José Arroyo
@josearroyo.bsky.social
Teacher, critic; interested in all things film.
A mean, nasty, cruel and heartless criminal; breaking laws of man AND God; and voted in by pious Christians. Tax churches.
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A mean, nasty, cruel and heartless criminal; breaking laws of man AND God; and voted in by pious Christians. Tax churches.
I enjoyed being in Lanthimos' world for a few hours. The conversation can be listened in on the post below: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/13/4...
464 – Bugonia
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Yorgos Lanthimos’ fourth collaboration with Emma Stone yields a darkly comedic thriller about two conspiracy t…
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I enjoyed being in Lanthimos' world for a few hours. The conversation can be listened in on the post below: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/13/4...
A podcast I'm eager to listen to: m.youtube.com/watch?v=t17o...
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A podcast I'm eager to listen to: m.youtube.com/watch?v=t17o...
A film that has already sparked some of the oldest and dumbest conversations on film: praising or decrying the movie to the degree that it is found to be faithful to the novel: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/09/4...
463 – Frankenstein (2025)
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Another classic Gothic horror is remade for the modern age: first we saw Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, and now Gui…
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A film that has already sparked some of the oldest and dumbest conversations on film: praising or decrying the movie to the degree that it is found to be faithful to the novel: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/09/4...
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Meanwhile in the U.S.A.
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Meanwhile in the U.S.A.
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If you have an interest in any aspect of film culture in the UK before 1930 consider sharing it at our groovy geeky event!
British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 (Call for Papers)
The British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 will take place on Friday 10th April at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. As usual, this one day event will feature a range of papers of original rese…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If you have an interest in any aspect of film culture in the UK before 1930 consider sharing it at our groovy geeky event!
Wish @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social would listen, learn and finally start doing something for its citizens. Real estate development means nothing if people have no facilities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe1V...
Mayor to Mayor: a conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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November 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Wish @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social would listen, learn and finally start doing something for its citizens. Real estate development means nothing if people have no facilities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe1V...
Great turnout for the 'Big Screen, Bigger Emotions' screening of Almodóvar's Volver tonight at the Warwick Arts Centre.
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Great turnout for the 'Big Screen, Bigger Emotions' screening of Almodóvar's Volver tonight at the Warwick Arts Centre.
An overview of this year's Film Noir Fest UK; and reasons to go next year: My favourite weekender fest: notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/03/r...
Report on Film Noir Fest UK, 2025, Weston-Super-Mare
Film Noir Fest UK 2025 Weston-Super-Mare is the perfect setting for a film festival on noir; gorgeous views of the sea, a seedy centre full of nail bars and affordable pubs; a fantastic cinema – …
notesonfilm1.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
An overview of this year's Film Noir Fest UK; and reasons to go next year: My favourite weekender fest: notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/03/r...
I shall be introducing Volver at the Warwick Arts Centre tomorrow This is a podcast Richard and I did on the film notesonfilm1.com/2024/11/29/t...
Thinking Aloud About Film: Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
Richard and I return to discuss VOLVER (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006), interesting to see always but particularly for Richard now having seen WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS (1984) and his earlier films,…
notesonfilm1.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I shall be introducing Volver at the Warwick Arts Centre tomorrow This is a podcast Richard and I did on the film notesonfilm1.com/2024/11/29/t...
My report on the brilliant Film Noir Fest UK 2025, direct from Weston-Super-Mare: notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/03/r...
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
My report on the brilliant Film Noir Fest UK 2025, direct from Weston-Super-Mare: notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/03/r...
I'm delighted to collaborate with Julia Scrive-Loyer and Simulacro to deliver a series of lectures --five, one one a day, in Spanish -- on Warwick-style film studies to students in Latin America:
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I'm delighted to collaborate with Julia Scrive-Loyer and Simulacro to deliver a series of lectures --five, one one a day, in Spanish -- on Warwick-style film studies to students in Latin America:
It doesn't quite cohere though who cares? It looks amazing and we had fun watching it. One of those films that make you think if you're not watching it on a big screen with an audience why bother watching at all?
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462 – Tron: Ares
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Far from an outstanding film, but amazing to look at and too much fun not to recommend, we had a great time in Tron:…
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
It doesn't quite cohere though who cares? It looks amazing and we had fun watching it. One of those films that make you think if you're not watching it on a big screen with an audience why bother watching at all?
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/28/4...
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/28/4...
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10/27/55: Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause
w/James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo + Dennis Hopper
Ray & Dean soar, but v much of its moment
More:
Eva Güimil: english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Kashner: www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/03...
@kateyrich.bsky.social: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
w/James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo + Dennis Hopper
Ray & Dean soar, but v much of its moment
More:
Eva Güimil: english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Kashner: www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/03...
@kateyrich.bsky.social: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
Hollywood’s First Gay Teenager and His Two Tragic Endings
This week’s ‘Little Gold Men’ podcast kicks off a Pride Month series of Oscar flashbacks with ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ and the sad story of Sal Mineo.
www.vanityfair.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
10/27/55: Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause
w/James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo + Dennis Hopper
Ray & Dean soar, but v much of its moment
More:
Eva Güimil: english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Kashner: www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/03...
@kateyrich.bsky.social: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
w/James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo + Dennis Hopper
Ray & Dean soar, but v much of its moment
More:
Eva Güimil: english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Kashner: www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/03...
@kateyrich.bsky.social: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
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I'm not gonna go try to find out myself, because I'm sure it would make me want to throw up, but I wonder what the hallowed keepers of conservative thought in American journalism think of the president destroying a third of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I'm not gonna go try to find out myself, because I'm sure it would make me want to throw up, but I wonder what the hallowed keepers of conservative thought in American journalism think of the president destroying a third of the White House
Our second podcast on the film, this time with Stephen Glass, who seems to know PTA's filmography backkwards and forwards. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/23/4...
461 – One Battle After Another – Second Screening
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Listen to our first podcast on One Battle After Another here. We’re joined by our resident Paul Thomas Anderso…
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Our second podcast on the film, this time with Stephen Glass, who seems to know PTA's filmography backkwards and forwards. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/23/4...
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What Mike sees in The Rock's performance as desperate Oscar bait and a cynical grasp for artistic legitimacy, José sees the good side of, although we're in agreement that THE SMASHING MACHINE has problems that its positives don't overcome.
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460 – The Smashing Machine
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Mike isn’t impressed with The Rock’s attempt to take on a dramatic role in an intimate biopic after deca…
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October 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What Mike sees in The Rock's performance as desperate Oscar bait and a cynical grasp for artistic legitimacy, José sees the good side of, although we're in agreement that THE SMASHING MACHINE has problems that its positives don't overcome.
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What does a Film Programmer do? I talk to James McEvoy, Cinema Programmer at the Warwick Arts Centre to fid out: notesonfilm1.com/2025/10/20/j...
José Arroyo in Conversation with James McEvoy on Film Programming at the Warwick Arts Centre
What does a Film Programmer do? I talk to James McEvoy to find out what programming the Warwick Arts Centre cinema, a three-screen cinema, based on a university campus but also serving a local and …
notesonfilm1.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
What does a Film Programmer do? I talk to James McEvoy, Cinema Programmer at the Warwick Arts Centre to fid out: notesonfilm1.com/2025/10/20/j...
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Visit the US? I mean, c'mon, who would be that stupid!!
Pam Bondi has basically said anyone visiting the US is subject to arrest and incarceration at any point, if law officials deem the individual a “threat”.
Bang goes the rest of the international tourism trade.
Bang goes the rest of the international tourism trade.
October 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Visit the US? I mean, c'mon, who would be that stupid!!
A Kogonada film. Flawed but worth seeing and discussing: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/14/4...
459 – A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, directed by former video essayist Kogonada, is beautiful to look at and very likeable,…
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A Kogonada film. Flawed but worth seeing and discussing: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/14/4...
Cheap, simple, high-concept and reasonably graphic eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/06/4...
458 – The Long Walk
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Cheap, simple, high-concept and reasonably graphic, The Long Walk is a throwback to the days of the B-movie. In its …
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Cheap, simple, high-concept and reasonably graphic eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/06/4...
I love this. Will see it again. And the podcast is surely the first of many discussions: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/03/4...
457 – One Battle After Another
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. By far Paul Thomas Anderson’s most expensive film, with a budget some four or five times what he’s used …
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I love this. Will see it again. And the podcast is surely the first of many discussions: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/03/4...
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King Trump state visit to the UK: New photo released.
September 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
King Trump state visit to the UK: New photo released.
een it twice now; didn't think much of it the first time but thought I might have been in the wrong mood; now, I'm more convinced the faults are with the fim. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/09/01/4...
453 – The Shrouds
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. A psychosexual thriller that’s neither psychosexual nor thrilling enough, The Shrouds is a disappointment. The…
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
een it twice now; didn't think much of it the first time but thought I might have been in the wrong mood; now, I'm more convinced the faults are with the fim. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/09/01/4...
September 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM