Film Podcasts?

Hi, just wondering if anyone can recommend any really engaging film criticism/theoretical podcasts that you may have come across, all i can seem to find is contemporary reviews and fanzone blogs. Links would be appreciated, thanks, Tom

Tom,

Here are some interesting interviews with top writers, directors and actors. You can watch online or hear the podcast.

http://www.movingimage.us/pinewood/

out of the past is a fairly decent noir-oriented podcast.

Filmspotting is one i generally enjoy

Filmspotting is very good. Filmcouch is done by spout.com and it is also great and there is a British podcast called Movies You Should See that comes out weekly that I love.

All are availiable through itunes.

Watching The Directors

I agree about Watching the Directors. I think they do a pretty thorough analysis of the works of many great directors (I like the one they did on Kurosawa, and also the one on Woody Allen).

watching the directors mixes in too much of their personal theology for me. while i appreciate what they were (the podcast has been discontinued but you can still get the episodes) trying to do, it comes off too much like a discussion that occurs when you stick around after bible study once you discover the youth pastor has actually seen pulp fiction (crazy, i know!). and while i admire their honesty about learning on the job i don’t think the people i would turn to for theory and analysis would have to learn about terrence malick thanks to listener suggestions. i would want them to already know that (and a load of other similar examples) before feeling authoritative enough to start a film podcast. not ready for prime time.

I listen to a few podcasts.
By far my favorite is Battleship Pretension. The two hosts are very funny and smart.

Graeme Hobbs at MovieMail does some excellent podcasts, usually discussing an arthouse release in depth every couple of weeks or so.

http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/scripts/latest.pl?type=Podcast

thanks alot guys, keep them coming – also i stumbled across the Guardian/Observer film show called film weekly, definatly check it out!.

So, far my favorite cinema podcast is GreenCine Daily Podcast and sometimes I’ll listen to the CriterionCast

I loved the GreenCine interview with Chantal Akerman (in promotion of her Eclipse series) and Götz Spielmann for the Criterion release of Revanche.

Their latest is with Terry Zwigoff for the recent Criterion releases of “Crumb” and “Louie Bluie”.

For those who want to add GreenCine Daily Podcast to their iTunes can find it here.

filmjunk is hilarious and sometimes intellectual