Author: avalard

Professional Nostalgist: writer, publisher, broadcaster, archivist, former-librarian, film historian, teacher, editor, film-maker, photographer, artist.

Podcast – Duck and Cover

April 17, 2022

CinePunked goes rummaging through the film archives via acclaimed Cold War documentary The Atomic Café, revealing a frightening concoction of propaganda, deception, delusion, and fear linked by America’s presentation of the perceived benefits and risks of the atomic bomb and a nuclear war. With memories of the cold war stirred up in 2022 by recent action in eastern Europe we find ourselves wondering if anything has really changed in the last eight decades… … More Podcast – Duck and Cover

Podcast – Iceberg – Dead Ahead

April 10, 2022

Marking the 110th anniversary of the Titanic disaster, the CinePunked team assemble to discuss the definitive screen version of the incident – Roy Ward Baker’s 1958 film A Night to Remember. Gathering just outside of Belfast, where the ship was built, Robert, Rachael and Neil consider the legacy of the night, Belfast’s relationship with the story, generational trauma and just what we’d do if faced with the same situation. … More Podcast – Iceberg – Dead Ahead

Podcast – Men, Maggots and Mutiny

March 30, 2022

Segei Eisenstein’s film Battleship Potemkin is often hailed as one of the best films ever made. It tells the story (based on a real-life incident) of the crew of a Russian battleship mutinying in 1905, leading to a bloody confrontation in the streets of Odessa. 
CinePunked gather to assess its value to a modern audience and pick apart the propaganda from the truth. … More Podcast – Men, Maggots and Mutiny

Podcast – Testament d’Orphée

March 2, 2022

Concluding their Orphic journey, Robert and Neil follow Jean Cocteau into the underworld for his cinematic farewell Testament d’Orphée – a complex, meta-layered film mixing poetry, time-travel, fact and fiction and the complexities of legacy. Will Neil make it through? Does any of it make sense? And how will the experience change the CinePunked team? … More Podcast – Testament d’Orphée

LIVESTREAM EVENT – CinePunked presents: In the Grip of Hammer II: Beyond Hammer Glamour

February 25, 2022

Sunday 27 February 2022, CinePunked presents In the Grip of Hammer 2: Beyond Hammer Glamour.
Continuing our series of CinePunked conversations with fans and enthusiasts, Robert JE Simpson, David L Rattigan and Penny Goodman will be exploring Hammer’s early vampire films. … More LIVESTREAM EVENT – CinePunked presents: In the Grip of Hammer II: Beyond Hammer Glamour