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Dear listeners: Film Club is closing its doors. We don’t have the tea, but we’re investigating the death of Sydney’s last DVD rental store (outside Jen’s Balinese drawers stacked full of Blu Rays). We discuss the films we bought on our (hopefully-not) last visit - 17 films to be exact. We also discuss Style Wars and The Pleasure of Being Robbed, two rare finds we were able...

Inland Empire + Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity To belatedly celebrate the release of another exciting book by our heroes at Fireflies press we are reviewing one of our all time favourite films David Lynch and Laura Dern's Inland Empire and Melissa Anderson's monograph about the film. We also spotlight the generous video art curation on offer at AGNSW Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity feat...

Scream + And Just Like That For our first show of 2022 we analyse Che and Scream, We give away tickets and t-shirts to a polarising film we haven't seen, Jen pretends to know enough about film history and industrial action and suggests an anti-trust hearing to solve Hollywood. Andj is just happy to be back.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whichever side of the curtain you’re on we’ve got Red Scare podc-artist Dasha Nekrasova discussing her new feature The Scary of Sixty-First on MMM . She directed it, and plays the lead Jeffrey Epstein conspirator who drags some New Yorkers into a semi-supernatural possession problem - we’re NOT saying Giallo -  and in something of an obsessive poem about high profile baddies...

"Objective: I don't like the word!" André chats with Romanian pravda-vocateur Radu Jude whose film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn hits Australian cinemas November 25. In this funny and nervous Zoom ramble, the two discuss BLBOLP, which follows a Romanian school teacher whose sex tape is leaked. Radu and André cover male nudity in film, being a teenager at the cinemathèque, que...

2021 marks the 10th year of Nashen Moodley's Sydney film festival directorship. We catch up with him over zoom to discuss whether we are in/coming out of a Dark Age of cinema, current trends in film festivals, and how SFF is staying relevant. We also spotlight Real by Aki Omoshaybi (which is screening at SFF) and discuss the hard sells of the festival. Listen till the end to hear about Andr&eacute...

How does a cinematographer think about image making? Are iPhone cameras as good as 16mm film stock? Jen catches up (over zoom) with future Oscar nominated cinematographer Ari Wegner who's shot two films at SFF 2021. They are Zola and The Power of the Dog . The two discuss aesthetic and ‘information’; soulful beauty; the journey towards seeing; watching a director work (in this case Jan...

Draw. And then judge later. This week, Jen catches up with SFF 2021 filmmaker Dash Shaw (My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, 2016) who is returning to SFF with Cryptozoo - an animated bonanza featuring cryptids, pop art collages, Fantagraphics splendour, Dungeon & Dragons inspo, and all your favourite New York City voices (ie just Alex Karpovsky from Girls). In the chat over zoom the t...

Filmmakers ahoy! On Movies, Movies, Movies Jen catches up with the legendary Clara Law who's showing deux films at Sydney Film Festival. An Australian/Hong Kong Second Wave director (Floating Life, Drifting Petals) Law bares her soul in one of our most honest chats. Over zoom, Jen and her discuss DIYing it, resourcefulness, Andrei Tarkovsky, playing the long game, filmmaking partners, Dostoevsky,...

Grant Ionatán aka HTMLflowers chats to us about how hard it is to have friends that don't know how to torrent and what to do when you get over explaining: start a pirate stream. Sickovision is the mindbaby of our Art Idol Grant Ionatán, an online biweekly curated movie stream that started as a way to explore disability representation in cinema, the good and the h8watches.  See o...

Annette + NYC Epicenters: 9 11 -> 2021 1/2. How is Francis Ford C independently funding his new 100 million dollar film? What male directed wall puncher is Adam Driver in now? Is Spike Lee a Truther? What's making Arca a Film Lorde this week?  Why won't Screen Australia fund films anymore? We whisper in from the kitchen bench another episode of Movies, Movies... Movies! See omnystudio.com/...

All My Friends Are Racist + Pig. All My Friends Are Racist star Davey Thompson joins us to talk about cancellations, apologies and working with Enoch Mailangi (he gushes) then Seattle-based voice of the intro Lily Bennet calls up to rave about Nicolas Cage's new movie Pig.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

White Lotus + Nine Perfect Strangers. Bonus Lockdown Episode: Voice of the Movies Movies Movies intro Lily Bennett called up Jen to talk about Pig and NOT The The White Lotus, but we did anyway. We tie the obvious links between The White Lotus, Survivor and Nine Perfect Strangers, and the not so obvious epiphany that Mike White was the lone wolf in The Stepford Wives who shot at Nicole Kidman beca...

Babylon + Four Roads. Finally we have good sound and we aren't wasting it galaxy braining bad, sad, industry films. Babylon (1980) finds the reggae underground through the visor of British kitchen sink realism, but the music keeps the harrowing experiences chill. On the other hand Alice Rohrwacher's lockdown movie is a sparkling gem of Varda-esque corniness about neighbours and the countryside tha...

Zola + Samara Weaving. Andj chats with Samara Weaving about Canberra and we enter another week in lockdown watching Abbas D.L. Kiarostami. Sydney Film Festival remains a mystery to us while Melbourne, always one step ahead, goes entirely online. Butch film icon Jenni Olson wins a Teddy Award, Cannes finishes, Black Widow has come and gone, Michaela Cole joins the MCU and Lynne Ramsay is smothered...

Lockdown again and we're actually into movies this time around after probably a full twelve months of indifference. What to watch in iso, our thoughts on Gaspar Noe's new short film and Ilana Glazer's Get Out (Of My Uterus).  Also please slide into our dms if there's anything you want to know from the director of the Sydney Film Festival, we are, hopefully, going to grill him as he enters his...

The Father + Ecstatic Static, We wonder what The Father is and recommend an incredible online film resource for people who want to skip film school. It's also time to congratulate the team behind In My Blood It Runs and the impact it's seemingly had on the new change in the curriculum to include truth-telling and Indigenous learning and new work from AFTRS grads and teachers: Bloodshot Heart and B...

United States v Billie Holiday + Demi Lovato - Dancing with the Devil We review these two queer popstar survival stories and hype three surviving cinema events. Static Vision have announced their film festival Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Film Festival and it will run from May 14th to 16th. Satoshi Kon’s Paprika looks like a highlight and low key Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street is...

French Exit + Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy, acclaimed, professional and prolific cinema intellectual Luke Goodsell joins us to vulnerably fangirl Michelle Pfeiffer and spruik his curatorship at the AGNSW: Pop Fictions, playing until May. Detransition, Baby is going to be a show by the producers of Grey's Anatomy, Marianne Williamson breaks down why she thinks Avatar is still the pinnacle of...

About Endlessness + Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar Oscars babble and backtracking; Andj and Jen journey from Floridian fart comedy to dramedy in Sweden to a local walking trail mumblecore Where the Platypuses Live. We speak with Jade Valeontis about her debut film premiering at Palace Verona on Thursday night for $5 - what keeps her fire burning and why she makes films in the first place. ...

Jen (Atherton) and André (Shannon) video-called movie-art stars and kweer icons Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch with fang0rl energy riding off the healing and provocative show ATTENTION TOURIST; showing until Sunday March 7 at Cement Fondu alongside Blackbirds, Christopher Ulutupu and 110%. Ryan T talks about his new practice: drawing. Lizzie explains how mutual destruction leads to creatio...

The unmissable Attention Tourist finishes this Sunday, March 8 at Cement Fondu featuring new work from Christopher Ulutupu, Blackbirds 110% and the stars of today's show Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch in a little excerpt of an extended interview we had with our favourite international video-stars.  We also talk about A24's Minari, the Globes, Allen v. Farrow and a special 30th anniversary sc...

Mardi Gras Special. Tilda Swinton is Officially Queer (and in the country), the Jewish Film Festival is raging (hello Shiva Baby) and Kate Hudson is open to a convo about Music.  Today in Spotlight we talk about the Mardi Gras Film Festival and a very special 30th Anniversary screening of Vegas in Space starring Sydney's incomparable Doris Fish at the Universal March 1, curated by John Allen...

Two healing shows about social media addiction and the wrong one gets the attention of the Hollywood Foreign Press, who would have thought a group of media elites that profit off monthly magazines dedicated to coverage of the Royal Family would like Emily in Paris more than I May Destroy You!? We present our alternative awards including: Most respected animal, best film that didn’t have Chlo...

Euphoria + Dustin. Mostly we are giving ourselves permission to cry over the loss of Sophie. On the side we talk about the melodrama of the second Euphoria special episode and the miracle of Hunter Schafer and the post-Gaspar 2020 club kid short Dustin which took home the Rainbow prize at Flickerfest.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.