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.
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...
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.
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:
September 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sometimes you read a new book and love it so much you want to speak to its author and find out more. This is what happened to me in relation to Ryan Gilbey’s IT USED TO BE WITCHES: UNDER THE SPELL OF QUEER CINEMA.
notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/21/j...
notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/21/j...
August 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Sometimes you read a new book and love it so much you want to speak to its author and find out more. This is what happened to me in relation to Ryan Gilbey’s IT USED TO BE WITCHES: UNDER THE SPELL OF QUEER CINEMA.
notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/21/j...
notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/21/j...
August 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A clear illustration of governments against the people.
July 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
A clear illustration of governments against the people.
In Conversation with Sam Shahid on his beautiful new film on arguably the 20th Century's foremost photographer of the male nude HIDDEN MASTER: THE LEGACY OF GEORGE PLATT LYNES: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/23/j...
July 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
In Conversation with Sam Shahid on his beautiful new film on arguably the 20th Century's foremost photographer of the male nude HIDDEN MASTER: THE LEGACY OF GEORGE PLATT LYNES: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/23/j...
Cinema Rediscovered
July 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Cinema Rediscovered
A note on The Iron Prefect: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/18/t...
July 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A note on The Iron Prefect: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/18/t...
We are very excited about this year's Cinema Rediscovered Programme, which we preview here: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/18/t...
July 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We are very excited about this year's Cinema Rediscovered Programme, which we preview here: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/18/t...
The third in Brendan Nash's immersive series of historical novels set in the queer milieus of Weimar Berlin. I gobbled up the Landlady and The Director with great pleasure and now looking forward to this one.
July 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The third in Brendan Nash's immersive series of historical novels set in the queer milieus of Weimar Berlin. I gobbled up the Landlady and The Director with great pleasure and now looking forward to this one.
This is on today at 2:00 with live accompaniment by Hugo Max at the Midlands Arts Centre. I shall be there. His Faust event at the Prince Charles was great.
June 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This is on today at 2:00 with live accompaniment by Hugo Max at the Midlands Arts Centre. I shall be there. His Faust event at the Prince Charles was great.
Iván Zulueta’s only feature as sole director. A cult film; a queer film; a vampire film; a film maudit; a film about film; a film about drugs; a film about film as a drug; a film that deserves to be better known. Podcast below:
notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/12/t...
notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/12/t...
June 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Iván Zulueta’s only feature as sole director. A cult film; a queer film; a vampire film; a film maudit; a film about film; a film about drugs; a film about film as a drug; a film that deserves to be better known. Podcast below:
notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/12/t...
notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/12/t...
It's only taken ten years....
May 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's only taken ten years....
With Michael Glass and James MacDowell :Talking about podcasting, film reviewing and film criticism, the aural in relation to the visual, building an archive, cinephilia, friendship as a mode of production... and much more.
April 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
With Michael Glass and James MacDowell :Talking about podcasting, film reviewing and film criticism, the aural in relation to the visual, building an archive, cinephilia, friendship as a mode of production... and much more.
I recently discovered the existence of an exciting new film magazine: OUTSKIRTS, a gorgeous physical object, in English. In this podcast, I talk to one of the editors, Diego Cepeda to find out more about its origins and its aims. Do please consider circulating: notesonfilm1.com/2025/04/18/j...
April 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I recently discovered the existence of an exciting new film magazine: OUTSKIRTS, a gorgeous physical object, in English. In this podcast, I talk to one of the editors, Diego Cepeda to find out more about its origins and its aims. Do please consider circulating: notesonfilm1.com/2025/04/18/j...
A brilliantly funny film.
April 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A brilliantly funny film.
A pleasure to talk to Paul Cuff about Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU. He knows so much that the conversation unfurls into a discussion of the various other versions and much else..
notesonfilm1.com/2025/04/06/j...
notesonfilm1.com/2025/04/06/j...
April 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A pleasure to talk to Paul Cuff about Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU. He knows so much that the conversation unfurls into a discussion of the various other versions and much else..
notesonfilm1.com/2025/04/06/j...
notesonfilm1.com/2025/04/06/j...
Two old blokes discuss Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman and othe Defiant Muses: notesonfilm1.com/2025/03/18/j...
March 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Two old blokes discuss Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman and othe Defiant Muses: notesonfilm1.com/2025/03/18/j...
I hope Canada now simply cuts all electricity to the US.
March 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I hope Canada now simply cuts all electricity to the US.
