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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film

First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film

Jose Arroyo & Richard Layne

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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film - Ali In Wonderland/ Ali aux pays des merveilles

Ali In Wonderland/ Ali aux pays des merveilles

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01/03/22 • 20 min

https://notesonfilm1.com/2022/01/03/ali-in-wonderland-ali-aux-pays-des-merveilles-rachid-boudjedra-achmed-rachedi-france-algeria-1975/ We talk Ali in Wonderland, currently on MUBI. It's an avant-garde political documentary whose play with form is intended to punch the spectator into awareness, and thus very much part of the deconstructionist zeitgeist of its time. We discuss the use of split screen, distortions, slow motion on beat, juxtapositions, its rendering of historical memory, the way the film connects colonialism with migration. It's a work you'd perhaps now expect to find more readily in a gallery rather than in a cinema like an installation, and worth seeing for many reasons, which we discuss in the podcast.

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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film - Thinking Aloud About Film

Thinking Aloud About Film

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04/25/21 • 4 min

Trailer for a new series of podcasts by Richard Layne and José Arroyo that will be an umbrella for all themed podcasts we've been doing so far, Youssef Chahine, selections from Ritrovato in Bologna, and currently, a series of talks on the early cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien.
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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film - Encounter At The Station With Music

Encounter At The Station With Music

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11/22/21 • 25 min

https://notesonfilm1.com/2021/11/22/thinking-aloud-about-film-encounter-at-the-station-hsin-chi-taiwan-1965/ Encounter at the Station (Taiwan, 1965) is the last of the 5 Hsin Chi films programmed by the Anthology Film Archives in New York and available for all to see for free until November 30. It is a melodrama in the truest sense, with songs narrating or underlining the action at almost every moment. And what action! The film takes on every melodramatic trope possible and when you think it can’t get any more extreme it surprises you by going even further still. A young high school student falls in love with a boy at the station. On her deathbed her mother reveals to her that she is really adopted and to beware of the stepfather. And for good reason, as soon as the mother dies, he sells the young girl to a nightclub to pay for the mother’s funeral. Her love surprises her at the club and buys her out. But it’s no good, her secret’s revealed and she will be forever a B-girl. People have to give up their children, some go blind, some go mad. It’s never boring. We discuss all of this and more in the podcast below:
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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film - On  Blazing Sun with Richard Layne

On Blazing Sun with Richard Layne

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06/22/20 • 27 min

José Arroyo and Richard Layne discovered the work of Youssef Chahine at a retrospective of his work at Bologna last year, are thrilled that so many previously difficult-to-see films of his are now available on Netflix, and hope that these podcasts encourage people to watch and discuss the films. This is the first in a series. We hope to cover as many of them as possible, and in chronological order. We hope you join us on this journey
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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film - In Conversation with Richard Layne on 'Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind'
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04/04/24 • 37 min

https://notesonfilm1.com/2024/04/04/in-conversation-with-richard-layne-on-yoko-ono-music-of-the-mind-tate-modern/ I talk to Richard Layne on ‘Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind’, currently on at Tate Modern. You might recognise Richard from our podcast, THINKING ALOUD ABOUT FILM. What you might not know is that he is a long-time fan of Yoko Ono and one of the most knowledgeable people on her work as an artist and performer. In this podcast, Richard, compares this exhibition, billed as the largest ever undertaken on the work of Yoko One, and compares it to the many others he’s attended. We talk of how he became a fan, her various types of work, the performance art, the conceptual art, her books of instructions, the connection to Fluxus. We also touch on her collaborations with some of the key figures of mid-twentieth century art (John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, John Lennon) and how her work prefigures that of contemporary artists such as Marina Ibrahimovic. Our conversation broadly follows the flow of the exhibition itself, so I’ve included photographs from the exhibition in the blog so the listener might more clearly follow the points of conversation. Richard is very illuminating on why Yoko Ono is one of those figures that keep getting re-discovered periodically, on her extensive influence in various domains of art, from the gallery to punk, and on how she is a wonderful conduit to chance meetings with The Pet Shop Boys.
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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film - Thinking Aloud About Film: The Youssef Chahine Film Club No. 3: Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène, 1968)
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12/04/21 • 23 min

https://notesonfilm1.com/2021/12/04/the-youssef-chahine-film-club-no-3-mandabi-ousmane-sembene-1968/ A discussion of Ousmane Sembène's Mandabi. José had never seen it before and found it a revelation. Richard's now seen it twice, once at the cinema in a beautiful restoration that's now been put out by Criterion. The film is currently screening on MUBI and we highly recommend it. We talk issues of representation, gender, colonialism, how structures seem designed to oppress a sector of the population which nonetheless constitutes 'the people'. We also talk film aesthetics and what it was about the film that Youssef Chahine might have found so appealing.
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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film - DE CIERTA MANERA/ One Way Or Another (Sara Gomez, Cuba, 1974)

DE CIERTA MANERA/ One Way Or Another (Sara Gomez, Cuba, 1974)

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04/03/23 • 15 min

https://notesonfilm1.com/2023/04/03/thinking-aloud-about-film-de-cierta-manera-one-way-or-another-sara-gomez-cuba-1974/ Thinking Aloud About Film talks Sara Gomez’ debut feature, DE CIERTA MANERA/ ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, a model of Marxist dialectical filmmaking, mixing fiction and documentary; a dramatic auto-critique of class and race that puts gender at the centre: an extraordinary film, currently on MUBI.
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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film - The Will (Kamal Selim, 1939)

The Will (Kamal Selim, 1939)

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11/15/21 • 26 min

https://notesonfilm1.com/2021/11/15/the-youssef-chahine-film-club-the-will-kamal-selim-1939/ In Egypt, The Will is often voted the greatest Egyptian film of all time, one of the greatest ever anywhere, and a precursor to Italian neo-realism. Youssef Chahine recommended it and provided the impetus for our viewing. In this podcast we discuss how much we liked it (the representation of a whole way of life with its structures of feeling, the melodrama, the resonances it still has to contemporary life); the limits of its comparison to neo-realism; its influence on Chahine, particularly evident in Daddy Amin; and how and why its claims to being one of the greatest films of all time nonetheless seem lost on us.
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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film - Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh 2021 -- Wrap-up

Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh 2021 -- Wrap-up

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11/01/21 • 20 min

https://notesonfilm1.com/2021/11/01/taiwan-film-festival-edinburgh-2021-wrap-up/ In our final podcast on the Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh 2021, we praise its programming, its accessibility, and its decision to also include live events alongside the digital. We also delve into other types of films in the programmer not covered by this podcast so far, Pai Jing-jui's Morning in Taipei (1964) with its similarities to Humphrey Jennings cinema and the 'city symphony' films of the 1920s' and with its superb new score by Lim Giong; Den Nan-guang's 8 mm home movies; and we delve with considerable depth into Chen Kuo-fu's The Personals (1998) , a film anyone interested in issues of gender and sexuality will be interested in seeing (it has a fantastic queer moment very relevant to current discussions)
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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film - Hou Hsiao-hsien 8: Dust in the Wind (1986)

Hou Hsiao-hsien 8: Dust in the Wind (1986)

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05/21/21 • 32 min

https://notesonfilm1.com/2021/05/21/hou-hsiao-hsien-8-dust-in-the-wind-1986/ A beautiful film, a continuation of a cycle of autobiographical films (The Boys From Fengkuei, A Summer at Grandpa's). We continue our discussion of framing, ellipses, cinema, letters, the country and the city, heartbreak and exploitation, and all those other formal and thematic elements that make Hou's cinema so great.
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First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film currently has 212 episodes available.

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The episode title 'Ali In Wonderland/ Ali aux pays des merveilles' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film is 34 minutes.

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Episodes of First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film are typically released every 4 days, 23 hours.

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The first episode of First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film was released on Jun 22, 2020.

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