Welcome to the Talking Pictures podcast.
This podcast is just a space for two bored cinephiles to ramble about their favourite films and artists.
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Episode #17 - 2026 Movies So Far: Hits, Surprises & Disappointments!
In this episode, we're joined by our usual guests, Dhruv and Amartya, along with first-time guest Sayaree for our midyear movie roundup. Together, we discuss six films released so far in 2026 that have sparked conversation, surprised audiences, and shaped the year in cinema.
01:34- Obsession
25:47- Backrooms
37:39- Influence of mixed media on new generation filmmakers
43:22- Hokum
54:03- The Drama
1:07:53- Undertone (bonus rant :3)
1:10:18- Main Vaapas Aaunga (and Imtiaz Ali)
1:28:48- Satluj
1:45:31- Hero worship in movies and in general
1:51:47- Anticipating The Odyssey
1:57:29- Outro
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Sayaree: https://www.instagram.com/death_by.chocolate
Dhruv: https://www.instagram.com/terminalcinema
Amartya: https://www.instagram.com/amartya25
Arijit: https://www.instagram.com/_tentinquarantino_
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Sayaree: https://boxd.it/z8rZ
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Amartya: https://boxd.it/MDpr
Arijit: https://boxd.it/fazr
16 Oct 2025
Episode #16 - Spooktober 2025! Three cult classic horror movies, The Shrouds, Sinners, Weapons
We are back with another Spooktober episode. This time Arijit and I are joined by Ekata as well as The Queen is Dead (https://open.spotify.com/show/6z818QSzTpxl0FgkjSSYlR) podcast's Dhruv, Cris, and Amartya. We discuss three classic (Suspiria, Kuroneko, Texas Chainsaw Massacre) that we more or less love and three current year (The Shrouds, Sinners, Weapons) horror films. The conversation spanned for way too long, but it was fun having it nevertheless.
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Arijit's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_tentinquarantino_
Arijit's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/fazr
Tuhin's Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/tuhinat221b
Ekata's Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ekata/
Dhruv's Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/terminalcinema
Dhruv's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/Mafx
Amartya's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/MDpr
Amartya's Linktree (to check out his reviews) - https://linktr.ee/amartya25
Cris's Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/crislim
QID Linktree - https://linktr.ee/queenisdead
14 May 2025
Episode #15 - Auteur Archive - David Lynch, Our Love for His Cinema, His Lasting Presence and Influence on Cinema and Paying Respects to Him
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Hello everyone, we are here with another episode of the podcast where we talk about one of our film godfathers - David Lynch, who unfortunately passed away this year. Arijit and Tuhin are joined by Srijan and Dhruv (we really need his Zoom) to talk our favourite Lynch films, his impact on cinema and culture, and why we love his work. Loved this insightful and long discussion for a filmmaker we adore.
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Arijit's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_tentinquarantino_
Arijit's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/fazr
Tuhin's Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/tuhinat221b
Dhruv's Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/terminalcinema
Dhruv's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/Mafx
Srijan's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/srijan.z
Srijan's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/lNXp
17 Apr 2025
Episode #14 - Our Favourite Films from 2024 - Nickel Boys, The Substance, Black Dog and more..
Hello people, here's the latest episode of our pod on our favourite films from 2024 (I know its late but blame the distribution system in India for that).
We are joined by Ekata, and we have two lovely submissions from @mrnarci (https://x.com/mrnarci) and @ThisIsLLN (https://x.com/ThisIsLLN) on Twitter(X)
05:10 - Black Dog (Arijit)
12:00 - A Real Pain (Ekata)
21:00 - Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (Tuhin)
31:40 - The Girl with the Needle (Arijit)
36:00 - The Substance (Ekata) and extended discussion on watching cinema from different perspectives
1:10:00 - Nickel Boys (Tuhin)
1:10:30 - Honorary Mentions
1:16:15 - @ThisIsLLN's favourites
1:20:57 - @mrnarci's favourites
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Arijit's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_tentinquarantino_
Arijit's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/fazr
Tuhin's Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/tuhinat221b
Ekata's Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ekata/
@mrnarci's Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/mrnarci
@ThisIsLLN's Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/thisislln
10 Apr 2025
Episode 13 - Auteur Archive - Martin Scorsese (Part 2) - His Mob Films, Why We Love Them, Their Criticism of Masculinity, Adapting over Writing Original Screenplays
Hello!
We are back after so long (cause life happens) with the 2nd part of our Auteur Archive episode on Martin Scorsese. Arijit and Tuhin are joined by Akashdeep and Dhruv to discuss Marty's mob movies -
Goodfellas - 02:45
Casino - 41:50
The Departed - 1:08:10
(Segue on Writing Over Adapting - 1:16:10)
The Irishman - 1:27:40
Thanks to Rihen from Twitter who sent in their thoughts on The Irishman - 1:55:20
If someone reads this, someone is still here, we have 2 more episodes releasing soon cause we recorded a bunch at once for a change xD
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Arijit's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_tentinquarantino_
Arijit's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/fazr
Tuhin's Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/tuhinat221b
Dhruv's Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/terminalcinema
Dhruv's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/Mafx
Akashdeep's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thewaywardsky
16 Nov 2024
Episode #12 - Auteur Archive - Martin Scorsese (Part 1), His Early Movies, Cinephilia, Archival Work, His Influence on Us and Why Marvel Sucks
Hi everyone,
We are back with the 12th episode of Talking Pictures, and we have another episode of Auteur Archive, in which we discuss the one and only Martin Scorsese, one of cinema's greatest artists.
We love his movies, his film appreciation, and his film archival work, so we talk about all of that. We discuss his early movies—Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, and Raging Bull—along with his cinephilia and how he inspires us to go to the theatres and seek and talk about movies, his Film Foundation work, his Marvel opinions and what we think of it. Cinema will be forever indebted to him.
We were joined by Dhruv from The Queen is Dead podcast and Akashdeep, a filmmaker, who will join us for the other Scorsese recordings as well.
We also have a voice note from Vikas from Australia about Scorsese and what he loves about his films. You can send us voice or text notes about Scorsese or how he has inspired your love for films, and we will include them in the upcoming episodes.
Reach out to us on your Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_talking.pictures_/ and DM us there so that we can figure something out.
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Arijit's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_tentinquarantino_
Arijit's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/fazr
Tuhin's BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/tuhinat221b.bsky.social
Tuhin's Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/tuhinat221b
Dhruv's Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/terminalcinema
Dhruv's Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/Mafx
Akashdeep's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thewaywardsky
Dhruv's essay touching on Taxi Driver - https://atterminalcinema.com/2020/12/25/white-ashes-black-embers/
Chapter timestamps -
4:10 - Scorsese’s influence on us and our first Scorsese films.
26:30- Mean Streets
38:20- Taxi Driver
01:05:25- Raging Bull
01:24:20- The King of Comedy
01:45:33- Vikas’ note.
Correction - Scorsese donated 52 storage boxes, which had 4400 individual films, to the Colorado Boulder University Archive.
26 Oct 2024
Episode #11 - Spooktober Special!! Horror Movies We Love, Memorable Big Screen Watches, Controversial Horror Takes
Hi everyone,
Welcome to Episode 11 of the podcast, where Arijit and I are joined by Ekata, Dhruv, and Dipanjan; who's appearing for the first time.
This is the first time we are discussing horror movies on the podcast. I am not that big on horror but the others are and we together discussed our first trysts with horror films, scariest and memorable horror movie experiences, including those on the big screen, and everything horror from Stephen King, Aahat episodes to which Suspiria is better.
We also discuss different controversial horror opinions. It was so much fun. We are going to do deep dives on horror subgenres in future episodes.
Episode artwork - New England Halloween by DaveCadarioArt (found on Pinterest)
2 Oct 2024
Episode #10 - Auteur Hour - David Fincher, His Obsession with True Crime, Our Most and Least Favourites
Disclaimer - We had audio issues while recording this episode. Since we had guests, of course, we couldn't possibly re-record this. We have tried to correct the issues as much as possible, but they still remain. Apologies for the audio quality in advance.
Welcome to another episode of Talking Pictures. This week we are joined by three guests - Soumya - who has been here on our 2023 favourites episodes, Runcil, and Ekata - both of whom are appearing for the first time (hopefully not the last). We discuss one of our favorite directors - DAVID FINCHER!
We talk about what we love about him and what makes him great, and everyone talks about a particular film from his filmography that they like.
I hope you like the episode, and let us know your favorite Fincher film in the comments! See you next time.
18 Sept 2024
Episode #9 - Anora, The Room Next Door, and Other Anticipated Films from Cannes and Venice Film Festival 2024, Cinema and Corporate Greed
Hello hello to everyone who's listening in.
We are back after an unintended break of 7 months due to a lack of time to record together.
In this episode, we discuss the most anticipated movies from the recently concluded Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, and like always, we deviate and segue into other topics like how Corporate Greed affects cinema, Film Schools and their pros and cons, and geek about every single director whose films we have picked a little.
5 Feb 2024
Episode #8 - The Talking Pictures 2023 Year Roundup - Part 2
We are back with the second part of our 2023 Roundup where Arijit, Tuhin, Soumyajit and Dhruv discuss some of our favourite films from the last year.
Tighten your seatbelts for a lot of off-topic Claire Denis discussion, and a debate on the ethics of telling indigenous stories.
Apologies in advance for the small disturbance/glitches you might encounter.
8 Jan 2024
Episode #7 - The Talking Pictures 2023 Year Roundup - Part 1
Hi, hello, everyone - our lives had us occupied but we could finally assemble to record another episode.
Dhruv and Soumya join us for this episode where we each discuss a favourite film from the past year. This is the first episode of a few of these (we hope to record and upload those soon) because 2023 was a great year for films and we loved many movies (we haven't even seen all the movies we wanted to).
27 Sept 2023
Episode #6 - Oppenheimer, Barbie, and the Barbenheimer phenomenon
We are back after a delay to discuss BARBENHEIMER - the phenomenon and the films, with two friends - Oppenheimer-rewatch record setter Shaswata and Dhruv from The Queen is Dead podcast.
5 Jul 2023
Episode #5 - Film-Noir, Why It's So Great, and Our Favourite Noir Movies!
On this episode of Talking Pictures, we talk about one of our favourite genre of movies - the film-noir! We discuss our love for noir films and the perpetual relevance and pull of noirs due to their ambiguous characters and intriguing features.
We recommend/talk about some of our favourites -
Arijit's films - Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder), Se7en (dir. David Fincher), and The Wild Goose Lake (dir. Diao Yinan)
Tuhin's films - Ace in the Hole (dir. Billy Wilder), In a Lonely Place (dir. Nicholas Ray), and Drive (dir. Nicholas Winding Refn)
Let us know your favourite noir movies!
PS - We had some audio issues while recording so the audio might be choppy at times. Apologies in advance.
10 May 2023
Episode #4 - Auteur Hour - Wes Anderson, His Filmmaking Style, Influences, Our Favourites, and Asteroid City
We present a new recurring series called Auteur Hour where we will talk about some of our favourite filmmakers and their films.
The series begins with the one and the only, Wes Anderson, who recently turned 54 and has two films due to release this year.
We talk about what draws us to his films and his style, his aesthetic, our favourite films of his as well as what we thought of Asteroid City from all that we know about it so far.
Let us know your favourite Wes Anderson film in the poll!!
14 Apr 2023
Episode #3 - Cannes Film Festival, the Explosive Line-up, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Other Anticipated Films
We discuss the newly announced lineup of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
We talk about the importance of the Cannes Film Festival to us as film-lovers, and the films we are most looking forward to from this year, including new films by Martin Scorsese, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Wes Anderson, Jonathan Glazer and many more.
What is your most anticipated movie(s) from the line up? Let us know!
Please share the podcast with someone who you think might like it.
18 Mar 2023
Episode #2 - Tár, Decision to Leave, and Eat-the-Rich films
On the second episode of our podcast, we discuss some of our favourite films from 2022 - Tár (Todd Field), Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook) and two films from the "Eat-the-Rich" subgenre - The Menu (Mark Mylod) and Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Ostlund). We talk about what we liked about the film and their relevance.
What are your favourite film(s) from 2022, and why?
Tuhin's Favourite Films of 2022 on Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/lbmvi
11 Mar 2023
Episode #1 - Babylon, Films about Filmmaking, and Our Love for Cinema
Hello everyone!
Welcome to Talking Pictures, our new podcast where we talk about moving (and talking) pictures.
In our very first episode, Arijit and Tuhin talk about how the idea for the podcast came by, and about films that pay tribute to the love for movies and filmmaking, with a special focus on Damien Chazelle's new film, Babylon.
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