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Eavesdropping at the Movies 28 – The Greatest Showman

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I go on in an ornery mood finding fault with every aspect of the film. Kind Mike largely agrees but finds room for praise. He also turns the film’s faults into such good jokes that it lifted me out of the dark cloud the film had put me into. One of those instances where the conversation after a film was better than the film itself. A heavily edited version can be heard here:

28 – The Greatest Showman by Eavesdropping at the Movies

 

The podcast can be listened to in the player above or at this link

A fine article on the surprising success of the film can be read here

José Arroyo and  Michael Glass of Writing About Film

By NotesonFilm1

Spanish Canadian working in the UK. Former film journalist. Lecturer in Film Studies. Podcast with Michael Glass on cinema at https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/ and also a series of conversations with artists and intellectuals on their work at https://josearroyoinconversationwith.com/

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