That One Inch Barrier

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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Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

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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Josh: instagram.com/filmnotionsletterboxd.com/filmnotions
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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Josh: instagram.com/filmnotionsletterboxd.com/filmnotions
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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Josh: instagram.com/filmnotionsletterboxd.com/filmnotions
Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #40 - Quo Vadis, Aida? [Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020]

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 this month's episode, the lads head to arguably the most obscure country they've visited to date, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the setting of Jasmila Žbanić's haunting war drama, Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020).
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Josh: instagram.com/filmnotionsletterboxd.com/filmnotions
Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #39 - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [Romania, 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.
The gang kick off the new year on a very cheery note, with Cristian Mungiu's arthouse drama, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), which follows two students, roommates in a university dormitory, who try to procure an illegal abortion in 1980s Communist Romania.
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Josh: instagram.com/filmnotionsletterboxd.com/filmnotions
Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #38 - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [France, 1964]

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.
Merry Christmas, dear viewers and listeners! The gang are back with their second Christmas episode, with the deceptively not very Christmas-y, and deceptively very musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), directed by Jacques Demy. Come for the discussion of classic French cinema, stay for Nick's impressions of Kermit and Miss Piggy.
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Josh: instagram.com/filmnotionsletterboxd.com/filmnotions
Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #37 - Fallen Leaves [Finland, 2023]

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 Josh's original pick, Sisu, turned out to be mostly in English, the gang quickly pivoted to another recent Finnish film, Fallen Leaves (2023), an offbeat romantic comedy from renowned director Aki Kaurismäki.
If you enjoy the episode, please subscribe to our show on your preferred podcasting platform. New episodes of the show release on the first Monday of each month.
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Nick: instagram.com/nicksflicksfixtwitter.com/nicksflicksfixletterboxd.com/nicksflicksfix
Josh: instagram.com/filmnotionsletterboxd.com/filmnotions
Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #36 - Parasite [South Korea, 2019]

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 took 36 episodes, but the boys have finally arrived at the film which gave the podcast its name, Bong Joon-ho's magnum opus, Parasite (2019), described by Kieran as "a modern-day Citizen Kane".
 
Parasite, which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in 2020, marks the fifth Korean-language Bong Joon-ho film covered on the show, meaning the gang has now completed the filmography of That One Inch Barrier's patron saint.
 
If you enjoy the episode, please subscribe to our show on your preferred podcasting platform. New episodes of the show release on the first Monday of each month.
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Nick: instagram.com/nicksflicksfixtwitter.com/nicksflicksfixletterboxd.com/nicksflicksfix
Josh: instagram.com/filmnotionsletterboxd.com/filmnotions
Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #35 - Seven Samurai [Japan, 1954]

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 biggest shock of the series, Nick "90-minute-movie" L'Barrow has selected one of the longest movies we've ever covered on the podcast, legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's magnum opus, the 1954 epic Seven Samurai.
If you enjoy the episode, please subscribe to our show on your preferred podcasting platform. New episodes of the show release on the first Monday of each month.
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Nick: instagram.com/nicksflicksfixtwitter.com/nicksflicksfixletterboxd.com/nicksflicksfix
Josh: instagram.com/filmnotionsletterboxd.com/filmnotions
Kieran: instagram.com/pretentiousfilmclubletterboxd.com/pretentiousfc