The Garden Cinema Film Talk

This is the Garden Cinema podcast. We chat with filmmakers, actors, producers and film commentators about the films we’re showing and record live Q&As with guests and our audience

The Garden Cinema Film Talk is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 49 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #53

  Rainbow Collective on The Day Innocence Died: Bloody Sunday and the Fight for Justice

  Jul 28, 202632 min

  In partnership with The Canary UK , the Rainbow Collective screened their latest feature doc at the Garden Cinema. The filmmaking duo, also behind To Kill a War Machine, joined us after the film to discuss the film, their documentary and filmmaking background covering international stories, the aftermath of Bloody Sunday and the long fight for justice, and the legacy of the Irish independence movement today.

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  Episode #52

  A Bigger Splash with curator Dominic Lutyens and the Fashion Film Club

  May 7, 202645 min

  Director Jack Hazan and editor David Mingay (Rude Boy) had access to David Hockney and his circle from 1970 to 1973, a critical period for the internationally-acclaimed artist following the break-up of his relationship with Peter Schlesinger. As much an intimate study of love gone wrong as a portrait of an artist at work. A Bigger Splash chronicles the emotional ripples that separation casts on their coterie. With appearances by such art scene icons (and subjects of Hockney's work) as Celia Birtwell, Ossie Clark, Henry Geldzahler and Patrick Proctor, this ground-breaking film is presented here in a newly remastered version.. Dominic Lutyens is a freelance arts writer. He is the co-author with Kirsty Hislop of the book, 70s Style & Design. He also wrote Celia Birtwell the textile designer’s biography, with her. His latest book Perriand, a monograph on architect and designer Charlotte Perriand, was published last year. Here he is in dicusssion with Sarah Bailey, founder of the Fashion Film Club.

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  Episode #51

  A Room With a View with curator Keith Lodwick and the Fashion Film Club's Sarah Bailey

  Feb 26, 202635 min

  This screening of this multi-award winning Merchant Ivory classic is presented by the Fashion Film Club and will be followed by Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop curator Keith Lodwick. This adaptation brings the novel by E.M. Forster to dazzling life in the Florentine countryside and in the well-appointed homes of the English Edwardian upper classes. A comedy of manners with a quick wit and impeccable comic timing, A Room With A View is also a portrait of the quiet solitude that lies beneath Forster's characters, and of the need for human connection in a world of rigid convention. The young Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch (played by Helena Bonham Carter), arrives in Florence on a Baedecker-style grand tour with her aunt Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith). Through a series of events involving English expatriates Miss Eleanor Lavish, an unflappable novelist (Judi Dench), and the Emersons, a free-thinking father and son (played by Denholm Elliot and Julian Sands), Lucy's life is changed forever under a loggia in Florence and in the Tuscan countryside. (Merchant Ivory) Curator of Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop at The Fashion and Textile Museum , London (until March 8th), Keith Lodwick is an expert on costume in Merchant Ivory films. A writer, curator and historian, Lodwick was formerly Curator of Theatre and Screen Arts at the V&A. The Q&A will be hosted by Fashion Film Club founder Sarah Bailey.

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  Episode #50

  Power Station: A solar power revolution from Walthamstow

  Jan 29, 202632 min

  "Power Station began in the depths of lockdown - and in the aftermath of our previous film Bank Job , where we purchased and blew up £1.2 million of local debt - with the question ‘'what could we do from where we live, with the people around us, to build power - of energy and imagination?’ Working to turn a street and local schools solar, Power Station is a scalable in-your-face prototype of community led power. Channelling Withnail and I and Ealing comedy the film charts the financial and emotional trials and tribulations of making change together. From sleeping on rooftops to growing thousands of sunflowers and attempts at Christmas number one, community spirit and resilience are at the heart of this documentary." Co-directors Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn join us to discuss their wild journey as part of our Planting Seeds strand. You can follow the strand to get updates on new screenings.

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  Episode #49

  Nezouh: Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan in conversation with Arab Film Club's Sarah Agha

  Jan 12, 202622 min

  14-year-old Zeina and her family are the last to have stayed in their besieged hometown of Damascus in Syria. A missile rips a giant hole in their home, exposing them to the outside world. When a rope is mysteriously lowered into the hole, Zeina gets her first taste of freedom, and an unimaginable world of possibility opens up for her. As the violence outside escalates, the family is pressured to evacuate, but Mutaz, her father is adamant that they stay, refusing to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. Faced with a life or death dilemma, Zeina and Hala, her mother, must make the choice whether to stay or leave. Sarah Agha discusses casting, magic realism, filmmaking in the Arab world, and how the film resonates a few years down the line.

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