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Hosted by Elsie Walker · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 11 episodes
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I believe that many films can change our lives for the better. I interview scholars about the films that have had a lasting impact on who they are and what they believe cinema can do in real-world ways. filmschangelives.substack.com
Elsie Walker hosts Films Change Lives, a tv show with 11 episodes published.
We discuss: Representing the American Midwest, the especially lives of people in Minnesota Tonal ambiguity and cinematic strangeness! Carter Burwell’s genre-bending score Ironic parallels between Fargo and Hitchcock’s Ps
We discuss: The wonderment Marcel inspires The voices of Jenny Slade and Isabella Rossellini The genesis of the movie The treatment of everyday objects as precious, sometimes repurposed The impact of multi-media storytel
We discuss: The reality of hospice care Michelle Aaron’s book Death and the Moving Image (Edinburgh University Press) Familial, cultural, and cinematic strategies for coping with grief The place of children in a househol
This podcast reflects my love of cinema and hearing about the films that have changed other people’s lives for the long term. While I’m an established scholar, editor, and author who loves sharing my own love of cinema,
We discuss: The dearth of nuanced representations of deaf people on film, and CODA as an important new example ASL in cinema: pitfalls and opportunities for relaying physicalized expressivity Music as self-expression in
We talk about The deceptively simple plot of The Quiet Girl Exquisitely nuanced visual and sonic details of life within it The distinctively Irish vision and mindset of the film The Irish language being featured (unusual
Please forgive the relatively low-grade quality of this pilot episode. We recorded it at home via Zoom, which felt right because of the personal subject matter. It was a cold, snowy, winter day, and the film uplifted us.
We discuss: Greta Gerwig’s distinct directorial approach Authentically representing teenage life and being Social class in America Emotional realness Meaningful ellipses Phil Lowrie and “Crash Into Me” as a “crystal song
We discuss: Algeria’s War of Independence Willful forgetting and the obligation to remember colonial history The reality of France's (post)colonial impact Personal and collective guilt and intentional amnesia Inter-gener
We discuss: A children’s film for adults Family and friendship Grief Non-linear time Maximalist fiction in contrast with this minimalist film Father/child dynamics Mother/grandmother/daughter dynamics The non-existence o
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