Primal Screen

Host Flick Ford chats to director and writer Franziska Stünkel about her latest film THE LAST EXECUTION which is screening as part of the German Film Festival. And Will Cox and Dr. Stuart Richards drop by to discuss the true-crime HBO mini-series THE STAIRCASE, PETITE MAMAN by Céline Sciamma and more.

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Host Flick Ford speaks to Monash University Associate Professor Belinda Smaill about the podcast series SEEING GREEN that revisits Aussie film classics through an environmental lens. Flick is then joined by Dr. Simon Troon, Researcher from Environment and Media Research at Monash University, who shares a mix of climate change films, from action to drama to documentaries.

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Host Eloise Ross chats to Claire Jankelson, Director of The South African Film Festival, about how the festival got started and what to check out. Journalist Anders Furze then joins Eloise to review Season 2 of RUSSIAN DOLL, THE GILDED AGE and Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the television comedy GRACE AND FRANKIE.

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Host Will Cox speaks with Alice McShane, Program Manager of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) about what to expect from HRAFF's 2022 program. Will is then joined by guest reviewer Thao Phan to review Kogonada’s meditative sci-fi AFTER YANG, before heading to Spain and reviewing Nic Cage's new film THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT.

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Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewers Will Cox and Vyshnavee Wijekumar for a chat with Melbourne-based musician Dave Jacob about his reimagined techno punk score of James Cameron’s cult classic ALIEN. Flick, Will and Vyshnavee then review Robert Eggers’ bloodthirsty Viking flick THE NORTHMAN and the enigmatic drama fantasy MEMORIA starring Tilda Swinton.

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Flick Ford and Will Cox are joined by award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer Jane Castle. They discuss her documentary WHEN THE CAMERA STOPPED ROLLING about her pioneering filmmaker mother, Lilias Fraser. Stuart Richards then joins Flick and Will to review the wild multiverse martial arts movie EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, and whacky sci-fi tv series SEVERANCE.
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Flick Ford is back in the studio chatting live with Gillian Armstrong, one of Australia’s most celebrated filmmakers, who will be the subject of upcoming Melbourne Cinémathèque screenings. Flick and film critic Cerise Howard ask Gillian about her diverse filmography and the changes she has seen in Australian cinema over her extensive career. Film critic Eloise Ross then joins Flick and Cerise to review Armstrong's films STARSTRUCK, her 1982 musical comedy, as well as her 1987 drama HIGH TIDE.

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Host Lisa Kovacevic chats with Melbourne director David Willing about his debut feature film SURROGATE and is then joined by reviewers Will Cox and Stuart Richards to discuss the life giving and life destroying element carbon, in the new documentary CARBON: THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY. They also discuss a community divided by the climate catastrophe and their long road to recovery in the ABC's PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF MALLACOOTA, and Richard Linklater’s nostalgic homage to the 1960s - APOLLO 10½: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD. 

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It’s fright night on Primal Screen! Stuart Richards is joined by guest critics Will Cox and Eloise Ross. We hear from Perri Cummings and Paul Anthony Nelson of Cinema Viscera about their new Melbourne-based horror APPARITIONS, peer into the dark side of college campuses in Mariama Diallo’s psychological horror MASTER and discuss Ti West’s new American slasher X.

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Lisa Kovacevic chats to UK-based producer Nicky Bentham about her new true crime comedy THE DUKE starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. Lisa is also joined by film critics Will Cox and Vyshnavee Wijekumar to discuss menstruation and giant red pandas in the new animated Pixar film TURNING RED, and the age-old relationship humans have with water in Jen Peedom’s RIVER.