Podcast

• Our Picks + Bubblegum Noir & Promising Young Woman
  3 June, by Abla Kandalaft, Anna Smith, Coco Green
  *We’re skipping ep 23 given the relevance of ep 24 to this month’s releases - normal service will resume in 2 weeks!* This week, our guest is Anna Smith, leading film critic and broadcaster and host of the popular podcast Girls On Film. Our focus is women as lead characters in sexually-charged noir films from the 90s to the present day - to the new spate of films that belong to what Anna calls Bubblegum Noir, using Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman Subscribe for offers at: (...)
• Our Picks + We Work: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
  24 May, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  This week, we discuss the documentary charting the rise and fall of co-working space/real estate scam We Work and its eccentric co-founder Adam Neumann. We cover the ethics of co-working spaces and their implications and the cultish elements of the We Work "experience". We flag John Carpenter’s prescient classic They Live and the Line Of Duty finale. Support us: 💷 ko-fi.com/mydy Subscribe for offers at: mydy.link/subscribe 🎧 (...)
• Our Picks + One Night In Miami
  25 April, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  Regina King’s directorial debut starring Kingsley Ben-Adir Malcolm X, Eli Goree as Cassius Clay, Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown, and Leslie Odom Jr. Sam Cooke, is a fictionalised account of the four icons’ meeting in Miami, Fl after Clay’s first heavyweight title about with Sonny Liston. The film is based on the Kemp Powers play which imagines their one night at the Hampton House, located in Brownsville, outside of Liberty City, due to segregation laws in Miami, which was the base for Miami’s black (...)
• Our Picks + Crip Camp
  25 April, by Abla Kandalaft, Antonella Mercurio, Coco Green
  This week we are joined by psychotherapist Antonella Mercurio to talk about Crip Camp and the issues around activism, aspirational and revolutionary movements and disability rights sparked by the documentary. Crip Camp (Netflix) sheds light on summer camp for teenagers with disabilities and the rights movement borne out of its pioneering set up. Top picks include horror film The Empty Man, a creepy, hugely entertaining feature released to mostly so-so reviews in 2020 but has built a bit (...)
• Our Picks + The Obituary Of Tunde Johnson
  23 March, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Ryan Ormonde
  This week, we are joined by poet and writer Ryan Ormonde to discuss Ali LeRoi’s feature film The Obituary Of Tunde Johnso and yet another Jack Black flick, Bernie. As usual, comments and feedback welcome via Twitter @Mydylarama 🎙️ mydy.link/podcast Support us: 💷 ko-fi.com/mydy Subscribe for offers at: mydy.link/subscribe 🎧 mydy.link/apple
• Our Picks + Typical
  16 March, by Abla Kandalaft, Anastasia Osei-Kuffour, Coco Green
  We’re stretching things a bit this week to include filmed theatre: our guest is director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour whose latest production is Typical at the Soho Theatre (available to stream online). The play stars Richard Blackwood as Christopher Alder, a Black man who died in police custody in 1998. The play, a monologue that’s halfway between poetry and rap recounting Christopher’s last day and the acts of racism he experiences leading up to his death, highlights issues around racial (...)
• Our Picks + Judas And The Black Messiah
  1 March, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
  Highlights this week include the Glasgow Film Festival, entirely online, with its usual strong selection and carefully curated programmes, running from 24 February to 7 March and MLK/FBI is a 2020 American documentary directed by Sam Pollard who co-directed the 1987 doc Eyes on the Prize, which traces the FBI’s investigation of Martin Luther King. Obviously Eyes on the Prize comes up as we discuss our main film of the evening: Judas And The Black Messiah Subscribe for offers at: (...)
• Our Picks + Be Kind Rewind
  12 February, by Coco Green, judy
  This week, guest and Mydylarama co-founder Judy Harris joins us to discuss the beauty of amateur cinema, community cohesion, gentrification, colourblind casting and the joys of play in Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind. We also touch on the issues around race and casting choices in Netflix hit show Bridgerton. When she’s not doing revisions on a PhD on the utopian film theory of the poet Vachel Lindsay, which the viva panel described as "conceptually ambitious but let down by its (...)
• Our Picks + Women In Body Horror
  19 January, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Georgina Allan
  This week, we are joined by Georgina Allan, film editor for the Radical Art Review to talk about women in horror, specifically focusing on Julia Ducournau’s Raw and their representations of women as complex protagonists and instigators of violence (as opposed to helpless victims or mindless monsters). We mention Jordan Peele’s Us, Marina De Van’s In My Skin and Don’t Look Back and others. Picks of the week include Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s mind warping, beautiful Synchronic and (...)
• Our picks + Antebellum & Century Of The Self
  4 January, by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Tom Barlow
  We are joined once again by Tom Barlow, chair of The Media Fund and host of the show News Club UK, to discuss the 2002 documentary series The Century of the Self.. Antebellum is a 2020 American thriller film written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. While beautifully shot, Antebellum fails in its attempt explore the sociopathy of the white slaveholding class—mainly because the story isn’t set in a slave society. The film can’t come to (...)

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