The Garden Cinema Film Talk

This week, Michael and I chat to Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton, the scriptwriting team behind the feature film All My Friends Hate Me. The writers met as school and have been performing sketches and double acts since then. They created the hilarious "web film" High Renaissance Man and had previously collaborated with director Andrew Gaynord on such comedy hits as Stath Lets Flats. We discuss the evolving nature of comedy, British influences such as Alan Partridge, their collaborative writing process, class-based satire, depicting social anxiety and paranoia, and the surprising twists in their debut feature. Spoiler alert! You can watch Andrew Gaynord's short hit CGI Brows on YouTube.  Find us on the usual platforms. Send us your comments, feedback and suggestions via Twitter @thegardencinema or by contacting us at podcast@thegardencinema.co.uk.     

This week, Michael and I spoke to director Colm Bairéad at the Curzon offices about his first fiction feature film, The Quiet Girl, which is based on the short story Foster by Claire Keegan.    We discuss the understated and restrained qualities of the film, his reasons for choosing to adapt Keegan's novel, and the "growing confidence" of Irish language filmmaking. We also debate the ending of the film. Spoiler alert!   Find us on the usual platforms. Send us your comments, feedback and suggestions via Twitter @thegardencinema or by contacting us at podcast@thegardencinema.co.uk. 

This week, Michael and I chat with Ginette Vincendeau, Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London, and a regular contributor to Sight & Sound. Ginette has written extensively about French cinema and is currently co-editing a book on Paris in the cinema. She joins us to talk about the Golden Age of French film to mark a season dedicated to this period at the Garden Cinema. We discuss the work of great directors, such as Jean Vigo and Marcel Carné, their aesthetic considerations and the stories they chose to tell, as well as the lasting legacy of that era. Find us on the usual platforms. Send us your comments, feedback and suggestions via Twitter @thegardencinema or by contacting us at podcast@thegardencinema.co.uk. 

This podcast comes from the Garden Cinema, an independent cinema in Covent Garden in the heart of London. Today we talk to filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic whose new film ‘Murina’ won the Camera d’Or at Cannes last year. She discusses how the film tackles such emotional subjects as adolescence, cultural heritage, and family relationships in a patriarchal society. She’s interviewed by Michael Chambers, owner/manager of the cinema, and by Abla Kandalaft, a journalist and film programmer. Find us on the usual platforms. Send us your comments, feedback and suggestions via Twitter @thegardencinema or by contacting us at podcast@thegardencinema.co.uk.