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A podcast for the love of cinema.Amsterdam's LAB111 film podcast on the cinema that matters — debates, rankings, and director deep dives, every Thursday. From cult classics to today's most-talked-about releases, Laura Gommans (film journalist), Hugo Emmerzael (film critic), Kiriko Mechanicus (filmmaker) and Tom Ooms (film programmer) take turns asking what films tell us about ourselves, our culture, and the times we live in. Show notes and the CC newsletter at celebratingcinema.com.You can get in touch at celebratingcinema@lab111.nl
LAB111 hosts Celebrating Cinema, a tv show with 165 episodes published.
In 2007, the Coen Brothers made a thriller set in 1980 that somehow captured an American dread that hadn't fully arrived yet. Critic Hugo Emmerzael and academic Dan Hassler-Forest return to No Country for Old Men — the c
We’re constantly told to slow down and be present, but what does it actually mean to pay attention when so much of modern life is designed to scatter it? This summer, French auteur Jacques Tati returns to LAB111 in six n
What makes a film camp? Is it something filmmakers create, or something audiences discover? To celebrate Pride Month and LAB111's Camp, Cult & Queer programme, filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus is joined by film programmer Ali
Who gets to tell a story? And who gets to see themselves reflected on screen? Sixty years after its release, Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl ( La Noire de... , 1966) remains one of the defining works of African cinema. Rest
Some filmmakers don't just make great films, they change who cinema is for. 60 years ago, Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl ( La Noire de... ) announced a new cinematic voice to the world. Through the story of a young Senegal
Why are journeys one of cinema's defining storytelling forms? Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey brings one of literature's greatest journeys to the screen. Laura Gommans and Tom Ooms discuss whether the film succeeds as an
Do ratings help us discover great films or have they quietly changed the way we watch? Before you've even bought a ticket, you probably know the Letterboxd average, the IMDb score or the Rotten Tomatoes percentage. Somew
Nobody has ever filmed a real alien, so why do they all look the same? The grey skin, the black almond eyes, sixty years running. This week Laura Gommans is joined by historian Alexander Bartels, who curated LAB111's We
Steven Spielberg spent fifty years teaching us to look up. When the Pentagon released its real alien files, nobody blinked. His new film Disclosure Day marks the day the truth finally lands — this time his aliens look ba
The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen, 2001) was a small film about Los Angeles street racers, immigrant car culture, and a cop who didn't want to be one. Twenty-five years on it's a seven-billion-dollar franchise where ca
Kane Parsons made the Backrooms on YouTube when he was only sixteen. Over 200 million views later, A24 has handed him his feature debut, making him the studio's youngest director ever at 20. But the yellow walls still do
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw has been sending dispatches from Cannes since 1999. If you ask him what's changed in 27 years, he claims: nothing. He means it as a compliment. Hugo Emmerzael sits down with the legendary fi
Long before phones turned every life into footage, a small line of filmmakers was already pointing the camera at themselves — not to perform, but to work out what a life was. This week, producer Elliot Bloom sits down wi
Cinema's dirtiest little secret is that it's designed to make you want something you can never have. In this episode of Celebrating Cinema, host Laura Gommans and Tom Ooms — LAB111's Head of Cinema — talk about what cine
Amadeus (1984, Miloš Forman) is not really about Mozart. It's a film about the rest of us — the ones who can recognise genius but will never possess it. Salieri is the true protagonist of this musical biopic. His tragedy
Miranda once told Andy she was the greatest disappointment of her career. Twenty years on, the question isn't whether she was right — it's what Andy did with it. Laura Gommans and Elliot Bloom chat about The Devil Wears
Can a film be more intimate than pornography? Can a film be more intimate than pornography? In Truly Naked (2026), BAFTA-nominated writer-director Muriel D'Ansembourg tells the story of Alec — a teenager raised by two pa
A note from us: we spent the past two weeks going through your survey responses — thank you to everyone who filled it in. Winners will be contacted this week. We're working on what comes next, but we didn't want to leave
What is the worst thing you've ever done? This week, hosts Laura Gommans and Elliot Bloom watched Kristoffer Borgli's The Drama — and neither of them could stop thinking about it. No spoilers, just their honest reaction
Divorce is rarely one story. It's four, or five — each told from a different room in the same house. In his new film A Family , Mees Peijnenburg's puts the camera with the children, and what he finds there is something m
Colin Farrell
1 appearance on this show
Michelle Yeoh
1 appearance on this show
Pamela Anderson
actor
1 appearance on this show
Demi Moore
ruthless fashion maven
1 appearance on this show
John Travolta
actor
1 appearance on this show
Martin Scorsese
Hugo Durant
1 appearance on this show
Scout Tafoya
filmmaker, film critic and video essay connoisseur
1 appearance on this show
David Cronenberg
director
1 appearance on this show
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
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Basel
Masafer Yatta
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Tom
LAB111
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