Writers on Film

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Writers on Film is the only podcast to focus on film books and to talk to the best authors working in the area of cinema. From Making Of tomes to biographies, studies to novelisations, author and film critic John Bleasdale is fascinated by where the written word intersects with the world of the big screen. Get bonus content on Patreon A proud part of the Film Stories Podcast Network: www.filmstories.co.uk

Episode Date
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers author Roger Lewis
Aug 17, 2025
Visible Darkness: UNDER THE SKIN
Aug 12, 2025
Film Critic Xan Brooks on his novel The Catchers
Aug 10, 2025
Birth: David Thomson talks Jonathan Glazer's second film
Aug 06, 2025
Shawn Levy talks CLINT
Aug 03, 2025
Sexy Beast
Jul 31, 2025
A Bollywood State of Mind with Sunny Singh
Jul 27, 2025
Rob Spera talks about his Film and TV Director's Field Manual
Jul 20, 2025
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Wrap with Laurence Boyce
Jul 13, 2025
From the Archive: Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone
Jun 28, 2025
D Harlan Wilson Takes Us into Strangelove Country
Jun 19, 2025
Julie Seabaugh on Roast Battles and Marc Maron
Jun 10, 2025
Jarett Kobek invokes his Demon Brother
Jun 03, 2025
Cannes Wrap Report with Christina Birro
May 28, 2025
Writers On Cannes 5 with Savina Petkova and Maja Korbeka
May 23, 2025
Writers on Cannes 4 with Thomas Flight
May 20, 2025
Writers on Cannes 3: M. Sellers Johnson talks Wes Anderson and Kristen Stewart
May 20, 2025
Writers in Cannes 2: Die My Love with Nicholas Bell
May 19, 2025
Writers in Cannes: Sound of Falling and Sirat
May 16, 2025
Walter Murch on Suddenly Something Clicked
May 13, 2025
Jason Bailey on James Gandolfini
May 06, 2025
Alan Dean Foster, the Poet Laureate of Novelisations
Apr 29, 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum Travels in the Cities of Cinema
Apr 22, 2025
The Malick Hour: Carlo Hintermann on Terrence Malick
Apr 18, 2025
Eelco Wijdicks talks Neuropsychiatry and Cinema
Apr 15, 2025
Alissa Wilkinson talks Joan Didion
Apr 08, 2025
The Malick Hour: THE VOYAGE OF TIME
Apr 01, 2025
Patrick McGilligan on writing his biography of Woody Allen
Mar 25, 2025
Ian Cooper on Charles Manson and Sam Peckinpah
Mar 18, 2025
Marya E Gates talks Cinema Her Way
Mar 11, 2025
Barry Forshaw on the British Gothic Horror
Mar 04, 2025
Christopher Frayling on Sergio Leone
Feb 25, 2025
The Malick Hour: A HIDDEN LIFE with Matt Zoller Seitz
Feb 22, 2025
Andrew Buss talks Superbad
Feb 18, 2025
Geoff Dyer on Stalker and Where Eagles Dare
Feb 11, 2025
Robert Sellers Searches for James Bond
Feb 06, 2025
The Malick Hour: SONG TO SONG
Jan 30, 2025
David Thomson on the Joy of Watching Movies
Jan 29, 2025
Tom Shone and David Lynch
Jan 22, 2025
Live from the Tromsø international film festival with Neil Young
Jan 17, 2025
Sandy Lieberson on Hollywood on the Tiber
Jan 14, 2025
The Malick Hour and Writers on Film: Martin Woessner talks KNIGHT OF CUPS
Jan 10, 2025
Revolution in 35mm: from Arthouse to Grindhouse
Jan 07, 2025
The Malick Hour: Jack Fisk Interview (Part 2)
Jan 03, 2025
End of Year and Walter Chaw on Walter Hill from the Archives
Dec 31, 2024
The Malick Hour: Bilge Ebiri on TO THE WONDER
Dec 27, 2024
The Malick Hour: Shane Hazen talks THE TREE OF LIFE
Dec 19, 2024
Brian Abrams on Die Hard: an Oral History
Dec 18, 2024
The Malick Hours: THE NEW WORLD
Dec 13, 2024
Joseph McBride on George Cukor
Dec 11, 2024
The Malick Hours: THE THIN RED LINE
Dec 06, 2024
John Bleasdale on The Magic Hours
Dec 02, 2024
The Malick Hours: Jack Fisk Interview Part 1.
Nov 28, 2024
Tim Robey talks Box Office Poison
Nov 27, 2024
The Malick Hours: DAYS OF HEAVEN
Nov 22, 2024
Anna Bogustkaya talks Feeding the Monster
Nov 20, 2024
The Malick Hours: BADLANDS
Nov 15, 2024
Sheri Chinen Biesen talks Through a Noir Lens
Nov 13, 2024
Texas Chainsaw Massacre with James Rose
Nov 06, 2024
Steven Cohan on Audrey Hepburn
Oct 30, 2024
Jie Li talks Cinematic Guerillas
Oct 23, 2024
Adam Woodward on The Worlds of Wes Anderson
Oct 16, 2024
Benjamin Halligan talks Hotbeds of Licentiousness
Oct 09, 2024
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
Oct 02, 2024
Jason Solomons on Film Weekly, Woody Allen and becoming a Film Producer
Sep 25, 2024
Jez Conolly on The Thing
Sep 18, 2024
From the Archives: Adam Nayman's Masterworks
Sep 11, 2024
Venice Film Festival Final Round Up
Sep 08, 2024
Venice Film festival Report 4: Joker: Folie à Deux
Sep 04, 2024
Venice Film Festival Report 3. Queer, The Room Next Door and The Brutalist
Sep 03, 2024
Venice Film Festival: Report 2. Babygirl and Maria
Aug 31, 2024
Venice Film Festival: Report 1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Aug 29, 2024
Comedian and actor Chris Calogero on comedy, horror and movie clichés
Aug 21, 2024
From the Archives: Michael Benson on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey
Aug 14, 2024
100 Years of Columbia Pictures: from Locarno
Aug 07, 2024
Brett Davies talks Lawrence Kasdan
Jul 31, 2024
Julie Salamon and the Devil's Candy
Jul 24, 2024
Mark Harris on Mike Nichols and others
Jul 17, 2024
Movies Go Fourth
Jul 10, 2024
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024
Jul 06, 2024
Bologna: Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival
Jun 27, 2024
Roger Lewis talks Carry Ons and Charles Hawtrey
Jun 19, 2024
Ramsey Campbell talks the 3 Stooges, Horror films and Cinephilia
Jun 12, 2024
Ian Christie talks Powell, Pressburger, Scorsese and Cinema
Jun 05, 2024
Cannes Report 9: Anora, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
May 26, 2024
Cannes Report 8: Indian cinema on the Croisette
May 26, 2024
Cannes Report 7: Trends and Titans
May 25, 2024
Cannes Report 6: Horizon: an American Saga
May 23, 2024
Cannes Report 5: The Substance
May 22, 2024
Cannes Report 4: Limonov: the Ballad
May 21, 2024
Cannes Report 3: Furiosa, Megalopolis and Emilia Perez
May 19, 2024
Cannes Report 2: Kinds of Kindness
May 18, 2024
Cannes Report 1: Wild Diamond
May 17, 2024
Glenn Kenny talks Al Pacino, Brian DePalma and the greatest gangster movie of the 80s
May 15, 2024
Maureen Foster talks Jonathan Glazer and Under the Skin
May 08, 2024
Roger Lewis talks Erotic Vagrancy
May 01, 2024
Paul Duncan on Dr. No
Apr 24, 2024
Ed Zwick on Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
Apr 17, 2024
Robert P Kolker and Marsha Gordon talk Film, Form and Culture
Apr 10, 2024
Neil Alcock talks Hitchcock and Hitchology
Apr 03, 2024
Oscar Winning Screenwriter Bruce Rubin talks about his Life
Mar 27, 2024
Christian Esquevin talks Designing Hollywood
Mar 20, 2024
Tom Shone on the Oscars and Dune Part 2
Mar 13, 2024
Stephen Lee Naish on Dennis Hopper, film director
Mar 06, 2024
Kubrick: an Odyssey
Feb 28, 2024
Ellen E. Jones on Screen Deep
Feb 21, 2024
Michael Schulman on the Oscar Wars
Feb 14, 2024
From the Archives: Ti Singh is Born to Be Bad
Feb 10, 2024
The Beatles v James Bond
Jan 31, 2024
From the Tromsø International Film Festival
Jan 24, 2024
The Last Action Heroes
Jan 17, 2024
Sam Wasson talks Francis Ford Coppola
Jan 10, 2024
Bonus Episode: Cinema Italia
Jan 04, 2024
From the Archives: Tales from Development Hell with David Hughes
Dec 27, 2023
Happy Christmas Movies, Jeremy Arnold
Dec 20, 2023
Connery - a novel
Dec 14, 2023
From the Archives: Paul Cronin's Guide for the Perplexed
Dec 13, 2023
Cai Ross talks The Prisoner and Connery
Dec 06, 2023
Jem Duducu talks Napoleon
Nov 29, 2023
From the Archive: Talking memoirs with Gabriel Byrne
Nov 23, 2023
Mark Wheeler on Sorcerer
Nov 15, 2023
Pamela Hutchinson talks The Red Shoes
Nov 08, 2023
Nancy Schoenberger talks Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Nov 04, 2023
Tom Shone talks the return of the auteur blockbusters
Oct 25, 2023
Carol Baum on Creative Producing
Oct 18, 2023
Robert Sellers on the Greatest Year in Cinema History
Oct 11, 2023
Demetrios Matheou talks Means Streets at 50
Oct 04, 2023
Clint Eastwood by Ian Nathan
Sep 27, 2023
Chris Yogerst talks The Warner Brothers
Sep 20, 2023
Jem Duducu talks Hollywood and History
Sep 13, 2023
In conversation with Lawrence Grobel
Sep 06, 2023
Molly Haskell talks film criticism, feminism and cinephilia
Aug 30, 2023
James Peaty on Summer Blockbusters and Oppenheimer
Aug 26, 2023
Jeanine Basinger talks film history, Hollywood and the Star Machine
Aug 23, 2023
Josh Winning Burns the Negative
Aug 17, 2023
Jason Isralowitz and Hitchcock's Wrong Man
Aug 09, 2023
Warren Buckland asks: Who wrote Citizen Kane?
Aug 04, 2023
Sarah Welch-Larson talks Becoming Alien
Jul 29, 2023
Kaleem Aftab Does the Right Thing
Jul 22, 2023
Matt Pais talks '90s with Me
Jul 20, 2023
Karlovy Vary Film Festival Report 2
Jul 17, 2023
William J Mann on Bogie and Bacall
Jul 12, 2023
Karlovy Vary Film Festival: Part I
Jul 06, 2023
Alan Dean Foster: the Poet Laureate of the Novelisation
Jun 27, 2023
Joseph McBride talks Billy Wilder
Jun 21, 2023
Kyle Turner talks The Queer Film Guide
Jun 14, 2023
Joseph Aisenberg on Brian De Palma's Carrie
Jun 07, 2023
Writers on Cannes
May 31, 2023
Steven DeLay goes Above the Clouds
May 24, 2023
Jim Colvill talks Film Desk Books
May 17, 2023
Al Clark talks producing Priscilla, Chopper and the Oz Film Industry
May 10, 2023
Non-Super Hero Comic Book Movies: 1. John Wagner
May 03, 2023
Melanie Williams on A Taste of Honey
Apr 26, 2023
Ethan Warren on Paul Thomas Anderson
Apr 19, 2023
Adrian Martin on Criticism, Leone, Malick and Bertolucci
Apr 12, 2023
Al Clark on Time Flies
Apr 05, 2023
Matt Zoller Seitz talks Books and Film
Mar 29, 2023
George Stevens Jr returns to talk Hollywood and Washington Legends
Mar 22, 2023
Crooked but Never Common
Mar 15, 2023
Graham Skipper Vs Godzilla
Mar 08, 2023
Will Scheibel talks Gene Tierney and Hollywood Stardom
Mar 01, 2023
Thomas Puhr talks Fate and Film
Feb 22, 2023
Rahul Desai Talks Hollywood, Bollywood and Tollywood
Feb 15, 2023
Charles Bramesco talks Colors of Film
Feb 08, 2023
Paul Williams talks Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen and Holy Men
Feb 02, 2023
Hannah Strong on Sofia Coppola: Forever Young
Jan 25, 2023
From the Archive: Tom Shone on Christopher Nolan
Jan 18, 2023
We Are The Mutants
Jan 11, 2023
Anthony Marra Presents his new novel: Mercury Studio Presents
Jan 04, 2023
Caroline Young on Crazy Old Ladies
Dec 28, 2022
Hollywood Hates Hitler by Chris Yogerst
Dec 21, 2022
Walter Chaw on Walter Hill
Dec 14, 2022
Paul Hirsch: A long time ago in a Cutting Room far far away
Nov 30, 2022
Rachel Abramowitz has a Gun in her Pocket
Nov 23, 2022
Sam Wasson's Hooray for Hollywood
Nov 16, 2022
The Ghiblioteheque Guide to Anime
Nov 09, 2022
Mark Searby on the Deliriously Funny Eddie Murphy
Nov 02, 2022
AJ Black Talks the Cinematic Connery
Oct 26, 2022
David Hughes turns on the Heat 2
Oct 19, 2022
Alistair Owen Smokes in Bed
Oct 12, 2022
LIVE from the 79th Venice Film Festival
Oct 08, 2022
Hanna Flint is a Strong Female Character
Oct 05, 2022
Stephen Bradley's Shooting and Cutting
Sep 28, 2022
Meg Gardiner turns up the HEAT 2
Sep 21, 2022
David Koenig Shoots Columbo
Sep 16, 2022
Live from the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival
Aug 31, 2022
Dario Llinares talks movies, podcasts and Cinematology
Aug 24, 2022
Live from Locarno Film Festival 75th Edition
Aug 11, 2022
Tony Bill Talks Movie Speak
Aug 10, 2022
Dan Mirvish talks his new film 18 1/2
Aug 03, 2022
Paul Fischer and the Man who Invented Motion Pictures
Jul 27, 2022
Mike Medavoy: You're Only as Good as Your Last One
Jul 20, 2022
DC and 2000AD writer James Peaty on Thor and More
Jul 13, 2022
Alison Macor on The Best Days of Our Lives
Jun 30, 2022
Live from Cannes
Jun 22, 2022
Sean Hogan is Screaming
Jun 15, 2022
Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton
Jun 08, 2022
Neil Fox on Screenwriting and Screenwriters
Jun 01, 2022
Kyle Buchanan on Blood Sweat and Chrome
May 25, 2022
George Stevens Jr finds his Place in the Sun
May 18, 2022
Keith Phipps celebrates the Age of Cage
May 11, 2022
Talking Cinema with the legendary Michel Ciment
May 04, 2022
Matthew Page Gets Biblical
Apr 27, 2022
Leon Hunt is slayed by Mario Bava
Apr 21, 2022
Charles Elton talks Michael Cimino
Apr 13, 2022
Sydney Ladensohn Stern talks the Brothers Mankiewicz
Apr 07, 2022
Kim Newman has Nightmares
Mar 30, 2022
Jonathan Rigby goes Gothic
Mar 23, 2022
Peter Bradshaw on the Films that Made Him
Mar 16, 2022
Joseph McBride's The Whole Durn Coen Brothers Comedy
Mar 09, 2022
Isaac Butler Employs The Method
Mar 02, 2022
J Blake Fichera is SCORED TO DEATH
Feb 23, 2022
Ben Slater on Saint Jack
Feb 16, 2022
Philip Gwynne Jones talks Vintage Horror and a Tromsø round up
Feb 09, 2022
John Rosenthal on Ted K
Feb 02, 2022
Matt Glasby's Book of Horror
Jan 26, 2022
Noah Isenberg: We'll Always Have Casablanca
Jan 19, 2022
Jay Glennie goes Trainspotting
Jan 12, 2022
Patrick McGilligan's Lives and Legends
Jan 05, 2022
Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham on Ghibliotheque
Dec 29, 2021
Jonathan Melville on the Making of Highlander
Dec 16, 2021
Clark Collis on Shaun of the Dead
Dec 11, 2021
Anna Cale Talks the Real Diana Dors
Dec 02, 2021
Ian Nathan talks Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle Earth
Nov 28, 2021
Glenn Frankel talks Midnight Cowboy, High Noon and The Searchers
Nov 25, 2021
Tom Shone talks Blockbusters
Nov 13, 2021
Hoo-Ah!: Mark Searby on Al Pacino
Nov 11, 2021
Jason Bailey talks Fun City Cinema, New York and the Movies that Made it
Oct 28, 2021
Amy Raphael on Mike Leigh
Oct 21, 2021
Lynne Sachs: Portrait of a Filmmaker Who
Oct 14, 2021
Sam Wasson gives Chinatown The Big Goodbye
Oct 07, 2021
No Time to Die with Paul Duncan
Oct 03, 2021
The Ian Nathan Vault
Sep 23, 2021
Wendy Mitchell talks dogs on film
Sep 10, 2021
Rob Young's Magic Box
Aug 27, 2021
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The Novelisation
Aug 25, 2021
Night Moves, Neo Noir and Loneliness with Matthew Asprey Gear
Aug 20, 2021
The Paul Duncan Archives
Jul 30, 2021
Pamela Hutchinson and Silent Cinema
Jul 16, 2021
The making of Performance, Deer Hunter and Raging Bull
Jul 02, 2021
Jason Wood talks Mexican Cinema
Jun 25, 2021
Women Vs Hollywood: an Interview with Helen O'Hara
Jun 18, 2021
Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas: an Interview with Glenn Kenny
Jun 11, 2021
Wild and Crazy Guys: an Interview with Nick de Semlyen
Jun 04, 2021
The Nolan Twisters: an Interview with Tom Shone
May 11, 2021