Life and Art from FT Weekend is the twice-weekly culture podcast of the Financial Times. On Monday, we talk about life, and how to live a good one in one-on-one conversations. On Friday, we talk about ‘art’ – in a chat show. Three FT journalists come together to discuss a new cultural release across film, TV, music and books. Hosted by Lilah Raptopoulos, together with the FT’s award-winning writers and editors, and special guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Culture chat: ‘Wicked’ hits the high notes
Wicked (2024) · Nov 22, 2024
Culture chat: ‘Anora’, the unlikely film leading the Oscar race
Anora (2024) · Nov 16, 2024
Halloween Chat: ‘Beetlejuice’ and the lost art of soft horror
Beetlejuice (1988) · Oct 25, 2024
Halloween Chat: ‘Beetlejuice’ and the lost art of soft horror
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) · Oct 25, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a mess worth seeing
Megalopolis (2024) · Oct 4, 2024
‘My Old Ass’ director Megan Park on advice to our younger selves
My Old Ass (2024) · Sep 30, 2024
Culture chat: ‘Alien: Romulus’ is all horror, no guts
Alien: Romulus (2024) · Aug 23, 2024
Culture Chat: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ is a movie so cruel it’s funny
Kinds of Kindness (2024) · Jun 28, 2024
Building the world of ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) · Jun 10, 2024
Actress Gaby Hoffmann relives 1980s New York in Netflix’s ‘Eric’
Eric (2023) · May 27, 2024
‘La chimera’: everything you’d want in an Italian film
La Chimera (2023) · May 17, 2024
‘Challengers’: Zendaya serves up tennis and sexual tension
Challengers (2024) · May 3, 2024
Culture chat: ‘Civil War’ is not the film you think it is
Civil War (2024) · Apr 19, 2024
Design Series: The fashion of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) · Apr 12, 2024
‘Love Lies Bleeding’ with director Rose Glass
Love Lies Bleeding (2024) · Apr 8, 2024
Culture chat: Dune: Part Two, directed by Denis Villeneuve
Dune: Part Two (2024) · Mar 8, 2024
Culture chat: ‘The Taste of Things’, starring Juliette Binoche
The Taste of Things (2023) · Mar 1, 2024
Culture Chat: Jennifer Lopez’s baffling ‘This is Me … Now’
This Is Me…Now (2024) · Feb 23, 2024
‘20 Days in Mariupol’ director Mstyslav Chernov
20 Days in Mariupol (2023) · Feb 12, 2024
Culture chat: Is ‘Poor Things’ a feminist film?
Poor Things (2023) · Feb 2, 2024
Comfort watch: Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
Something's Gotta Give (2003) · Jan 12, 2024
Culture Chat: ‘The Boy and the Heron’, and Miyazaki’s legacy
The Boy and the Heron (2023) · Jan 5, 2024
Culture chat: ‘Napoleon’ with Simon Schama
Napoleon (2023) · Dec 9, 2023
Designing Elvis’s world in ‘Priscilla’
Priscilla (2023) · Dec 4, 2023
‘Halloween’ and what makes a good horror film
Halloween (1978) · Oct 27, 2023
David Byrne on Talking Heads and ‘Here Lies Love’
Stop Making Sense (1984) · Aug 4, 2023
David Byrne on Talking Heads and ‘Here Lies Love’
Here Love Lies (2023) · Aug 4, 2023
Don’t run away and buy a vineyard
Don't Run Away (2026) · Jun 23, 2023
Oscar-nominated directors: ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘Triangle of Sadness’
Triangle of Sadness (2022) · Jan 27, 2023
Triangle of Sadness with director Ruben Östlund
Triangle of Sadness (2022) · Nov 4, 2022
The Woman King, with producer Cathy Schulman
The Woman King (2022) · Oct 29, 2022
'Everything Everywhere All at Once' with Daniels
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) · May 7, 2022
Art in times of war, plus: Anish Kapoor
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020) · Mar 26, 2022
Understanding Ukraine’s identity. Plus, the Oscars
Don't Look Up (2021) · Mar 12, 2022
Seeing Princess Diana, with ‘Spencer’ director Pablo Larraín
Spencer (2021) · Dec 4, 2021
9/11 and the passing of time
The Passing of Time · Sep 11, 2021
Miranda July on releasing a feature film in a pandemic
Kajillionaire (2020) · Oct 9, 2020
Noah Baumbach on his film Marriage Story. Plus: everything you need to know before the Oscars
Marriage Story (2019) · Feb 6, 2020
Kristen Roupenian on 'Cat Person', dating and overnight success. Plus: we discuss consent
Cat Person (2023) · Mar 16, 2019
‘The Big Lebowski’ at 20. Plus: John Cooper Clarke, the Baudelaire of Salford, is ‘The Luckiest Guy Alive’
The Big Lebowski (1998) · Oct 27, 2018
1968 and the spirit of protest today. Plus: comedian Fern Brady
1968 (1968) · Jun 23, 2018
Oscars 2018: the movies and the moment. Plus: Ekow Eshun on Black Panther
Black Panther (2018) · Mar 2, 2018
Genius versus mediocrity. Plus: The Wire's Clarke Peters
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) · Feb 10, 2018
Best films of 2017. Plus: Hayley Atwell on Weinstein culture
The Florida Project (2017) · Nov 25, 2017
Best films of 2017. Plus: Hayley Atwell on Weinstein culture
Call Me by Your Name (2017) · Nov 25, 2017
Basquiat, Banksy and Hollie McNish
Basquiat (1996) · Sep 25, 2017
2016: the good, the bad and the ugly, with Simon Schama
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) · Dec 22, 2016