Béla Tarr — The Collapse of Time
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Modern Cinema
Episodes on filmmakers including Welles, Kurosawa, Ozu, Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Bresson, Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Buñuel, and Stone explore major forms of modern cinema.
David Lynch — Dreams, Dread, and the Subconscious
You’re listening to Filmmaking Giants. This is a show about craft, but not craft as a checklist. Craft as a way of seeing. And today’s figure is one of the rare directors who didn’t…
Andrei Konchalovsky — The Other Titan of Russian Cinema
You’re listening to Filmmaking Giants. Today’s story is about a director whose name often appears in parentheses—someone people mention only to explain that he is not Tarkovsky, not Eisenstein, not the symbol they already…
Oliver Stone – The Provocateur of American Politics
The jungle presses in on all sides. Rain falls in sheets, the ground is mud, the night filled with sudden flares of gunfire. A nineteen-year-old American soldier crouches in the muck, his uniform soaked,…
Luis Buñuel – The Surrealist Provocateur
Hello and welcome back to Film making giants who changed how we see the world. After Fellini’s parades and memory palaces, we step into rooms where logic keeps its hat politely in its lap…
Satyajit Ray – The Humanist Visionary
Hello and welcome back to Film making giants who changed how we see the world. Today the monsoon arrives. A wind lifts the tall kaash flowers in a Bengal field and two children run…
Andrei Tarkovsky – The Sculptor of Time
Hello and welcome back to Film making giants who changed how we see the world. If Bergman taught us to face the soul in a small, lit room and Bresson taught us to strip…
Stanley Kubrick – The Architect of Obsession
Hello and welcome back to Film making giants who changed how we see the world. If Antonioni taught us to listen to absence, Stanley Kubrick taught us to listen to design—to geometry as a…
Michelangelo Antonioni – The Poet of Alienation
Hello and welcome back to Film making giants who changed how we see the world. We have walked through parades and dreams and the disciplined absurd; today we come to the cinema of after.…
Jean-Luc Godard – The Rebel of the New Wave
Hello and welcome back to Film making giants who changed how we see the world. We have walked with directors who perfected grammar, who gave the camera breath and rooms conscience, who made time…