Jack and Tamiko sing... WICKED
Popular, What is this Feeling, Defying Gravity... all the hits!
Move over Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande!

MADE IN ENGLAND -- new episode --
Wicked: Part One (2024) with Tamiko Dooley
Here's a taste:

Alonso Ruizpalacios (director of La Cocina) likens Mike Leigh's Naked (1993) to the paintings of Lucian Freud.
Clip from latest episode of Made in England.

This week on Made in England... NAKED (1993) with Alonso Ruizpalacios. La Cocina writer-director and I discuss Mike Leigh's masterpiece.

Filmmaker Dean Puckett on how The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) set the template for folk horror.
Clip from this week's Made in England podcast.

Here's Leo Leigh talking about the relationship that develops on camera between filmmaker and subject in Molly Dineen's GERI (1999)

And here's another!

New episode:
Wonderland (1999) with Nia Childs
Nia and I rave about Michael Winterbottom's tapestry of urban melancholy.
Here's a clip:

Here's Dan talking about the film's striking imagery and the cut that connects Chaucer's pilgrims and the people of WWII era England.

Last year I had @jeffreyjensen.bsky.social on my podcast to discuss David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980).
Here's a clip, where Jeff finds a parallel between Lynch and John Merrick.
Listen to Made in England here: www.holdfastnetwork.com/madeinengland

Here's a clip of me and @natmetcalfe.bsky.social talking about Two Way Stretch and Ealing comedies.