Edinburgh Film Podcast – Episode 53
Chantal Akerman and Golden Eighties with Professor Marion Schmid
This episode of the podcast celebrates the work of the great Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, with a special focus on one of her lesser-known films, the 1986 musical Golden Eighties.
Our guide to all things Akerman is Marion Schmid. Marion is Professor of French Literature and Film at the University of Edinburgh and the author of several books and articles on Akerman, including a 2010 monograph for Manchester University Press.
Marion and I begin by discussing Jeanne Dielman, Akerman’s 1975 masterpiece which famously topped Sight & Sound’s once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll in 2022.
We then move on to Golden Eighties, a vibrant, effervescent musical which tells of the romantic intrigues in a Brussels shopping centre and stars Jeanne Dielman herself, Delphine Seyrig.
You can listen to the episode via Apple Podcasts or Media Hopper.
Film and the Other Arts
Listen to researchers and creative practitioners discussing the intermedial dialogues of cinema with the other arts in a series of podcasts and videos from events hosted by Professor Marion Schmid’s AHRC-funded Film and the Other Arts Research Network
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Word and Music
Listen to Professor Peter Dayan in conversation with Ellen Davis-Walker on his Gapper Prize-winning book The Music of Dada: A Lesson in Intermediality for our Times as part of the LLC Podcast series Beyond the Books
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