Cinema in One Take
Cinema in One Take is where the on-screen world meets the real world. Hosted by film experts and world cinema lovers, Kaleem Aftab and Emma Jones, this podcast brings you sharp, engaging discussions on the latest international movie news, from Hollywood to Bollywood, passing…
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Together in Venice: Wild Horse Nine’s Oscar Buzz, Bunker & Place to Be (opens the original)
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Journalists Emma Jones and Kaleem Aftab finally record together in person for a special mini-edition of Cinema in One Take from the Venice Film Festival. They discuss Martin McDonagh’s awards contender Wild Horse Nine, Florian Zeller’s divisive marital drama Bunker, starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, and Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi’s unlikely friendship in Kornél Mundruczó’s Place to Be. Emma champions the Danish Competition movie Woman Unknown and two striking French competition titl
Trainspotting at 30, De Gaulle's Film Triumph & Why Documentaries Could Steal Venice (opens the original)
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Thirty years after Trainspotting introduced a generation to the worst toilet in Scotland, does Danny Boyle’s era-defining film still hold up — or do we simply miss being young? Kaleem recalls seeing it at one of its earliest Edinburgh screenings (for £1!) and winning a 25-word review competition, while Emma argues that civilisation peaked in the 1990s and has been deteriorating ever since. They also discuss the extraordinary French success of the lavish wartime epic De Gaulle: Résistance; the gl
Hollywood’s Child-Star Problem & Why Barbie 2 May Never Happen (opens the original)
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This week, Emma Jones and Kaleem Aftab look at Hollywood’s troubling history with child stars following the death of Hayden Panettiere at just 36. Why has the industry struggled for decades to protect young performers — and how much can we really connect the pressures of childhood fame with what happens later in life? They also discuss new developments in the real-life case behind Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated The Voice of Hind Rajab, and debate whether the film’s international success an
The Big Screen Is Back! But Can Independent Film Survive? (opens the original)
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Cinema is having a blockbuster summer. The Odyssey and Spider-Man are smashing records, surprise hits such as Backrooms and Obsession are pulling younger audiences into cinemas, and the box office comeback we've been predicting finally seems to have arrived. So why is it still so difficult to make money from independent film? After producer Marco Perego — behind some of this year's most acclaimed indie films like Fjord — said at Locarno that you shouldn't get into independent cinema for the mone
What Does the Venice Line-Up Say About the Future of Film Festivals? Plus Musk V Nolan (opens the original)
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The Venice 2026 line-up is here—and, as with Cannes, a pattern seems to be emerging. Are Hollywood studios moving away from the world's biggest film festivals? Emma Jones and Kaleem Aftab give their first reaction to the Venice Official Selection, which includes Danny Boyle's Ink, Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine, Florian Zeller's Bunker, Primetime starring Robert Pattinson, and Lee Chang-dong's long-awaited return Possible Love. They ask whether Venice is still the launchpad for Oscar contende
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