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On the Way to the Cinema
A Course in Watching Film
Completed · 73 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
A Lang: Film May Not Matter, but What It Gives Us Does 1. A Gift for Cinephiles: Let Knowledge of Film Ground Our Love of It 2. If You Don't Understand a Film, Whose Problem Is It? | The Shawshank Redemption and Long Day's Journey into Night 3. What Makes a Good Story to an Art-Film Director and a Commercial Screenwriter? | Jing Fei × Dong Mei × Shi Yun 4. Unhappy with the Story? Don't Send the Screenwriter Blades Just Yet | Sunset Boulevard and The Crowd 5. Where Do Magical Stories Come From? Cuts in Adaptation and the Limits of Originality | The Power of the Dog and Titanic 6. What Do We Mean When We Talk about Genre? | Toy Story and Dying to Survive Year-End Review | Joy or Disaster Means Nothing until We Give It New Meaning 7. Is AI Ten Thousand Times Better than Human Screenwriters? | The Last Director on Earth and AI Infinite Film 8. Cinematographers Paint with Light! | Barry Lyndon, Citizen Kane, and Rashomon 9. Is Large-Format Filming the Trend and Film Stock a Relic? | I Am Not Madame Bovary, The Assassin, and Playtime Bonus | Is Avatar: The Way of Water James Cameron's Giant Sci-Fi Serial? | Jing Fei × Xu Yiran 10. The “One-Take Film”: Gimmick or Craft? | Rope, Sunrise, and Gravity Spring Festival Bonus | Can Stories of Patriotic Loyalty and Nationalism Still Hold Audiences? 11. Is Colorizing Black-and-White Film Bad Taste? A History of Color and Monochrome | All That Heaven Allows and The Hours 12. Does the Camera's Gaze Turn Us into Voyeurs—or Leave Us Unmoved? | 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vertigo, and Tokyo Story 13. Does the Camera Conceal Tacit Sexism? | The Man with a Movie Camera Bonus | Oscar-Nominated Babylon: A Dazzling Elegy for a Century of Hollywood 14. Is the Production Designer Cinema's Behind-the-Scenes General Contractor? | The Grand Budapest Hotel, Inception, and Farewell My Concubine 15. The Location Doesn't Work? Build One There! | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Shining, and Happy Together 16. From Lady to Punk: How Costume Design Turns Actors into Characters | Roman Holiday, Cruella, and A Single Man 17. Can a Tiny Prop Illuminate a Story's Heart—and Strike an Industry's Lifeline? | Strangers on a Train, Harry Potter, and Rust 18. Horror and Retro Fantasy: A Century of Production Design Intertwined with Genre | Psycho, Alien, and A Writer's Odyssey Question Call | Let's Go to the Cinema When Spring Blooms Listener Q&A | Have Fifth-Generation Masters Lost Their Spirit? Will Other Media Replace Film? Oscar-Nominated The Whale: Hollywood's Transformative Art of Disguise | Jing Fei × Ivan 19. Does Film Art Look at the Soul or Fleeting Appearances? | The Great Gatsby and Red Desert 20. Stage and Screen Acting: What Actually Defines a “Good” Performance? | Three Sisters and Everything Everywhere All at Once Talking with the Director of The Best Is Yet to Come: Brave People Will Always Make Films That Record Their Time | Jing Fei × Wang Jing 21. A Movie Star's Dream: Persona, Pay, or Freedom? | Ninotchka and S1m0ne 22. What Is an Actor's Craft? The Rise of Stanislavski's “Method” | A Streetcar Named Desire, My Left Foot, and Birdman 23. They Cost Tony Leung the Cannes Best Actor Prize—Do Nonprofessional Actors Have Innate “Talent”? | Bicycle Thieves and Nobody Knows 24. Is the Most Beautiful Face the “Most Cinematic”? | Eyes Without a Face, Right Now, Wrong Then, and Undine Can One Instant before the Camera Condense an Actor's Entire Life Experience? | Jing Fei × Elaine 25. Did Sound Arrive as Cinema's Other Half through Birth Pains? | Talking the Pictures and The Exorcist Bonus | Will Cinema Ultimately Change How People See Science Fiction? | Jing Fei × Yu Shi 26. Was Mickey Mouse or Hitchcock the Pioneer of Film Sound Effects? | Steamboat Willie, Singin' in the Rain, and The Birds 27. Designing Alien Languages: Craft or Creativity? | The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and Star Wars 28. Is Film Music a Psychological Game between Composer and Audience? | A Clockwork Orange, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and The Last Emperor 29. From Set to Theater, How Much of a Ticket Pays for Sound? | Striding into the Wind and Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald Bonus | Should Good Film Sound Design Work Quietly and Unobtrusively? | Jing Fei × Ray Zhao Question Call | Happy Days Will Come Listener Q&A | Does Sound Make Film More Believable? Will AI Replace Film-Sound Technology? 30. Is Editing Where Cinema Truly Begins? | Grandmother's Magnifying Glass and Broken Blossoms 31. Was Film Montage an Art Born of Revolution? | Battleship Potemkin and The Untouchables 32. Do Different Editing Methods Sculpt Different Cinematic Times? | Breathless and Mirror Bonus | With Spider-Man, Can This Marvel Film Finally Be Called Art? 33. Who Is Responsible for a Bad Movie? The Editor's Power and Negotiation | Once Upon a Time in America and Justice League 34. In the Digital Age, Can a Film Be Watched in Five Minutes? | Inside No. 9 Bonus | Is Editing the Most Objective Part of Filmmaking? | Jing Fei × Zhou Xinxia, Part I Bonus | Where Does a Film Editor Make the Cut in a Story? | Jing Fei × Zhou Xinxia, Part II Bonus | Should Editors Have a Personality of Their Own? | Jing Fei × Zhou Xinxia, Part III 35. Do Those in Pain Always Await Punishment? Hitchcock and His “Suspenseful” Life 36. Yasujirō Ozu: Is Life a Warm Everyday Routine or an Empty Cycle? | The Only Son and There Was a Father 37. Fellini's Dreams: Magic, Clowns, and Myths of Love | La Strada and Nights of Cabiria 38. Godard: The Film Remains Unfinished and Thought Never Stops | Breathless Bonus | What Makes Barbie Moving: Feminism or an Existential Crisis? 39. Bennett Miller: The Everyday Lives of Ordinary People Are a Powerful Resistance to Monsters | Foxcatcher 40. The Producer: A Partner in the Director's Dream or a Money-Grubbing Capitalist? Bonus | Is Producing about Making Someone Else's Wedding Dress? | Jing Fei × Thomas, Part I Bonus | The Great Hollywood Strike: Why Was Resistance Necessary? | Jing Fei × Thomas, Part II 41. What Lies behind the Dream of Cinema? | The Dream behind the Wall Bonus | Is a Producer's Job to Create Something from Nothing? | Jing Fei × Guan Yadi, Part I Bonus | How Should We Face the Wave of Change in Cinema? | Jing Fei × Guan Yadi, Part II 42. Film Censorship: Fixed Rules or Dynamic Negotiation? | This Film Is Not Yet Rated Bonus | Every Girl Has a “Red Panda” inside Her | Jing Fei × Rona, Part I Bonus | Who Says Animated Films Are Only for Children? | Jing Fei × Rona, Part II 43. The Movie Theater, Our “Multiverse Memory Recharging Station” Bonus | Film Curators Write Poetry in the Mud | Jing Fei × Lesley 44. Should Film Critics Stay Neutral or Speak Their Own Minds? | Oppenheimer and Shoeshine 45. Closing Words: See You at the Movies Bonus | Viewing China's Film Ecology through the Venice Film Festival | Jing Fei × Wang Xiaoman Bonus | Do Women Who Break with Patriarchy Still Need Love? | 2024 Year-End Review of Women's Cinema