Writers on Film

Discover the secrets of The Odyssey: A Film by Christopher Nolan with this exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Summer 2026’s most celebrated film. Filming The Odyssey: Inside the Making of Christopher Nolan’s Modern Epic traces the creation of Nolan’s latest film from script to screen through exclusive interviews with the director and his cast and crew accompanied by electrifying visuals from the...

We're at the 45th Giornate del Cinema Muto at Pordenone and I'm talking to American author and academic Allison Nadia Field about her 20226 book: Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History . Get your copy of the book HERE . Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In its 45 edition, we're at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto , the international silent film festival in Pordenone, with Mark Fuller -- expert and enthusiast in equal measure. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Here is the comprehensive, first-ever biography of the award-winning child star, Planet of the Apes movie icon, beloved film legend, and Hollywood renaissance man whose career spanned 60 years. “ This is a beautiful tribute to a very special man. For those who aren’t familiar with Roddy, you’re in for a treat. You will get to know a man who was as kind as he was gifted.” —CAROL BURNETT The book is...

I'LL SETTLE FOR NOTHINGNESS is a brand new book of conversations with Mike Hodges, the legendary British film director of classics such as GET CARTER, FLASH GORDON and THE CROUPIER. Available HERE. These conversations were conducted with filmmaker Jon Spira over the last years of Hodges' life. they form a personal and candid view of his work, life and philosophy as he meditates on his declining he...

Citizen Kane .  The Magnificent Ambersons . And the film history forgot. In July 1939, Orson Welles signed a contract with RKO Pictures granting him complete creative control over his films. Less than three years later, he was thrown off the lot. At RKO, he made two of the most celebrated films in cinema history. He also made  Journey Into Fear , a film that has been debated, dismissed, and misund...

Bilge Ebiri is a film critic writing in New York magazine and Vulture. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Nicholas Bell from Eye on Cinema and Fish Jelly YouTube channel joins me to talk Ink, Bucking Fastard and Wild Horse Nine, live from the Venice International Film Festival. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

When it came to filmmaking, Richard Fleischer had big shoes to fill. His father, Max, was one of America's most influential animators. However, Richard's own passions led him not to the animator's desk but to the director's chair. After garnering an Academy Award for Best Documentary with  Design for Death  (1948), Fleischer became known for an eclectic mix of pictures such as  20,000 Leagues Unde...

From one of cinema’s wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history. David Thomson has been called “the greatest living writer on the movies.” Here is a career capstone of sorts—a one-volume history of film and screens as illuminating and provocative as his classic  Biographical Dictionary of Film . In tracing the progress, from the Lumiere Brother...

KIER-LA JANISSE is an author, critic, film programmer, podcaster, publisher and producer with an emphasis on genre cinema. Video Watchdog’s Tim Lucas referred to her book House of Psychotic Women as one of the 10 “most vital” horror film books of all time, and Ian MacAllister-McDonald of the LA Review of Books called it “the next step in genre theory, as well as the most frightening and heart-rend...

Samira Ahmed is a journalist, writer, and BBC broadcaster. She presents  Front Row  on Radio 4,  Newswatch  on BBC News, and regularly hosts radio documentaries. In 2020, she was named British Broadcasting Press Guild's Audio Presenter of the Year. Ahmed has written for  The Guardian ,  The Independent , and other publications, and she writes a regular column for  New Humanist . Read her blog here...

On the eve of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, I talk to author of Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Scott Feinberg is a veteran reporter of The Hollywood Reporter and hosts the Awards Chatter podcast. His work can be found here .   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Norwegian film director Truls Krane Meby and John-Kristian Dalseth, programmer for the Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) and manager of the Verdensteatret Cinemateket join John Bleasdale to talk about the 40th Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna. John Bleasdale's second novel Connery A Novel is available to buy at Plumeria. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for...

Published to coincide with the 35th anniversary of Michael Lehmann's 1991 infamous "turkey shoot",  The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk  is an in-depth look at the history and legacy of the film that brought Bruce Willis's career crashing to Earth, from the germ of the idea in 1980s New York to the recent revisionist views of the film by critics and commentators. Featuring interviews with co-cre...

Laura Horak  is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and founder of the award-winning Transgender Media Portal. She is author of  Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema. Trans Cinema Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds is an exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more in...

Ed Zwick made his film debut with the comedy About Last Night (1986), followed by Glory (1989), Legends of the Fall (1994), Courage Under Fire (1996), The Siege (1998), The Last Samurai (2003), Blood Diamond (2006), and Defiance (2008). His later films include Love & Other Drugs (2010), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). He is also the co-creator of the ABC family d...

Christina Jeurling Birro speaks to John Bleasdale about the 79th Cannes Film Festival and competition entry, Fjord, directed by Christian Mungiu. John Bleasdale's new novel Connery is released by Plumeria.co.uk and is available HERE.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Thomas Schultz speaks to John Bleasdale about the 79th Cannes Film Festival and competition entry, Minotaur, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. John Bleasdale's new novel Connery is released by Plumeria.co.uk and is available HERE. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Nicolas Bell (Eye On Cinema) and Ed Potton (The Times) join John Bleasdale to talk about the 79th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival. Read John Bleasdale's Connery , HERE.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Ian Christie FBA is a British film scholar whose work on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese and the development of cinema has made him one of the most respected film writers today. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine and a frequent broadcaster as well as being the Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London. Hosted by Simplecast,...

In the first episode of a new mini-series, Dr. Brian Baker joins me to discuss the adaptations of J.G. Ballard on film, including Empire of the Sun, Crash and High Rise along with some lesser known films. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Nicholas Bell and John Bleasdale discuss Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1962). Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Robert Kolker and David Wyatt provide readers with a history of auteur theory, from its initial origins in France in the late 1940s as an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of the French film critics and theorists André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc, to the canonizing work of American film critic Andrew Sarris in the 1960s. Available HERE. Connery A Novel by John Bleasdale can be bought EXCLUSIVELY...