Podcast appearances and mentions of kelli weston

Metrograph recently unveiled a new biannual print publication for cinephiles and cultural connoisseurs which features contributions from novelist Yiyun Li, cartoonist Daniel Clowes, filmmaker Ari Aster, and actors Steve Martin and Simon Rex alongside others. Editors Annabel Brady-Brown and Kelli Weston discuss the publication, and take calls from listeners about their own moviegoing experiences.

Cannes 2024 has arrived—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors is high-tailing it from screening to screening, ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts. For today's episode, critics Kelli Weston and Jessica Kiang join Film Comment Editor Devika Girish to unpack three of the most highly anticipated premieres of the festival: Francis Ford Coppola's operatic fable Megalopolis, Andrea Arnold's magical realist Bird, and Yorgos Lanthimos's macabre anthology film, Kinds of Kindness. Subscribe today to the Film Comment Letter for a steady stream of Cannes coverage, providing everything you need to know about the 2024 edition: www.filmcomment.com/newsletter-sign-up/

Cannes 2024 has arrived—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors is high-tailing it from screening to screening, ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts. For today's episode, critics Kelli Weston and Jessica Kiang join Film Comment Editor Devika Girish to unpack three of the most highly anticipated premieres of the festival: Francis Ford Coppola's operatic fable Megalopolis, Andrea Arnold's magical realist Bird, and Yorgos Lanthimos's macabre anthology film, Kinds of Kindness. Subscribe today to the Film Comment Letter for a steady stream of Cannes coverage, providing everything you need to know about the 2024 edition: www.filmcomment.com/newsletter-sign-up/

The 61st New York Film Festival closed up shop last weekend, which means that it was once again time for Film Comment's Festival Report, our annual live overview of the NYFF that was. FC co-deputy editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute convened an all-star team of critics—Molly Haskell, Adam Nayman, and Kelli Weston—for a spirited wrap-up discussion about the highlights and lowlights from the NYFF60 lineup. In front of a lively audience, the panel discuss and debate Todd Haynes's May December, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist, Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, Bradley Cooper's Maestro, Bertrand Bonello's The Beast, Sofia Coppola's Priscilla, Thien An Pham's Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things, and and many other noteworthy selections. Find all of our coverage of NYFF61 here: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/category/festivals/nyff/nyff-2023/

Cannes 2023 is here—and as news of standing ovations and walkouts, throwaway raves and pans, spit takes and hot takes flood the feed, we'll be reporting on all the cinematic goings-on, with our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts. Our latest episode covers Cannes 2023 as it crosses the midpoint, with critics Lovia Gyarkye, Abby Sun, and Kelli Weston joining FC Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish to discuss some of the festival's buzziest films, including Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Todd Haynes's May December, Joanna Arnow's The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Molly Manning Walker's How to Have Sex, and more. Subscribe to the Film Comment Letter today for a steady stream of Cannes coverage, providing everything you need to know about the 2023 edition: www.filmcomment.com/newsletter-sign-up/

It's the time of year when ghosts, ghouls, and goblins are on the prowl. That's right: it's Halloween. Or, if we're getting technical, the day after Halloween. And as much as Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute are scared to admit it, that means it's also time for another Halloween Hangover episode of the Film Comment Podcast, where the two confront one of their greatest fears—horror movies—with the help of some masters of the macabre. This year, Clint and Devika asked Kelli Weston, who literally holds a PhD in horror cinema, and Steven Mears, a critic and Film Comment's famously nocturnal copyeditor, to inflict two movies of their choice upon us. Kelli chose the 1976 slasher flick Alice Sweet Alice, and Steve picked Jack Clayton's Henry James adaptation The Innocents. Both movies were ultimately more goofy than scary, but they yielded a truly rich conversation about the role of religion, class, children, and more in horror.

The leaves are changing color, and there's a chill in the air. That means, of course, that List Season is upon us. This year is special: Sight & Sound is publishing their Greatest Films of All Time list. Every decade since 1952, the British magazine polls critics, programmers, and filmmakers from all over the world to compile a definitive ranking of the best movies ever made.  At last month's Getting Real conference, organized by the International Documentary Association, Film Comment co-presented a critics panel exploring the relevance of such lists especially when it comes to documentary films. FC co-deputy editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute were joined by critics Nick Bradshaw, Emerson Goo, Girish Shambu, and Kelli Weston to ask questions like: Are lists still useful in an age of democratizing cinema? What is the relationship between list-making and canonization? How can we collectively remake a more diverse and inclusive canon? And, of course, the fun part: which documentaries are likely to make this year's Sight & Sound list? Listen to the end to hear our panelists' best guesses! Read a transcript of this panel discussion here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mn6K6agPkLdRmYkIZc47QhVGSEzspynCvi5Aw6YdZQI/edit

The 60th New York Film Festival closed up shop last weekend, which meant that it was time once again for Film Comment's annual Festival Report, our live summation and overview of the festival that was. FC co-deputy editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute convened an all-star team of critics—featuring Phoebe Chen, Molly Haskell, and Kelli Weston—for a spirited wrap-up discussion about the highlights and lowlights from the NYFF60 lineup. In front of a lively audience, the panel discussed Todd Field's controversial TÁR, Alice Diop's consensus favorite Saint Omer, Paul Schrader's less well-regarded Master Gardener, Joanna Hogg's masterful mirror-game The Eternal Daughter, and many more selections from the recently wrapped festival.

Arnie thought he'd met the perfect girl. Turns out, she had a body by Plymouth and a soul by Satan. Joining us this week is film critic and our Stephen King correspondent Dr. Kelli Weston to go into the terrifying teen angst of Christine (1983). Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya***Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio***The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.→ Support us on Patreon.→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

A repost from our FEMALE MONSTERS series. In this episode, film critic Dr. Kelli Weston joins us for a deep, deep dive on the inimitable classic of horror cinema, Brian de Palma's Carrie (1976). We talk about the monstrous feminine, otherness, Sissy Spacek, period horror, who's the real villain in the film and so much more.Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya***Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio***The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.→ Support us on Patreon.→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

A deep dive review of the most anticipated horror film of the year: Nia DaCosta's Candyman. Film critic Dr. Kelli Weston joins us to discuss the film, its themes and connections to the 1992 cult horror of the same name. Spoilers from 0:57:19 (but don't worry, we don't say his name). Candyman is out now in UK cinemas. Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya.***The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.→ Support us on Patreon.→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

Part of our new series devoted to exploring the vampire in horror cinema, we go deep on two cinematic adaptations of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles.  First up, Neil Jordan's 1994 adaptation of Interview with the Vampire is a gothic masterpiece that has influenced counteless vampire films since. We also discuss its unfortunate sequel, Queen of the Damned, which came in 2007 starring Stuart Townsend as the vampire Lestat and Aaliyah as Akasha, the titular Queen of the Damned. Joining us in this episode is film critic Kelli Weston. We discuss the themes of Interview with the Vampire, the softboi energy of Louis, the monstrosity of Claudia the child vampire and the queer reading of the film. Be warned: the section on Queen of the Damned includes dramatic readings of Lestat's band's lyrics. Interview with the Vampire from 00:08:07 Queen of the Damned from 1:11:21 This season is made possible with the support of Arrow Video. This week's pick from their vast catalogue an underrated contemporary gothic horror Crimson Peak.  Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. ***The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.ukFollow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon for bonus episodes. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly dose of curated horror treats.Follow Anna on @annabdemented and Olivia is on @livihowe 

A bonus episode all about the most hyped about horror film of 2020, Saint Maud, written and directed by Rose Glass. Maud is a reclusive young nurse whose impressionable demeanour causes her to pursue a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud's fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward's soul from eternal damnation, whatever the cost.We're joined by film critic Kelli Weston for a deep dive into the film. The first part of the episode is spoiler free, and from 0:016:20 we will go into a spoilerific discussion. We touch on the themes of repression, the use of religious iconography, self-harm, voyeurism, loneliness and the voice of God.  Following the discussion, from 1:14:00 you can hear my interview with writer-director Rose Glass and lead actor Morfydd Clark. Digressions include: The Prince of Egypt inspires a spin-off podcast.  *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism. Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon. The illustration of the cover is by Yas Aybar. Follow Anna on @annabdemented and Olivia is on @livihowe 

This week we return to the weird, warped minds of Lynch and Cronenberg. Mike is joined by Kelli Weston to discuss DEAD RINGERS and then Anna Bogutskaya to discuss FIRE WALK WITH ME. Music by Jack Whitney.  Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Follow Mary on Twitter to find out more about her upcoming courses and follow her podcast, PROJECTIONS PODCAST.  Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror.com  You can now buy Evolution of Horror T-SHIRTS!  www.evolutionofhorror.com/shop Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/evolutionofhorror  Email us!  Follow us on TWITTER Follow us on INSTAGRAM Like us on FACEBOOK Join the DISCUSSION GROUP Follow us on LETTERBOXD Mike Muncer is a producer, podcaster and film journalist and can be found on TWITTER

We're joined by film critic Kelli Weston for a deep, deep dive on the inimitable classic of horror cinema, Brian de Palma's Carrie (1976). We talk about the monstrous feminine, otherness, Sissy Spacek, period horror, who's the real villain in the film and so much more. *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism. Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon. The illustration of the cover is by Yas Aybar. Follow Anna on @annabdemented and Olivia is on @livihowe 

In this episode, we discuss the hoodoo horror The Skeleton Key (2005), starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard and Joy Bryant. Anna is joined by film critic Kelli Weston to discuss the (questionable) merits of the film, its attempts at tacking history, race and ideas of passing and double-speak, as well as the genius of Gena Rowlands, how hoodoo and voodoo are often conflated in horror cinema, and the figure of the conjure woman. *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism. To coincide with our season of films and events, Here Be Witches, we will be focusing this first series on exploring all things witchcraft on film. Each episode, we will dive deep into films and TV shows that we can't necessarily screen. Each episode, we'll be joined with special guests to dissect and discuss a film or show, its legacy and the way witches are represented. Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk Explore the Here Be Witches programme hereFollow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Follow Anna on @annabdemented and Olivia is on @livihowe Our special guest this episode is film critic Kelli Weston, follow her work on @kelli_weston and read her review of Mati Diop's Atlantics here.

This week, Truth & Movies heads back down the storm drain to tackle Pennywise the clown once more in IT: Chapter 2. There's political and legal anxieties in Argentina for Benjamín Naishtat's festival darling Rojo, and for Film Club, we tramp the sidewalks of 1960s New York City in culture clash classic, Midnight Cowboy. Joining host Michael Leader in the studio is Anton Bitel and Kelli Weston. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Special guest Kelli Weston joins Caspar to talk about Law of Desire (1987), directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

Disney’s The Lion King stampedes into cinemas this week, but Hannah Woodhead and Kelli Weston aren’t feeling the love for this latest “live-action” reboot from the House of Mouse. There’s lots of praise from team T&M for another new release though – Varda by Agnès sees the late French cinema icon reflect on her remarkable career, while in Film Club we revisit the film’s companion piece from 2008, Beaches of Agnès. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This month, we're joined by not one but TWO real life special guests (Kelli Weston and Tasha Kappler) to celebrate the birthday of the queen of Tejano music and red lipstick, SELENA! Kelli and Tasha pick their three favourite Selena songs and we chat about why we love her so much, our favourite scenes from the 1997 film, her long-lasting cultural impact, and if it's ever okay to laugh at Yolanda Saldivar memes. Plus, we try to convince our guests that Valentina is the perfect person to play Selena in a remake of the film, and in a bewildering segue, Grace explains the British national anthem Charmaine by Plan B to our international guests. Make sure to stay tuned until the bitter end, because we have EXCITING NEWS about our next episode!! TASHA'S FAV SELENA SONGS Como La Flor Si Una Vez Que Creias (live version ft. Selena's leather trousers) KELLI'S FAV SELENA SONGS Tu Solo Tu No Me Queda Mas El Chico Del Apartamento 512 SARAH'S FAV SELENA SONG (because she only knows two) Bidi Bidi Bom Bom GRACE'S FAV SELENA SONG God's Child (ft. David Byrne) GET IN TOUCH yououghtaknowpod@gmail.com Twitter @gracesimone @SarahSahim @yououghtaknopod Instagram @gracesimone_ @SarahSahim (Which she doesn't use.) @yououghtaknowpod (Technically also Grace.)

How do you follow-up an Oscar-winning breakthrough like Moonlight? That’s the question on our lips this week as Michael Leader, David Jenkins and Kelli Weston weigh up Barry Jenkins’ hotly-anticipated third feature If Beale Street Could Talk, adapted from James Baldwin’s celebrated novel. This week also sees the release of Australian actor-turned-director Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased, based on a true account of a young man’s experience at a gay conversion therapy centre. And in Film Club, we explore one of Jenkins’ key inspirations for Beale Street, 1959’s Black Orpheus by French master Marcel Camus. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re spellbound on Truth & Movies this week, as Michael Leader, Simran Hans and Kelli Weston cast their verdicts on not one but two dark arts fables. First up is the JK Rowling-penned sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald, which sees Eddie Redmayne reprise his role as ‘magizoologist’ Newt Scamander. There’s witchcraft and plenty of weird goings on too in Luca Guadagnino’s reinterpretation of Dario Argento’s seminal horror Suspiria. And in Film Club we salute working women everywhere with a look back at the classic 1980 comedy 9 to 5, which is back in cinemas this week. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In a week of remarkable cinema releases, we discuss two of the year's most acclaimed films, Steve McQueen's 'Widows' and 'Wildlife', directed by Paul Dano, who we also spoke to for this episode.Paul Dano's debut feature as director is set in 60s Montana, and follows the small town separation of Jeannete and Jerry, played by Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal, and their son Joe who gets caught in the firefight. With 'Widows' Steve McQueen, one of the most interesting voices in contemporary British cinema directs a vital reimagining of the 80s TV drama of the same name. McQueen's crime-thriller transplants the story to modern-day Chicago and ups the ante, with Viola Davis shining through in an ensemble cast of widows who follow their husband's footsteps into crime after a botched job.Discussing the film this week are Kelli Weston, Kelly Powell, Ella Kemp and Jake CunninghamFollow the team on twitter:@efekemp - Ella@CunninghamJH - Jake@KS_Powell - KellyProduced and edited by Jake CunninghamMusic from incompetech.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

BlacKkKlansman, the latest film from Spike Lee, tells the story of the black Colorado cop who konned (sorry) the klan into accepting him as a member, then brought down a chapter of the white supremicist group from the inside. Critics Kelli Weston and Kambole Campbell join us to talk Spike, race, "passing" and, inevitably, Trump.Elsewhere, Anna's been CTRL+Ting herself silly thanks to her love of desktop documentaries, while Hen thinks Last Chance U - Netflix's documentary series about small-town American football - can't lose.The BFI Podcast is ...BFI Southbank Programmer Anna BogutskayaBFI Digital editor Henry BarnesProducer Peter SaleSpecial thanks to our guests, Kelli Weston and Kambole Campbell.Things to see and do:• The Guardian's Charlie Phillips on desktop docs.• The Slenderman documentary, A Self-Induced Hallucination.• Transformers 4: The Pre-make.• GQ on Last Chance U• Spike Lee's alma mater - the traditionally black Morehouse College, invites white students to attend (from Vice).• The best (old) Spike Lee interview out there. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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