The "Hedy Lamarr came over the oceans" edition.

A wave of film festivals has hit Melbourne and Cultural Capital are surfing its crest, megaphone in one hand, ticket stub in the other, calling it as we see it. Anders and Eloise get the lowdown on the highlights of the Czech and Slovak Film Festival (CASFFA)from its programmer Cerise Howard, including a review of the 1933 game-changer Ecstasy. Meanwhile, the AACTA film festival may just be screening for members but festival host Andy has all the insights about Australian films that may be winning awards and getting wider release. Andy also reviews the blockbuster The House With a Clock in its Walls within seconds of the embargo lifting. That's how we roll at Cultural Capital: biweekly, yet thrillingly relevant.

01:00 Ecstasy (1933)

11:52 An interview with CASFFA festival head Cerise Howard

24:55 CASFFA

26:45 Cultural Capital Film Diary

28:55 AACTA Film Festival with particular focus on Just Between Us, Lost Gully Road and The Flip Side.

44:56 The House With a Clock in its Walls

The Fonda Fonda Fonda edition...

Inspired by a talk she gave in Melbourne last week, the podcast trio turn their attention to the marvel that is Jane Fonda. Taking a look at her filmography, her politics, her workouts, her obsessions and inspiration. This is a one-off special devoted to one of Hollywood's brightest and most enduring stars.

00:30 - Jane Fonda from Henry to They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

28:07 - Cultural Capital Film Diary

31:00 - The Rereaders

34:03 - Jane Fonda from Klute to renewed political activism.

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The "LAZZaro!" edition.

As MIFF 2018 disappears into the rearview, it’s time to review. Cultural Capital regroup to compare notes, look at the films getting a wider release over the coming months, pick favourites and single out disappointments, and share the Cultural Capital Film Diary.

00:50 Happy as Lazzaro

11:23 Zama

18:55 Burning

26:09 Cultural Capital Film Diary

29:08 [Censored]

32:35 Sorry Angel

36:50 Hearts Beat Loud

40:30 Lean on Pete

42:13 Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

43:49 TYREL

47:00 Ex Libris- The New York Public

48:15 Films that disappointed us

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The "I'm excited to going back to watch stuff on my Mac" edition.

Cultural Capital invite the participants in this year's MIFF's Critics Campus on the pod to discuss the experience of spending a week as a film critic, share highlights of the festival so far and contemplate the future of film criticism. Meet Ivana Brehas, Sam Harris, Eliza Janssen, Valerie Ng, André Shannon, James Waters, Claire White and Debbie Zhou. And a big thank you to Luke Goodsell for bringing us all together.

You can read the work of the MIFF Critics Campushere: http://miff.com.au/blog, and find Claire White's Teen Screen Cinemateque at @teencineteq

The mid-MIFF with a neon midriff edition.

01:08 Shoplifters

10:06 Wildlife

15:56 You Were Never Really Here

24:00 The Image Book

29:05 Let the Corpses Tan

30:42 Fugue

36:15 Hard Paint

39:24 Full Moon in Paris

41:00 What we're looking forward to

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For our final episode before MIFF we review Guy Maddin's Vertigo homage, The Green Fog, and share our impressions of MIFF films we've already seen (including Acute Misfortune, First Reformed, Shoplifters, Burning and Capharnaüm), and those we're most excited to see. Andy includes an interview he did with Genevieve Bailey, the director of MIFF sell-out documentary Happy Sad Man, and opens the Cultural Capital Film Diary. Finally, we look back at the best films of 2018 so far.

00:55 - The Green Fog

12:29 - MIFF 2018 reviews and previews

28:02 - Cultural Capital Film Diary

30:11 - Happy Sad Man's Genevieve Bailey interview

51:51 - The Best of 2018 so far

That piano music played before our favourite films from 2018 is from Phantom Thread.

The poll of 51 Australian critics that Eloise mentions can be found here: https://www.flicks.com.au/news/the-25-greatest-australian-films-of-the-21st-century-how-every-critic-voted/

Breathless but full of complementary hors d'oeuvres and some house red, Anders, Andy and special guest Jo DiMattia rushed from the MIFF program launch at Melbourne's opulent Forum Theatre to pool their thoughts.

Is the slate of Australian films the strongest MIFF has ever had? Did the programmers get the best they could from Cannes? We have a new venue, will it be more comfortable than the Comedy Theatre? And who'll brave the Astor's 737-minute Nic Cage-a-thon? We endeavour to answer these questions, share a Film Diary, and a lot more on this, our MIFF program launch renegade recording.

Buy tickets, find out more and get amongst it all here: http://miff.com.au/

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The “vividly rendered” / Anwen as Jeanne edition.

For the fiftieth episode of Cultural Capital we show our utter professionalism by doing what we always do, we talk about films. And briefly talk about ourselves talking about films. We review Sebastian Leilo’s Disobedience, open the Cultural Capital film diary, Anders and Andy walk through Jurassic Park Fallen Kingdom, share a montage of some of our favourite bits of our two years on the wavs, and count down our favourite films about faith. Will Eloise mention Barbara Stanwyck? Can we avoid naming Night of the Hunter? And which film turns up on two lists? Listen in.

00:57 - Disobedience

16:58 - Cultural Capital Film Diary

19:27 - Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

26:30 - Happy 50th CultCap montage

31:02 - Top 3 Films about faith

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An episode from the windy rooftop of Terasse des Journalistes at the Cannes Film Festival, recorded just hours before the closing ceremony. Andy takes a look at some festival highlights including reviews of Spike Lee's 'Blackkklansman', Bi Gan's 'Long Days Journey Into Night', David Robert Mitchell's 'Under the Silver Lake', Lars von Trier's 'The House that Jack Built', Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Asako I & II', Lee Chang-Dong's 'Burning', Hirokazu Kore-eda's 'Shoplifters' and Nadine Labaki's 'Capernaum'. Andy also shares an interview he recorded with Charles Williams, director of the short film All These Creatures.

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The "Is that a noir? I don't know." edition

This episode, Melbournian film podcast reviews Melbournian film noir, when Cultural Capital takes a look at Paul Anthony Nelson's Trench. We share a brief interview with Nelson, the film's writer director, and its co-star Perri Cummings, and count down of our Top 3 favourite film noirs of this century. Andy takes a quick look at the Russo Brothers' Avengers Infinity War, Simon Baker's Breath and Jason Reitman's Tully, and cracks the spine on that family favourite, the Cultural Capital Film Diary.

00:46 Trench

17:25 Avengers Infinity War

20:08 Tully

22:51 Breath

25:44 Cultural Capital Film Diary

26:46 Top 3 Film noirs of the twenty-first century

During the countdown Anders mentions Abby Ronner's article about surveillance noir: https://creators.vice.com/en_au/article/nz4qwg/were-living-in-a-21st-century-film-noir, and Conor Bateman's video essay about the cinematography of Zodiac: https://vimeo.com/225926387.

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