A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast with Ally Pitts5 Jan 2025

2024 highlights & 2025 plans

Host Ally Pitts looks back at some highlights of 2024 and looks ahead to 2025. Note from Ally: Unfortunately, the audio for this episode is not up to the usual standard due to a mistake on my part. On balance I thought it was better to release it now as is rather than defer a week until I'd have time to re-record. Thanks for understanding, and please excuse the sound being a little rougher than I'd like on this occasion.

Links mentioned/alluded to in the episode:

Support the show and Ally's other movie-related projects at ko-fi.com

Issue 48 of Film Stories magazine, featuring Ally's article on The Point in Milton Keynes, the UK's first multiplex cinema/movie theater.

Ally on The Top 100 podcast with Tim Coleman: Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov; 1929)

Ally on The Pink Smoke podcast with Martin Kessler: The Queen of Spades (Thorold Dickinson; 1949)

The Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford's independent cinema

The Fright Pub horror movie podcast

Ally's notes on Lawrence of Arabia for the Danger Close war movie podcast

https://letterboxd.com/ally_pitts/list/my-top-10-first-time-watches-of-2024/detail/

https://letterboxd.com/ally_pitts/list/my-top-5-re-watches-of-2024/detail/

https://letterboxd.com/ally_pitts/list/my-top-10-klassiki-watches-of-2024/detail/

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We changed the name of the show a little while back, but the social handles/contacts are a bit of a mishmash.

Email: russophilesunite@gmail.com

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