Cultural Capital

The "No spoilers...but also 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' is our Film of 2019" edition. As we slouch toward the end of the decade, beset by forces of oppression, we seek respite with the March family, in Greta Gerwig's version of 19th century Massachusetts. We also speak to Gillian Armstrong about directing the 1994 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel, and hear her thoughts on Gerwig's. Andy interviewed her at the Marrakech International Film Festival and would like to apologise for for the Moroccan music playing throughout the interview. We also count down our Top 3 films of 2019, and thank you very much for listening. Find us: @ TheCultCapPod and Cultural Capital Podcast

The "does this remind anyone else of Twin Peaks Season 3?" edition. As we barrel toward the end of the decade, much hyped films by proficient directors arrive demanding attention. This month we'll take on two of them, Rian Johnson's 'Knives Out', and Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman'. We also open the Cultural Capital Film Diary and tackle one the most entertaining of sub-genres when we count down our Top 3 whodunnits. Solve the mystery of why you're not already listening and hit PLAY. 00:54 Knives Out 15:48 The Irishman 33:04 Cultural Capital Film Diary 35:16 Top 3 Whodunnits Find us: @ TheCultCapPod and Cultural Capital Podcast. During our discussion of 'The Irishman' Andy mentioned Bill Tonelli's article 'The Lies of the Irishman'. You can find that here: https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/the-irishman-scorsese-netflix-movie-true-story-lies.html

The "Like Kenneth Branagh and Laurence Olivier, Julia Stiles owes her career to Shakespeare" edition. With the theatrical release of David Michod's 'The King', starring Timotheé Chalamet and Robert Pattinson, and its imminent arrival on Netflix, your valiant hosts volunteer to review it. We also consider the vibrant true crime tale of sisters doing it for themselves, Lorene Scafaria's 'Hustlers', and share our top three spins on Shakespeare. And for this, we in it shall be remembered — We few, we happy few, we band of brothers... 00:50 - The King 15:30 - Cultural Capital Film Diary 18:05 - Hustlers 35:35 - Top 3 spins on Shakespeare Find Us: @ TheCultCapPod and Cultural Capital Podcast Also check out: The excellent documentary 'Happy Sad Man' is out this week. We reviewed it on episode 51 of Cultural Capital where we also interviewed its director Genevieve Bailey.

A man in a spaceship has been the set up for some of the most profound (2001: A Space Odyssey) and most ambitious (The Martian)scenes in cinema, so when James Gray's announced that he was sending Brad Pitt to Neptune to reunite with his father, played by Tommy Lee Jones, Cultural Capital were all ears. We also take a look at the Australian film 'Buoyancy', a thriller set on a fishing boat off the coast of Thailand, and share our Top 3 rescue missions in film. You're welcome. The "Brad Pitt feels sad about many things / Clueless is a Christmas movie" edition. 00:53 Ad Astra 18:50 Cultural Capital Film Diary 21:01 Buoyancy 29:54 Top 3 rescue missions in film Find Us: @ TheCultCapPod and Cultural Capital Podcast

The "if you Google 'Animals' you don't get the film" edition. With memories of MIFF already beginning to blur into a prismatic fog of scenes, sounds and ads about texting while driving, Cultural Capital wrest the cinematic jewels from the jaws of amnesia. Some, like The Farewell and Animals, are on the verge of general release, others we may never see again. All of this, the Cultural Capital Film Diary, and one of the most chat-worthy films of 2019, Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'... 00:49 - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (SPOILER WARNING) 26:27 - Cultural Capital Film Diary 30:08 - Animals 34:08 - Monrovia, Indiana, Penelope Spheeris's 'Dudes' and Long Day's Journey Into Night 41:56 - The Farewell, Beats and Carmine Street Guitars Find Us: @ TheCultCapPod and Cultural Capital Podcast

The “We’ll add ten per cent onto the price so we can give a ten per cent discount to members” edition. Before MIFF-fatigue sets in, before the endings get spoiled and while the weather is still wintry, join us in the midst of the bustle of the Capitol Salon, for a rundown of some of the most enthused-about films in the Melbourne International Film Festival… 02:45 - The Lodge [SPOILER WARNING - we do discuss this particular ending, for good reason] 15:05 - End of the Century 21:14 - The Wild Goose Lake 25:22 - Your Face 29:52 - The Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains 33:36 - And Then We Danced 38:07 - Sequin in a Blue Room 40:53 - Happy New Year, Colin Burstead Find Us: @ TheCultCapPod and Cultural Capital Podcast

The "gobbling up 50 cent VHSes from Vinnys" edition. For this episode we turn our microphones towards this years MIFF Critics Campus - participants in an intensive five-day lab which involves watching films, receiving mentorship from national and international figures in film criticism and writing reviews and essays for the MIFF website. The talk takes in discovering film criticism, the value of film websites like Letterboxd and the how to develop a distinctive voice in a world where everyone’s a critic. Today – and possibly well into the future if last year’s Campus is anything to go by (hello Rough Cut) – the critics are Zoë Almeida Goodall, Zach Karpinellison, Luke McCarthy, Jamie Tran, Claire Cao, Olivia Bennett, Isabella Trimboli and Michael Sun. Find us: @TheCultCapPod

The “I am Persephone of Melbourne Emporium etc” edition Cultural Capital return for our second voyage into MIFF 2019. We wrestle with Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Nightingale’, puzzle over ‘Bacurau’ before Anders enthuses about ‘Matthais et Maxime’, Andy falls for ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ and Eloise is enraptured by ‘The Trial’.

The "Does Anders looks like Quentin Tarantino crossed with Vincent D'Onofrio? Well, does he?" Edition One the eve of MIFF 2019 your hosts take a close look at two of the most intriguing titles in the sprawling program, the Cannes prize-winning Russian drama Beanpole, and Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's acclaimed documentary One Child Nation. All of this and a flip through the Cultural Capital Film Diary. Find us: Cultural Capital Podcast and @TheCultCapPod

The "crying in The Joy Luck Club" edition. Anders, Eloise and Andy feed the MIFF 2019 program into the CultCapometer and come out with podcasting gold. This episode contains all the recommendations and insights you need to navigate through this year's record-breakingly vast festival program. From the opening night inspiration of Daniel Gordon's Adam Goodes documentary The Australian Dream, via the Jeff Goldblum-athon and the focuses on Peter Strickland, Penelope Spheeris and Agnieszka Holland, to the sure-fire crowd-pleasing thrills of closing night comedy, Lulu Wang's 'The Farewell'. It's all here, with irreverent asides and industry gossip Andy forgot to edit out due to sleep deprivation. Find us: @TheCultCapPod

The "'I'm keen to see the new Tarantino,'...'I'm not.'" edition. With Eloise off in sunny Italy, Cultural Capital go to the gods of podcasting (presumably Sarah Koenig and Ira Glass), ask for the perfect special guest and are granted the amazing Claire White, she of Rough Cut Film and Teen Screen Cinematheque. Claire joins Andy and Anders to talk about Bong Joon-ho’s Palme-d'Or-winning 'Parasite', review Andrew Garfield’s turn as a human subreddit in 'Under the Silver Lake', and share their top 3 films of 2019 so far. All of this, plus an interview with 'Under the Silver Lake' director David Robert Mitchell and the Cultural Capital Film Diary. 01:10 - Parasite 11:24 - Under the Silver Lake 26:55 - David Robert Mitchell interview 36:29 - Cultural Capital Film Diary 39:14 - Top 3 Films of 2019 Find us: @TheCultCapPod

Just as Agnes Varda stands on the back of a helpful man to get a shot, sometimes the right view is one you can't see on your own. Let Cultural Capital be your crouching friend. This month, Andy reports on the highs and lows from the Cannes Film Festival with name drops aplenty while Anders and Eloise take a close look at Thomas M Wright's debut feature, Acute Misfortune. 01:40 Acute Misfortune 19:10 Parasite 21:43 Les Miserables 23:10 Nina Wu 24:15 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 27:40 The Lighthouse 29:15 Bacurau 31:15 A Hidden Life 33:30 Liberté 35:18 Bull and empathy at Cannes 37:39 Sorry We Missed You Find us: @TheCultCapPod

The "Gloria. Gloria, I think they've got your number" Edition. Far from the Avenging endgame of thranos or whatever is capturing the feverish public imagination at the moment, Melbournian cinemas are currently hosting some total gems. On this month's episode we look at a few of them, Sebastian Leilo's 'Gloria Bell', Yan Ten's '1985' and Jim Cummings's 'Thunder Road'. And, in a move that couldn't be described as a radical departure from form, we open the Cultural Capital Film Diary. 00:40 Gloria Bell 16:10 The Cultural Capital Film Diary 21:03 1985 36:33 Thunder Road Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Instagram: CulturalCapitalPodcast

The "I just want to give a shout out to..." edition. After discovering that we could literally just keep giving away double passes to the new Nicole Kidman film, 'Destroyer', on Twitter we turn our attention to that very film. What is it even about? Why does she look so weathered? Should she have been Oscar nominated? Who cares? The Melbourne Queer Film Festival is happening and that's got everyone's attention. We'll take your hand, put a negroni in it and see you through to closing night. 00:40 'Destroyer' 06:14 Film Diary part 1 07:04 Anders' picks from the Alliance Française Film Festival 12:03 Film Diary part 2 13:43 'Sauvage' 22:58 'Making Montgomery Clift' 34:31 Eloise on 'Dykes, Camera, Action' 36:35 Anders on 'Sorry Angel'

The "Jake Gyllenhaal was bisexual and it wasn't even a big deal" edition. 00:45 If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) 16:06 The Clock (Christian Marclay) 30:08 Cultural Capital Film Diary 33:32 Velvet Buzzsaw (Dan Gilroy) Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Instagram: CulturalCapitalPodcast

The "we're also very excited about the new Dan Gilroy film Velvet Buzzsaw, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Toni Collette and RENE RUSSO" edition. With the imminent arrival of the ACMI season Juliette Binoche Forever, Cultural Capital singles out one of its highlights, Abbas Kiarostami's 2010 film, Certified Copy. We also take a look at the international version of Paolo Sorrentino's Silvio Berlusconi-inspired epic Loro, open the Cultural Capital Film Diary, and share our picks from the films scheduled for release later this year. There were a lot of films to get excited about and after all that Binoche, we could only handle so much excitement, so do let us know if we overlooked something egregious. 00:48 Loro 15:11 Cultural Capital Film Diary 16:25 Certified Copy 29:00 High Life (Claire Denis) 33:20 Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan) 36:40 Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi) 40:35 Little Women (Greta Gerwig) Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Instagram: CulturalCapitalPodcast

The "I find myself embracing Hollywood manipulation so readily these days" edition. Before we dive into the murky riches of 2019's summer slate, the Cultural Capital team, with some help from the MIFF Critics Campus, count down their favourite films of 2018. While in other parts of the world, this is a pretty straightforward affair, due to the vagaries of international releasing strategies, Australian cinephiles blend 2017 awards contenders - released here in January and February, 2018 - with those crammed into the last days of the year. And, much like an extremely well-made summer trifle, it's a delicious mess of vicious contrasts and complimentary additions. 00:45 Bodied 05:24 BPM 09:41 Black Mirror: Bandersnatch 13:14 Burning 17:35 Claire White on Columbus and Skate Kitchen 19:44 Zama 22:33 James Waters on Zama 24:04 Black Panther 26:45 BPM 29:52 Private Life 34:40 The Favourite 38:12 Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse 42:02 Cold War 48:44 Roma 54:47 Eliza Jansson on The Rider 56:48 Ivana Brehas on Burning and Let the Corpses Tan 58:08 Cultural Capital Film Diary 1:02:20 Anders' number 1 1:08:00 Eloise's number 1 1:13:08 Andy's number 1 1:15:27 Films that nearly made our lists Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Instagram: CulturalCapitalPodcast

The "It's Been a Big Year For Drag Queens Helping Protagonists Self-Actualise" Edition. Our last episode of Cultural Capital for 2018 sees us blend the easy-to-find films of Netflix with trickier to track down overlooked gems. Anders, Eloise and Andy take a look at Alfonso Cuáron's Oscar hopeful, ROMA, the Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Anniston starring DUMPLIN', Jennifer Lopez's romantic comedy SECOND ACT and the Coen Brothers' TV-series-turned-feature-film THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS. We open the Cultural Capital Film Diary, and share our favourite overlooked films of 2018. Happy downtime cinephiles and merry Christmas viewing. 00:46 Roma 18:57 Cultural Capital Film Diary 20:13 Dumplin' 31:23 Second Act 34:51 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 39:17 Overlooked films of 2018 Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Instagram: CulturalCapitalPodcast

The "Montenegro Spritz" edition. For the November edition of your favourite Melbourne-centric movie podcast we take a look at two new releases, Steve McQueen's dour heist thriller Widows, and Jessica Leski's documentary I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story. We also feature an interview with Jessica Leski herself. To close out, we review the new Orson Welles movie now streaming on Netflix, The Other Side of the Wind. All this, plus your guide to what's happening on Melbourne screens, the Cultural Capital Film Diary, and a mistimed Campari. 00:40 Widows 10:34 The Cultural Capital Film Diary 14:10 An interview with Jessica Leski 28:10 I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story 38:31 The Other Side of the Wind Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Instagram: CulturalCapitalPodcast

The “whoaaahoooahwhaaaoahwhoaaaaaaaaaohh” edition. Any monthly podcast can give you opinions about the biggest film on the planet at the moment, but only Cultural Capital brings the context, and the history and resists the urge to do a Bradley Cooper impersonation. The fourth remake of A Star is Born comes with a huge amount of baggage, and Eloise, Anders and Andy just pick out the good stuff. All this, plus our Top 3 Films about Fame, and a look inside the Cultural Capital film diary for November. 00:42 A Star is Born 41:16 Cultural Capital Film Diary 43:50 Top 3 Films about Fame Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Instagram: CulturalCapitalPodcast

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. Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast

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 Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast

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 Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast

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/ Find us here: @TheCultCapPod

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 Twitter: @TheCultCapPod Facebook: The Cultural Capital Podcast

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. Twitter: @TheCultCapPod Facebook: The Cultural Capital Podcast

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. Twitter: @TheCultCapPod Facebook: The Cultural Capital Podcast

The “Hugh Grant’s tugged forelock” edition This week we punt along the Cam in the English summer sun while a young Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves share glances full of longing as we review the reissue of James Ivory’s ‘Maurice’. We also get grubby in 80s Melbourne suburbia with John Ruane’s black comedy Death in Brunswick, and Andy and Anders share Blockbuster Filibuster duties with their pithy reviews of I Feel Pretty and A Quiet Place. 00:45 Maurice 19:55 Film Diary 23:00 Blockbuster Filibuster: I Feel Pretty 25:46 Blockbuster Filibuster: A Quiet Place 31:15 Death in Brunswick During our review of Maurice, Eloise reads from Jo Di Mattia’s essay about the connection between James Ivory’s earlier work and Call Me By Your Name. You can find Jo’s essay here: https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog

The "surprisingly short Party" edition 00:38 The Party 
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15:55 I Am Not a Witch Cultural Capital keep it tight this week, just like Sally Potter's 71 minute 'The Party', and Rungano Nyoni's focus on the experiences of eight-year-old Shula in her remarkable debut feature 'I Am Not a Witch'. Two female directors, two accounts of shifting identity and social roles, two good reasons to go to the cinema. Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast 
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The “Joan Crawford. Again.” edition. 00:43 All About Eve 20:05 Film Diary 21:00 Terror Nullius 23:40 Blockers 25:46 Ready Player One 28:40 Top 3 Films about Ageing Stars of Stage and Screen This episode we look at one of the highlights of the Young at Heart Film Festival, the classic All About Eve. We count down our Top 3 films about ageing stars of the stage and screen, and Andy does a couple of pithy capsule reviews of two blockbusters opening this week. All this and the film diary too. Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The "Female directors / romantic dramas" edition 00:42 Desert Hearts 17:42 Cultural Capital Film Diary 19:02 Let the Sunshine In Melbourne is a city of many things, and most of these things are arts festivals. This week we take a look at highlights from two festivals running in March. Donna Deitch's Desert Hearts is a 1985 queer classic being showcased at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (March 15-26), and Claire Denis' Let the Sunshine In comes to the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival (running until March 28)with a blaze of hype and the face of Juliet Binoche. This is a link to B. Ruby Rich's essay about Desert Hearts that Elo mentions: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5118-desert-hearts-the-thrill-of-it-all Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The "Oh I'm odd. I'm very odd." edition. 00:44 - A Fantastic Woman 15:00 - Cultural Capital Film Diary 17:50 - An interview with Melbourne Women in Film Festival director Sian Mitchell 29:25 - Love Serenade It's not enough to celebrate the Melbourne Women in Film Festival, we have to talk to its creator and find out why we'll be back again next year. The festival's opening night film, the 1996 Australian romantic comedy classic Love Serenade gets a thorough discussion, as does the new release, the Chilean Best Foreign Film Oscar nominee, A Fantastic Women. All of this plus the Cultural Capital Film Diary. If you'd like to hear our thoughts on other new releases, we reviewed Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool in episode 36, and The Square on MIFF 2017 Dispatch 3. Here's a link to Love Serenade writer director Shirley Barrett with her exciting new wave band The Fruit Pastilles and their song I Don’t Ever Want to See You Again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Sg48V1lWo Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The "Wakanda movie is this?" edition. Since Eloise is drinking coconut milk on a beach in Thailand, Anders and Andy team up to take on the excitingly Afro-centric Marvel superhero blockbuster Black Panther, Greta Gerwig's award-ridden comedic drama Lady Bird and browse through the Cultural Capital Film Diary before Eloise calls in to review the Yiddish drama Menashe. Andy takes responsibility for the awful pun above. 00:44 Black Panther 18:50 Cultural Capital Film Diary 20:24 Lady Bird 34:10 Menashe Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The "... and sausages" edition. Since Anders is drinking coconut milk on a beach in Thailand, Andy and Eloise are joined by critic and writer Jo Di Mattia to compare look-books for Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-nominated romantic drama Phantom Thread, and search for justice in Warwick Thornton's Indigenous western Sweet Country. We also share our Cultural Capital Film Diary, and count down our Top 3 films about fashion, which, it turns out, is a sub-genre of film with some extremely daft trailers. 00:50 Phantom Thread 17:40 Film Diary 19:45 Sweet Country 29:55 Top 3 films about fashion Interstitial music is Jonny Greenwood’s ‘House of Woodcock’ from Phantom Thread. Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The surprisingly pithy edition. For episode 40 we look at two of the most notable films opening in the first two weeks of 2018 (Andy talked about the very impressive Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri last episode). We also commemorate ACMI's Agnes Varda season with a discussion of the octogenarian cinema legend and her new documentary Faces Places. 00:44 The Post 07:48 Mary and the Witch's Flower 17:14 Cultural Capital Film Diary 19:00 Agnes Varda and Faces Places Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The "summer in northern Italy" edition: 00:50 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 29:25 Cultural Capital Film Diary 30:20 Top 5 Films of 2017 (including guests Hayley Inch, Ben Rigby, Jo Di Mattia and Donovan Renn) There were so many films released in 2017 and we barely saw any of them. Still, from the several hundred we did see, we chose our five favourites, forgot to mention dozens that we loved, and harvested some opinions from some excellent friends of the podcast. We also spent a surprising amount of time talking about Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The "iconic" edition. We'll be back to our normal programming next week with our Top 5s of the year and lots of other movie chat, but this week we went to the exhibition Edith Head: The Costume Designer. Our visit prompted in depth discussions about costumes, costumers and costuming. We also share our picks from MUBI. 00:00 Edith Head: The Costume Designer 21:58 MUBI 28:52 Our favourite costumes from film history Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The HDS signature edition. 00:40 Mudbound 14:58 Lucky 28:10 Cultural Capital Film Diary 30:30 MUBI Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod (Can you spot which line Andy overdubbed? You probably can.)

The “It’s pronounced ‘Heddy’ not ‘Heidi’ Lamarr” edition. 00:50 Bad Genius 14:02 South East Asian Cinema 25:55 Film Diary 28:30 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 38:20 Giveaways Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The "Nancy Meyers interior decorated" edition 01:00 Home Again 15:48 The Untamed 24:45 Cultural Capital Film Diary 27:50 Giveaways 28:20 Top 3 Californian Romantic Comedies Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The "Andy, your interviews are becoming sound art" edition 00:45 Blade Runner 19:45 Cultural Capital Film Diary 21:25 What if it Works? and an interview with director Romi Trower 47:23 Top 3 dystopian futures of cinema Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The "It's impossible to be bored / I was bored" edition: 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - …mother! (spoilerchat begins at 11:20) 27:33 - Beatriz at Dinner 41:20 - Cultural Capital Film Diary 42:35 - MUBI 48:21 - Top 3 Films Using One Location During our discussion about Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rope, Anders mentions the essay Anal Rope, a discussion about representations of homosexuality in the film. You can find it here: https://the.hitchcock.zone/w/index.php?title=Representations_(1990)_-_Anal_Rope&redirect=no Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The “forgotten women of Hausu” edition 00:55 Girls Trip 21:33 Cultural Capital Film Diary 24:55 MUBI 32:14 Top 3 Girl gangs in the movies During her chat about Heathers, Eloise mentions this article “Heathers: An Oral History” which is very interesting: http://ew.com/article/2014/04/04/heathers-oral-history/ Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The “MIFF 2017: Dedicated to those who served” Edition. On the final day of the Melbourne International Film Festival we’re joined by writer, critic, author and theorist Anwen Crawford to share our experiences of week three of MIFF. We also share our favourite films of the festival and spare a thought for those whose commitment to MIFF overtook their physical capacity to endure the punishing schedule of a true film afficinado. 01:10 The Square (Ruben Östlund) 08:45 Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello) 13:55 Aelita: Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov) 17:00 The Tenth Victim (Elio Petri) 18:25 These Are the Damned (Joseph Losey) 21:30 Bobbi Jene (Elvira Lind) 24:40 The Graduation (Claire Simon) 27:10 By The Time it Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong) 30:30 Spoor (Agnieszka Holland) 32:55 The Documentary of Dr G Yunupingu’s Life (Paul Williams) During her review of Aelita: Queen of Mars, Eloise enthused about the costume design. You can see what she’s on about here: https://au.pinterest.com/pin/194569646373924615/ Our Films of MIFF: Anwen: BPM Eloise: Nocturama Andy: Bobbi Jene Anders: Call Me By Your Name

The "Birth of the Talkies" edition Author and film critic Anwen Crawford joins Andy, Eloise and Anders to talk the highs and lows of week 2 of MIFF. Get a ringside seat as Eloise and Anwen take on Andy over Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck, marvel at the dizzying representations of queer identity on show and slow all the way down take in the full majesty of Abbas Kiarostami’s final feature 24 Frames. All this and more. 1:00 Dawson City Frozen Time 8:08 The Butterfly Tree 10:58 Wonderstruck 24:00 BPM 29:01 The Ornithologist 31:45 God’s Own Country 34:30 A Fantastic Woman 37:35 Still Life 41:10 24 Frames 43:05 Austerlitz Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: @TheCultCapPod

The "Precautious. Precocious." Edition Join us as we check in on Day 4 of the Melbourne International Film Festival as we share our highlights, disappointments and recommendations live from the Festival Hub. 01:05 Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guardagnino) 08:35 Celia (Ann Turner) 11:29 Pop Aye (Kirsten Tan) 13:55 Sami Blood (Amanda Kernell) 15:42 PattiCake$ (Geremy Jasper) 18:33 Ginger and Rosa (Sally Potter) 21:10 Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis) 25:00 The Graduation (Claire Martin) 27:30 I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni) 30:55 God’s Own Country (Francis Lee) Find us… Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The "Yass Kween Smash the Patriarchy" edition: 00:50 Daphne 12:45 City of Ghosts 25:42 Cultural Capital Film Diary 26:35 Dunkirk 36:58 Chavela Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod

The Barbara Stanwyck and Ginger Rogers birthday edition 00:55 Baby Driver 19:15 Cultural Capital Film Diary 22:18 MUBI 24:15 Il Cinema Ritrovato 27:20 The Beguiled Find us at @TheCultCapPod on Twitter and @CulturalCapitalPodcast on Facebook or email us at culturalcapitalpodcast@gmail.com