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In a three-part discussion, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) view all six 'Arthur' films. NSFW (swears, sex references).

In a three-part discussion, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) view all six 'Arthur' films. NSFW (swears, sex references).

A two-part journey through the psychedelic cinema of Joe Masott. In part two, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1971 metaphysical Western 'Zachariah' based on Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel 'Siddhartha'. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachariah_(film)

A two-part journey through the psychedelic cinema of Joe Masott. In part one, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1968 oddity 'Wonderwall' which inspired the Oasis song, and the original film score by George Harrison and some of India's finest classical musicians. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderwall_Music * https://www.georgeharrison.com/releases/wonderwall-music/

Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1959 version of 'The Bat Whispers', an inspiration for Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s Batman, starring Vincent Price en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1959_film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1HaOM9LiE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Hour_of_Great_Mysteries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mClkknsvC4 More on the Beekeepers website... https://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-shadow-of-the-bat/

Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss the 1959 version of 'The Bat Whispers', an inspiration for Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s Batman, starring Vincent Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1959_film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1HaOM9LiE The Snoop Sisters 'Black Day For Bluebeard' (1974) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NSw-5TjQCs More on the Beekeepers website... https://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-shadow-of-the-bat

Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) discuss inspirations for Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s Batman: Roland West’s 1926 silent noirish thriller ‘The Bat‘ and his talkie remake, 1930’s ‘The Bat Whispers‘. * The Bat (1926) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1926_film) https://archive.org/details/TheBat1926WithSoundtrack * The Bat Whispers (1930) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_Whispers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhgEKm7-kOM

Episode One: Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites)discuss Hitchock’s 1925 film ‘The Pleasure Garden‘ and Germaine Dulac’s ‘La Souriante Madame Beudet‘ (1923). *The Pleasure Garden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pleasure_Garden_(1925_film) *La Souriante Madame Beudet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Souriante_Madame_Beudet *Shruti mentions Tami Williams’s book ‘Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations‘. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/47yxb8mr9780252038471.html * The Pleasure Garden (1925) https://youtu.be/4hoMKZOoNcw * La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923) With English Subtitles https://youtu.be/1VA8NBhipvs * Hitchcock-Truffaut Episode 1: Youth, Influences, First jobs (1962) With English Subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq51gq4s5r4

Bonus podcast introducing the ebook guide to the Scala map, 'What is crouching and why does it end?' A love letter to London cinema and London cinema buildings, read by noted sentimentalists Roz Kaveney (@ RozKaveney) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites). Linking every station on London’s Underground to a movie made at, near or to do with it, over 345 illustrated pages with numerous detailed maps, the guide imagines the city as a film programme at the legendary Scala film club at Kings Cross in the 1980s. £4. DRM-free PDF. Free updates when we bring out new editions. Buy it now at www.thebeekeepers.com * The title of this essay is inspired by a Stephen King's Lovecraftian short story 'Crouch End' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouch_End_(short_story) * Music included in the essay 1. Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima 2. Antonín Dvorák - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World', Op. 95, B. 178 (aka 'The New World Symphony') (1893) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k) 3. R D Burman and Anand Bakshi - Yeh Dosti from 'Sholay' (1975) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholay#Music 4. Barry Adamson - Everything Happens to Me (1989) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Side_Story 5. Miklós Rózsa- Eternal Silence from 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes' (1970) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Mikl%C3%B3s_R%C3%B3zsa#Film_scores 6. Friedrich Hollaender - Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt (aka 'Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)') (1930) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_in_Love_Again_(Can%27t_Help_It) 7. Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner - Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Hitler? (1968) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad%27s_Army#Music 8. David Bowie - Helden (German version of 'Heroes') (1977) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22_(David_Bowie_song)#Other_releases 9. Moondog - Lament 1 (Bird's Lament) (1969) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog_(album) 10. Eric Satie - Nocturnes (1919) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnes_(Satie) 11. X-Ray Spexs - The Day The World Turned Day-Glo (1978) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_Spex#Singles 12. The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode (1992) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneezer_Goode

Part two of a two-parter, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) talk about Robert Wise's 1971 film based on Michael Crichton's novel, and Felipe Cazals's 1978 film from a Gabriel García Márquez screenplay based on Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel 'A Journal of The Plague Year'. NSFW (swearing, sexual themes). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_a%C3%B1o_de_la_peste https://youtu.be/sprYIRyAQcw

A sampler of the varied career and influences of Blue Note Jazz artist, film and TV composer, and electronic music pioneer Gil Mellé. https://jazztimes.com/archives/gil-melle-instrumental-inventions/

Part one of a two-parter, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) talk about Robert Wise's 1971 film based on Michael Crichton's novel, and Felipe Cazals's 1978 film from a Gabriel García Márquez screenplay based on Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel 'A Journal of The Plague Year'. NSFW (swearing, sexual themes). In part one, we discuss Shruti's experiences in the Mumbai flood of 2003 and the work of the composer of the innovative electronic score of 'The Andromeda Strain', Gil Mellé. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_a%C3%B1o_de_la_peste * Music 'Yo te Amo... Yo Tampoco' Isela Vega (1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcJtvH7R9k Gil Mellé compilation 'Desert Trip' Andromeda Strain OST (1971) 'Four Moons' Gil Mellé Quintet, on 'New Faces, New Sounds' 'Blue Note 5020' (1953) 'The Desert' Six Million Dollar Man (1973) 'Night Gallery Theme' (1969) 'Neon Canyons' on 'Mindscape' (1989) 'Kolchak The Night Stalker theme' (1974)

Bat Amazons! Part two of a Halloween, Batwoman special, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites) talk some more about all-girl garage bands, Indian and Mexican women super heroes, and Sixties Batwoman ripoffs. 'The Wild World of Batwoman' archive.org/details/TheWildWorldOfBatwomanVose 'La Mujer Murcielago' (The Mexican Batwoman) archive.org/details/LaMujerMurcielago More on the Beekeepers website... http://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-wild-world-of-batwomen/

Bat Amazons! Part one of a Batwoman special, Dr. Shruti Narayanswamy (@ mahalmovies) & Tim Concannon (@ timcwrites)talk all-girl garage bands, Indian and Mexican women super heroes, and Sixties Batwoman ripoffs. 'The Wild World of Batwoman' https://archive.org/details/TheWildWorldOfBatwomanVose 'La Mujer Murcielago' (The Mexican Batwoman) https://archive.org/details/LaMujerMurcielago More on the missing Indian film about female master criminal 'The Wildcat of Bombay' (including rare stills from the song booklet) http://www.mahalmovies.com/film-hunt/bambai-ki-billi/ More on Mary Evans aka 'Fearless Nadia' http://www.mahalmovies.com/film-hunt/hunterwali/ 'Supermen of Malegaon' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqRq7ZpjF0I More on the Beekeepers website... http://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-box-set-the-wild-world-of-batwomen/

A special pro-rogue edition of Music for Films, the underground film podcast, kept in reserve for times of national emergency. Roz and Tim showcase their field recordings of London streets and locations, from some of the holy places of cinema and pop culture: Bowie's birthplace in Stockwell, Roz's memories of serial killer Dennis Nilson, and Angela Carter's favourite cinema, the Grenada in Tooting.

1 hour 43 min podcast version. Not safe for work. Contains some swearing and adult themes. Interesting people talk about the music, films and music for films which have shaped their lives. Roz Kaveney, Tim Concannon and their guest Andrew Smith wander down busy Caledonian Road in North London, to Housmans peace bookshop near to Kings Cross station. They discuss two linked technologies produced by the atomic age, computers and nuclear arms, and the ways that the peace movement and radicalism have responded to both being part of modern armed conflict. The starting point for the conversation is Pete Watkins’s 1965 film for the BBC, banned from broadcast at the time, ‘The War Game‘. Made two decades before ‘Threads‘ and Raymond Briggs’s ‘Where the Wind Blows‘, Pete Watkins’s film is a documentary-style depiction of Britain under nuclear attack. It was withdrawn before transmission by the BBC under government pressure, but went on to win an Oscar for Best Documentary. Caledonian Road is notable for two things: its longstanding Irish community and Housmans Bookshop, opened in 1959 and named after Laurence Houseman the gay, pacifist playwright who suggested the Peace Pledge Union establish a permanent base in 1948. As well as publishing Peace News, it became a focus of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . The two worlds converged in 1974 when an IRA bomb blew up the pillar box outside the shop. The explosion incinerated all the copies of Campaign Against Arms Trade’s first newsletter. More... * The War Game en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game * Housmans Bookshop www.housmans.com/ * Campaign Against the Arms Trade www.caat.org.uk/ Join CAAT or make a donation here: www.caat.org.uk/support-our-work/donate

Tim Concannon and Shruti Narayanswamy discuss the 2008 film 'How to Lose Friends & Alienate People' in light of Toby Young's appointment to - and resignation before taking up his post at - the Office for Students. NSFW (some swearing and adult themes).

Tim Concannon and Shruti Narayanswamy discuss the 2008 film 'How to Lose Friends & Alienate People' in light of Toby Young's appointment to - and resignation before taking up his post at - the Office for Students, and in light of the crisis of male power in the entertainment industry and in culture generally following the Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey scandals. NSFW (some swearing and adult themes).

Not safe for work (it's got some profanity in). Roz Kaveney and Tim Concannon revisit the Cinema Museum in Kennington and interview broadcaster Neil Brand about the need to save the building from developers. There's a preview of a show for 2018 talking to Peter Howden, the programmer of the Electric Cinema Club in Notting Hill, arguably the most influential counter cultural film theatre in Sixties London. Roz and Tim also revisit a 2016 stroll from the Cinema Museum to one of Chaplin's childhood homes in Kennington, and a 2012 walk round a corner of Greenwich Village, New York and the magic space where revolutionaries in jazz, the rights of man, and the rights of the LGBT community worldwide, all cross paths.

2 hour version, first broadcast 5pm, 19th December 2016 on Resonance FM in London. Not safe for work. Every month, interesting people talk about the music, films and music for films which have shaped their lives. 2016 Christmas special. Tim Concannon and Roz Kaveney visit the Cinema Museum in Oval, South London - the former Lambeth workhouse, where Charles Chaplin spent Christmas one year as a small boy - and one of his homes in Kennington, where Chaplin grew up. Recorded in September as part of the annual Scalarama film festival - when we screened Chaplin's film 'The Immigrant', which has its centenary in 2017, near to his childhood home at 39 Methley Street - we also talk to cast and crew of the play about Chaplin that was on at the Cinema Museum, 'The Little Tramp'. More... * Original broadcast, 1 hour version of the show https://soundcloud.com/the_beekeepers/music-for-films-kennington-chaplins-the-immigrant * Chaplin's 'The immigrant' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPOxhecgb7I * 39 Methley Street, Kennington www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/charlie-cha…WFJs3X1oFBk * The Little Tramp www.thelittletramp.org.uk * Cinema Museum, Oval www.cinemamuseum.org.uk * Scalarama film festival https://scalarama.com/ The second half of our extended podcast version of the show is a discussion of the state of Britain a century after Chaplin lived in poverty in South London, how there's too much great television (like 'Twin Peaks' and 'iZombie') but not enough time to watch all of it. This is followed by 'What Is Crouching And Why Does it End?' (The title of this essay is inspired by a Stephen King's Lovecraftian short story). *Stephen King's 'Crouch End' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouch_End_(short_story) A love letter to cinema and cinema buildings, this audio essay is the first half of an overview of our 'Scala Map' linking every station on the Underground to film made, or associated with it. * The Scala London Underground Film Map 1916 – 2016 www.thebeekeepers.com/scalaunderground/ * The essay, on its own, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKb0uX-dCdU If you enjoy this show, you can listen to our regular film music programme 'Music for Films' on London's ResonanceFM.com, on the 3rd Monday of each month. * Subscribe to our podcast 'More Music for Films'. http://www.thebeekeepers.com/category/radio/music-for-films/ * Music included in the essay 1. Krzysztof Penderecki - 'Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima' - 1960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima 2. Antonín Dvo?ák - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 (aka 'The New World Symphony') - 1893 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k) 3. R D Burman and Anand Bakshi - Yeh Dosti' from 'Sholay' - 1975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholay#Music 4. Barry Adamson - 'Everything Happens to Me' - 1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Side_Story 5. Miklós Rózsa- 'Eternal Silence' from 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes' - 1970 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Mikl%C3%B3s_R%C3%B3zsa#Film_scores 6. Friedrich Hollaender - 'Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt' (aka 'Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)') - 1930 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_in_Love_Again_(Can%27t_Help_It) 7. Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner - 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Hitler?' - 1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad%27s_Army#Music 8. David Bowie - 'Helden' (German version of 'Heroes') - 1977 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22_(David_Bowie_song)#Other_releases 9. Moondog - 'Lament 1 (Bird's Lament)' - 1969 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog_(album) 10. Eric Satie - 'Nocturnes' - 1919 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnes_(Satie) 11. X-Ray Spexs 'The Day The World Turned Day-Glo' - 1978 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_Spex#Singles 12. The Shamen - 'Ebeneezer Goode' - 1992 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneezer_Goode