The Mixing Room: conversations about cinema

Follow The Mixing Room: conversations about cinema
Share on
Copy link to clipboard

Roundtable discussions with Sight & Sound film critics exploring new movies and film trends. Currently recorded from themed film festivals on an occasional basis.

Sight & Sound: the international film magazine


    • Sep 25, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 24m AVG DURATION
    • 7 EPISODES


    Search for episodes from The Mixing Room: conversations about cinema with a specific topic:

    Latest episodes from The Mixing Room: conversations about cinema

    This year's horror cinema, dissected: the FrightFest 2019 podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2019 25:57


    Demonic oppression was the story of this year's UK horror film showcase – along with female survivorship, identity differences and the dangers of the internet. Hardy survivors Kim Newman, Anton Bitel and Virginie Selavy explore our latest demons in this roundtable post-mortem. Under discussion: Demonic conspiracies and satanic possession in

    Frank Sidebottom's Money Wasting Phone Line 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2019 4:10


    To make Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story, director Steve Sullivan conducted a decades-spanning quest to uncover and understand the man behind Frank Sidebottom, the cult comic figure with the papier-maché head. On Sight & Sound's website, he tells Leigh Singer all about it, and shares some of the material he uncovered: https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/being-frank-chris-sievey-story-frank-sidebottom-steve-sullivan-making-of-archive

    The best of BFI Flare 2018

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2019 36:14


    Tara Brown, Keith Jarrett and Ben Walters talk through all the fun in the 2018 BFI Flare! Film Festival, from queering the South Bank and LGBTQ+ bingo cards to mainstream incursions, gay miserabilism and the marvellous indescribability of Good Manners.

    Widows, Ash Is Purest White and three more highlights of the 2018 London Film Festival

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2018 22:42


    What does Steve McQueen's new heist thriller Widows – Sight & Sound's November 2018 cover film and gala opener of this year's London Film Festival – tell us about race and class? Philip Concannon, Nick James, Isabel Stevens and Kelli Weston discuss this, Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke's new crime drama Ash Is Purest White, plus three more picks from this year's festival: Sudabeh Mortezai's Joy, Andrew Bujalski's Support the Girls and Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey into Night. Read about our November issue: bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/november-2018-issue See all our London Film Festival 2018 online coverage: bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/london-film-festival-2018

    Choose your poison: the FrightFest 2018 critics' roundtable post-mortem podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2018 26:25


    Gaspar Noé's closing-night Climax set the tone for a horror bonanza that went big on spiked drinks, ghosts, nuns and dollhouses. We locked Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy in a room to chew it over.

    FrightFest 2017 critics' roundtable post-mortem

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2018 25:18


    A look back at the best of last year's FrightFest with Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy.

    Six highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2018 27:59


    Kelli Weston hosts a conversation with Sophie Brown, Simran Hans and Ben Nicholson to discuss some of the picks of this year's Sheffield documentary festival: • RaMell Ross's Hale County This Morning, This Evening • Bing Liu's Minding the Gap • Khalik Allah's Black Mother • Nathaniel Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle and Scott Barley's Sleep Has Her House • Sandi Tan's Shirkers • and Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside's América

    Claim The Mixing Room: conversations about cinema

    In order to claim this podcast we'll send an email to with a verification link. Simply click the link and you will be able to edit tags, request a refresh, and other features to take control of your podcast page!

    Claim Cancel