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Artwork for The Artists: Arts, Culture, and Cinema with Suchita Bhhatia

The Artists: Arts, Culture, and Cinema with Suchita Bhhatia

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David Lynch
Mental Health
Orson Welles
Stanley Kubrick
Satyajit Ray
Design Thinking
Visual Literacy
Agnès Varda
Artificial Intelligence
Audience Engagement
Depression
Media Landscape
Filmmaking
Shakespeare
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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OTT Platforms
Agatsu Foundation
Content Creation
Alfred Hitchcock

The Artists is a podcast exploring the minds, methods, and inner lives of artists across cinema, culture, and ideas. Hosted by filmmaker Suchita, the show brings conversations with filmmakers, thinkers, cultural voices to ask one central question: How do Great Artists think? Through conversations spanning storytelling, cinema, design, psychology, technology, and the future of art, The Artists move... more

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Artwork for The Artists: Arts, Culture, and Cinema with Suchita Bhhatia

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Robert Gordon
Film scholar with expertise on Pasolini
Episode: The Cult of Pasolini | How Did Pasolini Think? | Ft: Robert Gordon | The Artists with Suchita #clip
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Filmmaker
Episode: Inside Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Oscar-Honored VR Experience | ft. Vicki Dobbs Beck| The Artists w/ Suchita #clip
Vicki Dobbs Beck
Vice President of Immersive Content at Lucasfilm
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Episode: Storytelling vs Storyliving | ft. Vicki Dobbs Beck | The Arists w/ Suchita #175
Todd McGowan
Film theorist and professor
University of Vermont (philosophy/film studies)
Episode: How was Lynch thinking? | Ft: Todd Mcgowan | The Artists with Suchita #clip
Nathan Abrams
Scholar and commentator on film, especially Kubrick
Episode: How did Kubrick think? | Ft: Nathan Abrams | The Artists with Suchita
Carrie Rickey
Author of a comprehensive book on Agnès Varda
Episode: The Cinema of Agnès Varda | ft. Carrie Rickey | The Artists with Suchita #151
Ranjani Mazumdar
Film scholar providing scholarly context on Satyajit Ray
Episode: SATYAJIT RAY & HIS WORLD | Ft: Ranjani Mazumdar | The Artists with Suchita #CLIP #theartistspodcast
Amborish R. Choudhury
National award–winning author and film critic
Author of a Raj Khosla biography
Episode: The Cinema of Raj Khosla I Amborish R Choudhury I The Artists with Suchita Ep 167
David Desser
Film scholar guest providing analysis on Kurosawa and Ozu
University of California, Berkeley (scholarship on Japanese cinema)
Episode: 🎬 Kurosawa & Ozu | ft. David Desser #CLIP

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Suchita Bhhatia
Host and filmmaker introducing conversations about art, culture, and cinema.

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3.7 out of 5 stars from 36 ratings
  • Informative and valuable!

    Suchita has a great interviewing style and her first interviews here so far are very compelling and have covered very interesting aspects of filmmaking. As an aspiring filmmaker, I find this podcast to be just great. I’m always on the look out for something like this. I’m excited to see what she comes out with next!

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The Cult of Pasolini | How Did Pasolini Think? | Ft: Robert Gordon | the Artists with Suchita #176
Q: How did Pasolini view cinema in relation to poetry and language?
He saw cinema as a visual language that could rupture conventional syntax, blending both subjective interiority and objective reality, and he argued that the cinema's lexicon is not fixed but derived from the world itself, which makes cinema a democratized, expansive medium rather than a structured dialectic.
How did Kubrick think? | Ft: Nathan Abrams | The Artists with Suchita
Q: How did he develop his taste, Nathan, as a storyteller? Did he have any rigorous everyday practices?
Nathan Abrams explains that Kubrick developed taste through disciplined, repeatable practices—such as analyzing chess for long-term strategy and psychological insight, treating creative work as a rigorous daily discipline, and drawing on a broad spectrum of influences from music to literature to television—yielding a unique, comprehensive approach to storytelling.
Kurosawa vs Ozu | ft. David Desser| The Artists with Suchita #172
Q: What aspects of upbringing and life experiences shaped their cinema?
Ozu's lifelong bachelorhood, domestic life, and stable studio environment contrasted with Kurosawa's family background, samurai lineage, and more turbulent path, which together contributed to their distinct narrative and visual sensibilities.
Kurosawa vs Ozu | ft. David Desser| The Artists with Suchita #172
Q: What would there be in a word that describes the difference between Kurosawa and Ozu?
Two words: Kurosawa is interested in heroism and Westernized tension, while Ozu focuses on dailiness and the quiet domestic life, highlighting a fundamental stylistic and thematic split between them.
🎬 Kurosawa & Ozu | ft. David Desser #CLIP
Q: How does an artist form their way of seeing the world?
The guest explains that it's a blend of external cultural influences and inner psychology, with an artist exercising a kind of free will to inject their desires and unique styles into their work, resulting in a distinctive vision.

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The show centers conversations with filmmakers, critics, and scholars about how great artists think, blending discussions of cinema, design, psychology, and technology. Across episodes, the host guides deep dives into how artists navigate boundaries between mainstream appeal and art cinema, with frequent focus on legendary directors (and their methods, influences, and legacies). Notable tendencies include close readings of filmmaking craft, production realities, and the personal philosophies that drive creative decisions. A standout element is the willingness to connect theory with contemporary debates (e.g., AI, taste, gender, and global cinema), often drawing on scholarly insight and industry experience to illuminate both process and phil... more

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