Dion Blackler

In the Mood for Film

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The ramblings of two film obsessives (Dion Blackler and Patricia de Carvalho) as we chat about the London Film Festival, world cinema, and the road to the Oscars.

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Oct 15, 2025

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Episodes

London Film Festival 2025: Day 6 15.10.2025

Dion Blackler and Patricia de Carvalho get together to share some highlights of the first half of the 69th London Film Festival Films discussed: Enzo, Sentimental Value, Hamnet, It Was Just an Accident, After the Hunt, Maspalomas

London Film Festival 2024: Wrap-up Part II 29.10.2024

London Film Festival 2024 wrap up Part II: Patricia and Dion continue the conversation on highlight’s from this year’s festival. In this episode: - The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Nightbitch - A Real Pain - Three Kilometres to the End of the World - Layla - Viet and Nam - Nickel Boys - Emilia Pérez

London Film Festival: Wrap-up Part I 29.10.2024

London Film Festival 2024: wrap-up Part 1 Apologies for the split episode- here is part 1 of our discussion post LFF. We talk about: - All We Imagine As Light - The Room Next Door - Queer

Day 9: 2024 London Film Festival 17.10.2024

London Film Festival continues, we’re at Day 9 already and talk about some of the films we’ve enjoyed seeing including: - Anora - Memoir of a Snail - On Becoming a Guinea Fowl - Dahomey - Universal Language - I’m Still Here - Hard Truths

London Film Festival 2024: Day 3 12.10.2024

Patricia de Carvalho and Dion Blackler finally return…. only a year late. It’s called anticipation, darling! The London Film Festival 2024 is a few days in so this is a chat over wine and cafe music about some initial films seen: -Cidade; Campo - Praia Formosa - Don’t Cry, Butterfly - Blitz - Conclave - Familiar Touch.

London Film Festival 2023: Highlights Part I 16.10.2023

Patricia de Carvalho and Dion Blackler talk through some of the highlights of the festival as this year comes to a close. After struggling to align schedules during the festival this is a post festival re-cap; part II (and maybe III) to come! Included in this podcast: All of Us Strangers, Poor Things, Goodbye Julia, Evil Does Not Exist, Together 99, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro and The Pot...

London Film Festival 2023: Day 3 06.10.2023

Patricia de Carvalho and Dion Blackler are back to talk London Film Festival. Our preview episode didn’t work so this is us diving it at day 3 on a windy balcony (excuse the sound). We talk about what we’ve seen so far: Do Not Expect Too Much Too Much from the End of the World, Asog, The Eternal Memory, Tiger Stripes, Monster and Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell. Enjoy!

London Film Festival 2022 wrap up and recap 24.10.2022

Dion Blackler and Patricia de Carvalho talk about the end of LFF ‘22 and a review of the festival. Apologies if we fit too many film in one podcast! Films we discussed include Banshees of Inisherin, Pinocchio, The Son, Alcarràs, Aftersun, The Worst Ones (Les Pires), Decision to Leave, Argentina 1985, Living, She Said, Shttl, Subtraction, One Fine Morning and Xalé.

London Film Festival 2022: Day 10 14.10.2022

Dion Blackler and Patricia de Carvalho catch up on some of the films we’ve seen at LFF over the last few days. Films include Triangle of Sadness, The Menu, The Whale, Empire of Light, Women Talking, Piaffe and Saint Omer.

London Film Festival 2022: Day 5 09.10.2022

Patricia and Dion catch up on some of the films they’ve seen so far at Day 5 of the London Film Festival. We talk Eo, Close, Love Life, Joyland and The Estate.

London Film Festival 2022 preview 02.10.2022

Patricia de Carvalho and Dion Blackler preview the upcoming London Film Festival, what we’re looking forward to and what we are already regretting buying tickets for. Excuse our rustiness! Stay tuned for our LFF diary for another year

Top 10 countdown of the best films of 2021 30.01.2022

Patricia de Carvalho and Dion Blackler share their top 10 films of 2021. Lots of confusion as usual about what qualifies for this year’s top 10, not to mention being able to count to 10. Honourable mentions and a chat about awards season included

London Film Festival 2021 wrap up 24.10.2021

Film musings from LFF, including The Harder They Fall, Memoria, Nitram, Flee and more, plus final thoughts on this year’s festival and the awards season ahead.

London Film Festival 2021: Day 9 14.10.2021

Patricia and Dion continue to share their thoughts on LFF so far, including Belfast, The Power of the Dog, Titane, and much more.

London Film Festival 2021! Day 4 update 09.10.2021

Film lovers Dion Blackler and Patricia de Carvalho give you the latest from London Film Festival 2021. Masks are present though many are choosing not to wear them, otherwise it feels like old times. Listen to us dish on the latest releases including what we really thought of Spencer.

Belated London Film Festival wrap-up and lockdown farewells 03.11.2020

Dion Blackler and Patricia de Carvalho finally get their s**t together and do a LFF wrap up and lament the closing of cinemas as they head into lockdown #2

London Film Festival 2020: Day 11 17.10.2020

On the penultimate day of the scaled-down COVID-friendly 2020 London Film Festival, Patricia de Carvalho and Dion Blackler recap some of their LFF highlights of the last few days (soothing background ambience courtesy of the Barbican fountains).

London Film Festival 2020, Day 5 12.10.2020

Patricia de Carvalho and Dion Blackler dish the latest on the adapted COVID-friendly London Film Festival. Less stars and less red carpets, but plenty of good cinema to discuss!

Season 2: We’re back! 26.09.2020

We’ve survived the last crazy 6 months and still here, ready to embark on another London Film Festival, Try to ignore the strange world we live in and enjoy another film fest diary with us!

In the Mood for Film: Episode 7- Pre-Oscar musings 06.02.2020

Patricia de Carvalho and Dion Blackler go through this year’s Oscar hopefuls and who we expect to win the little gold statues this year

Oscar nominations shocks, snubs and stats. 14.01.2020

Patricia de Carvalho and Dion Blackler chew over the Oscar nominations, the good, the bad and the ugly (#justice4JLo)

Two film obsessives chatting awards season in prep for Oscar nominations tomorrow 12.01.2020

Patricia de Carvalho and Dion Blackler chat awards season and our hopes and predictions on Oscar nominations eve

Episode 4: London Film Festival post-mortem 16.10.2019

Dion Blackler and Patricia de Carvalho, two film lovers outside of the industry looking in, recap their favourite films of the last few days of the London Film Festival 2019.

In the Mood for Film: Episode 3: LFF Day 8 09.10.2019

Dion Blackler and Patricia de Carvalho give their rundown of the London Film Festival at the mid-way point, including their thoughts of Marriage Story, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Jojo Rabbit, amongst others.

In the Mood for Film: Episode 2 05.10.2019

Day 3 of the London Film Festival, Dion Blackler and Patricia de Carvalho give the low-down on what we’ve seen so far. Darth Vader joins us for the podcast too- actually that’s Dion with a terrible cold, I think the breathing may be worse than the sound of the wind from episode 1! We’ll get this right eventually, stay tuned!

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