Stagione 1
The History of Dolby Stereo
The Conversation
Gattaca
Easy Rider
The Maidstone Granada Cinema
StudioCanal app review
Elephant
UHD and my top ten picks
Discover how Dolby Stereo revolutionised film sound. This episode explores its origins, its breakthrough films, and the hidden matrix magic that reshaped Hollywood and home cinema alike. Recommended films to listen too: Early & Landmark 70mm Six-Track Dolby Stereo: A Star Is Born (1976) – first commercial six-track Dolby release Logan’s Run (1976) Star Wars (1977) – legendary 70mm mix Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Superman: The Movie (1978) Apocalypse Now (1979) – groundbreaking, experimental sound design Classic 35mm Dolby Stereo (Matrix Lt/Rt): Alien (1979) – atmospheric, tense use of surrounds The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Blade Runner (1982) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Ghostbusters (1984) Back to the Future (1985) Late-Era Dolby Stereo Highlights: The Fugitive (1993) The Lion King (1994) – superb theatrical mix Toy Story (1995) – one of the final major Dolby Stereo flagships
In 1974, Francis Ford Coppola released The Conversation — a quiet, unsettling film about a man who hears too much and feels too little. At first glance, it’s a story about surveillance. But beneath the microphones and tape machines lies something far more human: guilt, loneliness, and the desperate need to stay unseen. In this episode, we step inside the private world of Harry Caul — a surveillance expert haunted by the sounds he captures and the silence he can’t escape. We explore the film’s key themes, its haunting sound design, and its eerie foresight into our digital age — when we all became both watchers and the watched. Further reading and viewing: The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981) Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971) Michel Chion — Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Laura Mulvey — “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” Don DeLillo — White Noise (on paranoia, technology, and intimacy)
Gattaca is a 1997 dystopian science fiction classic. But what makes it dystopian and how does it warn us about the future?
A look at the 1960's counter culture classic Easy Rider.
A look at the now closed, once former great Maidstone Granada cinema.
StudioCanal have an app, lets take a looks and see if it's worth it,
Alan Clarkes Elephant caused outrage on its release in 1989. A film that defies genre, it is a work of unrelenting bleakness that depicts 18 murders during The Troubles. I take a look at the films production, my personal experiences of spending time in Ireland and offer my take on this extraordinary film.
I love UHD and you should too. Here is a brief explanation of this format and the culture around it as well as my top ten picks you may wish to consider. Great You Tube creators who review UHD's https://www.youtube.com/@JeffRauseo https://www.youtube.com/@moviecollector5920 https://www.youtube.com/@ElliotCoen
In 2014, I became obsessed with the films of Michelangelo Antonioni and like an idiot ignored Zabriskie Point because some pesky critics didn't like it. I've now watched it more times than I can remember and hope in some ways this episode encourages you to seek it out.
yes, still podcasting but some slight life issues to discuss.