aims, i.e. a manifesto. Film and art manifestos have always fascinated me. Their parameters, their intentionality, and their fallibilities offer a snapshot…

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    27 Jun 2025 · 1 hr 48 min

    Ryan Gilbey (It Used to be Witches)

    With the podcast half-way through its tenth year it is a privilege to welcome back a former contributor to the show - read his piece on Clueless for The New Statesman that coincided with his previous appearance on the show - and long-time champion of The Cinematologists, Ryan Gilbey. Ryan's return is to promote and discuss his new book, the astoundingly good, It Used to be Witches: Under the Spell of Queer Cinema, published this month (June 2025) by Faber. Around the release date, I (Neil) sat down in Cinema 1 at the Barbican in London to discuss the book, the form(s) of Queer Cinema, Ryan's…