Primal Screen

Flick Ford and Cerise Howard are joined by Melbourne Queer Film Festival Program Director Spiro Economopoulos for a chat about this year's event. Cerise and Spiro pick out some of their festival highlights, discussing FINLANDIA (Horacio Alcalá, 2021), INSTRUCTIONS FOR SURVIVAL (Yana Ugrekhelidze, 2021), THE HILL WHERE LIONESSES ROAR (Luàna Bajrami, 2021), THE NOWHERE INN (Bill Benz, 2020), and FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK (Bobbi Jo Hart, 2021). Finally, Flick and Cerise chat with Tali Polichtuk, the co-founder and editor of queer screen culture digital magazine Sissy Screens.

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Flick Ford interviews Robert Machoian about his latest feature THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS (2020). Lisa Kovacevic is joined by guest film critic Stuey Richards to review Ridley Scott's new medieval drama THE LAST DUEL (2021) and disturbing new Australian film NITRAM (2021) by Snowtown director Justin Kurzel.

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Flick Ford talks with directors Eddie Martin and Jeff Daniels about their respective new documentaries THE KIDS and TELEVISION EVENT, both screening at this year's Sydney Film Festival, and their nominations for the Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary. Flick and guest critic Cerise Howard also discuss music documentary THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Todd Haynes, 2021) and a strange new film about sheep farmers in Iceland called LAMB (Valdimar Jóhannsson, 2021).

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Paul Anthony Nelson is joined by guest film critics Emma Westwood and Sally Christie for a Halloween special revisiting three prequels: THE EXORCIST III dir. William Peter Blatty (1990), HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH dir. Tommy Lee Wallace (1982) and DAY OF THE DEAD dir. George A. Romero (1985). 

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Flick Ford and guest critics Lisa Kovacevic and Will Cox spotlight new Australian TV drama serials, interviewing NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN director Corrie Chen, and reviewing THE NEWSREADER (Emma Freeman, 2021), FIRES (Michael Rymer, Ana Kokkinos, Kim Mordaunt, 2021) and NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN (Corrie Chen, 2021).

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Flick Ford, special guest critic Cerise Howard and Melbourne film creative Kelsey Pettifer spotlight the Environmental Film Festival of Australia – including a live chat with Screen Manager Natalie May – and the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia. They also review ANNETTE dir. Leos Carax (2021) and ATHANOR: THE ALCHEMICAL FURNACE dir. Adam Ol’ha, Jan Daňhel (2020). 

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Presenter Flick Ford and guest film critic Lisa Kovacevic, interview emerging filmmakers, Suban Kamal, Oskar Weimar and Holly Bates. They also interview Artist Film Workshop co-founded, Richard Tuohy and Andrew O’Keefe, the Victorian College of the Arts Head of Film and Television about the VCA Film and Television Graduate Season presented by MIFF Play. 

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Presenter Flick Ford, guest film critic Lisa Kovacevic, and writer and academic Dr Tresa Leclerc, spotlight women and power on screens, including an interview with Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion, the showrunners of BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOUR, and reviews of BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOUR (2021) and I MAY DESTROY YOU (2020). 

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Presenters Flick Ford, Lisa Kovacevic and Swinburne University media academic Dr Andrew Lynch spotlight prestige television, including reviews of SUCCESSION and MR INBETWEEN.

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Flick Ford and Cerise Howard are joined by filmmaker Grace Moore for a music documentary special. Includes reviews of THE MAGIC VOICE OF A REBEL dir. Olga Sommerová (2014), GURRUMUL dir. Paul Damien Williams (2018) and MATANGI/MAYA/MIA dir. Steve Loveridge (2018).

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