My Picture House

This is a quick update of the plans for the end of the first year and season of the podcast.

Moore St Masala: https://youtu.be/_1taXkpCx88?feature=shared Kickabout: https://youtu.be/7fHWM_CoJtw?feature=shared Two Questions - Maura: https://youtu.be/0OTKy94TNgI

In this episode I discuss The Funeral, a 1996 film from Abel Ferrara starring Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Chris Penn and Isabella Rossellini. It's a gangster film, a revenge movie, a political film but most importantly and brilliantly a film about marriage and relationships.

In this episode I welcome back friend of the podcast Anthony Litton to talk about El Dorado by Howard Hawks. We talk about remakes, the damned necessity of plots, what we really respond to in movies and even Tom Cruise.

In this episode I talk with Director/Producer Craig McCall about his documentary 'Cameraman: the life and work of Jack Cardiff'. Capturing the personal, technical and anecdotal brilliance of Jack Cardiff from his start as a child actor, to being one of the pioneers of colour cinematography through is work with Powell and Pressburger, to working with many of the great directors in the histo...

In this episode I speak with Zane Simon about Tom Noonan's 1994 movie What Happened Was. The movie was new to me and a real revelation. It has gone some way to reviving my belief in American indie cinema from the 1990s. Find Zane @TheZaneSimon on Twitter (or X, I guess), at https://bloodyelbow.com/ and the MMA Vivisection on the Bloody Elbow podcast network.

A short bonus in which Nigel Bunyan talks about the pacing, sound design, blocking and acting in Leone's Once apon a time in the West. Too good not to share. Watch Nigel and JJ's short here: https://youtu.be/7fHWM_CoJtw

The second part of my conversation with film and TV editor Nigel Bunyan. Don't forget the ko-fi if you would like to show your appreciation for the work: Buy My Picture House Podcast a Coffee. ko-fi.com/mypicturehouse - Ko-fi ❤️ Where creators get support from fans through donations, memberships, shop sales and more! The original 'Buy Me a Coffee' Page.

This is the first of two episodes on Sergio Leone's great western Once apon a time in the West with Nigel Bunyan. I got to interview Nigel in person (a first for the podcast) and we chatted about a lot of topics and looked back a little on the 25 years we have known each other. Nigel was a fellow classmate in the Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design class of 1997. In the quarter of a century si...

I love wolves...or the idea(s) of them. In this episode I discuss all things Canis Lupus as I orbit around Suzi Templeton's wonderful short film version of Peter and the Wolf. The episode features some of my novel Animals: Animals: Amazon.co.uk: Lynch, J. E.: 9781798294734: Books It also features a little from Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing: The Crossing (Border Trilogy Book 2) eBook : McC...

This is the first in an occasional series on those whose contributions to cinema have been lost, understated, neglected, under-appreciated or wrongly forgotten. This involves discussing a career, or part of a career, and some small part of a life (through the filter of my own assumptions and impressions/ these are not biographies) rather than a single film. This episode concerns the enigmatic (an...

In this episode I get to discuss Breaking Away from 1979 with teacher, theatre-maker and proud mid-westener Brian Fauth. This was a film I had not seen before Brian suggested it and it was a real gift to get to know it. I hope you have a similar experience. There is also some very important discussion of The Jesus and Mary Chain gigs. (It's at the end so you don't have to listen to that bit...but...

In this episode I discuss the 1978 horror classic Martin by George A. Romero. A brilliant and deeply disturbing autopsy of the 1960s, Catholic culture, the media and God's creation. Ah well, there's always the refreshments stand. You can get the film here: Martin Limited Edition 4K UHD & Blu-ray – Second Sight Films Tiny bits of music from The Stooges and The MC5 Support the podcast: h...

In this episode I had the good fortune to interview Lorraine Mc Colgan about the 1978 animated classic Watership Down. Lorraine is a counselling psychologist, playwright, author, song writer and singer. She is also my friend and all around great person. Links to some of her work: Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse: A Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals: Amazon.co.uk:...

Nicholas Ray adapts the novel 'In a lonely place' by Dorothy B. Hughes. (1950) One of this podcast's favourites Nick Ray directs Bogart and Graeme in what is as close to the film noir Cassevettes might have made as it is possible to imagine. A tense and brilliant domestic story wrapped in a hard noir shell.

Expose yourself to the Cronenberg virus in its purest strain with this 1988 classic horror film from the daddy of the Cronenbergs.

Nicholas Ray (1911-1979) directed some of the most interesting and challenging American studio films of the second half of the 20th century. In 1993 he published  a typically awkward  'autobiography' edited and introduced by Susan Ray.  The book seems to be out of print but it remains one of my 'bibles' when it comes to making art.  In this podcast I read one of my favourite ch...

As a bonus, here is an episode putting together both parts of the Despair discussion for those who want to listen to it all the way through in one go.  That's a lot of apprehension.  Enjoy.

The second and concluding part of our meditations on Fassbinder's Despair. 

In this episode I ramble on about Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1978 film Despair starring Dirk Bogarde.  In 1930s Germany Russian emigre Hermann Hermann has problems: with his chocolate factory, his wife, his wife's 'cousin', the National Socialists and holding himself together. When he meets a man who he believes to be his double he hatches and a plan to solve all his problems at once. “If thi...

Anthony Litton talks about 'Billy Liar' from 1963 and various other interesting things.

I thought it was worth listening to those people who told me that I should redo the audio for this episode on David Lynch's 1984 film Dune, so I have.  I hope it is an easier listen and that you enjoy. Keep the feedback coming.  Best, Jamie

David Lynch’s film interpretation of Frank Herbert’s series of Dune novels was released in 1984. I watched it in the Savoy cinema in O’Connell Street in Dublin. The exact day and date I no longer remember. With many of the most important changes in life, they have already happened some time before you realise. The Savoy was one of the two main cinemas in O’Connell Street, the Carlton was across th...

In the Irish language we call the cinema, the physical building, the Pictiurlann, which translates as the picture house. When I was growing up in Dublin in the 1970s and 80s that's what we called it: the picture house or going to the pictures, I am sure some people, probably not too many, still do. Hello and welcome to The Picture House Podcast. My name is Jamie Lynch. Back then, the 70s and 80s I...