This week we focus on Dennis Lambert, subject of the documentary Of All The Things, directed by his son Jody Lambert and screening as part of First Look at ACMI; Nick Matteo reviews Sons of Anarchy (8.30pm Thursday, Showcase); and producer Daniel Scharf is in the studio for a chat and gives us the rundown on the 2009 DigiSPAA Competition, now accepting entries.
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2009 Program Director Sophie Brous joins us to talk about the Jazz On Film program at ACMI; Editor Scott Murray and Festival Reports Editor Michelle Carey are in the studio to tell us all about the online journal Senses of Cinema; Jeremy Kewley joins us to talk about his career and Call Girl The Musical; Mark Hartley and Ian Thompson review Stuck and Flashbacks of a Fool.
Brian MacFarlane reviews Good; Boris Trbic reviews Berlin Calling, Geliebte Clara (Clara), Die Entdeckung der Currywurst (The Invention of the Curried Sausage), and Jerichow, screening as part of the Audi Festival of German Films 2009; veteran Australian actor Wendy Hughes is on the phone to talk about her extensive career and the ACMI Focus On Wendy Hughes; and “Punslinger” Tim Vine is in the studio to talk about his show as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
This week, we have an extended interview with veteran Australian television and film director George “Noddy” Miller.
Paul Byrne reviews Knowing; Simone Ubaldi reviews The Boat That Rocked; veteran music industry all-rounder and the voice of Woodstock, Chip Monk, is in the studio to talk about his career and tell a few stories; and we finish with a call from Jeff Stilson, who is currently in Australia for the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Nick Matteo reviews Hollywood Residential (Movie Extra, 10pm Thursday), Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure (ABC, 9.30pm Wednesday) and the straight-to-DVD release Plague Town; writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs join us to talk about Mary and Max; and we finish with producer David Elfick and writer/actor Rai Fazio in the studio to discuss Two Fists, One Heart.
Brian McFarlane reviews Dean Spanley, Last Chance Harvey and Of Time and the City; Simone Ubaldi reviews Easy Virtue and Blindness; Co-Vice President of WIFT, Melinda O’Connor, is on the phone to tell us about the upcoming forum and demonstration Designing Women; and director Paul Clarke also joins us on the phone to discuss his documentary Bombora: The History of Australian Surfing, screening on ABC TV.
Joe Dolce reviews Goya’s Ghosts, the documentary Trumbo and Screamers; Ian Thompson reviews Vampyr and Eden Lake; everyone has something to say about Let The Right One In; director John Evagora and actor Steve Mouzakis are in the studio to talk about 296 Smith Street, screening as part of Flickerfest; Nick Matteo reviews Watchmen at VMax; and we finish with filmmaker Rohan Spong discussing his documentary T Is For Teacher, screening as part of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2009.
Simon Ford is the director of FedFest short film festival and he joins us in the studio with film directors Yianni Warnock and Ariel Kleiman to tell us all about it; Lisa Dethridge reviews Astérix aux jeux olympiques (Asterix at the Olympic Games) and Des poupées et des anges (Dolls and Angels), and Boris Trbic reviews Ulzhan, Comme les autres (Baby Love) and the documentary C’est dur d’être aimé par des cons (It’s Hard Being Loved by Jerks), all screening as part of the Alliance Française French Film Festival 2009; Ross Thornton from Growling Frogs is on the phone to tell us about an initiative to give high school children funding and resources to create documentaries about their experiences out of the Victoria bushfires; Cath Murfy talks about the Portable Cinema Project, which she is taking into bushfire-affected areas; and Nick Matteo closes the program with a DVD review of Boarding Gate.
Over the next three weeks we’ll be focussing on the Alliance Française French Film Festival 2009, touring through most capital cities until early April… Lisa Dethridge previews Public Enemy - Part One (L’instinct de mort) and Séraphine; Melbourne Cinematheque, in conjunction with ACMI, has a bushfire benefit preview screening of Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah at ACMI Cinemas on Saturday 7 March at 2pm; Paul Byrne reviews Rachel Getting Married; director Tomas Alfredson is on the phone to talk about his film, Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In); Boris Trbic reviews Huo Yuan Jia (Fearless), the DVD releases The Signal and The Wave, both available through Madman, and an excellent documentary not yet available in Australia, Fog City Mavericks.
John Flaus pays tribute to Australian character actor Reg Evans, who died in the recent Victorian bushfires; Paul Byrne reviews Ghost Town; Nick Matteo reviews two films screening on SBS this week - The Forced March (11.35pm, Tuesday 24 February) and Babylon Disease (10.00pm, Wednesday 25 February); director David Field and actor Firass Dirani join us to talk about The Combination; Ian Thompson, Mark Hartley and Justin King discuss 3D, and Transporter 3; Justin King reviews current trailers; and Ian Thompson tells us what’s hot with the Chicks and the Flannels.
Coming to you today from Polyester Books in Fitzroy, in conjunction with International Literature Conspiracy Week, director Mark Hartley co-hosts with Paul Harris to discuss all things Ozploitation with veteran producer Antony I. (Tony) Ginnane, Fangoria correspondent Michael Helms and director Jamie Blanks.
Nick Matteo reviews True Blood (Foxtel Showcase, 8.30pm Tuesday) and the DVD releases Entertaining The Troops and Donkey Punch; director David Deneen is on the phone to talk about his first feature film release, Restraint; legendary production designer Dante Ferretti is also on the phone to talk about the production design process; Boris Trbic reviews Revolutionary Road; and director Michael James Rowland discusses The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, now available on DVD.
Paul Harris returns and is joined by Ian Thompson and Mark Hartley for a discussion about movie marketing and reviews of Ghost Town and Gran Torino; Ian Thompson gives the rundown on what’s hot in DVD rentals with the Chicks and the Flannels; Simone Ubaldi provides her take on the Sundance Film Festival; Nick Matteo reviews Starting Out In the Evening; and Michael Kohler previews the 2009 Melbourne Cinémathèque programme.
Kevin Janner fills in for Paul this week, with director Lawrence Johnston, discussing some of their favourite soundtracks.
Alicia Sometimes is filling in for Paul this week… John Origlasso reviews The Wrestler; Clare Crawford is on the phone to tell us about the summer outdoor cinema at Montsalvat artists’ colony; program director Al Cossar is in the studio to give all the info on the Portable Film Festival.
Simone Ubaldi reviews Woody Allen’s latest feature, Vicky Cristina Barcelona; screenwriter Simon Beaufoy is on the phone to discuss the making of Slumdog Millionaire; writer/actor/director Ari Gold talks about his career so far and his debut feature Adventures of Power, screening ACMI shortly; Nick Matteo pays tribute to director Robert Mulligan and reviews Peter Cattaneo’s latest, The Rocker; and we finish on an extended interview with director Philippe Mora.
Welcome to another year of Film Buffs. Continuing our summer program of extended interviews, Paul Harris and co-host Mark Hartley kick things off with veteran Australian cinematographer, David Eggby.
Simone Ubaldi discusses the Twilight phenomenon; and we have an excellent extended interview with production designer Roger Ford.
This week we present our annual end of year special review, featuring all our regular reviewers and other special guests giving a rundown of the year’s highlights, lowlights and everything in between - as they saw it.
Writer/director Philippe Claudel and actor Elsa Zylberstein are in the studio to talk about their film, Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I’ve Loved You So Long); Nick Matteo reviews Not Quite Hollywood and Untraceable, now available on DVD, Hunger, which is still screening at selected cinemas, the 8-part miniseries The Kill Point (Movie Extra, 9.30pm Sundays) and English series Party Animals (ABC, 8.35pm Tuesdays) ; Ian Thompson reviews the documentary Crazy Love, now available on DVD, and gives us the lowdown on what the Chicks and the Flannels are renting this week.
Former Hollywood cult star turned cabaret singer Jane Badler is in to talk about her career, prior to her solo show at the Spiegeltent on Thursday 11 December; veteran Australian production designer Roger Ford is in for a chat about production design and the ACMI exhibition Setting the Scene: Film Design from Metropolis to Australia ; Brian MacFarlane reviews Nights in Rodanthe; and Mike Smith, owner-operator of the Sun Theatre in Yarraville, discusses the future of digital cinema with David Kilderry talking about the local film exhibition scene and Trevor Walters coming from the perspective of Melbourne cinema history.
Today’s theme is AUSTRALIA… VCA graduates Corrie Chen and Kim Munro discuss the VCA Film & TV Grad Show 2008, screening at ACMI from 4-13 December; Alan Finney, in his role as a member of the AFI 50th Anniversary committee, and screenwriter Jan Sardi are in the studio to talk about Australian film production, distribution and exhibition; and Mark Hartley and Justin King close the program with a comprehensive review of Baz Luhrmann’s epic.
Rhian Skirving is in the studio to talk about her career and first documentary feature, Rock n Roll Nerd; founder and director Brent Barber and producer Pip Carroll give the lowdown on the Bicycle Film Festival; producer Deb Masters talks about the television series The Howard Years (ABC, 8.30pm Monday); Mark Hartley reviews Quantum Of Solace and RocknRolla, Mark and Michael Helms review Dying Breed; Ian Thompson reviews You Kill Me and tells us what’s hot with the Chicks and the Flannels; and we finish with a review from Brian McFarlane of Brideshead Revisited.
This week, it is all about the directors… interviews with Jeremy Podeswa, director of Fugitive Pieces; Nanette Burstein, director of American Teen; Jonathan Levine, director of The Wackness; and Nick Matteo takes a look at the documentary Billy The Kid.
Ian Thompson reviews DVD releases Flawless, The Hunting Party and Felon; Michael Helms reviews the books Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide and X-rated: Adventures of an Exploitation Filmmaker, along with 3 Charles Bronson movies now available on DVD; Nick Matteo reviews the Johnnie To retrospective screening at ACMI until 16 November; Boris Trbic previews the 2008 Festival of Jewish Cinema; and we finish with cinematographer Geoff Burton in the studio to discuss his career.
Boris Trbic previews week two of the Russian Resurrection 2008 festival, with 12, Izgnanie (The Banishment) and Prostye veshchi (Simple Things); Lisa Dethridge reviews the straight-to-DVD releases Monkey Puzzle, Den Brysomme mannen (The Bothersome Man) and The Flock; Nick Matteo reviews the Emmy Award-winning American historical epic series, John Adams (Showcase, Tuesday 8.30pm, repeated Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) and discusses YouTube; Michael Fassbender is on the phone to talk about his role as Bobby Sands in Hunger; local filmmaker Katherine Fry discusses continuity; and Paul Anderson chats about his short film, The Visitor, screening in the Raw Nerve retrospective at Cinema Nova on Wednesday 5 November.
Paul Byrne reviews Journey to the Center of the Earth and Body Of Lies; Boris Trbic previews Ischeznuvshaya imperiya (Vanished Empire), Tiski (Vice) and Plennyy (Captive), screening as part of the Russian Resurrection 2008 festival; James Ricketson is on the line to talk about his career, including organising and filming the Sydney Harbour Bridge high wire walk by Philippe Petit in 1973; and Andrew Knight is in the studio to talk about the issues facing the Australian film industry, particularly with regard to scriptwriting.
Lisa Dethridge reviews Man On Wire, a documentary about the daring and illegal highwire routine performed by Philippe Petit between the World Trade Center Twin Towers in 1974; composer and head of Screen Music at AFTRS, Martin Armiger, is in the studio for a discussion about film music; Nick Matteo reviews Beyond Our Ken, out now on DVD through Hopscotch, and the musical comedy TV series Bogan Pride (9pm Monday, SBS); director Alex Gibney is on the phone to discuss his latest documentary, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson; and Boris Trbic reviews A Temetetlen halott, the 2004 film from Márta Mészáros about Imre Nagy, screening Thursday 23 October on SBS.
Paul Byrne reviews Eagle Eye; Michael Helms is in again for more chat about highlights of MUFF; Nick Matteo reviews Brian De Palma’s latest feature -Redacted - which will be released direct to DVD in Australia shortly, and the television series The Mentalist (Nine/HD, 8.30pm Sunday); producer John Patrick Patti is in the studio to discuss Xaviera Hollander: The Happy Hooker - a portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary, which is also screening at MUFF; Boris Trbic reviews Whatever Happened To Brenda Hean; and we finish this week talking with Stephen Walker about his documentary Young At Heart.
Paul Byrne reviews WALL-E; Festival director Richard Wolstencroft is on the phone to chat about MUFF, running from 9-19 October, followed by a preview of the program with Michael Helms; Ian Thompson brings DVD reviews of The Walker, Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth and Butterfly on a Wheel, and tells us what’s hot with the Chicks and the Flannels; Brian MacFarlane has reviews of In Bruges and The Duchess; and an excellent interview with writer/director/producer Alan Ball about his career and his latest feature, Towelhead, closes the show.
Committee member and filmmaker Jaime Snyder is in the studio to give the rundown on the Blue Dandenongs Young Filmmakers Festival; Renae Maxwell gives a short review of a very special screening she attended in Los Angeles of a work-in-progress by Al Pacino; animator Lucy Dyson is on the phone to chat about winning the 2008 Realise Your Dream prize, awarded by the British Council; David Kilderry chats about the partnership of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and the impending arrival of digital cinema; Brian MacFarlane reviews The Visitor; and Mark Savage is on the line to chat about working with David Lynch and the documentary Lynch which recently screened at ACMI.
Simone Ubaldi and Nick Fyke co-host the show today; Brian MacFarlane reviews Funny Games; we also have reviews of the new Pixar film, Wall-E, the AFI-nominated documentary Beyond Our Ken, the British teen comedy/drama Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, and the latest Will Ferrell / John C. Riley comedy, Stepbrothers; Simone and Nick chat with Rolf de Heer about the companion website to Ten Canoes, Twelve Canoes; and we finish with some movie business news.
Peter Kemp and Boris Trbic give you a preview of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2008; Brian McFarlane reviews The Bank Job; director Luke Walker and researcher/producer Sofia Stefanovic join us in the studio to talk about the documentary Beyond Our Ken; Simone Ubaldi reviews Sukkar banat (Caramel); Boris Trbic has been to see Waltzing With Bashir; Nick Matteo has a couple of reviews from the small screen; and we finish up with a chat on the phone to Jonathan Dreyfus, about the Gala concert held on Sunday to celebrate George Dreyfus‘ 80th birthday.
Simone Ubaldi previews the Jim Henson exhibition at ACMI, and gives a review of Sukiyaki Western Django; Brian MacFarlane reviews The Bank Job and The Savages; English writer/director Garth Jennings is on the phone to talk about his new film, Son Of Rambow; and editor/filmmaker/musician Jamie Blanks chats about his work on Not Quite Hollywood and his new project, a remake of the genre pic Long Weekend, starring Claudia Karvan and James Caviezel.
Paul Harris, Nick Matteo, Peter Kemp and Jessica Nicholas are joined in the studio by Clayton Jacobson and Rohan Timlock, in number 2 of our 2008 Radiothon specials - keep listening for some hidden gems. Please call the station on +613 9388 1027 to subscribe and help keep us going for another 12 months, plus be in the running for some excellent prizes.
Paul Harris, Simone Ubaldi and Paul Berner discuss the circus in film, in the first of our 2008 Radiothon specials; Jim Schembri drops by to talk about movie marketing; plus we play a snippet of a discussion between Tony Biggs and Germaine Greer from On The Blower.
Director Benjamin Gilmour talks about his film, Son Of A Lion, which opens on Thurdsay at Cinema Nova; Nick Matteo has a general review of MIFF and some more picks on the small screen from Channel 31; plus listeners Mark and Elizabeth discuss the social experience of going to the cinema. It is our annual Radiothon over the next couple of weeks - we hope you call the station on 03-9388 1027 during this time to subscribe and be in the running for some fantastic prizes. Our listeners really are our lifeblood.
It’s a big one this week, folks - interviews with Bobby Galinsky, writer/producer of horror flick Prey; Nash Edgerton, director of The Square; Mark Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion; Scott Hicks, director of the documentary Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts; plus a brief review of Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
Coming to you this week from The Forum Theatre, in conjunction with MIFF, we’re joined by Arta Dobrosha, star of Lorna’s Silence, the latest film from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne; Lizette Atkins, producer of Lionel, the biopic about Lionel Rose; Erin White, director of Four, a short film about free love, friendship, family and fondue; John Hewitt, director of Acolytes, a thriller starring Joel Edgerton, Belinda McClory and Michael Dorman; Sam Pang and John Origlasso, co-directors of Alone, Together, one of the eleven finalists in the Footy Shorts competition, screening at ACMI on Thursday night; and Pene Patrick, director of Playing For Charlie.
Mark Hartley, stunt co-ordinator Grant Page and director Brian Trenchard-Smith relate some wonderful stories from their careers and discuss movie genre; guest curator at MIFF, Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, continues the discussion of movie genre and also talks about the George A. Romero retrospective screening at the Festival.
Click here to listen to the Max Headroom MIFF special, presented by Paul Harris and Simone Ubaldi.
Ian Thompson reviews Hancock; Brian MacFarlane reviews The Riddle, soon to be released on DVD; Ian Thompson and Joe Dolce compare the two versions of the Exorcist prequel by Renny Harlin and Paul Schrader; Mark Woods, manager of 37 South: Bridging the Gap and the MIFF Premiere Fund, is on the phone to talk about these initiatives; Simone Ubaldi reviews Standard Operating Procedure; Paul Byrne reviews The Dark Knight; Nick Matteo reviews more televisual goodness in The Hollowmen (ABC, 9.30pm Wednesday), Conflict Of Interest (Ch31, 10pm Wednesday) and The Arts (Ch31, 10pm Monday); plus a review of The Band’s Visit
Simone Ubaldi reviews Mamma Mia, before we spend the rest of the program on an Australian soundtracks special, with Dennis Nicholson and Mark Hartley - there’s so much more to this than just the music.
Samuel Johnson is in to talk about actor-director relationships, which will be explored in Open Channel’s workshop on Directing Actors for Screen, running 21-31 July; entertainment lawyer Shaun Miller chats about films and legal matters, in anticipation of the There’s No Business Like Screen Business short course, also at Open Channel from 19-20 July; Simone Ubaldi reviews Ten Empty; Boris Trbic reviews Kung Fu Panda; and Brian McFarlane reviews Sex And The City
Adrian Rosenfeldt tells us about Waxing the Sun - the band and the documentary - screening Friday July 4 at the VCA from 8pm; Ian Thompson reviews the DVD release Awake; Brian McFarlane reviews Mike Leigh’s latest, Happy-Go-Lucky; actor Daniel Fredrickson is on the phone talking about his new film, Ten Empty, directed by Anthony Hayes and starring Geoff Morrell, Brendan Cowell and Jack Thompson; Peter Kemp reviews Prince Caspian and Mongol; Nick Matteo reviews the Channel 31 program A Life Of Crime (8.30pm, Monday); and Mark Hartley discusses the new film version of Get Smart, starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway
Veteran UK writer/director Mike Leigh is on the phone to discuss his latest film, Happy-Go-Lucky; Brian MacFarlane reviews Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, Then She Found Me; writer/director Peter Duncan joins us on the phone to chat about his latest project, Unfinished Sky; Ian Thompson reviews Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman and The Invasion, both available on DVD, and chats about what’s hot with the Chicks and the Flannels; and Julian Wu, our anime specialist, ends the program with a discussion about Satoshi Kon and a review of the live-action adaptation of the 60s anime series, Speed Racer, from the Wachowski brothers
Brian McFarlane reviews Rats and Cats, a new series of books about screen adaptations from A&C Black Norton, and the latest edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film; we pay tribute to Australian actor Lloyd Lamble, who died on April 10, aged 94; Simone Ubaldi reviews The Band’s Visit; The Melbourne International Animation Festival runs from 16-22 June at ACMI and we talk to Karl Cohen about San Francisco Bay Area Historical; Simone Ubaldi and Paul Byrne review M. Night Shyamalan’s latest offering, The Happening; Nick Matteo reviews a couple of Channel 31 (Melbourne) programs - The Shtick (Monday, 10.30pm), The Bazura Project (Saturday, 10.30pm) and Marngrook Footy Show (Thursday 8pm)
Julius Avery, director of Jerrycan - winner of the Jury Prize for Short Films at Cannes 08 - is on the phone from the Falls Creek Film Festival; Melbourne producer Daniel Scharf talks about DigiSPAA; Paul Byrne has a review of Leatherheads; we take a look at “nature gone wild” flicks Rogue, Primeval, Black Water and Attack of the Sabretooth; and Mark Hartley and Ian Thompson review The Riddle.
Director Tony Rogers, writer/actor Adam Zwar and composer Sam Mallet are in to talk about their latest production, Rats & Cats; Mark Hartley reviews The Orphanage;
Nick Matteo and Peter Kemp review the DVD release of John Turturro’s Romance and Cigarettes; Nick Matteo chats about small screen happenings - Paul Haggis‘ The Black Donnellys (Foxtel Showcase Thursday, 8.30pm, with repeat screenings) and the new ABC show about advertising, The Gruen Transfer (ABC1 Wednesday, 9pm / ABC2 Thursday, 8.30pm); and Simone Ubaldi reviews Flight of the Red Balloon
Simone Ubaldi reviews Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones documentary, Shine A Light, The Counterfeiters and Un secret; Nick Matteo has a review of the television series Rome (8.30pm Wednesday, Foxtel Showcase); Julian Wu reviews Sakuran; Mark Hartley has been to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and also reviews the HBO series Unscripted; and Ian Thompson reviews Flight Of The Conchords and Cloverfield
Producer Bridget Callow chats about her film Bitter & Twisted, starring Noni Hazelhurst, Gary Sweet and Matt Newton, which recently had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival
Paul Byrnes reviews Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Brian MacFarlane pays tribute to Hazel Court and reviews Gone Baby Gone
Nick Matteo looks at the small screen with reviews of Flight of the Conchords (Sunday, Ten) and Salam Cafe (Wednesday, SBS)
Coming to you today from the 10th annual Industry Open Day, part of the 25th St Kilda Film Festival presented by Triple R
Loads of interviews…
Vincent Miller, one of the founders of Red Stitch Actors Theatre, talks about his film Thank You Father; Ross Colebatch from Inside Film magazine explains what the magazine is about and the IF Awards; Chris Jones, director of The Funk; Adam Whitbread, Coordinator of Armed and Dangerous Youth Arts and Media Forum; Calmin Borel, Festival Coordinator for the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, with Christian Gesell, Head of Sales & Distribution for interfilm berlin; Rob Taylor chats about his career and role in The Bloody Sweet Hit; Peter Galvin, Head of Screen Studies at Sydney Film School; Kasimir Burgess and Chris Kamen, co-director and producer of Lone Rider; Brian Lien, director of 7.23; and Janine Barnes, producer of Fast Lane
The St Kilda Film Festival is celebrating its 25th year, presented by Triple R - opening on Tuesday 6 May at the Palais Theatre and continuing at The Palace George Cinemas until Sunday 11 May, including the free Industry Open Day on Saturday 10 May from 12pm-4pm.
Two previews of the Festival this week: Simon Weaving, producer of Ascension, starring Matthew Newton and Bruce Spence; and Michael Kratochvil, director of Dearest Sir, starring Bud Tingwell
Paul Byrne has a review of The Painted Veil, Brian McFarlane gives his review of Brick Lane, Peter Kemp and Gary Hillberg review the definitive version of A Star Is Born, now available on DVD, Simone Ubaldi has been to see Iron Man, and Boris Trbic is in to tell us all about Edge Of Heaven
Nick Matteo reviews the surf-noir television series John From Cincinnati (Showcase, Monday 8.30pm, with repeat screenings daily)
Leonard Abrahamson, director of Garage, is on the phone for a chat
Melbourne filmmaker and VCA graduate, Adam Bostock, talks about his new film, The Postman, one of the free screenings at the upcoming St Kilda Film Festival
Director Brad Haynes is on the phone to talk about Broken Sun, his latest feature about the Cowra Breakout
Director Jasmine Yuen Carrucan discusses her low-budget two-hander hostage drama set in the Australian outback, Cactus
Writer and director Patrick Herford talks about Hollywood Sign Girls, his short feature based on the life and death of failed actress Peg Entwistle
Boris Trbic previews the Audi Festival of German Films 2008, presented by the Goethe-Institut Australien in association with Palace Cinemas, taking place from 16-27 April
To coincide with the AFI 50th birthday free screenings of Gallipoli at Federation Square on ANZAC Day, we have an extended interview with actor David Argue
Documentary filmmaker, lecturer, writer and curator Marsha Emerman talks about ‘The Language of Documentary’ short course running at AFTRS Melbourne from 9-11 May
Paul Byrne reviews The Spiderwick Chronicles
Simone Ubaldi reviews Lars and the Real Girl, followed by an interview with the director, Craig Gillespie
Actor Nicholas Bell is also on the phone for a chat about his career
Nick Matteo reviews the television series The Wire (around midnight Tuesdays, Nine) and pays tribute to Charlton Heston, who died on April 5, aged 83
…All of this interspersed with a game of ‘Show Business Survivor’
Director Brian McKenzie talks about his work on the Love’s Harvest series of mini-documentaries, screening on SBS at 8pm, commencing Wednesday 9 April
Paul Byrne has a review of 10,000 B.C.
Screenwriter, teacher and father of C.W., Billy Marshall-Stoneking, is on the phone for a chat about drama
Writer/director Rob McAuley is in to talk about his documentary, The Hunt for HMAS Sydney, screening on ABC1 at 8:30pm on Tuesday 15 April
Mark Hartley and Ian Thompson are in with reviews of Vantage Point, Gone Baby Gone and 30 Days of Night, plus what’s hot with the Chicks and the Flannels
Brian McFarlane reviews The Black Balloon and the remake of St Trinian’s
We have an excellent extended interview with Susie Porter, chatting about her role in the new ABC TV drama East Of Everything, the release of Feeling Sexy on DVD and her recent stage work with Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Paul Andrew Williams, the director of London to Brighton, is on the phone to discuss his career
We speak with producer/director Robert Connolly about the trend within the Australian film industry to move its production centre from Sydney to Melbourne
Simone Ubaldi reviews two new films: the latest from Gillian Armstrong, Death Defying Acts, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce and Timothy Spall; and Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney and Marisa Tomei
Nick Matteo takes a look at the small screen with Dexter and Meadowlands (both screening on Foxtel Showcase from May)
We have an extended interview with writer Lawrie Zion and producer Yael Bergman about their documentary, The Sounds of (A)us
Lisa Dethridge reviews some of the films coming up in the Alliance Française French Film Festival 2008
Brian McFarlane reviews The Jane Austen Book Club
Nick Matteo reviews The Tudors (9.30pm Wednesday, Foxtel Showcase) and Cashmere Mafia (9.30pm Wednesday, Nine)
Producer Eva Orner talks about her 2008 Academy Award-winning documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side
The Bicycle Film Festival 2008 is calling for entries and Melbourne Event Producer Pip Carroll is in the studio to give us the rundown
Nick Matteo reviews two more new television shows - the sit-com Rules of Engagement (7.30pm Wednesday, Ten/Ten HD) and the police procedural