Dead Duck Film Club

About Dead Duck Film Club

Dead Duck Film Club Podcast is a twice-monthly, deep-dive into great foreign cinema,from arthouse to cult and genre. Hosted by the team behind Nottingham’s Dead Duck Film Club, we dissect international films to figure out what makes them brilliant, broken, or unforgettable.

Publisher

Sébastien Toursel

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jan 2026

Latest episode

4 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Sept 2026

   Interview with the Mayhem Film Festival

   We had the pleasure of sitting down with @mayhemfilmfest to talk about the history of the festival, their favourite experiences running it and why they wanted to screen Survive Style 5+ with us on the 13th of September!

2. 

   27 Jul 2026

   "Princess Mononoke" And The Tarantino Dub That Almost Was

   rincess Mononoke (1997) is Hayao Miyazaki's fifth Studio Ghibli feature as director, and at release the highest-grossing film in Japan until Titanic overtook it months later. PG-rated in the UK despite severed limbs and decapitations. 93% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 94% audience score. Neil Gaiman wrote the English dub script after Quentin Tarantino passed on it. Claire Danes voices San. Seb is joined by Mark from Rambling Cinema and the UK Green Film Network to cover Princess Mononoke's nuanced environmentalism, Ashitaka's curse, Lady Eboshi's matriarchal Irontown, the death of the Forest Spirit, the Emperor as the unseen villain, the producer Toshio Suzuki handing Harvey Weinstein a samurai sword to stop the Miramax cut, sub versus dub, the film's influence on Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and a long sidebar on recycling, the "litterbug" lobby, and James Cameron's environmental hypocrisy. Warm-up covers Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Evil Dead Rise, Malignant, Curry Barker's Obsession, The Sheep Detectives, the documentaries Our Land and The Mole Agent, Flee, Waltz with Bashir, and Mark's Julia Donaldson Gruffalo's Child kick. Mention also goes to Avatar, Dances with Wolves, Snowpiercer, Dark Waters, Hereditary, Midsommar, Barbarian, How to Train Your Dragon 2, The Boy and the Heron, Amélie, Akira, and a closing Ghost in the Shell rematch. Spoilers throughout. Subscribe, leave a review, and share with a fellow film lover. Just by being here, you're part of the club. 🦆

3. 

   20 Jul 2026

   "City of God" And the Film That Put Brazil On The Cinematic Map

   City of God (2002), Fernando Meirelles' crime drama set in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, earned four Academy Award nominations (Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing) and won none, losing three of them to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Recorded on a working farm outside Nottingham, chickens included, Seb and the Dead Duck team cover why the film was shot in Cidade Alta instead of the real Cidade de Deus, how Meirelles cast non-professional actors from the neighbourhood and trained them for months, and the improvised moments that stayed in the final cut, including the hot-water scene and the opening chicken chase. They dig into its record-breaking run in Brazilian cinemas, its influence on later directors, the Goodfellas and Tarantino comparisons, and Sean Baker's use of non-actors years later. Dead Duck Film Club's next screening: City of God, 25 July at the Bonington Theatre in Arnold, with the Brazilian Cultural Center. Just by being here, you're part of the club. 🦆

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