Best Andrew F Peirce Podcasts (2025)

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Lars and the Real Girl Umbrella Entertainment Blu-Ray Collectors Edition Review 19:11

4d ago19:11

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Lars and the Real Girl is Craig Gillespie's 2007 indie comedy-drama about a man who has an unconventional relationship with a sex doll. That man is a young Ryan Gosling, who is supported by Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Patricia Clarkson, and Bianca the Doll. Umbrella Entertainment have released an impressive collectors edition of the film which …

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Gold Coast Film Festival: Jane Larkin on the lived-in perspective of her elite sports drama The Edge 40:13

5d ago40:13

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Before commencing her career as a filmmaker, Jane Larkin was an Australian representative sprinter, pushing her body to the limits on the track. In the moments of preparation, cooldowns, and every minute in between, Jane was building friendships, learning from fellow athletes, and seeing a world of sports that we rarely get to see in cinema. After …

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German Film Festival: Andres Veiel on the urgency of his new documentary Riefenstahl 14:44

6d ago14:44

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Andres Veiel's latest documentary, Riefenstahl, delves into the dark and deep archive of the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl, exposing the deep ties the filmmaker had with the Nazi regime. Andres uses footage and correspondence from Riefenstahl's own personal records, including hidden interviews and documents that present a different side of a d…

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Saskia Archer on building a foundation of empathy in her acting 40:50

10d ago40:50

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Saskia Archer is an actor on the rise. From the streets of Sydney, to the turf of Tasmania where she embarked on a path to become a paramedic, to a shift to WA where she built her acting skills at the WA Academy of Performing Arts, and now, to the bustling city of New York, Saskia is seeing the world and forging a path in acting doing so. Genre-fan…

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Eli Craig has a message to horror audiences: go see Clown in the Cornfield in cinemas if you want sequels 16:28

11d ago16:28

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Eli Craig smashed onto the slasher scene with his genre-defying comedy event Tucker & Dale VS Evil, and he's back with another slasher that upends expectations: Clown in a Cornfield. Clown in a Cornfield is based on the first entry in Adam Cesare's Frendo series which chucks a group of teens into the mayhem of a Midwestern American town where they …

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Mother of Chooks co-director Jesse Leaman on the joy of making a film with his mum 36:09

13d ago36:09

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Every so often, you sit down to watch a film, and find that it unexpectedly fills a hole you didn't know you had in your life. You might not know you needed a charming, dose of positivity in that moment, but as the seconds tick over, you find yourself being swept along in a wave of joy that your day shifts and things that would usually bother you s…

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How Umbrella Entertainment physical media essays are written 1:00:32

15d ago1:00:32

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And we're back with another review discussion with myself, Andrew, and my colleague Nadine Whitney. In this episode, we discuss the work that we both did on the Umbrella releases of Eyes Without a Face and Hounds of Love, while also discussing the importance of the supplementary materials that come with physical media releases, alongside the work t…

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Fantastic Film Festival: Bluebird director Darwin Schulze talks about his creative vision to bring adventure back to Australian screens 35:26

16d ago35:26

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ion to our humanity. At twelve years of age, Darwin won the award for Best Film by a Child Producer, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing at the KidzFlicks awards for his short film Red Panda Man. He had previously made a claymation short film called My Eco Friendly House. Darwin then also was a Tropfest Jr finalist for his short Milk. Again, he w…

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The Correspondent director Kriv Stenders on the need to support a free press in 2025 29:03

18d ago29:03

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In December 2013, Australian journalist Peter Greste, alongside fellow Al Jazeera colleagues Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, were arrested in Cairo, Egypt under charges of holding illegal meetings with the Muslim Brotherhood, an organisation declared as a terrorist group by the Egyptian Interior Ministry. Kriv Stenders is a prolific Australi…

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Darcy Newton and Luca Catalano Get Raucous and Loud with their Kingswood Doc CLAPTRAP 27:04

1M ago27:04

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Aussie band Kingswood are rock royalty, having played shows with AC/DC and The Hives, tearing down the rooves of Aussie venues in equal measure with their unique brand of raucous rock. In 2024, the band undertook a record-setting road trip across Australia with the Hometowns Tour, the longest ever music tour, encompassing 112 shows over six months,…

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Lou Sanz on engaging with empathy with the pitch black comedy Audrey 1:07:43

2M ago1:07:43

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In 2024, director Natalie Bailey and writer Lou Sanz unleashed Audrey onto audiences in Australia and America. Here's a film that I called a caustic comedy that rains like refreshing acid rain. Here's the story of a mum, Ronnie (played by Jackie van Beek), who opts to literally take over the life of her daughter Audrey (Josephine Blazier) when she …

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Alice Maio Mackay on the new wave of transgender cinema 51:12

2M ago51:12

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At just twenty years old, transgender wunderkind Alice Maio Mackay has crafted a filmography that would make most seasoned professionals envious. Alice's filmography is built within a defiantly independent space that centres queer stories on screen. From 2021's short film The Serpent's Nest, to the run of genre defying horror and sci-fi feature fil…

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Zachary Ruane and Alexei Toliopoulos on becoming David Stratton & Margaret Pomeranz for their comedy show Refused Classification 37:44

2M ago37:44

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For decades, David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz were Australian film reviewing royalty, having built up a loyal following with their weekly show on SBS, The Movie Show. The 90s and early 00s was the peak of David & Margaret’s influence over Australian audiences. What they recommended, people would head out and go and see. Both David and Margaret …

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Alliance Française French Film Festival Reviews: Bolero & Miss Violet 16:25

2M ago16:25

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This podcast is also recorded in Naarm, Victoria, with fellow critic Nadine Whitney reviewing two of the films screening at the 2025 Alliance Française French Film Festival. In the following reviews, Nadine discusses Anne Fontaine's Bolero and Éric Besnard's Miss Violet. For all the festival details and to purchase tickets, visit AFFrenchFilmFestiv…

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Carmen & Bolude stars Michela Carattini and Bolude Watson on the joy of dance on film 38:53

2M ago38:53

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Carmen & Bolude marks something of a first for Australian films. Here is a comedy about two close friends, Carmen (Michela Carattini) and Bolude (Bolude Watson), who both call Australia home. Carmen proudly embraces her Latin heritage, while Bolude navigates the line between Western values and her Nigerian roots. Together, they take on the world an…

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My Melbourne Producer Mitu Bhowmick Lange on bringing the diversity of Naarm to life on screen 33:24

2M ago33:24

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My Melbourne is a powerful and uplifting new collaborative feature made with an array of established Indian directors and emerging Australian filmmakers, alongside a diverse group of writers behind the scenes, who each bring one of four stories of Naarm-Melbourne to life on screen. My Melbourne opens with the narrative called Nadini, it's directed …

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Residence director Matt Mirams gets bloody honest about indie filmmaking 44:29

2M ago44:29

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Matt Mirams is a indie creative who has over two decades of experience as a musician, actor, director, theatresports enthusiast, and independent filmmaker. His latest film, Residence, is a bloody zombie comedy that sees Australia inflicted by a brain eating parasite that turns its hosts into mindless zombies that wander the countryside looking for …

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AIDC Interview: Queens of Concrete director Eliza Cox on putting Aussie sports on screen 53:11

2M ago53:11

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With her debut feature documentary film Queens of Concrete, Eliza Cox takes audiences on a seven year journey with three skateboarders: Ava Godfrey, Charlotte Heath, and Hayley Wilson. They each embrace a different style of skateboarding, with street and park being the two styles that are featured at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics. It's that 2020 Oly…

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Celebrating imaginative logic with absurdist storyteller Jesse Vogelaar 44:29

2M ago44:29

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Jesse Vogelaar is a writer and director whose works spans across Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, flitting between the stage where he masters the art of improvisation, to advertisements, where he transforms the products of Samsung or Specsavers into savvy slices of commercial entertainment, to his growing body of short films, which includes You …

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Queer Screen Interview: Director Ruth Caudeli on recognising the global impact of abuse in their film Same, Again 19:35

2M ago19:35

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Listeners should note that the following interview contains discussions about trauma as it relates to #MeToo. The work of director Ruth Caudeli regularly appears at the Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival, with her previous films Eva and Candela and Leading Ladies both screening at the festival. Her latest film, Same, Again, makes its world premi…

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Leela Varghese, Emma Hough Hobbs, and Shabana Azeez on the best film of 2025: Lesbian Space Princess 36:25

2M ago36:25

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I'm calling it right now. Lesbian Space Princess is the film of the year. I saw it in a sold out auditorium at the beautiful art deco Piccadilly cinema in Adelaide with an Adelaide Film Festival audience that lapped up every laugh, every tear, and every splash of neon bright queer celebration on screen. Lesbian Space Princess is the animated featur…

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WA Made Film Festival Interview: James Hoare on the art of cinematography on a budget 45:19

3M ago45:19

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Cinematographer James Hoare is a recent graduate from Curtin University, where he worked alongside director Christopher Paik-Swan and writer Max Joyce to bring to life their final year short film Don't Talk About the Monster on the Roof, a micro-budget horror short flick inspired by the look of Ozploitation films. It's an impressively taut thriller…

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Queer Screen Interview: Sally! Co-Directors Ondine Rarey and Jörg Fockele on bringing the story of Sally Gearhart to life on screen 39:20

3M ago39:20

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The joyous and jubilant documentary Sally! - the exclamation mark is deliberate - is a delightful and educational journey through the life and history of Sally Miller Gearhart: a professor of Speech, Theatre, and Women Studies; a fantasy writer; and most known as a lesbian feminist activist who helped transform the world for women and queer people …

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Queer Screen Interview: Karen Knox and Lane Webber on their raucous indie rock film We Forgot to Break Up 47:44

3M ago47:44

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We Forgot to Break Up tells the story of fictional Canadian band The New Normals; an indie rock group that transcends labels and definition, and changes the scene of indie rock music. The New Normals is led by Evan (excellently portrayed by Lane Webber), a trans man singer-songwriter who has the big stage in mind all the while trying to navigate hi…

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Sundance Film Festival: "This is my advocacy" - Gen_ Director Gianluca Matarrese on Documenting Body Autonomy on Film 27:34

3M ago27:34

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Gianluca Matarrese's gentle documentary Gen_ opens with overwhelming images of planets and stars. Or are they cells and aspects of human biology? As we lean in to the screen, curious about what we're seeing, the title, Gen, that's gen with an underscore, flits on screen, with a rotation appendage of possible word creations: genesis, genitals, genet…

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Sundance Film Festival: View from the Floor Directors Mindie Lind & Megan Griffiths on Bringing Their Animated Short to Life 27:02

3M ago27:02

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If there's a minor blessing that has emerged from the pandemic, it's in the way that film festivals have shifted and persisted with online options. As one of the leading film festivals in the world, the Sundance Film Festival continues to bring selections of their festival to global audiences via their online and in person screening events. The 202…

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Voices in Deep: Jason Raftopoulos on the Purpose of Personal Filmmaking 1:42:00

3M ago1:42:00

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Jason Raftopoulous is a filmmaker who I owe my continued writing career to. In 2018, Jason released West of Sunshine, a drama about an average bloke, Jim, played by the excellent Damian Hill, scrounging through the back streets of Melbourne for money to pay back a loan shark. With a synopsis like that, West of Sunshine suggests that it'll another o…

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Albert Mwangi on Making it Look Real in Australian Cinema 58:32

3M ago58:32

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Let's take a moment to look ahead in 2025 to a few of the Australian films that will get people talking. Two particular films had their world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2024, where their lead actor and performer, Albert Mwangi, was in attendance. Kate Blackmore's Make it Look Real is a hybrid-documentary experience that explores the …

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Sing Sing | Magic Beach | Parthenope 57:47

4M ago57:47

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Andrew F Peirce and Nadine Whitney head to prison with Colman Domingo and Clarence Macklin for the powerful drama Sing Sing, before taking a sojourn to the beach for Robert Connolly's adaptation of Alison Lester's children's book Magic Beach. The waters of Australia linger in Nadine's mind as she embarks on a trip through the history of Naples with…

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Nosferatu | Better Man | We Live in Time | How to Make Gravy 1:08:34

4M ago1:08:34

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Andrew F Peirce and Nadine Whitney delve into the darkness of Robert Eggers latest horror Nosferatu, before diving onto the dance floor with Michael Gracey's Better Man. Time gets out of order with John Crowley's latest weepy, We Live in Time, followed by a soapbox chat about the AACTA award nominated adaptation of Paul Kelly's iconic song, How to …

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Die Bully Die Directors Nathan Lacey & Nick Lacey on Revisiting Trauma Through a Horror Comedy Lens 51:21

4M ago51:21

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Die Bully Die is a short film built on the notion of retribution and exorcising the pain inflicted by a high-school bully. Actors and writers Matthew Backer & Drew Weston are directed by Nathan Lacey & Nick Lacey, and collectively they bring forth a horror comedy that shows in bloody fantasy sequences how a victim might just want to throw that pain…

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Queer | Babygirl | The Room Next Door 45:08

4M ago45:08

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Welcome to the first episode of The Curb review podcast, where Andrew F Peirce and Nadine Whitney catch up to talk through recent cinema, while also recommending a feature film from the past to catch up on. In this first episode, we delve into the relationships in William S. Burrough’s Queer, directed by Luca Guadagnino and adapted for the screen b…

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Robert Connolly & Alison Lester Talk About Journeying Down to Magic Beach in This Interview 27:09

4M ago27:09

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For this final chat in the series, Andrew catches up with prolific Australian director Robert Connolly and celebrated children's author Alison Lester to talk about their new collaboration, Magic Beach. Magic Beach takes the Alison Lester's much-loved illustrated kids book and brings it to live with a series of vivid, vibrant, and invigorating anima…

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We Live in Time Director John Crowley Talks About Working with Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh in This Interview 20:23

4M ago20:23

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For this chat, Andrew catches up with Irish director John Crowley to discuss his latest drama, We Live in Time. We Live in Time is an utterly brilliant drama the follows the lives of Andrew Garfield's Tobias and Florence Pugh's Almut in an out of sequence format. We flit from the past, to the present, to the future, with each moment acting as a new…

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Adam Elliot & Sarah Snook Talk About Bringing Heart to their Mollusk-motion Flick Memoir of a Snail to Life 48:18

4M ago48:18

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On this episode, Andrew catches up with Academy Award winning master of stop motion animation, Adam Elliot, and Emmy award and AACTA award winning screen legend, Sarah Snook, to talk about their mollusk-motion flick, Memoir of a Snail. Memoir of a Snail is driven by the delightfully dark sense of comedy and a relatable pathos, both of which bring t…

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Kate Winslet on Bringing the True Story of Lee Miller to Life on Screen 21:52

4M ago21:52

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Our second discussion is with Academy Award winning actress Kate Winslet who was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for her turn as photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller in Ellen Kuras' Lee. We first meet Lee in the months before WW2 commences, where Lee worked as a fashion model before forging a path for women journalists in wartime as she became…

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Gabrielle LaBelle & Jason Reitman on Revisiting American Comedy History with Saturday Night 33:44

4M ago33:44

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Welcome to the first episode of our summer series of chats where Andrew catches up with filmmakers and creatives who are behind some of the years best films. From Saturday Night, to Lee, to We Live in Time, and Australia's own Memoir of a Snail, we've got some great film discussions to keep you going over this festive break. First off the rank is a…

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2025 AACTA Award Nomination Rundown 29:13

5M ago29:13

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Join Andrew as he gives his candid thoughts on the 2025 AACTA Award nominations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In the Trenches Director Benjamin Scotford on Documenting the Muddy Battlefields of Esperance 53:46

5M ago53:46

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With his feature documentary debut In the Trenches: The Making of Before Dawn, Benjamin Scotford has made a rare achievement within the Australian film industry: a behind the scenes documentary which follows the muddy and tough production of Before Dawn, Jordan Prince Wright's equally rare achievement, an indie war flick shot in the remote West Aus…

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Nugget is Dead Director Imogen McCluskey on Bringing a True Blue Suburban Aussie Xmas to Life on Screen 37:29

5M ago37:29

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Director Imogen McCluskey continues her exploration of suburban Australia with the comedy-drama film Nugget is Dead: A Christmas Story. This delightfully relatable Aussie Xmas tale was written by Jenna Owen and Vic Zerbst, who both act in the film alongside Aussie screen legends like Gia Carides, Damien Garvey, Ed Oxenbould, Steve Rodgers, Mandy Mc…

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Adelaide Film Festival Critics Round Up Discussion 1:10:11

6M ago1:10:11

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Welcome to a special Adelaide Film Festival round up discussion featuring myself, Virat Nehru, and Nadine Whitney. While we have known each other for years, the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival was our first opportunity to meet up in person, watch some films, and do what film critics do best: talk about them afterwards. The following discussion sees us …

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Shea Gallagher and Daniel Tune on Moviejuice 28:55

6M ago28:55

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In the heart of Adelaide, a movement is changing the conversations about film and film culture. That movement is called moviejuice, a ground up driven collective of artists, filmmakers, film theorists and enthusiasts, who commune to watch, experience, and talk about film and art culture together. Created by Shea Gallagher, Daniel Tune, and Louis Ca…

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Actor Dacre Montgomery on Went Up the Hill 22:02

6M ago22:02

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Director Samuel Van Grinsven returns to our screens with his sophomore feature film, Went Up the Hill, a powerful drama about an abandoned child, Jack (Dacre Montgomery), attending the wake of a mother he never knew, and encountering her grieving widow, Jill (Vicky Krieps). As Jack and Jill navigate the fractured existence they find themselves in, …

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Kate Blackmore on Make It Look Real 49:46

6M ago49:46

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Kate Blackmore's feature length film debut, Make It Look Real, navigates the intricacies of utilising an intimacy coordinator on the set of a film. Kate follows intimacy coordinator Claire Warden as she embarks on the collaborative process of presenting sex on screen for Kieran Darcy-Smith's film Tightrope, which features three Australian actors wh…

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Sally Aitken on Every Little Thing 24:19

6M ago24:19

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Regular readers of The Curb will know that I have a particular soft spot for the work of Sally Aitken. Through her expansive filmography that tells stories that span the globe, from David Stratton, to Valerie Taylor, to The Wiggles, and now to Every Little Thing, a film about Terry, a wildlife carer in California who runs a rehab facility for hummi…

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen on A New Kind of Wilderness 30:56

6M ago30:56

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Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's documentary A New Kind of Wilderness won the 2024 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema – Documentary and will be screening at the Adelaide Film Festival on Saturday 26 October and Tuesday 29 October. This serene and moving film follows a young family in the midst of transition. Parents Maria and Nik are raisi…

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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Ian Darling on The Pool 26:01

6M ago26:01

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Documentarian Ian Darling's filmography includes a myriad of films that explore the fabric of Australian society. With Paul Kelly - Stories of Me, Darling immersed viewers into the poetry of one of Australia's greatest lyricists. In The Final Quarter, the excoriating and cruel racism inflicted upon footy legend Adam Goodes is explored through the m…

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Like My Brother Co-Directors Sal Balharrie and Danielle MacLean on Tiwi Football in the AFLW 25:26

7M ago25:26

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The AFLW was established in 2016, expanding from an initial eight teams to eighteen in 2022. In the years since it launched, the league has grown to showcase the different styles of football that each corner of Australia has to offer. In Sal Balharrie and Danielle MacLean's essential documentary Like My Brother, we follow four AFLW hopefuls from th…

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Digging into Dance with Yeah the Boys Director Stefan Hunt and Choreographer Vanessa Marian in This Interview 31:16

7M ago31:16

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Over the span of eleven minutes, the impressive short film Yeah the Boys sways and swerves through a boozy night with the lads in nondescript backyard Australia. Drinking culture, Aussie larrikinism, and the masculinity that finds fertile ground in these areas is brought to life with a pulsing score by The Avalanches. Oh, and all of this is present…

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Parish Malfitano on Creating the Sensorially Invigorating Salt Along the Tongue 1:00:34

7M ago1:00:34

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To call Parish Malfitano's sophomore feature, Salt Along the Tongue, a straight up horror film feels like a disservice to the experience of watching this magnificent melodrama-adjacent film. Yes, there are most certainly horrific elements - blood features heavily throughout the film, upsetting tales about the symbiotic relationship between wasps an…

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