Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast The Ministry of Film
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| Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror | 31 Oct 2024 | 00:54:26 | |
Hello! It's our very first episode! Today Carolina and Robin talk about FW Murnau's thoroughly nasty vampire horror from 1922. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| The Truman Show | 28 Nov 2024 | 00:56:49 | |
Carolina and Robin talk about brilliantly clever parody of nineties suburbia, The Truman Show. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| Ratatouille | 14 Nov 2024 | 00:56:10 | |
Carolina and Robin sit down to discuss Pixar's Ratatouille (2007), in which a country rat turns out to be a Michelin-star-worthy chef. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| A Matter of Life and Death | 12 Dec 2024 | 00:43:52 | |
Carolina and Robin talk about the heart-warming, surreal post-war romcom A Matter of Life and Death. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| The Lion in Winter | 31 Dec 2024 | 00:54:32 | |
Happy holidays! Carolina and Robin discuss the historical drama The Lion in Winter, a film that takes place during Christmas, but with more backstabbing than giftgiving. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| Barry Lyndon | 09 Jan 2025 | 00:43:01 | |
In 2025's first episode, Carolina and Robin discuss the film that best depicts the pre-modern world, Barry Lyndon. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| Metropolis | 23 Jan 2025 | 00:40:46 | |
Carolina and Robin go from discussing the pre-modern world (see our previous episode on Barry Lyndon) to deciphering the futuristic messaging of 1927's Metropolis. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| The Substance | 06 Feb 2025 | 00:59:24 | |
Carolina and Robin discuss The Substance, a very modern classic about a Hollywood actress who will do anything to be young and beautiful again. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| Cleo from 5 to 7 | 20 Feb 2025 | 00:45:51 | |
Carolina and Robin discuss Cleo from 5 to 7, an outrageously French film about a young woman who may or may not be terminally ill in 1950s Paris. While she waits for her diagnosis, she discovers who she is and her place in the world, politics and all. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| BONUS: Conclave | 08 May 2025 | 00:49:53 | |
Carolina and Robin are back in your ears for a bonus episode to mark the best real-life sleepover that is the Papal Conclave. Politics include: faith and politics being quite icky together, how the West Wing really did dictate political art through the 2010s, and how electing a Pope is actually not that dissimilar to electing your Constituency Labour Party Secretary. Genuinely. Conclave nerds, rejoice:
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| The Zone of Interest | 02 May 2025 | 01:25:27 | |
Carolina and Robin take you through one of the worst calamities in history and the people behind it in domestic-drama-turned-holocaust-film The Zone of Interest (2023). Politics include: literal Nazis, how there was no God in the house of the Commandant, and how Robin will (maybe) quietly compare your LinkedIn posts to a Rudolf Hoss memo to the SS. As the 80th Anniversary of VE Day approaches, we encourage you to consider donating to organisations supporting those suffering from the atrocities of war. Our further recommendations:
And many many more... If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| Seven Samurai | 04 Apr 2025 | 01:04:41 | |
Robin and Carolina discuss the best samurai film of all time, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954). The bandits are mean, our heroes are heroic, and the farmers are just trying to survive. Politics include: how Jaws and Star Wars blatantly copied this film, the making of a seven-person army, and a village trying to stay safe in an uncertain world that is basically, literally all of us at the moment. Hungry for more? Good stuff on Seven Samurai
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| Wallace & Gromit | 21 Mar 2025 | 00:57:46 | |
Carolina and Robin discuss two of Wallace & Gromit's fabulous films: The Wrong Trousers (1993) and Vengeance Most Fowl (2024), two films that confirm that dogs really are better than human beings. Politics include: a murderous penguin that uses technology for evil, a robot that is terrifyingly pliant until it's not, the turbulent Yorkshire-Lancashire border, and the literal fundamentals of AI ethics. See here the complete Sight & Sound critics' list of the 100 best films of all time. Yes, Jeanne Dielman is at the top. Somehow. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| The Shining | 06 Mar 2025 | 00:58:02 | |
Carolina and Robin discuss The Shining, the terrifying (but always beautiful) tale of a family falling apart in a remote Colorado hotel in the 1970s. Politics include: the hotel owner who looks like a young Trump, the grim reality of the film being about domestic abuse more than it is about ghosts, and how Jack Torrance represents the broken dreams of the white American working class. If you like what you hear, please rate and subscribe to the show wherever you're listening, it will help others find the pod.
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| Spirited Away | 06 Jun 2025 | 01:04:40 | |
Carolina and Robin talk about Spirited Away, Japan's most successful film of all time, and likely one of the best films about life in a ghost bathhouse. Politics include: how said bathhouse is maybe a metaphor for oppression, but also a really lovely-looking place; the post-80s economic bubble haze in Japan; and a very cool radish ghost. Continue the reverie:
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| The Wizard of Oz | 23 May 2025 | 00:48:41 | |
Robin and Carolina discuss the Wizard of Oz, the most-watched film of all time, and likely the children's film with the most religious, LGBTQ+ and feminist theories around it. Politics include: how Dorothy is the ultimate feminist, queer queen, how the yellow brick road may be a metaphor for the gold standard (?!) and how you can genuinely spot a bit of Plato's Republic in this fantasy musical from 80 years ago. More wizarding nerdery, just for you:
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| Trainspotting | 31 Jul 2025 | 01:25:05 | |
Robin and Carolina choose life, choose dental insurance, choose the best f*cking Scottish film ever made. Politics include: the working-class communities of Scotland in the 1980s that turned to drugs as a form of protest, Danny Boyle creating a film that straddles the Thatcher and Blair years (sorry, John Major), and the most perfect soundtrack ever produced. Come get (musically) high with us:
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| Jurassic Park vs Jurassic World | 17 Jul 2025 | 01:21:46 | |
Carolina and Robin go on a summer blockbuster adventure, comparing the totemic dinosaur film Jurassic Park (1993) with its on-paper extremely similar reboot Jurassic World (2015). Politics include: why a film about dinosaurs that (initially) can't reproduce is actually a film about a human couple deciding to have children after all; the evolution of our idea of the billionaire in society; and why Dennis the IT guy in Jurassic Park is basically Elon Musk. Dino-diversions and readings:
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| Eraserhead | 20 Jun 2025 | 01:03:10 | |
Robin and Carolina embrace the surreal with Eraserhead, the film featuring possibly the creepiest baby in cinematic history. Politics include: honestly, not very many - but the baby really is very scary. And there's a lot about Christian morality. And horniness. A lot of horniness. Continue the surrealist journey:
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