Speaking Cinema with Andrew Schwarz

About Speaking Cinema with Andrew Schwarz

Welcome back to the Speaking Cinema podcast, under new management! Frequent guests Jon Bewley and Adam Seccafico have taken the reigns from Andrew Schwarz, and welcome friend to the pod Anthony Zaccone who will join the team as co-host and producer. Speaking Cinema explores thoughtful and entertaining conversations and audio essays about the meaning we can garner from specific movies and the ideas that cinema provokes. Listen to co-hosts and filmmakers Jon Bewley, Adam Seccafico, and Anthony Zaccone dive deeper than any other podcast with interesting takes, life questions, philosophy, culture, and the art and appreciation of cinema. Broadcast from New York City, New Jersey, and New Hampshire.

Publisher

Adam Seccafico, Jon Bewley, Anthony Zaccone

Category

arts · tv & film · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Mar 2024

Latest episode

15 May 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 May 2026

   5.6 - The Silence Of The Lambs

   Send us Fan Mail If getting giddy over a movie about serial killers makes you crazy, then we don't want to be sane. This time on Speaking Cinema, Johnathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs. We dive head long into maybe the best film to win best picture and maybe one of the greatest films ever made. We gush over everything from the electric pacing, to Demme's masterful direction and Anthony Hopkins who literally holds us captive with his performance. Of course there's the usual reflection and ...

2. 

   4 May 2026

   5.5 - ZombEaster 2026 pt 3: Train To Busan (2016)

   Send us Fan Mail Zombeaster is pulling into the station this week on Speaking Cinema. And what better way to bring it all home than with the best zombie film made this century; Train to Busan. We talk about everything from The Romero Rules of Zombies, South Korea's complicated political history and how the zombie apocalypse can be solved with a bag of weed. We've laughed, we've cried and we relived all that wonderful Covid trauma. So come, share our pain as we bring ZombEaster to a close with...

3. 

   19 Apr 2026

   5.4 - ZombEaster 2026 pt 2: Shaun of the Dead (2004)

   Send us Fan Mail Is it a Zombie film? Is it a rom-com? Well, one thing's for sure, its ZombEaster here Speaking Cinema. In an episode that's been years in the making, the gang tackles a film that revitalized a genre, spawned legions of imitators and holds a special place in the hearts of filmmakers of a certain age. So sink your teeth into Part 2 of our three-episode zombie block, with Edgar Wright's seminal genre classic, Shaun of the Dead. Like the episode? Leave us a comment, or send us an...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

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