Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with filmmaker Nicola Pittam, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring impact, Avatar analysis, and The Memento influence on her personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Sebastian Toursel also discusses Dead Duck Film Club and the inaugural Dead Duck Cult Film Festival, a day of the New French extreme cinema: Titane, High Life, Revenge & Martyrs

Movies That Changed Your Life

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[1:30] Why Dead Duck film club?

[6:10] The ups and downs of showing people films.

[9:50] Why a festival about the New French Extreme horror cinema movement?

[16:40] What is the New French Extreme panel about? Who is on it?

[22:30] The vendors at the Dead Duck Cult Film Festival.

[25:20] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring impact

[26:00] Sebastian Toursel says as a nineties kid, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is the film where the world just opened up for him. He’s watched it every year since he was eight.

Avatar analysis

[32:20] Sebastian Toursel shares how Avatar was the most mindblowing experience of his life. He went to see it in cinemas six times. Each time with different people, but same cinema.

Rec Influence

[37:40] Sebastian Toursel talks about how Rec is the film where horror became his thing. It is intense and amazing. There’s a fantastic scene around a group of people have a conversation on the ground floor and a jump scare where for the very first time he almost peed himself.

Key Take Aways:

- Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth.

- Learn about how Dead Duck Film Club grew into Dead Duck Cult Film Festival.

- What is the New French Extreme horror cinema movement

- Understand cinema’s transformative power through The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Avatar (2009), Rec (2007)

- Full show notes and transcript:

About the Guest:

Sebastien Toursel is the founder of the Dead Duck Film Club, Nottingham’s home for cult cinema. He screens the weird, the rare, and the unforgettable. His events celebrate global cult films, from Korean thrillers to French horror, all presented with a DIY spirit and a love for the offbeat. He collaborates with local cinemas like The Savoy to bring these unique films to the big screen. Each screening is accompanied by fan-made posters and a community eager to discuss and appreciate the art of cult cinema.

https://deadduckfilm.com

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Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (⁠https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/⁠)

Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](⁠https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/⁠)

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