A Conversation with Kieron Corless

A wide-ranging conversation with Kieron Corless, Deputy Editor of Sight and Sound on the magazine itself and issues that arise from it: What is film criticism? What is good criticism? What is the changing function of criticism? How has the digital turn affected not only what cinema is and how we see it but also what...

José Arroyo in Conversation with James Cotton

https://soundcloud.com/user-766042506/in-convesation-with-james-cotton What is a producer and what does he or she do? I've always been confused. Films like The Butler, with its end-credits listing some 30 odd producers, don't help clarify matters. But James Cotton does. As he says, he's practically a Pokemon catcher in the field, having worked in almost every capacity: line producer,...

José Arroyo in Conversation with Christopher Meir on ‘Mass Producing European Cinema: Studiocanal and its Works’

https://soundcloud.com/user-766042506/jose-arroyo-in-conversation-with-christopher-meir-on-mass-producing-european-cinema   I love finding out more about the business of film and television; about the economics of production, distribution and exhibition; about the industrial histories of media industries. I wanted to read Christopher Meir's book Mass Producing European Cinema: Studiocanal and its Works (London: Bloomsbury, 2019) as soon as I heard he was writing it; and...