That One Inch Barrier

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #49 - A Fantastic Woman [Chile, 2017]

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!
Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.
After tackling the latest winner of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, we return to working our way backwards through the list of winners.
We're picking up with 2017's A Fantastic Woman, from Chile, a heartbreaking drama about a transgender woman's fight for her identity in the wake of her older partner's death.
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That One Inch Barrier - Episode #48 - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Spain, 1988]

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!
Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.
It's a shock that it's taken almost 50 episodes for acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar to appear on the show, but Nick took one for the team and finally fixed that, selecting Almodóvar's 1988 film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown for this month's episode. A topic our three hosts are highly qualified to speak on.
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That One Inch Barrier - Episode #47 - How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies [Thailand, 2024]

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!
Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.
Another episode and another new country, as the boys head to Thailand, and not for the reasons most Australian men visit. Catch the gang getting sentimental over Pat Boonnitipat's debut feature, How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024).
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Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #46 - Border [Sweden, 2018]

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!
Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.
Grab your meatballs and flat pack furniture, because the gang are off to Sweden on this month's episode, discussing the 2018 fantasy film Border, directed by Ali Abbasi. 
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Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #45 - I'm Still Here [Brazil, 2024]

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!
Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.
For the latest instalment of our series covering the winners of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, we're picking up with the latest member of this coveted club, I'm Still Here (2024), which took him the Oscar earlier this year.
A political biographical drama from director Walter Salles, I'm Still Here follows the true story of Eunice Paiva, a mother and activist coping with the forced disappearance of her husband, the dissident politician Rubens Paiva, during the military dictatorship in Brazil. A story that hits all too close to home in current times.
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Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #44 - Elite Squad [Brazil, 2007]

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!
Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.
What do drug lords, corrupt cops, and Pope John Paul II all have in common? They all play a part in this month's movie, Elite Squad (2007). The gang are off to the mean streets of Rio de Janeiro to tackle this brutal, politically charged action flick on their first of two stops to Brazil.
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That One Inch Barrier - Episode #43 - In The Mood For Love [Hong Kong, 2000]

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!
Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.
Are you feeling romantic, dear viewers and listeners? Well, have we got the film for you. Following last month's episode, the gang are back in Hong Kong, but for a very different kind of movie, chatting about Wong Kar-wai's sensual period piece, In The Mood For Love (2000).
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That One Inch Barrier - Episode #42 - Kung Fu Hustle [Hong Kong, 2004]

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!
Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.
In the eternal words of Carl Douglas, "everybody was kung fu fighting" in this month's episode of That One Inch Barrier, as the gang battle it out with Stephen Chow's martial arts comedy Kung Fu Hustle (2004), a joint production between Hong Kong and China.
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Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #41 - Roma [Mexico, 2018]

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!
Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.
The gang are back in Mexico for another meeting with director Alfonso Cuarón, checking out his Academy Award winning family drama Roma (2018). A semi-biographical take on Cuarón's upbringing in Mexico City which follows the life of a live-in housekeeper to an upper-middle-class family, Roma was nominated for 10 Oscars and took home 3, including Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Foreign Language Film.
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Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - 2 Year Anniversary Q+A Special!

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!
Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.
Thanks to a combination of dumb luck and dogged determination, That One Inch Barrier is still kicking in 2025. The gang sit down for an unnecessarily lengthy bonus episode to celebrate the show's second birthday, ranting about the Oscars, rambling through breakdowns of foreign cinema, and trying their best to remember that one Jamie Foxx movie.
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Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc