Ryan McNeil
Welcome back folks.
It feels like so much has happened since I last sat down on my couch and turned on my microphone. Heck, episode ninety-four had me sitting in short sleeves on a patio…the evening of episode ninety-five had me zipping up my fall coat. Hopefully that time lapse between full episodes hasn’t caused too many of y’all to tune out.
Well, I certainly hope not since I have a lot of fun things in mind for the next several episodes leading up to both the 100th episode and the year-end show.
But lets get going, shall we with a call to The Second City.
Here’s what’s in store in episode ninety-five…
Runtime
74 minutes
Up for Discussion
1. Introduction
2. KNOW YOUR ENEMY– Q& A with this week’s guest Nick Prigge from Cinema Romantico (4:32)
3. COME TALK TO ME – Fielding some listener feedback on films that feel like autumn (13:53)
4. THE NEW SLANG – Review and reaction to RUSH (25:46)
5. THE OTHER SIDE – Nick couples SENNA (50:31)
6. THE OTHER SIDE – Ryan couples APOLLO 13 (62:28)
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What am I thankful for? Well… I want to thank the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) for inviting me and about ten other Swedish movie bloggers/podcasters to an event called Malmö Filmdagar (Malmoe Film Days). Malmö is a town in the south of Sweden where SFI every year, for 40 years now, in the end of August hosts an event for the Swedish movie industry players: distributors, journalists, cinema owners, movie studios… and now also movie bloggers!
During three days we got the chance to go to seminars about film and film criticism and also see 10-12 of the upcoming movies that opens in the fall in Sweden. Among them were Rush, Fruitvale Station, The Grandmaster, Don Jon, After Lucia, Mud and a bunch of Swedish movies (for example, the wonderful Hotell that showed at TIFF).
The screenings started at 8.30 AM in the morning and continued on until late in the evening, followed by drinks and food buffé. During the three days, that went by faaast, I was in a wonderful film bubble. It was a blast to make it simple.
I want to ask if you in Canada and the US have sensed that the movie industry has begun to treat movie bloggers more seriously. In Sweden I feel that this is the case. We get invitations to press screenings, events like Malmö Filmdagar and also get free access to film streaming services. It’s great. But it’s not actually free of course. It takes passion and time to get your movie reviews or podcasts out there when having “real” day job.