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In this episode we dedicate Movies, Movies, Movies to our revealing and meandering zoom interview with Sia, a 9-time Grammy nominee turned Adelaidean Dogme filmmaker. Her new film Music starring Maddie Ziegler and Kate Hudson has come out, marred by polarising opinions, making us wonder: does music make the people come together? A feature length musical feast the film is a mind-boggling experience...

We speak with SiA over zoom about her new feature length directorial debut Music - which she directed, co-wrote, and co-produced. It stars Maddie Ziegler as Music, a young girl inspired by an autistic child SiA met during her AA meetings. Kate Hudson plays Music’s sister - a woman recovering from pain, forced to care for her disabled sibling. Music  is a quintessentially SiA love letter...

We speak with Emily Dash and Genevieve Clay-Smith, two filmmakers and disability advocates about the controversy surrounding SiA’s new film Music. Emily Dash is a disability advocate at Accessible Arts and a critically acclaimed filmmaker. Her CV includes productions at ABC, Sydney Opera House Studio, PACT, as well as screenings at Sydney Film Festival and ABC iView. Genevieve Clay-Smith is...

The Frans in question are Fran Lebowitz and Frances McDormand. In movies about places, one a seven part ode to New York and its cynical icon by Martin Scorcese, the other a tone piece about desert living by Chloe Zhao. We also interview Nathalie Morris about Stan's Bump, and wonder if W Magazine knows the meaning of resourceful cinema (we recommend they ask Lucie McMahon). We also discuss Michael...

Bump + Let Them All Talk. The Film Lordes mispronounce Diane Wiest and Denis Villeneuve today after a chaotic hospital and quarantine weekend that felt like the third season of Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom. Jen declares we should have known that Shia Labeouf was abusive based on the role he wrote for himself in Honeyboy (not to mention the one Sia writes for him in the Elastic Heart music video),...

We Are Who We Are + Happiest Season Jen and André discuss the teaser trailer for Sia’s new film Music and ask listeners to share their thoughts. Luca Guadagnino champions the American diplo-brat and K Stew finally befriends Dan Levy during Christmas. In the lead up to the end of the year the Lordes want to know: what questions are we asking of movies? Less diner chats? The text line i...

The most controversial auteur in cinema herstory is back with a new HBO show: Industry which we decided to pair with Emily in Paris and couldn't help but wonder: In 2020 is it more of a fantasy to be overseas or have a job? We give William from Young a special pass to Sydney Film Festival's State Theatre Summer Season and ignore Movie News altogether. <3  See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

Drew Lint joins us to talk about his Herrensauna Horror M/M which we will be screening for it's Australian Premiere as part of Pink Flamingo's Extremely Online series this Thursday at 8pm. We talk techno culture and how instagram influenced the film and the community that surrounded the scene he was trying to genre-fy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ripper Gently/Ingrid Diekmann joins us to talk Pink Flamingos Extremely Online series while we talk Drew Lint's queer-techno-horror M/M, Sean Connery (?), Borat and The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner - a poetic film about an android that was censored from Melbourne Film Festival to the outrage of local critics and will be getting a release anyway.   See omnystudio.com/listener...

Miranda July joins us for a special interview about her new film Kajillionaire, which we also break down in Take Two. Maria Dimitrakas hosts today as we dish on a new NYU film school (that we thought was free but is actually 1k US), HBO Max and Isabelle Huppert joins the cast of Arrivederci which will shoot in Greece and Australia playing an diva. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...

SNL + The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Fights break out over the text line after we call Miranda July lame on air in our first episode back in studio since lockdown. Enoch Mailangi fiiiinally makes All My Friends Are Racist official and we have a huge torrent of news that circles 1993 to now with Hocus Pocus almost topping the box office in the USA this week. See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

Chaotic off-script hard glitch energy today as four voices with skin in the game therapiZe each other about how hard it is to love movies in 2020. Chloe Corkran is unmoved by Sofia Copolla's new daddy issue comedy On The Rocks and yearns for the escapism of Marie Antoinette (and Bill Murray as a father) while Sam Icklow is outraged by the saviour complex of Jackie Weaver's southern baptist choir m...

911 / Les Misérables - Rainbow Chan and Marcus Whale join us to talk about In the Mood – A Love Letter to Wong Kar-wai & Hong Kong streaming live from the Sydney Opera House this Saturday. Madonna is writing and directing a film about herself and Diablo Cody is co-signing, Chloé Zhao is probably going to get Best Picture and Best Director, Queer Screen 2020 is up and runnin...

I'm Thinking of Ending Things + Thanks A Lot, Anna Barnes joins us to talk about writing on Retrograde, iView's zoom-room rom-com. Venice film festival is back, Robert Pattinson aka The Batman has co-co and John Waters has designed the New York Film Festival's 2020 poster.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this feat of Zoom sound art we chat to MIFF’s 2020 Critics Campus - all 8 of them - to discuss everything but MIFF 2020. Topics include the hologram of Philip Seymour Hoffman in Casper, the 1973 film Duvidha, Mandy/Midsommar/Suspiria, cinema as hypnosis, Elizabeth Debicki witnessing a car crash irl, wall projections of films, Sims cinema, and pretending to be Agnès Varda. This year...

Babyteeth + Last and First Men, Keanu Hoi talks about Flip Book, a free course focusing on demystifying animation, from editing to 3D to 2d to rotoscoping. Freya Aisbitt joins us to give her  honest  opinion about Babyteeth and Jen reviews the unique First and Last Men from the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. Plus AOC talks makeup, DC Universe dumps so many trail...

In this feat of Zoom sound art we chat to MIFF’s 2020 Critics Campus - all 8 of them - to discuss everything but MIFF 2020. Topics include the hologram of Philip Seymour Hoffman in Casper, the 1973 film Duvidha, Mandy/Midsommar/Suspiria, cinema as hypnosis, Elizabeth Debicki witnessing a car crash irl, wall projections of films, Sims cinema, and pretending to be Agnès Varda. This year’s MIFF Criti...

She Dies Tomorrow + The Swallows of Kabul + Francesca Levi talks The Colour of Chips, The Colour of Pomegranates and champions the accessibility of experimental cinema. We miss Linda Manz already, a Pemulwuy movie is coming our way and our least favourite actress (because she walked past our car crash) Elizabeth Debicki is going to play (the most overrated Princess) Diana in The Crown. See omnystu...

First Cow + Family Romance, LLC: So much news to catch up on, The Matrix was always a trans-text (duh), Megan Thee Stallion is writing a film, another Scream is coming our way and Sequin in a Blue Room is getting a theatrical run. Black Birds creative director and the new host of Canvas Ayeesha Ash talks to us about Black is King and we review indie overlords Werner Herzog and Kelly Reichardt, sho...

Gloria joins us in studio to review Judd Apatow and Pete Davidson's King of Boring Island, Victoria Singh Thompson tells us about her crowdfunded short film Don't Forget To Go Home which is playing at MIFF 2020 and gives us an insider scoop on the Mukbang controversy. In the world, the Bachchan Bollywood dynasty have contracted covid and Mel Gibson owns Dendy (which is turning 80 this year), so if...

Bait + I May Destroy You, plus the Filmlordes talk to director Alex Wu about SFF 2020, and his award winning work 'Idol'. Plus, we discuss the news surrounding SBS and SFF, and update the segment with some new stings. Also, Zendaya made a film during Covid-19 lockdown (brag?) with Sam Levinson. We're back! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Disclosure + Life Drawing Live, plus the Filmlordes interview Yolanda Frost, a performance artist and orgy organiser, who participated in the life drawing event as a model. Also in film news: Dendy Opera Quays changes to United Cinemas, Karrabing Film Collective make their film 'The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland' available at DEMO, and we have a discussion about SBS' Life Drawing Live event wit...

In the words of Fiona Apple 'ladies, ladies, ladies': Sydney Film Festival has completely capitulated to complaints from the community after they praised and awarded the most tone-deaf film in recent memory, Mukbang, Enoch Mailangi talks about the 100 signatures confirming the systemic racism at NIDA and we review two things that have been getting us through lockdown 2020: Meriem Benani and Orian...

Netflix is atoning for blackface- Chris Lilley gone, Black Lives Matter playlist in, same with SBS On Demand. Sydney Film Festival is online and, also on SBS On Demand, which André thinks has curation about as lame as when Venice Film Festival programmed Joker and Roman Polanski in the same year. LA based filmmaker and friend Oates Wu is back to filming in China after being stranded there for four...

We speak with Nashen Moodley, Sydney Film Festival director, about this years festival operating online, how someone on Jobseeker could afford it and what his read of the cinematic zeitgeist that we aren't getting this year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.