The Glacé Film Club

Another fantastic guests joins Marcus in conversation in our latest episode. LA1 Shorts Festival Director, Steve Fairclough, shared his experiences in founding the short film festival in Lancaster, its development over the years and the plans he has for it going on into the future. Steve is also a freelance Creative Facilitator which sees him getting involved in all sorts of different projects acr...

"The Whale" saw Brendan Fraser take home the gong for Best Actor at the 2023 Oscars and this was not a performance to be missed. The story of a severely overweight college lecturer delivering his classes anonymously through the cover of his remote teaching explores the suffering of a grieving individual, cut off from his family while his life falls into disrepair. Marcus is joined on this episode...

Greta Gerwig has produced something interesting here - framing gender as two extremes can be damaging, finding the space in between is how we can make sense of ourselves. Barbieland, drenched in pink, a dreamy matriarch utopia is set against the real world - a patriarchy where neoliberalism rules. Barbie asks us to think - are these two extremes going to help us progress as a society? Ch...

Christopher Nolan's latest epic charts the life of Robert Oppenheimer, a pivotal physicist in the development of the atomic bomb. The film poses the question: Is science good for man? It would have been easy for Nolan to film a picture about the glorification of an American victory against Japan, but he doesn't. It's about masculine fetish power, intellectual hubris, and the use of scien...

It's conversation time and this weeks guest from the world of cinema is Dean Cross. Dean is the Senior Screen Content Manager at Vue across the UK & Ireland. Marcus paid him a visit at Vue's Shepherd's Bush site in London to engage in a conversation full of film passion and excitement for everything on the big screen. Recorded on location at the Vue Cinema in Sheppard's Bush, Dean shares with...

Two strangers meet on a train - They 'agree' that it would be a good idea to kill one another's nemesis to avoid police detection. Guy is pontificating but Bruno takes it literally and kills Guy's wife. Drenched in Hitchcockian shadow this 1951 crime noir is a real tension trip. Check out the latest review!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wes Anderson's latest kitschy exploration of narrative and American consciousness sees an all-star cast question their sense of self after an encounter with an alien in the fictional 'frontier' city of Asteroid. A family buries their dead mother in a tupperware box in the desert, plots of land can be bought from vending machines, and the government imposes a lockdown. A classic Ande...

Henry Fonda is the voice of reason and morality in this 1957 courtroom drama, 12 Angry Men. The film calls into question the integrity of a legal system dripping with masculine doubt and barbarity - 12 men must determine the guilt or innocence of another young man accused of killing his abusive father. At what point does the system save the system? Check out the latest review of the...

The summer season is finally upon us and what a first episode we have for you. Marcus popped along to the Curzon Cinema in Hoxton to record an immensely insightful and wide ranging conversation with Curzon's Director of Programme and Distribution Sales, Damian Spandley. Recorded on location at Curzon Hoxton in London, the pair sat down in the main screen of the cinema to discuss exactly what goes...

Set in the fictional Camden College, a group of students navigate their way through the nihilism of college life. Drenched with extended camera shots and hyperbole, this one had us ranting for a good half an hour. Check out the latest review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine deconstructs race, class and gender in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Paris. In the aftermath of a riot against police violence in the banlieue, Vinz, Saïd and Hubert navigate their way through their neighbourhoods gripped by poverty and anger - this film blends comedy with pathos, complicates preconceptions of Paris, and contextualises co...

Raine Allen-Miller's directorial debut is a nod to the rom-coms that came before. Set in South London, Rye Lane tracks the evolving relationship of Yas and Dom, two kindred spirits who have recently split from their exes. Their relationship is believable and legitimate - check out the latest review!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Set in a rural farm in Glenmornan, Turlough and Lorcan are coming to terms with the death of their mother. It won for the best short film at both the BAFTAS and Oscars. It captures the trauma of loss in an honest and direct way. Check out the latest review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An 85 year old Japanese sushi master runs a 20-seat restaurant in a Tokyo subway station - it'll set you back $250 for the 20 course sushi tasting menu. The documentary focuses on the idea of the self, what it means to live, and how food can be a cultural construct. Check out the latest review!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marcus is joined by video producer Arthur Siuksta for a passionate and insightful conversation about Arthur's time working in the world of video production. Throughout the chat, the two dive into how Arthur began his journey into the industry, what inspires him to keep creating and what he sees the future of the video world looking like. Arthur is truly passionate about his craft and offers plenty...

Welcome to 'Classics Revisited' - Movies that we reexamine and recontextualise. This week features The Breakfast Club - a coming of age classic. Inspired by an article in the New Yorker (https://bit.ly/2JqJaGy) we thought we'd revisit this 'aesthetically and culturally significant film'. Molly Ringwald who played Claire, thought about what the film can do to spark conversations around ac...

Sammy Fabelman saw his first motion picture in 1952. This was the birth of a love story with film that would last his entire life. Speilberg's latest epic is a love letter to American cinema - how film can create as much as it can obscure, cure broken hearts, create meaning in a world of flux. Fabelman's journey from New Jersey to Arizona, from Northern California to Hollywood, this movi...

We are back with a fresh run of conversation episodes. Once again we'll be joined by creative individuals from the world of film, TV, video and beyond to gain insights into their meandering minds and inspirational back stories. For this first episode back, it's a double whammy! Marcus is joined by long time collaborators, filmmaker and producer Tom Rean, as well as Director Of Photography and Edit...

The mechanics of cinema have the ability to heal trauma. That's what we're meant to think in Sam Mendes' latest picture, Empire of Light. Set in 1980s Margate, we see Hilary and Stephen, two people carrying very different traumas on their shoulders - patriarchy, racial violence, misogyny. The place where this seems to melt away is the cinema space. Can cinema really have the power to hea...

Memento bends narrative and complicates the idea of memory. Who forms narrative and how do you come to terms with your own narrative? Leanord Shelby, who suffers from amnesia, is trying to identify who attacked him and who killed his wife. The film captures the mechanics of trying to remember when one's memory is fragmented. A mind-bending project for Nolan! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic captures a moment in American history that continues to dominate our economic landscape today: the formation and birth of capitalism. Set during the Californian oil boom in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it follows the life of Daniel Plainview - an oil baron - who discovers oil just outside of Los Angeles. The new American frontier is...

In 1883 Carlo Collodi published 'The Adventures of Pinocchio' - a coming of age Italian novel about a woodcarver and his marionette puppet. Guillermo del Toro's adaptation is set against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy - a world where coming of age in a time of mass manipulation could be quite challenging. Del Toro's story is about loss, youth, age, and the meaning of life. Littered with de...

Wes Anderson's tale about an eccentric teenager at Houston's Rushmore Academy is a fantastic watch. Max Fischer's obsession with his teacher Rosemary Cross, and his love for extra-curricular activities encapsulate an almost idealistic, possibly broken American Dream. This one goes down in the Glacé archives - what a tale! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Banshees of Inisherin is a tale of a fragmented and decaying friendship. Set on a bleak fictional island against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War, Martin McDonagh's latest film captures the dark and complicated relationship between memory and friendship. You'll laugh, you may cry, and it might just even make you think what living is actually all about. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

In this special episode, Matt and Marcus of Glacé Media made their second trip to Worcester Film Festival to dive into the second edition of the festival itself. Marcus, mic in hand threw himself into two days of the festival, watching tons of short films, chatting to filmmakers, attendees and organiser Hendrik Harms. On top of this, the coveted Awards Gala was attended on the Saturday night where...