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Postcards to Europe | Various | 2019

From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them – and us – in this unique collection.

In these pages you’ll find personal letters, reminiscences, poetry, art and brand new fiction from some of the most talented and important voices at work today, including Jessie Burton, Alain de Botton, Matt Haig, Richard Herring, Owen Jones, Mark Kermode, Robert Macfarlane, Kate Mosse, Chris Riddell, Lionel Shriver and many more. A fascinating, funny and moving must-read collection.

Girls On Film | Episode 11 | 13 May 2019

BAFTA-winning writer/director Amma Asante joins Anna Smith and Wendy Lloyd, film critic and reviewer for the British Psychological Society magazine – and Angie Errigo, film critic, broadcaster and contributing editor of Empire magazine, for a special episode in front of an audience at The AllBright Club Mayfair.

Asante talks about her new film, Where Hands Touch (2019), as well as her career, inspirations and being a film director in the age of Time’s Up.

Films reviewed include Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Woman At War (2019); while the panel discuss research conducted by Wendy Lloyd around critical responses to the sexual violence in Red Sparrow (2018).

Films put to the Bechdel Test range from Claire Denis’ High Life (2019) to Dragged Across Concrete (2018), while audience questions bring out fascinating issues around gender, film and bias.

Girls On Film @ HOME | Episode 10 | 1 May 2019

Episode 10 combines studio interviews with Eighth Grade (2018) director Bo Burnham (our first male interviewee) and Madeline’s Madeline director Josephine Decker, with reviews of these titles by the panel, who this month are Total Film’s Jane Crowther and BBC’s Rhianna Dhillon.

The panel also reviews Us (2019), and puts The Pajama Game (1957), Dirty Dancing (1987), Bend it Like Beckham (2002), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Whiplash (2014) and Greta (2018) to the Bechdel Test.

Recorded live at HOME in Manchester, this episode also features lively audience contributions.

Film Stories | Issue 5 | May 2019

Cover Story: Taron Egerton, Richard Madden and Jamie Bell on Elton John biopic Rocketman.

Current Releases Reviewed: Laddie, Eighth Grade, Red Joan, Woman At War, All These Small Moments, Destination Wedding, An Accidental Studio: The Story of Handmade Films, Dragged Across Concrete and Madeline’s Madeline.

Writers: Robin Bell, Edward Boff, Paul Childs, Becky Clough, Sarah Cook, Dan Cooper, Larise Cummings, Cat Davies, Hope Dickson Leach, Matt Edwards, Elliot Grove, Charlotte Harrison, Mark Harrison, Travis Hartman, Kristen Howard, Francesca Hughes, Natasha Jagger, Diane Knight, Debbie Moon, Duncan Paveling, Ivan Rashford, Romesh Ranganathan, Darren Scott, Mark Searby, Anna Smith, Georgina Smith, Jenny Tolep, Chris Walsh, Anna Wilzcek and Anonymous movie PR rep.

Number of writers who have never been paid for writing before: 4

Mark Kermode Live in 3D | Show 40 | April 2019

We opened the show with an Ask the Audience in which Mark listed his Top Five Kenneth Branagh films: 5. Thor (2011) 4. The Magic Flute (2006) 3. In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) 2. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) 1. Hamlet (1996).

In Here’s the Thing we commemorated the life of the late Agnes Varda (90) and her latest film Faces Places (Visages, Villages; 2017).

In Coming Attractions director Brian Welsh came to talk about their rave culture film Beats (2019). Mid-way through the interview he invited the lead; Cristian Ortega to join him on stage. Iceland’s Benedikt Erlingsson talked about his environmental warrior movie Woman at War (2019), and Steve Mitchell and Joe Kraemer talked about their Larry Cohen biopic King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017). Anna Meredith came to talk about scoring the music for Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade (2019), and finally Amma Asante talked about her new release Where Hands Touch (2019)– and talked to Mark about her Guilty Pleasure: the highly contentious Sex and the City (2008).

Brain Welsh and Cristian Ortega
Benedikt Erlingsson
Amma Asante

Film Stories | Issue 4 | April 2019

Cover Story: Jessie Buckley, the star of Wild Rose, exclusively takes us through the movie’s story.

Current Releases Reviewed: Benjamin, Two For Joy, Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story, Out Of Blue, Fisherman Friends, The Aftermath, Wild Rose, The Sisters Brothers, The Keeper, Mid90s, The White Crow and The Fight.

Movie Clinic: Stan & Ollie (2018)

Writers: Andrew Beeken, Aman Beesla, Matthew Butler-Hart, Tori Butler-Hart, Robin Bell, Anna Cale, Chloe Catchpole, Paul Childs, Hamish Mek Chohan, Nicky Clark, Becky Clough, Simon Columb, Dan Cooper, Larisse Cummings, Hope Dickson Leach, Matt Edwards, Elliot Grove, Charlotte Harrison, Amanda Keats, Kate McCoid, Debbie Moon, Kristen Murray, Duncan Paveling, Ivan Radford, Romesh Ranganathan, Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart, Anna Smith, Paul Tanter, Ben Taylor, Anna Wilczek and Anonymous Multiplex Manager.

Number of writers this issue who have never been paid for writing before: 5.

Girls On Film | Episode 9 | 25 March 2019

Anna welcomes Mia Bays (Birds Eye View), Eve Gabereau (Modern Films), Akua Gyamfi (The British Blacklist) and actor Muna Otaru (The Keeping Room) to a special live recording at the famous Annabel’s nightclub in association with FiXX.

Together they talk about how activism in film distribution can significantly change the media landscape. Films reviewed include Jellyfish (2018) and The Breaker Upperers (2018), while those put to the Bechdel Test range from Back To The Future (1985) to The Phantom Thread (2017). Given the venue, the panel discuss their favourite nightclub movies too.

Mark Kermode Live in 3D | Show 39 | March 2019

Mark invited Simon Amstell to talk about his Guilty Pleasure: Titanic (1997). He also asked him to talk about this new film Benjamin (2018) – which Mark is in!

Mark sequewayed into a List-O-Mania of Top Ten Cameos by People Playing Themselves: 10. Mark in Absolutely Fabulous Xmas Special (2011) 9. Anna Wintour in Ocean’s 8 (2018) 8. Hedda Hopper in Sunset Boulevard (1950) 7. David Bowie in Zoolander (2001) 6. Macy Gray in Spider-Man (2002) 5. Rex Reed in Superman (1978) 4. Malcolm McDowell on The Player (1992) 3. Bill Murray in Zombieland (2009) 2. Bob Harris in Wild Rose (2019) 1.Mark in Extras– as an extra! (2006)

In Sound and Vision David Holmes came to talk about his work as a composer, notably on ‘71 (2014) and Killing Eve (2018).

In One from the Vaults we talked about the re-release of A Clockwork Orange (1971).

In Coming Attractions Carol Morley talked about her extraordinary film Out of Blue (2018), and Chiwetel Ejiofor about The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019). He also talked about de Sica’s beautiful Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette; 1948) in The Film That Changed My Life.

We ended on a celebration of Sound and Vision with Good Vibrations (2012).

You can listen to Simon Astell and Chiwetel Ejiofor here!

You can listen to Carol Morley and David Holmes here!

David Holmes
Carol Morley
Chiwetel Ejiofor

Girls On Film @ HOME | Episode 8 | 11 March 2019

Episode 8 is the first in a series of episodes recorded live at HOME in Manchester, where Anna is joined by Miranda Sawyer, writer, broadcaster and cultural commentator who does a weekly film score show on BBC Six Music – and Francine Stock, presenter of The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4.

Together they review Barbarella (1968), Colette (2018) and Out of Blue (2018). Audience questions raise the topic of working–class women in films, while films put to the Bechdel Test include If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Isle Of Dogs (2018) and Frozen (2013).

Girls On Film: Captain Marvel | Episode 7 | 7 March 2019

An International Women’s Day Captain Marvel Special!

Brie Larsen and Lashana Lynch join Anna to talk about Captain Marvel (2019), the first stand-alone female superhero movie in the Marvel universe. Topics include female friendship, diversity in criticism, cleavage shots and cat allergies.

Anna welcomes back critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh to review the film.