Cinéclub Podcast

About Cinéclub Podcast

Film podcast based in Brighton, UK. cineclub.substack.com (https://cineclub.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Joe Tindall

Category

tv & film · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Dec 2023

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Episode #25 - Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972) with Nathan Gelgud

   Cinéclub Podcast number 25 is a conversation with Nathan Gelgud. Nathan is the cartoonist behind the comic strip Reel Politik, which he posts on his Instagram page before the publisher Drawn and Quarterly collects them into beautiful books. The first eponymous collection was released last year and the second, entitled No Concessions is, as this podcast is released, hot off the presses: it came out yesterday. I asked Nathan to explain the strip in his own words at the beginning of the conversation, but for me it is an affectionate and very funny send-up of of radical leftist politics and rabid cinephilia, loaded with plenty of well-deserved jibes at the likes of Letterboxd, the Criterion Closet and mainstream film critics. For this episode we discuss the strip first, before moving into a discussion of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin’s 1972 film Tout va bien, an example of their radical work under the name the ‘Dziga Vertov Group’, referenced frequently in Reel Politik. You can also find this episode on… * Apple Podcasts * Pocket Casts * I will no longer be uploading podcasts to Spotify and have removed all previous episodes of the podcast from that platform. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for ages, because Spotify is a transparently evil company that delights in ripping off musicians (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists), promoting AI slop (https://aimagazine.com/news/why-high-profile-musicians-are-starting-to-boycott-spotify), and enabling genocide in Palestine. (https://musically.com/2025/09/19/no-music-for-genocide-boycott-launches-as-massive-attack-quit-spotify/) Show notes * Nathan’s website (https://nathangelgud.com/) * Nathan’s Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/gelgud/?hl=en) * Publisher’s info on Nathan’s books (both are also widely available in the UK) * No Concessions (https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/no-concessions/) * Reel Politik (https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/reel-politik/) * Other books mentioned in the podcast * A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2110-a-short-history-of-em-cahiers-du-cinema-em) by Emilie Bickerton * The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (https://www.jstor.org/content/oa_book_monograph/j.ctv21s2x4t) by Daniel Fairfax (open access PDF) * Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571360888-everything-is-cinema/) by Richard Brody * Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy by Colin MacCabe appears to be out of print, but widely available second-hand * We Want Everything: A Novel (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/193-we-want-everything) (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/193-we-want-everything)by Nanni Balestrini * Buy issue 2 of the Cinéclub fanzine (https://cineclub.bigcartel.com/products) * 44 pages w/ articles on Conrad Rooks’ bizarre, star-studded countercultural artifact Chappaqua, some shorter pieces on punk and film, and an essay linking Bertrand Tavernier’s 1974 film The Watchmaker of St. Paul (also known as The Clockmaker of St. Paul) to Paul Vecchiali’s La Machine from 1977. DIY and sold on a not-for-profit basis at a cost that just covers the cost of printing: £2.50 plus postage. Shipping internationally. * Issue 1 is also still available (https://cineclub.bigcartel.com/product/cineclub-fanzine-1), and you can buy both as a bundle (https://cineclub.bigcartel.com/product/issue-1-and-2-bundle). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cineclub.substack.com (https://cineclub.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   31 Aug 2026

   Episode #24 - Claude Chabrol with Catherine Wheatley

   Cinéclub Podcast number 24 is a conversation with Catherine Wheatley about Claude Chabrol. Chabrol is a favourite of mine and I’ve wanted to do an episode on him ever since the podcast started. Now seemed the right time because the BFI is about to begin a season of films and talks entitled Claude Chabrol: Elements of Crime at the BFI Southbank, with 10 films streaming on BFI Player and a Blu-Ray box set to come next year. Beautifully restored versions of three Chabrol classics, Les Biches, La Femme Infidèle and Le Boucher have also been acquired for the BFI catalogue and are being made available to cinemas nationwide, so even if you can’t get to London for screenings, you may be in with a chance of seeing those. Needless to say, this is extremely exciting for Chabrol fans, especially as many of his films have only been available in DVD quality or lower for many years. Chabrol began his career in film at Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s alongside fellow critics and soon-to-be filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer (with whom he wrote a book on Alfred Hitchcock) and Jacques Rivette. Of this group, soon to be dubbed the nouvelle vague or French New Wave, Chabrol was the first to make a feature. He would later deny that the New Wave constituted a coherent artistic movement, and indeed, his career took a different shape to those of his old Cahiers colleagues. Struggling to work in the mid-1960s, he took on a series of jobs as a director-for-hire, making spy comedies and other commercial genre films, emerging towards the end of the decade with a run of films now often seen as signature works: 1969’s Les Biches and the five films that constitute the ‘Hélène’ cycle. There have been quieter stretches in Chabrol’s career, and numerous ‘returns to form’. From the late 1970s onwards he begun to work fruitfully with Isabelle Huppert, and in 1995 she starred alongside Sandrine Bonnaire in La Cérémonie, a late-period masterpiece that kicked off another impressive run. Chabrol’s final film, Bellamy, was released in 2009, and he died a year later, leaving behind an astonishing, sometimes bewildering, oeuvre of more than 60 features. To discuss Chabrol’s films I was joined by Catherine Wheatley. Catherine is a Professor of Film and Visual Culture at King’s College London and the season curator for the upcoming BFI season. You can also find this episode on… * Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-24-claude-chabrol-with-catherine-wheatley/id1724162902?i=1000786911501) * Pocket Casts (https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/cin%C3%A9club-podcast/2ad4cfa0-19df-013d-5df3-0acc26574db2) * I will no longer be uploading podcasts to Spotify and have removed all previous episodes of the podcast from that platform. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for ages, because Spotify is a transparently evil company that delights in ripping off musicians (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists), promoting AI slop (https://aimagazine.com/news/why-high-profile-musicians-are-starting-to-boycott-spotify), and enabling genocide in Palestine. (https://musically.com/2025/09/19/no-music-for-genocide-boycott-launches-as-massive-attack-quit-spotify/) Show notes * Info on the (https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=claude-chabrol&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=)Claude Chabrol: Elements of Crime (https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=claude-chabrol&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=) season at the BFI Southbank (https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=claude-chabrol&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=) * Richard Dyer’s introduction to (https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/read-watch-listen-list/les-biches-introduction-by-professor-richard-dyer/#6iq-IGyX6VI)Les Biches (https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/read-watch-listen-list/les-biches-introduction-by-professor-richard-dyer/#6iq-IGyX6VI) * My piece on Chabrol’s (https://cineclub.substack.com/p/from-the-zine-lil-du-malin-claude) L’Œil du malin (https://cineclub.substack.com/p/from-the-zine-lil-du-malin-claude) (taken from Cinéclub fanzine issue 1 (https://cineclub.bigcartel.com/product/cineclub-fanzine-1)) * Buy issue 2 of the Cinéclub fanzine (https://cineclub.bigcartel.com/products) * 44 pages w/ articles on Conrad Rooks’ bizarre, star-studded countercultural artifact Chappaqua, some shorter pieces on punk and film, and an essay linking Bertrand Tavernier’s 1974 film The Watchmaker of St. Paul (also known as The Clockmaker of St. Paul) to Paul Vecchiali’s La Machine from 1977. DIY and sold on a not-for-profit basis at a cost that just covers the cost of printing: £2.50 plus postage. Shipping internationally. * Issue 1 is also still available (https://cineclub.bigcartel.com/product/cineclub-fanzine-1), and you can buy both as a bundle (https://cineclub.bigcartel.com/product/issue-1-and-2-bundle). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cineclub.substack.com (https://cineclub.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   6 Jul 2026

   Episode #23 - Lorenza Mazzetti with Brighid Lowe and Henry K. Miller

   Cinéclub Podcast number 23 is a conversation with Brighid Lowe and Henry K. Miller about Lorenza Mazzetti. Mazzetti was an Italian-born filmmaker who met her best-known films, K and Together in London in the 1950s whilst she was an art student at the Slade School of Fine Art. If you know her name it might, as it was for me, be from Ali Smith’s 2020 novel Summer, in which she wrote about Mazzetti’s films and life story. This episode’s guests had a role in that connection, which we’ll explore later. Mazzetti’s debut film, K, is an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s story The Metamorphosis – the one where a man wakes up one day to find he’s transformed into a giant beetle, an idea that Mazzetti approached in an inventive, energetic, and non-literal manner. She was one of the signatories of the Free Cinema manifesto and her next film, Together, played in the first Free Cinema programme at the National Film Theatre in 1956. The film shares the blend of quasi-documentary observation and more lyrical narrative elements of others in that movement, but is also a very personal work of art, an indirect expression of the trauma Mazzetti’s experiences in the Second World War, when she was a teenager, left her with. She later returned to Italy, where she made a few more obscure films, and turned to writing, beginning with her wonderful novel The Sky is Falling in 1961. To discuss Lorenza Mazzetti’s life and work, I was joined by Brighid Lowe and Henry K. Miller. Brighid is an artist, and Professor of Fine Art at the Slade, and is the director of the 2023 documentary Together with Lorenza Mazzetti. She collaborated closely on that project with the film historian and critic Henry K. Miller, who conducted the on-screen interviews, and Henry and Brighid are also co-directors of the Slade Film Department research project (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/research/slade-archive-project/history-of-the-slade-film-project/). Henry is also writing a book on Lorenza Mazzetti. We discuss Lorenza’s traumatic experiences in the Second World War, her move to London, her approach to adapting Kafka, her involvement in the Free Cinema movement, how Brighid and Henry came to make a documentary about her, how Ali Smith became a fan, and much more. You can also find this episode on… * Apple Podcasts * Pocket Casts * I will no longer be uploading podcasts to Spotify and have removed all previous episodes of the podcast from that platform. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for ages, because Spotify is a transparently evil company that delights in ripping off musicians (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists), promoting AI slop (https://aimagazine.com/news/why-high-profile-musicians-are-starting-to-boycott-spotify), and enabling genocide in Palestine. (https://musically.com/2025/09/19/no-music-for-genocide-boycott-launches-as-massive-attack-quit-spotify/) Show notes * The BFI’s Blu-Ray, The Lorenza Mazzetti Collection (https://shop.bfi.org.uk/lorenza-mazzetti-collection-blu-ray/) * Together on BFI Player (https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-together-1956-online) * Info on the beautiful Another Gaze edition of Mazzetti’s novel (https://www.anothergazeeditions.com/books)The Sky is Falling (https://www.anothergazeeditions.com/books) * Mazzetti’s account of her time in London, London Diaries is widely available, including in nice shops like Pages of Hackney (https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/product/london-diaries-free-cinema-lorenza-mazzetti/) and Printed Matter in Hastings (https://printedmatterhastings.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2643) * Buy issue 2 of the Cinéclub fanzine (https://cineclub.bigcartel.com/products) * 44 pages w/ articles on Conrad Rooks’ bizarre, star-studded countercultural artifact Chappaqua, some shorter pieces on punk and film, and an essay linking Bertrand Tavernier’s 1974 film The Watchmaker of St. Paul (also known as The Clockmaker of St. Paul) to Paul Vecchiali’s La Machine from 1977. DIY and sold on a not-for-profit basis at a cost that just covers the cost of printing: £2.50 plus postage. Shipping internationally. * Issue 1 is also still available (https://cineclub.bigcartel.com/product/cineclub-fanzine-1), and you can buy both as a bundle (https://cineclub.bigcartel.com/product/issue-1-and-2-bundle). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cineclub.substack.com (https://cineclub.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

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1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

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Engagement

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