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Tag: film festivals
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E48: ROMA, SUSPIRIA, JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL
Where we fight about Alfonso Cuaron’s latest screening at the Cine Latino Film Festival, whatever happened in Suspiria and the flicks on show at the Japanese Film Festival including One Cut of the Dead, […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E47: JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL, STAN LEE, SHOPLIFTERS, ROMA, AUSTRALIA SAYS YES & KINO KABARET
Where we chat with Japanese Film Festival Programmer Alison Groves about the latest, greatest Japanese cinema (screening in Sydney from Nov 15-25), discuss the formidable, indelible and much loved legacy of Stan Lee, […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E46: RUSSIAN RESURRECTION & WINDA FILM FESTIVAL
Where we chat all things Russian Resurrection Film Festival now in full swing with Festival Director Nicholas Maksymow and delve into the third annual Winda Film Festival with Executive Director Medika Thorpe and […]
THE COACH & RUSSIAN RESURRECTION DIRECTOR NICHOLAS MAKSYMOW ON THE FESTIVAL’S OPENING FILM
Films are rarely as ideally timed as The Coach. Fresh off the Russian team’s stellar rise to the upper echelons of the FIFA World Cup tally board to the thrill and against the expectations of […]
SGT. STUBBY: AN AMERICAN HERO
Australians will likely know the tale of Simpson and his donkey – staples of the World War who famously ferried injured soldiers to safety. Perhaps better known to American audiences is Sgt. Stubby, a terrier […]
JOURNEY’S END
War epics more often than not revolve around the key or decisive battles, the grand, sweeping calls to arms or the impact, whatever it may be, of victory and defeat. Not this one. Centred on […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E40: SF3 FINALISTS REN THACKHAM & LAUREN ORRELL + A SIMPLE FAVOUR
Where we chat all things smartphone filmmaking with SmartFone Flick Fest SF3 finalists Lauren Orrell & Ren Thackham & more than simply favour ‘A Simple Favour’ – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER and subscribe […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E38: SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR STEFAN POPESCU
Where we pause our fighting to chat all things weird and wonderful at Sydney Underground Film Festival with Festival Director Stefan Popescu – kicking off this weekend at Marrickville’s Factory Theatre – tune in […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E37: SYDNEY LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL & CRAZY RICH ASIANS
Where we chat with Sydney Latin American Film Festival Programmer Gisselle Gallego and fight about all things Crazy Rich Asians – in cinemas now! Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E35: THE MEG, CRAZY RICH ASIANS, BLAZE, FIRST REFORMED, WEST OF SUNSHINE & MIRAI
Where we fight about Ethan Hawke behind and in front of the camera, giant sharks that should have remained extinct, rich folk who are both crazy and Asian, the latest Australian fare and […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E34: MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL & BODIED
Where we fight about the fightingest film ever, Bodied, and what you can look forward to in cinemas and else from the Melbourne International Film Festival with Another Bloody Movie Podcast’s Sean Coates […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E26: BLACKKKLANSMAN & SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL WRAP
Where we fight about some ‘fo real, ‘fo real shit, the Sydney Film Festival prize, some heavier, recurring themes of this year’s Festival, the final weekend of films and the ones you should […]
BLACKKKLANSMAN
“You cannot laugh and be afraid at the same time, and the devil cannot stand mockery.” Stephen Colbert’s words on election night 2016, or those like them, figured strongly in Spike Lee’s conception of BlacKkKlansman. […]
THE FIELD GUIDE TO EVIL
Bite-size horror for those who enjoy their shocks in smaller doses, Deathgasm Producer Ant Timpson’s thematic follow-up to the ABCs of Death focuses on the myth and folklore that has pervaded centuries of fear. An […]
ROCKABUL
Afghanistan’s first psychedelic metal band will hopefully not be their last. Following District Unknown through their travails, travels and some less than common receptions, Australian documentarian Travis Beard has produced a fairly intimate portrait of […]
FILMWORKER
A film about film obsessives for one in the same, Filmworker offers a portrait of the one and only Stanley Kubrick that is, as elusively as just about any of the master’s output, a portrait […]
AGA
Aga is first and foremost and in more than one respect a beautiful film. Set in some of the northernmost reaches of the globe, couple Nanook and Sedna, absent their daughter who long since left […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E24: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
Where we fight about the many, many, many films we’ve seen at the Sydney Film Festival and what you should see with 2SER 107.3 Producer Stephen Hill – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER and […]
PRODUCER/EDITOR VESELKA KIRYAKOVA AND DIRECTOR MILKO LAZAROV ON AGA
Producer/Editor Veselka Kiryakova and Director Milko Lazarov, who are out from Bulgaria for the Australian premiere of their new film, chat all things Aga which is screening tonight and throughout this week as […]
WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE
What Keeps You Alive almost had the confidence in it’s premise to pull it off. Married couple Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen – It Stains the Sands Red), venture out to Jackie’s […]
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST
Part jarring, part funny, part derivative and at times a curious jumble of all three – The Miseducation of Cameron Post has a lot going for it. Following the co-habitation of several involuntary, and complicit […]
