Arrival and Only Lovers Left Alive with Jessica Stone - Talking Pondo

About this episode

Jessica Stone joins the podcast to discuss the films Arrival and Only Lovers Left Alive, exploring their thematic connections.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jessica Stone joins the podcast. She brings along the movie Only Lovers Left Alive. Marty and Clif give Jessica the movie Arrival to watch. Clif and Marty welcome back returning guest favorite Jessica Stone for two wildly different but unexpectedly connected films, Arrival and Only Lovers Left Alive. The conversation starts with Arrival, through a discussion of language, grief, nonlinear time, and whether Denis Villeneuve’s cerebral style is immer...

People in this episode

Hosts: Marty Ketola, Clifton Campbell

Guest: Jessica Stone

Topics covered

• film analysis
• language
• grief
• nonlinear time
• movie reviews

Keywords

• Arrival
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• Jessica Stone
• Marty Ketola
• Clifton Campbell
• film discussion
• Denis Villeneuve

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Arrival, Only Lovers Left Alive

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