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Varda by Agnés + Pain & Glory, ANTIFA David Stratton, walkouts at The Nightingale premiere and Chernobyl backlash. A big first weekend of the Sydney film festival sees sell out premieres of Sequin in a Blue Room and Suburban Wildlife. Cutting edge and divisive cinema amidst political turmoil as fascism and authoritarianism tightens it's grip. David Stratton speaks out!!! Plus, we tease...

Filmlordes Jack and André interview filmmaker Ana Kokkinos on her film Blessed, screening at SFF 2019 in the 'David Stratton Presents' section from the collection of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. We talk about social media being a new queer beat, not making exploitative LGBT films, and how to explore danger in this day and age.  See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Chernobyl + Her Smell, and the Filmlordes talk to Canberran producer Sophie Hattch about being young and premiering two debut features at SFF 2019 - we discuss Suburban Wildlife and Sequin in a Blue Room. Also, Sandra Oh should win Best Actress at the Emmy's, and Sacha Baron Cohen is in the news (lol). We also ask listeners to name and shame Canberra for some free tickets to SFF 2019. See omn...

Saturday Afternoon + No More Lies, We talk to filmmaker Erica Glynn about She Who Must Be Loved ahead of its Sydney Film Festival debut. Wow, huge episode from Margot Robbie and Quentin Tarantino's best dog award at Cannes to James Charles's slap back. We have a great chat with Erica Glynn about what it's like to make a film about your Mum. We also talk about what it must be like to make a film ab...

Happy As Lazzaro + John Wick 3: Paracetamol, the Filmlordes interview Jenny Neighbour on All Night Cine-Love In. Also, why is Cannes so opposed to moms? And what was it like to see Eraserhead for the first time in the 70s? Jenny Neighbour talks everything cinephilia for her, and the films that have stuck with her forever. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Top End Wedding + Long Shot: Sydney Film Festival top picks and Jane Campion news.  And we couldn't help but wonder, how did we let ourselves get swept up in romantic comedies this week? News about Jane Campion's upcoming feature return, SBS World Movies channel, Peggy Lipton's passing and How To Vote for the screen industries to tell more of our own stories (Hint: not the LNP).   See om...

3 Faces + Knock Down The House, Nightmare camp trips, High Fantasy and John Singleton in memoriam. The South African Film Festival is opening at Boody J (Bondi Junction) with High Fantasy, a body-swap race relations iPhone movie that looks like an episode of Skins. We pay our respects to John Singleton and talk about whether bedwetting is edgy because there is a musical being made out of Sarah Sil...

Gloria Bell + 1985, the Filmlordes discuss Wanda, Cinema Reborn, and chat to Ana Kokkinos about their film Blessed . Lucy Lui gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi is imprisonned for being outspoken, and Lizzo joins the Cardi B film cast. The Filmlordes become the first film critics to ask the world; what is your favourite feminist film?      See omnystudio.c...

Homecoming + The Act, featuring Gillian Armstrong on the phone. Milla Jovovich is taking down the bad reviews of Hellboy and the Cannes lineup has been released featuring Rosalia in an Almodovar film! We review Hulu's The Act and Netflix's Homecoming and then talk to Australia's own international auteur Gillian Armstrong.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Unicorn Store + Guava Country, plus Celeste filmmaker Ben Hackworth talks to us about shooting a film at Paronella Park. We talk about Wine Country featuring Aunt Freckle and Maya Erskine, Heath Ledger turning in his grave as D.T. uses the Dark Knight theme in a ampaign ad and Laurie Anderson is leaning hard into VR. The Beychella documentary is dropping soon and so has the BLL Season 2 trailer. W...

Mid90s Special; the Filmlordes have an exclusive chat to two real life queer skater boys on how 'authentic' Mid90's is. Today, the film lovers talk about how to use potatoes to commemorate Agnès Varda, French auteurism (duh), and also why skate films are actually just fashion films. In the studio is the Filmordes' favourite filmmaker Rex Woods and Dr. Wilfred Brandt of 'Thank you for a...

Us + The Kindergarten Teacher: Lizzie Kidd costume assistant on Us talks to us about how Jordan Peele is getting Hollywood back on track. We also mourn the loss of the original French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda and Avant-Garde composer and musician Scott Walker while congratulating  Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, Thailand's first transgender MP who also happens to be a radical filmmaker. We also c...

Island of Hungry Ghosts + Destroyer, the Filmlordes are wild for Us, Jonas Mekas, and Trace Lysette. Cardi B finally gets her feature film debut role in Hustlers, and the Filmlordes reminisce on Jonas Mekas' contribution to film as a 'filmmer'. We ask audiences what film scared them the most, like The Ring, Saw III, and Anaconda.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Captain Marvel + The House that Jack Built, the Filmlordes pretty much break down how the world is wild and rough. Jack and André review two emotional films that are riding the wave of New Wave. We remember seminal filmmaker Barbara Hammer, pipe the release of Nicole Kidman's Destroyer, breakdown Felicity Huffman's ugly lawsuit, and little did we know Cate Blanchett does the best imper...

Everybody Knows + Now Apocalypse, plus the makers of Once Then Now a love letter to Sydney shot in 24 hours. Kristina Savic, Harison Witsey and Maeve Rose Parker tell us about what it was like to shoot a film in a day around the city and who they bumped into. We agree to disagree on everything. André tries to drag Nicole, but Jack Jen won't have a bar of it. Australia microbudgets represent...

Period. End of Sentence + Shakedown, the Filmlordes talk about the film that nabbed an Oscar about menstruation. Why is Captain Marvel being sabotaged, and is André a bro? All these questions are answered, along with a discussion about International Womyn's Day in film. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The filmlordes interview Brady Corbet about his new film Vox Lux and talk about working with Sia, genre-fucking, ending with an excellent name drop of F.W Murnau and Nicholas Roeg.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oscars 2019 Special + Brady Corbet director of Vox Lux talks about Sia + queer filmmaking in Sydney. In this one off special episode we perform an interview with Brady Corbet, with the help of Cinema Girl Lily Bennett. And we shed a tear for the Oscars. A tear of joy, or sadness? Both! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vox Lux + Alita: Battle Angel, Nicholas Wrathall joins us to talk about Undermined: Tales from the Kimberley. André is back and it's like he never left! What is Lars Von Trier turning his films into? Who was the biggest snub from the Oscar nominations? What were the Oscars originally made to distract from? What has Sia been up to??? All this and more before we are joined by Nicholas Wrathal...

Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle + High Flying Bird, Rowan Oliver is LIVE and lets us know about Rainbow Means Kill a DIY anarcho-queer video work playing in her bed at artspace. James Cameron has released his SEX CULT titles, new Gypsy and Chucky remakes w hot, smart women, Maria Callas and Ellen Page calls out Chris Pratt for attending Hillsong which promotes EVIL gay conversion therapy. See...

Velvet Buzzsaw + Let the Sunshine In, Cinema Girl Lily Bennett also reaches out to Ewan McGregor. Leigh Whannell is writing a new Escape from New York, where to catch Open Captioned screenings in Sydney, Priyanka Chopra is starring as Ma Anand Sheela in a film based on Wild Wild Country and Ewan McGregor will star as old Danny Torrance in The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep.  The last Cosmic Futu...

FYRE FRAUD + FYRE, Enoch joins us in studio and Andj phones in from Dutch festival heaven. An all female Fast and the Furious, Mardi Gras Film Festival, Leaving Neverland and why the Oscars are so boring this year. We review both Fyre documentaries and call André. He's in Rotterdam with Gaspar Noe watching Vox Lux and Robert Pattinson give his cum to Juliette Binoche on a spaceship.  S...

The World is Yours + Mary, Queen of Scots - Cinema Girl Maria Dimitrakas joins us while Andj puts the Rot in Rotterdam. Anne Hathaway to play the Grand High Witch in a new adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches - Angelica Houston says 'Good Luck', Nic Roeg rolls his eyes from the grave. Harmony Korine's Beach Bum, Olivia Wilde's Booksmart and Jordan Peele's Us to premiere at SXSW plus, Peele to pr...

Cold War + Holmes and Watson, our one year anniversary and our top ten lists! Plus: Who is hosting the Oscars? What happened at the Globes? Is Bob Fosse spinning in his grave?  We have a Cold War over Cold War and we show some love to an eclectic year in cinema.  Thank you for a mesmerising first year, it's such a pleasure to make the show! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A + Shirkers, and if Sydney isn't your bread roll then where would you rather be? We talk about the Golden Globes and that advice Tom Ford gave a few years back. Also, Filmlordes love that Sandra Oh is more relevant than ever. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.