Hello, Jamie here.

This is the first in a three part series called 'Decades'. The idea is simple. Returning guests Sheridan Seraphin and Billy Stanton join me to highlight one film from a specific decade (luckily, Sheridan picked the 1960s, I choice the 70s and Billy choice the 80s)In this episode Sheridan takes the lead talking about the film 'The Naked Island' directed by Kaneto Shindo. It's great and I'm very grateful to Sheridan for bringing him to the podcast.

Sheridan's short film 'Finished Sympathy' will be participating at the Walthamstow International Film Festival, and it's a pretty much perfect short.

Billy's festival, NOLI https://filmfreeway.com/NoliTheTooLongTooDifficultTooRawShortFilmFestival is on Freeway right now. https://nolishortfilmfestival.wordpress.com/ It's great!

My strange short film 'Intimate Communications'(a film for all of us who have ever needed to scream) will be screened at the Kino Short Film Open Mic Night on the 17th of June. https://www.kinoshortfilm.com/short-film-openmicIt's at the Strongroom Bar near Liverpool Street Station. Doors at 7pm. It's a great evening with a number of short films (so if you don't like mine that's fine!)

Hope to see you there. More info here- https://fb.me/e/8489eh6wwTickets here -https://dice.fm/partner/dice/event/v3adad-short-film-open-mic-17th-jun-strongroom-bar-london-tickets?

Music - The Croutons (Intro) L'lle neu (outro) Hikaru Hayashi

In this episode I am joined by James McCann. James is an actor, writer, director, producer who works mainly in horror comedy.

We are talking about Mel Brooks' and Gene Wilder's 1974 film 'Young Frankenstein'. Perhaps the very best example of horror comedy their is.

The links you need - YouTube happybuzzent - YouTube

Instagram James McCann (@happybuzzent) • Instagram photos and videos

Horrorwood Festival on Apr 13 Horrorwood Convention | distantscreams.co.uk

In this episode Lorraine McColgan and Sheridan Seraphin share their thoughts on David Lynch's works and life.

Winter Sun 5 is hear with Kaurismäki's 1990 masterpiece 'The Match Factory Girl' .

The final, and bleakest, film in the Loser Trilogy.

Drum beats various rock+blues close miked by bigjoedrummer -- https://freesound.org/s/213339/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

We get political (sort of) and poetic and even romantic (and of course violent) in this episode on Aki Kaurismäki's 'Ariel' from 1988.

Poems by Berholt Brecht

Music by the Croutons and a small clip of Taisto Tammi

This is the second episode in our occasional series on the films of Aki Kaurismäki.

Today we are discussing 'Shadows in Paradise' from 1986.

Masterful performances, direction and a fine example of making a film the right length.Additional audio attribution -

Applause and whispering before jazz concert.wav by tom_woysky -- https://freesound.org/s/219449/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

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The first of two (maybe three) episodes celebrating the work of David Lynch.

I am joined by Anthony Litton (33mins in), Ali Catterall (39mins in) and Billy Stanton (41mins in), all valued friends of and contributors to, the podcast to talk about the work of David Lynch and what it has meant and continues to mean for us.

You can listen to Billy discuss Jean Vigo's L'Atalante here -

https://open.spotify.com/episode/62yLb9c3dUQf8dYSPEyop4?si=040e12af084647e3

You can hear Ali and Jean Giles discuss their documentary 'Scala....' here -

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rrbY5X8fCGnFjGYVpEEnv?si=05709c9792d348b8

You can hear Anthony talk about Billy Liar back on one of our first episodes -

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6eeObDoYZTe9nkvU9xdVpc?si=9c0109d9a6c84a4a

And Anthony and I gently disagree on some things Lynch related here -

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7qrYjoewYXIjpbbsFJEJWp?si=5c34441a830c427a

And you will find signs of David Lynch all over the back catalogue.

Music in this episode by The Croutons

My short film 'Severance' has a website here -

https://sites.google.com/view/severancefilm/home

Look out for it at festivals. I will keep you informed (incessantly!)