Writers on Film

Writers on Film

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

Episodes

David Hughes on Night Moves by Alan Sharp

October 28, 2025 • 73 mins
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Arthur Penn's neo-noir thriller Night Moves, starring the late Gene Hackman, Alan Sharp's novel based on his original screenplay – out of print since its first publication in 1975 – is presented here in a stunning new paperback edition, with exclusive cover art by the legendary Tony Stella, an introduction by Matthew Asprey Gear (author of Moseby Confidential) and an afterword by David Manderson...
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Ellen E Jones on Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World

October 21, 2025 • 72 mins
Another chance to hear the episode on the Kraszna- Krausz Moving Image Book Award Winning Screen Deep by Ellen E Jones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ellen E Jones on the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award

October 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Today I talk to Ellen E Jones the winner of the Kraszna- Krausz  Moving Image Book Awards 2025. The event at the Barbican to celebrate Ellen's win is on 27 October - https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/imitation-of-life-12-with-introduction-reception Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Pordenone Silent Film Festival with James Harrison and Neil Brand

October 14, 2025 • 71 mins
Though it was not to acquire its definitive name and identity until the following year, the Giornate del Cinema Muto can date its first edition to 9 to 11 September 1982. Jay Weissberg is the current director of the festival. I spoke with James Harrison from South West Silents. And musician, dramatist and expert Neil Brand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Rear Window with Jennifer O'Callaghan

October 7, 2025 • 54 mins
Get the book here. The definitive, in-depth look inside the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window—the all-time classic of voyeurism, paranoia, and murder that became one of Hollywood’s greatest achievements and turned generations of viewers into “a race of Peeping Toms.” . . .Before the internet and social media offered voyeuristic glimpses into the lives of others, the acclaimed Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, exposed t...
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Jonathan Demme by David M. Stewart

September 30, 2025 • 81 mins
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The Malick Hours: BADLANDS

September 30, 2025 • 89 mins
I talk with Tom Shone about Terrence Malick's first film Badlands (1973), a true crime drama that introduces a new talent and vision to seventies cinema and the world. You can buy the biography of Terrence Malick here The music is Camille Saint Saens - The Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium and is performed by pianos: Neil and Nancy O'Doan and orchestra: Seattle Youth Symphony, conducted by Vilem Sokol. It is reproduced via the fol...
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Julie Seabaugh on Roast Battles and Marc Maron

September 27, 2025 • 55 mins
Julia Seabaugh is a writer who has covered the comedy scene for years. She has written A Tight Twenty and Ringside at Roast Battle and has produced a new documentary on Marc Maron, of WTF Podcast fame called "Are We Good?" Find out more about her work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Single and Psycho: with Caroline Young

September 23, 2025 • 55 mins
Buy Caroline's book here. The Blurb: From the single ladies of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift songs to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's irreverent television series Fleabag (2016–2019) to as far back as Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, the stereotype of the damaged single woman has long pervaded music, books, television, and Hollywood movies. Spinster tropes, witch burnings, and nineteenth-century diagnoses of hysteria have reflected and ...
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Making Monsters with Marshall Julius and Howard Berger

September 16, 2025 • 69 mins
Buy the book here: Explore behind the scenes of the greatest monster movies ever made! What makes a great movie monster? Academy Award-winning make-up effects artist Howard Berger and acclaimed journalist Marshall Julius have spoken to dozens of film industry legends to find out. A celebration of monsters, monster movies and monster movie makers, Making Monsters delivers an illuminating, entertaining and accessible oral history ...
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Will Sloan on Ed Wood Jr: Made in Hollywood

September 10, 2025 • 70 mins
For generations, Ed Wood has been known as “the worst director of all time.” This sympathetic critical study repositions the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space as a maverick independent whose work challenges the boundary between “bad” and “good.” The subject of a Tim Burton biopic, Will Sloan reappraises Wood as a more interesting and disruptive figure. You can buy his book here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...
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Venice Film Festival Part Two

September 4, 2025 • 57 mins
One of my favourite film critics Bilge Ebiri from Vulture joins me to talk about Olivier Assayas' The Wizard of the Kremlin, Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite, and Kaouther ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Venice Film Festival Part One

September 1, 2025 • 70 mins
Nicholas Bell from IONCINEMA joins me to run down the films we've watched so far at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. We talk La Grazia, Frankenstein, After the Hunt, Bugonia, No Other Choice and The Smashing Machine. We probably talk about even more in this bumper Lido fuelled edition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Screaming and Conjuring with Clark Collis

August 24, 2025 • 80 mins
Available HERE. Blockbuster box office. Critical acclaim and Oscars recognition. From Get Out and M3GAN to The Substance and Sinners, the horror genre is enjoying a glorious–and gory–golden age. Screaming and Conjuring details the films and frights that led to this extraordinary renaissance, from the release of the groundbreaking Scream in 1996 to the arrival of 2013’s The Conjuring, which spawned a multi-billion dollar franchi...
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The Zone of Interest

August 19, 2025 • 85 mins
New book Darkness Visible, available from Sticking Place Books. Jonathan Glazer has created some of the most unforgettable images in twenty-first-century cinema. From the dreamlike menace of Sexy Beast to the haunting abstractions of Under the Skin and the chilling banality of evil in The Zone of Interest, his films blend surreal intensity with razor-sharp formal control. But Glazer’s world doesn’t stop at the cinema screen-it e...
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers author Roger Lewis

August 17, 2025 • 77 mins
New Edition available here. 'A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told' Sunday TelegraphRoger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits.But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of in...
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Visible Darkness: UNDER THE SKIN

August 12, 2025 • 69 mins
Maureen Foster's book on Under the Skin was an inspiration for Visible Darkness: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer and so I'm republished this episode which was originally broadcast two years ago. Darkness Visible is available from Sticking Place books at a discount for the UK and US here. And from all good book dealers for the rest of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Film Critic Xan Brooks on his novel The Catchers

August 10, 2025 • 66 mins
Xan Brooks has been a film critic and journalist for decades, hosting the ground-breaking Film Weekly for The Guardian along with Jason Solomons. He's now a novelist with The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times and his new book The Catchers, available here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Birth: David Thomson talks Jonathan Glazer's second film

August 6, 2025 • 52 mins
A podcast to accompany the release of my book Darkness Visible: the Cinema of Jonathan Glazer, available HERE Jonathan Glazer has created some of the most unforgettable images in twenty-first-century cinema. From the dreamlike menace of Sexy Beast to the haunting abstractions of Under the Skin and the chilling banality of evil in The Zone of Interest, his films blend surreal intensity with razor-sharp formal control. But Glaz...
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Shawn Levy talks CLINT

August 3, 2025 • 73 mins
Buy a copy here. New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint Eastwood we've been waiting for." — Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Sergio Leone From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, a revelatory portrait of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and ...
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