Inspirational cinéaste and permanently dressed-for-Diane-Keaton-dinner Ruby Arroswmith-Todd (film curator for AGNSW) joins Jen on Movies, Movies, Movies to discuss her selection of films in the arthouse section of SFF 2022 aka FLUX: ART + FILM. You still have the chance to see The United States of America by James Benning and Dry Ground Burning by Adirley Queirós + Joana Pimenta: go to work. Ruby and Jen talk rituals for pre/post/during arthouse: maybe it's going to Timezone gaming and/or knowing when to press pause for a scroll and snack. Then a breakdown of capturing America, bullshit Bolsonaro, and did you know Ruby's schtick began with a love for Vaginal Davis? This episode is not about formalism. Ruby doesn't need a script.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Timezone w/Ruby Arrowsmith-Todd

Jen is joined by Craig Boreham, Sydney cinema gaybysitter, writer/director, muse and mentor, and SFF 2022 participant whose feature film Lonesome starring Josh Lavery and Daniel Gabriel is playing the State Theatre. The two talk finding Josh on Instagram, and the beautiful challenges of working with small-ass budgets. What ever happened to the 90s? Why don't we see films like in the Greg-old days of Araki and formative Wong Kar-Wai date nights? The two land on bad gays in movies, and how important Hannah H*orvath is for learning. Jen claims they're reading about how 'nobody is making good erotic thrillers anymore' and Craig drops the 'c' word (connection) a few times. Gay pedagogy.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mister Lonely w/ Craig Boreham

Movies, Movies, Movies is joined by Ripper Gently, film programmer of Pink Flamingo Cinema Marrickville to talk their co-curation 'Outlaws' which starts June 15th so chop chop chickens. Films/discussion includes Lizzie Borden, Abel Ferrera (s/o Dasha), whether Juliette Binoche in Chocolat is an outlaw, Baz Luhrmann's francophile security at Cannes, that sexy Kathryn Bigelow movie 'Vampire Bikers' and how to pronounce 'Andrezj Wajda'. This episode was recording during reconciliation week on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, the traditional custodians of the land on which we recorded our intro. Movies, Movies, Movies operates on unceded Aboriginal land, including the lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. Always was, always will be.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Merci Beaucoup (3x) w/ Ripper Gently

Caprisongs + Friends and Strangers + Fantastic Breasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Jen and André get on their knees for the colony reviewing 3 British works. Is everything actually about London? The headline is British sink horror. They talk Harry Potter politics, struggling white filmmakers - struggling with Australianism - and how the UK is dogs. The two also announce their film festival Garden Reflexxx Presents, snag your tickets if you're in Eora (Sydney).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We've turned: Cinema Reborn hooked Jennifer + Andj this year with screenings of Sambizanga (1972) and Return Home (1989), which proves transport is...in. Claire Denis being boring: out. We talk living female cinematographers (Mandy Walker), the downstairs State Theatre bar, Kylie Minogue's track from Holy Motors, Jen's favourite David Stratton rant, and capital P period films in an interview with director Leah Purcell. Leah describes dreaming of trees and finding them irl which is just right: films make dreams come true. Her feature The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is in cinemas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Boring Travail w/ Leah Purcell

The Lost City + Memoria On opposite sides of the Innerwest Jen and André do Movies, Movies, Movies (through FaceTime and studio, featuring diegetic plane sounds). They try to understand David Cronenberg’s new Kristen Stewart film, then there’s discussion about The Lost City, Memoria, Bullock; is-there-such-thing-as-an-experimental blockbuster?; director Nietzchka Keene, the cuteness of pirating films, and why Apichatpong is so easy to watch. Björk is on the red carpet demanding better films: us too.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Flight Path

Pre-Oscars predictions: all correct. While no one watches the Oscars they actually get messy, and artist Kalanjay Dhir (featured on the lineup for Soft Centre: Arc) talks to us about filmmaking. We get into his recommendations (Voices of a Distant Star), Soft Centre's event, working with his Mum Sri, and what it's like making work for a movie screen. We also discuss 3 Women i.e the hosts of the Academy Awards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sri! w/ Kalanjay Dhir

The Batman + Kimi: welcome back from Covid-19 two Filmlordes once said. Jen and André discuss the niche (hate that word) release of Memoria in Sydney, Zoë Kravitz doing the work, and their Jean Cocteau marathon (it was only one movie) they had during their Covid isolation. Also; who really is the muse? And what is The Batman? (Spoiler: we don't care)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zoë

Benedetta + Somebody Somewhere. Behind every JC is a Video Store Owner with cute suggestions. We controversially reveal Academy Award winner Jane Campion's Film Club rental history live on air. Andj reviews Bridgett Everett in Somebody Somewhere and gushes over Charlotte Rampling in Benedetta. The Europa! Film Festival is looming and so is a new Souvenir movie starring André's cousins. Jenny calls in for Valentine's Day and recites Charlotte's advice on grief from And Just Like That. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Somebody Somewhere 

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 to snatch. Film Club forever…is a lame thing to say because really ‘DVDs forever!’ as we need customers to buy our upcoming art. To Film Club: Love and Trust.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 featuring work by John Akomfrah, Garrett Bradley, Stan Douglas, Theaster Gates, Arthur Jafa, Kahlil Joseph, Isaac Julien, Steve McQueen and Carrie Mae Weems. It's so fun being back in the studio getting corrected on our botched (Łódź) Polish pronunciation by Maia. Do widzenia i dziękuję!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fireflies: Visions Inside Laura Dern

Scream + And Just Like ThatFor 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.

The Worst People In The World

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.  In the interview we discuss the death of Queen E, making independent films, honoring Stanley Kubrick, on set health, cheeseburgers, and horror as feminist affect. Dasha is actually really sweet and not as scary as we thought she’d be. Please enjoy but also - trigger warning - we discuss some heavy topics so would like to warn listeners before they engage. The Scary of Sixty First hits cinemas nationally from December 16! Giallo.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Red Scare Christmas w/ Dasha Nekrasova

"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, queer liberation, the need to work out before a shoot, and Radu's motivation behind filmmaking. Surprisingly, Soda Jerk comes up in the chat.  EDIT/CW: Contrapoints is not 'fully' a PHD student. André also reveals an appreciation for problematic film Blue is The Warmest Colour.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sex on screen or WTF Romania w/ Radu Jude

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 André's personal beef with Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Is Memoria a lame-stream sell out film? To note: Nashen likes Rashomon (1950), for any critics out there...  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is Memoria mainstream? w/ Nashen Moodley [SFF Special]

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