Primal Screen

Guest host Eloise Ross talks to veteran director Bill Mousoulis about his project 'Unknown Pleasures', a series of screenings featuring classic and contemporary Australian independent cinema. Then, guest critics Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Anders Furze join Eloise to review the new satirical drama OFFICIAL COMPETITION and DREAMING WALLS. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:...

Guest presenter Eloise Ross chats to film critic Cerise Howard, who has programmed Melbourne Cinémathèque’s new season ‘Masterpieces of Ukrainian Cinema’. Eloise is then joined by guest reviewers Anders Furze and Paul Anthony Nelson to look at the new TV series THE OLD MAN starring Jeff Bridges; and they pay tribute to the late James Caan by revisiting his oscar-nominated performance in THE GODFAT...

Host Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewers Dr Andrew Lynch and Dr Tara Lomax for a look at superheroes on screen. They review Ryan Griffen’s 2016 Indigenous superhero story CLEVERMAN and Taiki Waititi’s new release THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/primal_screen

It's a Finnephiles special in celebration of the Scandi Film Festival! Lisa Kovacevic talks to Finnish directors Juho Kuosmanen, about his film COMPARTMENT NO.6, and Mikko Myllylahti about his new release THE WOODCUTTER STORY. Lisa then chats to Australian filmmaker Adrian Francis about his documentary PAPER CITY, which is screening at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Facebook: https://www....

Host Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewers Will Cox and Anthony Carew as they dive into new releases online and in the cinemas. They review Baz Luhrmann’s biopic ELVIS and Netflix's basketball drama HUSTLE starring Adam Sandler. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/primal_screen

Flick ford is joined by guest critics Emma Westwood and Sally Christie for a horror double. They tuck into Mimi Cave’s dating app horror FRESH and then they journey into Alex Garland’s rural horror MEN.  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/primal_screen

Presenter Flick Ford speaks with former Director of Film Programs at ACMI (and now Creative Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival) Kristy Matheson, about ACMI’s new retrospective on the works of Iranian Director Abbas Kiarostami. Flick is then joined by Melbourne filmmaker Subah Kamal to talk about Asghar Farhadi’s A HERO. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram...

Flick Ford chats to Dr. Andy Lynch and Alexa Scarlata about alternative streaming platforms. They then review Danny Boyle’s new Sex Pistols bio-pic PISTOL and the rural horror series FROM.  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/primal_screen

Flick Ford and Lisa Kovacevic talk to Artistic Director Thomas Caldwell about the Children’s International Film Festival and Associate Professor Liam Burke about what parents want from Aussie kids’ TV. Lisa and Flick review the popular kids' TV show BLUEY. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/p...

Host Flick Ford chats to director and writer Franziska Stünkel about her latest film THE LAST EXECUTION which is screening as part of the German Film Festival. And Will Cox and Dr. Stuart Richards drop by to discuss the true-crime HBO mini-series THE STAIRCASE, PETITE MAMAN by Céline Sciamma and more. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/prima...

Host Flick Ford speaks to Monash University Associate Professor Belinda Smaill about the podcast series SEEING GREEN that revisits Aussie film classics through an environmental lens. Flick is then joined by Dr. Simon Troon, Researcher from Environment and Media Research at Monash University, who shares a mix of climate change films, from action to drama to documentaries. Facebook:  https://www.fac...

Host Eloise Ross chats to Claire Jankelson, Director of The South African Film Festival, about how the festival got started and what to check out. Journalist Anders Furze then joins Eloise to review Season 2 of RUSSIAN DOLL, THE GILDED AGE and Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the television comedy GRACE AND FRANKIE. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagr...

Host Will Cox speaks with Alice McShane, Program Manager of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) about what to expect from HRAFF's 2022 program. Will is then joined by guest reviewer Thao Phan to review Kogonada’s meditative sci-fi AFTER YANG, before heading to Spain and reviewing Nic Cage's new film THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscre...

Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewers Will Cox and Vyshnavee Wijekumar for a chat with Melbourne-based musician Dave Jacob about his reimagined techno punk score of James Cameron’s cult classic ALIEN. Flick, Will and Vyshnavee then review Robert Eggers’ bloodthirsty Viking flick THE NORTHMAN and the enigmatic drama fantasy MEMORIA starring Tilda Swinton. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/prima...

Flick Ford and Will Cox are joined by award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer Jane Castle. They discuss her documentary WHEN THE CAMERA STOPPED ROLLING about her pioneering filmmaker mother, Lilias Fraser. Stuart Richards then joins Flick and Will to review the wild multiverse martial arts movie EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, and whacky sci-fi tv series SEVERANCE. Facebook:  https://www.fa...

Flick Ford is back in the studio chatting live with Gillian Armstrong, one of Australia’s most celebrated filmmakers, who will be the subject of upcoming Melbourne Cinémathèque screenings. Flick and film critic Cerise Howard ask Gillian about her diverse filmography and the changes she has seen in Australian cinema over her extensive career. Film critic Eloise Ross then joins Flick and Cerise to r...

Host Lisa Kovacevic chats with Melbourne director David Willing about his debut feature film SURROGATE and is then joined by reviewers Will Cox and Stuart Richards to discuss the life giving and life destroying element carbon, in the new documentary CARBON: THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY. They also discuss a community divided by the climate catastrophe and their long road to recovery in the ABC's PEOP...

It’s fright night on Primal Screen! Stuart Richards is joined by guest critics Will Cox and Eloise Ross. We hear from Perri Cummings and Paul Anthony Nelson of Cinema Viscera about their new Melbourne-based horror APPARITIONS, peer into the dark side of college campuses in Mariama Diallo’s psychological horror MASTER and discuss Ti West’s new American slasher X. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com...

Lisa Kovacevic chats to UK-based producer Nicky Bentham about her new true crime comedy THE DUKE starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. Lisa is also joined by film critics Will Cox and Vyshnavee Wijekumar to discuss menstruation and giant red pandas in the new animated Pixar film TURNING RED, and the age-old relationship humans have with water in Jen Peedom’s RIVER.

Lisa Kovacevic and is joined by Will Cox and Stuart Richards as they chat with Danny Cohen about his new Courtney Barnett documentary ANONYMOUS CLUB. They also review Mia Hansen-Løve’s BERGMAN ISLAND and Steven Soderbergh’s KIMI. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/primal_screen

Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewer Emma Westwood as they discuss Matt Reeves' THE BATMAN and Lily Horvát's PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME. They also talk to Director and Writer Susanna Nicchiarelli about her new biopic MISS MARX  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter:  https://twitter.c...

Flick Ford is joined by film critics Emma Westwood and Lisa Kovacevic in spotlighting female-focussed tv dramas that are currently streaming. They review the teen survival series YELLOWJACKETS, the drug-fuelled teen drama EUPHORIA, and Sex and the City reboot AND JUST LIKE THAT. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: h...

Host Flick Ford discusses the European Film Festival Europa Europa with Artistic Director Thomas Caldwell and film critic Cerise Howard. They also review Pedro Almodóvar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS and Michael Showalter’s Christian Evangelist biopic THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter:  https://twitt...

For the first show of the year, Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewer Will Cox as they look back on this summer’s top films. They review the Princess Diana biopic SPENCER, Paul Thomas Anderson’s LICORICE PIZZA and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, THE LOST DAUGHTER. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter:  https...

Guest presenters Karl Chapman and Maudie Osborne talk music in film. They share and discuss soundtrack selections, including music from Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy drama LICORICE PIZZA and Edgar Wright’s psychological Horror LAST NIGHT IN SOHO. Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/primal_scre...