The Cinephiliacs
By Peter Labuza
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Description
The Cinephiliacs is a podcast exploring the past and future of cinephelia. Film critic Peter Labuza has interviewed critics, programmers, academics, filmmakers, and more about their relationship to film and film culture. Additionally, each guest will bring in a particular favorite film and discuss it with Labuza. Indiewire declares, "If you want to hear film critics talk at length about their craft, there are few better places on the Internet" and Keyframe Daily has called it "Exhibit A" for the future of film culture
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ExplicitTC #46 - Karina Longworth (Wanda) | Peter doesn't listen to many other film podcasts, but one of his joys this year has been the transporting mysteries of You Must Remember This, hosted by former LA Weekly critic Karina Longworth. Karina discusses how her interest in writing about... | 9/21/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #45 - Stephanie Zacharek (Having A Wild Weekend) | It often seems like writing for a large general audience and maintaining an idiosyncratic voice could be on polar opposite planes, but Village Voice critic Stephanize Zacharek has proven for many years they go hand-in-hand. In his final New York... | 8/24/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #44 - Gabe Klinger (The Bowery) | Critic, programmer, and teacher Gabe Klinger isn't interested in what we know about the movies—his journey has been fueled by searching beyond the even the outskirts of the canon to many of the far reaches of cinephilia, bringing those films to... | 8/10/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #43 - Dave Kehr (The Whistler) | There are those who search out the most majestic works of cinema, and those who would rather search under the cracks for oddities and beyond. Dave Kehr, the former critic of the Chicago Reader and New York Times, and now a programmer at the Museum of... | 7/27/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #42 - J. Hoberman (Poor Little Rich Girl) | While his origins as a cinephile are based largely in his interest in the avant-garde, J. Hoberman has become one of the most influential critics through his examinations of Hollywood blockbusters, world cinema, the outer limits of experimental works,... | 7/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #41 - Adam Nayman (All Is Forgiven) | In a continent dominated by American cinema, it can be easy to forget how essential Toronto is for cinephilia: home of the famed film festival, base of the idiosyncratic magazine Cinema Scope, and the city where critic Adam Nayman has been writing and... | 6/29/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #40 - Michael Koresky (The Seventh Victim) | It would probably take days to count the number of film publications that launched in the early years of the current millennium, but Reverse Shot, which Michael Koresky co-founded, has been a cornerstone of intelligent and dynamic film writing for... | 6/15/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #39 - Phillip Lopate (Charulata) | Phillip Lopate has been writing for over five decades on a number of subjects - New York, family, marriage, art - but his initial love was the movies. Having seen the New Wave arrive in New York first hand (as well as watch the tide recede), Phillip... | 6/1/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC - Cannes Film Festival 2014 | The Cannes Film Festival has been the premiere location for the more masterworks in cinema than likely any other festival in the medium's history. And with its 67th iteration, Peter finally made it to the Croisette to see what the fuss was about.... | 5/26/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #38 - Sam Adams (The Long Goodbye) | Sam Adams may not be in the center of the criticism landscape from his home in Philadelphia, but his presence at the editor for the Criticwire blog has made his dialectic voice a reasoned and fascinating one in a world of polemics. In this latest... | 5/11/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #37 - Carrie Rickey (Clueless) | From Los Angeles to New York, Carrie Rickey spent many of her years during the heyday of the Golden Age of Film Criticism, writing about some of the truly great movies as they were released, before moving cities for the Philadelphia Inquirer. No... | 4/27/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #36 - Matt Lynch (Hard Boiled) | In a world where streaming services have attempted to kill physical media, Scarecrow Video proudly boasts row after row of DVDs, VHS tapes, and more in its 120,000 title collection located out in Seattle, Washington. Matt Lynch has worked at Scarecrow... | 4/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #35 - Mark Harris (The Best Years Of Our Lives) | During World War II, five of Hollywood's star directors, whose names had been behind some of the biggest box office hits and Oscar winners, dropped their entire careers to go to war. Their goal was not to fight, but to document. Besides being the only... | 3/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #34 - Dana Stevens (Letter From An Unknown Woman) | As one of the film criticism's public figures, Dana Stevens has carved out a niche for herself with a thoughtful and intelligent approach to contemporary film reviewing. So she joins Peter in the studio for a brief chat about her days as a Comparative... | 3/16/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #33 - Kent Jones (Spawn of the North) | Kent Jones is truly one of the most essential voices for Peter. His writings are reflective, intelligent, and complex in a way few writers come close to, and his other work—A Letter To Elia, the World Cinema Project, and the New York Film... | 2/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #32 - Richard Peña (Memories of Underdevelopment) | Without the help of Richard Peña, Peter would probably have never become interested in directors like István Szabó, Kim Ki-Young, or Souleymane Cisse, among countless others. As a professor at Columbia and the former programmer of... | 2/2/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #31 - Noah Isenberg (Ruthless) | For the last decade, Noah Isenberg has dedicated his career to searching out the life of Edgar G. Ulmer, the director of Detour and the so-called "King of the Bs." His films included poverty row crime films, Italian epics made on the cheap, films for... | 1/19/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC - 2013 Favorites (Part 2) | A film does not become something more than a mechanical work of reproduction until it is viewed. It only becomes art when it is presented to an audience, as masterpieces are born through the interaction between cinema and cinephile. It is these films... | 1/4/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC - 2013 Favorites (Part 1) | With another year wrapped up, it's time for another countdown, so once again Peter is joined by Time Out New York's Keith Uhlich to talk about some of the truly original and wondrous movies of the year. From the inner workings of drug cartels in China... | 1/2/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #30 - Genevieve Yue (Café Lumière) | Between experimental cinema and the mainstream, between academic writing and teaching and mainstream criticism, New School professor and writer Genevieve Yue enjoys crossing the boundaries between the normally concrete lines of contemporary cinema and... | 12/22/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #29 - Nellie Killian (Five Year Diary) | If repertory film culture is a slowly dying sect of cinephilia, then at least its final years will be lead by some of the most creative people possible, including BAMcinemtek's Nellie Killian. Nellie sits down with Peter to talk about growing up next... | 12/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #28 - Imogen Sara Smith (In A Lonely Place) | While it can be fun to talk to critics who spend their time keeping up with contemporary cinema, Peter is glad to bring on Imogen Sara Smith, who has always dived into cinema's past worlds. The author of Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy and In... | 11/17/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC - Andrew Sarris Roundtable | It can only be underestimated how much of the ways we perceive and think about cinema today have been defined by Andrew Sarris. The importer of auteur theory from France and the long time champion of some of the greatest film artists who would have... | 10/30/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #27 - Craig Simpson (Paris Texas) | One can spend their entire life just watching the movies and appreciating the work on screen, but often just as fascinating is seeing all the behind the scenes work. Craig Simpson, a blogger and occasional contributor to The House Next Door, has... | 10/20/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC - NYFF51 #3 (Tony Dayoub) | As the 51st New York Film Festival comes to a close, Peter finally takes on a number of the big American films (and one French!) of the year, though don't mention the "O word" around him. Just because these films are going to be discussed in the... | 10/13/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC - NYFF's Views from the Avant-Garde (James Hansen) | With over 200 films spread over 40+ programs, how does one even begin to approach the New York Film Festival's Views from the Avant-Garde, especially someone as novice as Peter? Well, the only way is to dive in head first, as he did this year, and now... | 10/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC - NYFF51 #2 (Monica Castillio) | Much of the fun of a festival like the New York Film Festival is experiencing the works of major auteurs from the front lines, but it's also about finding something small, unique, and truly exciting. For this second podcast report from the preeminent... | 10/3/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC - NYFF51 #1 (Carson Lund) | Arguably the most excitingly and dynamically curated film festival in the world, Peter returns to the New York Film Festival, now in its 51st iteration, for his 8th (!) trip and he couldn't be more excited. Thus begins a series of podcasts dedicated... | 9/26/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #26 - Jordan Cronk (Repo Man) | The city of Los Angeles might be where Hollywood's dreams come true, but for film critic Jordan Cronk, his mind often wanders toward the films of countries far and abroad, reflective works of the most avant-garde order. So when Jordan decided to make... | 9/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #25 - Sheila O'Malley (Opening Night) | If you want to tell a story on film, you most likely are going to require actors, and hopefully great ones. But how does one talk about how actors do? Sheila O'Malley has more than enough experience in acting, and has become one of the most prolific... | 8/26/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #24 - Robert Greene (Edvard Munch) | Robert Greene jokes that he badgered Peter into finally watching his two documentaries, Kati With An I and Fake It So Real. But he certainly didn't badger Peter's opinion of recognizing a true non-fiction talent, someone who is taking the form in new... | 8/11/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #23 - Gina Telaroli (Brigadoon) | Many of Peter's guests have expressed their feelings about cinema through words. Gina Telaroli prefers images, both moving and still. The experimental filmmaker, image essay maker, and critic sits down with Peter for a very engaging conversation about... | 7/28/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #22 - A.O. Scott (The Player) | One year into The Cinephiliacs, Peter brings in a critic that he's read for almost a decade now: A.O. Scott of the New York Times. Tony joins Peter for a traveled conversation about his entry into cinephilia at the repertory houses of Paris and... | 7/14/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #21 - Victor Morton (Rosetta) | Since film discussion has been on the Internet, so has Victor Morton. The very opinionted and didactic film blogger joins Peter for a journey through his cinephile life. Victor tells tales of growing up in both Scotland and Texas before finally... | 6/30/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #20 - Andreas Stoehr (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T) | Being a cinephile outside of places like New York or Chicago is a very different experience than what Peter is used to, so he treks to Northfield, Minnesota for this conversation with blogger Andreas Stoehr. Andreas discusses growing up on classic... | 6/16/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #19 - David Schwartz (Beauty #2) | Exploring cinema doesn't just end when the final reel spools; it's also about learning the history and future of how moving images play into our daily lives. At the Museum of the Moving Image, David Schwartz programs the films that accompanying and... | 6/2/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #18 - Ben Model (Modern Times) | Silent films were never truly silent: vaudeville acts, narrators, and of course, musical accompanists filled the air with sounds. Ben Model continues that tradition by performing musical accompaniments to both canonical and rare silent films... | 5/19/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #17 - Vadim Rizov (Le Cercle Rouge) | Strongly opinionated but never dogmatically so, the prolific Vadim Rizov ranks among the best of the new generation of cinephiles in Peter's opnion. So the young writer joins him to discuss his unique voice in the critical community. Vadim discusses... | 5/5/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #16 - Miriam Bale (Johnny Guitar) | Miriam Bale is interested in cinema, but she's almost more interested in the conversations that develop out of cinema. So naturally, Peter thought it would be a great idea to bring the programmer and critic to discuss how she found her way to the... | 4/21/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSpecial Episode - Remembering Roger Ebert | On Thursday, April 4th, 2013, the film critic Roger Ebert passed away at the age of 70. It was hard to deny the influence of someone who was easily the most recognizable film critic of all time, so Peter felt compelled to dedicate an entire episode to... | 4/7/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC - New Directors/New Films (Daniel Walber) | Where do great directors come from? Since 1969, the New Directors/New Films festival has searched around the globe for the directors and cinemas that will soon rank among the canon. And certainly it has a strong history for accomplishing that with... | 3/19/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #15 - Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (The Moderns) | In 2011, a young cinephile named Ignatiy Vishnevetsky became the poster boy for new cinephilia during the return of Roger Ebert's At the Movies. But there's much, much more to Mubi's esoteric and erudite critic than his days on public television.... | 3/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TC #14 - Dan Sallitt (Christine) | Dan Sallitt is someone Peter considers a cinephile par excellence. A thoughtful auteurist, an idiosyncratic and insightful writer, a dedicated repertory cinema viewer, and a truly accomplished filmmaker, Dan exemplifies everything you'd want in both... | 2/24/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTC #13 - C. Mason Wells (The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums) | It is a little odd how similar Peter and his guest C. Mason Wells are in certain ways. Both are New York cinephiles from the Midwest who are also passionate fans of Andrew Sarris Both went to Columbia University (and both participated in one of its... | 2/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cinephiliacs #12 - Kevin B. Lee (Slacker) | When Peter sat down to do a video essay on his own a few years back, he primarly studied and examined the work of Kevin B. Lee. Luckily, Peter has gotten to know Kevin, and was thankful to sit him down for a podcast while in Chicago last month. Kevin... | 1/27/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cinephiliacs #11 - Keith Phipps (Petulia) | One of the New Year's Resolutions for The Cinephiliacs this year is to explore the world of cinephiles outside of New York, so Peter decided to make a trip to Chicago to interview the windy city's best and brightest. First up: Keith Phipps, the former... | 1/13/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Cinephiliacs - 2012 Favorites (Part 2) | Peter believes that the Top 10 list is less of a summation of a year in film than a personal statement on how one view's cinema at that moment. So in this epic 2+ hour episode, he invites the idiosyncratic Keith Uhlich to join him on a journey through... | 12/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Cinephiliacs - 2012 Favorites (Part 1) | Peter believes that the Top 10 list is less of a summation of a year in film than a personal statement on how one view's cinema at that moment. So in this epic 2+ hour episode, he invites the idiosyncratic Keith Uhlich to join him on a journey through... | 12/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cinephiliacs #10 - Katey Rich (Take This Waltz) | Peter can often get lost in the history of cinema that he often forgets that movies were born in the industry, and Hollywood keeps that art alive. So for his last interview of the 2012 season, CinemaBlend editor-in-chief Katey Rich joins him for a... | 12/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cinephiliacs #9 - Godfrey Cheshire (Close-Up) | Godfrey Chesire has seen it all. From his early experiences with the Westerns of John Ford, to his experience of the 1970s films while abroad in Europe, to the discovery of Chinese and Iranian cinema in the 1990s, Cheshire has remained an essential... | 12/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cinephiliacs #8 - Matt Singer (The Buried Secret of M Night Shaymalan) | Peter remembers seeing Matt Singer during news and festival bits on the IFC channel back in the day, so he was quite excited to bring it the man to sit down to talk about his work on Criticwire and elsewhere. Matt discusses the winding path he took to... | 11/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Cinephiliacs #7 - Ali Arikan (Withnail and I) | Peter takes cinema very seriously, but sometimes we all need a good laugh, and no one makes Peter howl in laughter than reading the work of Ali Arikan. So laughs are abound when Ali comes in from Turkey to join him on The Cinephiliacs. Ali discusses... | 11/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Cinephiliacs #6 - Farran Smith Nehme (Three Strangers) | After three weeks of new movies, The Cinephiliacs returns by going to old school filmmaking as Peter sits down with Farran Smith Nehme, aka the Self-Styled Siren, blogger extraordinaire when it comes to classic Hollywood movies. The two discuss how... | 10/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cinephiliacs - NYFF50 #3 (David Ehrlich) | If there is one thing that has defined the New York Film Festival since its first year in 1963, the festival has always aligned itself with the most essential names in world cinema (the first film to play NYFF? Buñuel's Exterminating Angel). So... | 10/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cinephiliacs - NYFF50 #2 (Jaime Christley) | Many of the films at this year's New York Film Festivals are filled with various cinematic references that can go over Peter's head without him ever realizing, so he brings Slant Magazine contributor Jaime Christley to help him parse through some... | 10/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cinephiliacs - NYFF50 #1 (Simon Abrams) | In this special edition of The Cinephiliacs, Peter averts from the regular format for the next three weeks to report back from his annual visit to the New York Film Festival, a favorite cinephile event of his. To help him break down the first week of... | 9/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Cinephiliacs #5 - Bilge Ebiri (Barry Lyndon) | New York Magazine film critic Bilge Ebiri loves films that he can constantly revisit and pry deeper and deeper, so Peter has no problem prying into Bilge’s own head for his conversation on The Cinephiliacs. Bilge talks about his early exposure... | 9/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Cinephiliacs #4 - Keith Uhlich (The Truth About Charlie) | For a film critic who has to keep his reviews under 250 words, Time Out New York staff writer Keith Uhlich has quite a lot to say as he joins Peter for the podcast. Keith explains how he originally got the cinephile bug watching films... | 8/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cinephiliacs #3 - Kenji Fujishima (Fallen Angels) | Kenji Fujishima might not have the wisdom that comes from age of Peter's previous guests, but the two have an excellent time talking about how he became a hardcore cinephile and writing for The House Next Door. Kenji discusses reading Pauline... | 8/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cinephiliacs #2 - Matt Zoller Seitz (Born on the Fourth of July) | Peter sits down with New York Magazine TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz to talk about the many different hats he has worn during his cinephile life, which have included film critic, pop culture journalist, filmmaker, video essayist, blogger, and more. Matt... | 7/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Cinephiliacs #1 - Glenn Kenny (Blow-Up) | In episode #1 of The Cinephiliacs, Peter sits down with the former Premiere and current MSN Movies chief film critic Glenn Kenny to talk about his life reviewing movies. Glenn discusses his early childhood reading about films he never thought he would... | 7/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Among the Most Unique Film Podcasts Out There
Finding a movie podcast nowadays is extremely easy -- maybe *too* easy. Most (even the best) follow the same format and tend to discuss the same things, but The Cinephiliacs stands out for being about the watchers themselves. A whole different beast, which is what makes this a compulsively listenable (and relistenable) show; through the discussions, you even come to learn a thing or two about how to hone your own critical skills.
It's very good
The Cinephiliacs is a very good podcast that should be enjoyable to anyone who is a cinephile or anyone interested is criticism/analysis. The show is well structured, the host is competent and the guest are interesting. The audio quality could be improved. Overall a very good show. I will continue to listen to and I hope it gets better.
Great Approach
As a longtime follower of Peter Labuza's Twitter, I am shamefully late on catching up with his podcast, The Cinephiliacs. Tardiness aside, I've greatly enjoyed avidly listening over the past few weeks. Cleverly designed as both an interview show and a review show, The Cinephiliacs is rare in a Film podcast landscape too littered with nerd catering franchise news and speculation. Instead, each episode takes a deep dive into the film life of the interviewed guest. Labuza strikes a fine balance as host, well prepared, ready to engage, but also keen for his guest to speak. In the age of online film journalism, film culture can too often seem defined by petty disagreements, wars of words via Twitter, and scolding think pieces. This podcast often provides a glowing reminder of the ties that bind cinephiles together. Filmmaker Rian Johnson once called Filmspotting, the granddaddy of all Film podcasts, "a force for good in the universe." I can't confidently speak for the entirety of the universe, but in terms of the online cinephile community, Labuza's work here is certainly a force of good and one that deserves to be reckoned with.
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