The question is not where, but when? Imagine a mind map, the kind you see detectives make on a board when they're solving a crime. Dark is like entering that mind map. You don't know where it begins or ends but you're sure having fun. EP 20 - Dark Title: Secrets Year: 2017 Director: Baran bo Odar Writer/Screenplay: Jantje Friese Cast: Louis Hofmann…

Who Killed Sara starts off with a bunch of teenagers, two families specifically, the Guzman siblings - Alex and Sara Guzman and Lascano brothers having the time of their life on a boat that is till Sara accidentally falls straight into the water while paragliding and dies. Accidently? Not really. EP 19 - Who Killed Sara? Title: It Wasn't a Mistake …

Everyone has suddenly vanished and the ever-bustling Tokyo is a ghost town. Alice in Borderland is all about lasers and deserted towns. You play or you die. Title: Episode 1 Year: 2020 Director: Shinsuke Sato Adapted from: Alice in Borderland by Haro Aso Producer: Akira Morii Writer/Screenplay: Sato, Yoshiki Watabe, and Yasuko Kuramitsu Cast: Kento…

In a pilot if nothing, an interesting character will make you stay. That’s what happens with the Schitt's Creek pilot. Title: Episode 1: Our Coup Runneth Over Year: 2015 Director: (Ep 1) Jerry Ciccoritti Created by: Dan Levy, Eugene Levy Producer: Colin Brunton, Kosta Orfanidis Cast: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy Genre: Sitc…

We follow the story of Alex, a young mother fleeing her own home with her daughter Maddy, in the quiet of the night. There is no time to settle in, even though she isn’t doing anything wrong it seems like Alex is on the run. Why this pilot works so well is it takes us into Alex’s mind, it shows her what she is going through and it all seems so toug…

The professor, who is the mastermind behind this heist brings together a team of 8 people, people with very little to lose…the first hook to get the viewer interested - a lot must have happened with a person who is left with very little to lose and we want to know these stories. We are introduced to these characters - there’s a calm father - hothea…

The conman of the pages leaps to the screen and we get Assane Diop following the footsteps of Arsene Lupin. Disclaimer: I call both of them Lupin, distinguished by a poorly attempted French accent when speaking of the one from the book and the normal Indian English accent when speaking of the series character. The Netflix series Lupin isn’t a direc…

I watched something that is our childhood fantasies brewed out of boredom in geography class. Remember in the last episode I said this one onward we are going on a new trip: it is called around the world in 8mm - popular destination edition, I know that’s an unnecessarily long name but the original name of the podcast isn’t the haiku of names eithe…

Sometimes, unfortunately, and unfairly, life becomes too much for some people, and Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 Palm O'Dea winning film makes you wonder can something as simple as wanting to taste the cherries again keep one going? Title: Taste of Cherry Year: 1997 Director: Abbas Kiarostami Cinematographer: Homayun Payvar Producer: Abbas Kiarostami Scr…

It is the 1930s, Korea is under Japanese colonial rule, a con-man who goes by the false name Count Fujiwara, perpetually after earning money through fraud, this no strings attached with anything guy and an asshole, decides to con a Japanese heiress Heideko into marrying him for her inheritance. To help him with this scam, he heirs a petty thief Soo…

Will you survive a Zombie apocalypse? In this episode we look at Shaun; a modern-day zombie fighting the good old Romero-style zombies in a bit to save himself and his loved ones in the iconic sharp-cuts-synced-with-great-score visual comedy style Edgar Wright has mastered. Title: Shaun of the Dead Year: 2004 Director: Edgar Wright Cinematographer:…

Did you go through a director phase as a kid? Also, what makes anything funny? We look at the art of documentary films, talk about second-hand embarrassment as a story-telling tool and try dissecting humor via Waititi and Clement's vampire flick What We Do In The Shadows. Title: What we do in the shadows Year: 2014 Director: Taika Waititi, Jemaine …

Why are these films special? Not only did they pioneer a particular style of filmmaking, german expressionism which Furness describes as a style of art that focuses more on vital emotions, dynamic powers of the description...a creation from within, an intense subjectivity which had no reluctance in destroying the conventional picture of reality in …

Zyagenstev's Leviathan is a tragedy that befalls a commoner as he clashes face to face with the high and mighty of the town. This is not an unheard story but that's exactly what makes for compelling it's a story that could have been set in India or Ghana or Canada or any country as easily as it's set in Russia because all countries and all societie…

Taxi Driver is the story of a deeply troubled man. He can’t sleep despite working all day and spending hours at porn theatres so he decides to drive a taxi in New York at night. He doesn’t have any qualms about going to any parts of the city, just wants to get through the night. He clearly is struggling with PTSD, a term that didn’t even exist at t…

What works well for this film is that it has weird written all over it from the plot to the acting to the stylistic choices to the absurdist humor, everything calls for discomfort. The kind of discomfort we all need from time to time to be shaken into thinking about our lived realities.Title: DogtoothYear: 20009Director: Yorgos LanthimosCinematogra…

In the film, we follow two people stuck in unhappy marriages so it's pretty clear that something will happen between them. This is not a spoiler that much the poster and the title itself give away. What leads to it, what is it that happens, and what happens after it is what the film is about. You might think that the setup is fairly predictable but…

What is your earliest memory related to films?If you can’t think of the earliest ones, just think of any prominent memory you have related to cinema. The point I am trying to make is that cinema seeps beyond the screen. It gives us countless experiences, memories, and conversations. And you know who makes this point way better than I ever can? Gius…

This isn’t a film that makes you cry, it leaves you desolate. It's a film that breaks your heart for so many children who have faced things you can’t even imagine in your worst nightmares. Nadine Labaki, the brilliant Lebanese actress and director, takes you into the mind and life of that child who stands by your window on traffic signals to show w…

All the good things you have heard about Satyajit Ray's debut film; PATHER PANCHALI, are true. If you haven't then you have come to the right place, let's talk about why makes this iconic film, well, iconic. How do you make a podcast in India about world cinema and not start with Satyajit Ray?It's got everything working for it, masterful direction,…

Hi, fellow cinema lover! How would you like to travel the world one film at a time? Around The World In 8mm is a podcast on world cinema, created as a part of the podcast lab by India Film Project in association with Anchor by Spotify