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. 

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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.

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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!

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Scream + And Just Like That

For 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. 

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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.

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"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.

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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...

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How does a cinematographer think about image making? Are iPhone cameras as good as 16mm film stock? Jen catches up (over zoom) with future Oscar nominated cinematographer Ari Wegner who's shot two films at SFF 2021. They are Zola and The Power of the Dog. The two discuss aesthetic and ‘information’; soulful beauty; the journey towards seeing; watching a director work (in this case Jane Campion); the dance aspect of cinematography; the landscape of faces and more while Tempe based birds sing outside. Also, why do cameras have intimidating names like WEAPON and SPIDER and DRAGON? This means we discuss hyper-masculinity in film.

Tickets to Zola and The Power of the Dog can be bought at www.sff.org. 

ALSO: The intro features a snippet of The Beguiled instead of a snipper of The Power of the Dog. This is a joke.

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Draw. And then judge later. This week, Jen catches up with SFF 2021 filmmaker Dash Shaw (My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, 2016) who is returning to SFF with Cryptozoo - an animated bonanza featuring cryptids, pop art collages, Fantagraphics splendour, Dungeon & Dragons inspo, and all your favourite New York City voices (ie just Alex Karpovsky from Girls). In the chat over zoom the two discuss Laurie Anderson's metric for completing a film, and the unusual cinema that inspired Shaw. Oh, and André fell asleep in Power of the Dog.

The film Cryptozoo is playing SFF 2021; go to www.sff.org.au to buy tickets.

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