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This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Vyshnavee Wijekumar for a jam-packed episode! First up, we preview Cinema Reborn, an annual film festival dedicated to the restoration and celebration of cinema history. Flick chats with festival organisers Grace Boschetti and Digby Houghton about this year's program and the importance of film preservation. The festival runs May 8–13 at Lido Cinemas. Learn more about the program via the Cinema Reborn website. We also review two compelling new series: The Narrow Road to the Deep North is based on Richard Flanagan's acclaimed novel, is a new Australian miniseries that follows WWII army surgeon and prisoner of war on the Thai Burmese railways Dorrigo, both sustain and haunted by his past. Directed by Justin Kurzel and starring Jacob Elordi, it's now streaming on Amazon Prime.Dying for Sex is a bold new comedy-drama on Disney+ and stars Michelle Williams as a woman diagnosed with stage IV cancer who embarks on a journey of sexual discovery, with support from her best friend, played by Jenny Slate.Tune in to Primal Screen live every Monday from 7pm on Triple R 102.7FM Follow us on Instagram: @primal_screen_show
Nel cartellone della rassegna Cinema Reborn 2025 a Sydney, ci sarà anche la proiezione di una copia restaurata del capolavoro che raccontò la liberazione dell'Italia dall'occupazione nazifascista.
Screening at the Fantastic Film Festival, A Grand Mockery is an exciting example of independent filmmaking. Shot on luminous Super 8, it follows Josie, a young man leading a life of passive mundanity in Brisbane. Jason meets directors Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon.Director David Noakes discusses How the West Was Lost, a documentary about the 1946 Aboriginal pastoral workers' strike in Western Australia's Pilbara region that has been digitally restored and is undergoing screenings in Melbourne and Sydney as part of Cinema Reborn's 2025 program.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Screening at the Fantastic Film Festival, A Grand Mockery is an exciting example of independent filmmaking. Shot on luminous Super 8, it follows Josie, a young man leading a life of passive mundanity in Brisbane. Jason meets directors Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon.Director David Noakes discusses How the West Was Lost, a documentary about the 1946 Aboriginal pastoral workers' strike in Western Australia's Pilbara region that has been digitally restored and is undergoing screenings in Melbourne and Sydney as part of Cinema Reborn's 2025 program.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan, the stars of Evil Dead Rise join Jason. Plus, a powerful new doc that attempts to uncover the truth behind the Balibo Five murders.
Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan, the stars of Evil Dead Rise join Jason. Plus, a powerful new doc that attempts to uncover the truth behind the Balibo Five murders.
Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan, the stars of Evil Dead Rise join Jason. Plus, a powerful new doc that attempts to uncover the truth behind the Balibo Five murders.
Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan, the stars of Evil Dead Rise join Jason. Plus, a powerful new doc that attempts to uncover the truth behind the Balibo Five murders.
James Vaughan on Il Cinema Ritrovato: Muratova, Mambéty, and More! Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I'm your host, Nicolas Rapold. Il Cinema Ritrovato is an incredible film festival of restorations, revivals, and retrospectives that takes place every year in Bologna, Italy. It's a source of discovery (and/or envy) for many film lovers, and so when I heard the filmmaker James Vaughan—director of Friends and Strangers, one of my favorite movies in recent years—was attending, I knew we had to talk. Vaughan was a guest on The Last Thing I Saw last summer to talk about some very fine silent films he had been watching. In Bologna, he was looking at movies for the Sydney-based film festival Cinema Reborn, and some of his favorites included work by Kira Muratova, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Arby Ovanessian—plus the Weimar Cinema comedy The Cabinet of Dr. Larifari. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow's Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass
We've turned: Cinema Reborn hooked Jennifer + Andj this year with screenings of Sambizanga (1972) and Return Home (1989), which proves transport is...in. Claire Denis being boring: out. We talk living female cinematographers (Mandy Walker), the downstairs State Theatre bar, Kylie Minogue's track from Holy Motors, Jen's favourite David Stratton rant, and capital P period films in an interview with director Leah Purcell. Leah describes dreaming of trees and finding them irl which is just right: films make dreams come true. Her feature The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is in cinemas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
United States v Billie Holiday + Demi Lovato - Dancing with the Devil We review these two queer popstar survival stories and hype three surviving cinema events. Static Vision have announced their film festival Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Film Festivaland it will run from May 14th to 16th. Satoshi Kon's Paprika looks like a highlight and low key Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street is going to give the festival an exciting throwback. New Jersey DJ UNiiQU3 is opening the festival. Personally I'm most excited for Blue Honda Civic by Jussie Eerola which calls itself a minimalist road movie about emotional landscapes. I could talk about this lineup all day - In The Air Tonight as well, and Sun Dog! Cinema Reborn is happening from April 29th till May 2nd and we highly recommend you check out the section Films From the CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL MEDIA ASSOCIATION (CAAMA) featuring 4 films from CAMMA. Since launching in Alice Springs in 1988 CAAMA has become the largest Indigenous production house in Australia and basically the pre-eminent video unit of Indigenous filmmaking in Australian Aboriginal media. The films being shown are MY COLOUR, YOUR KIND (1998 | Dir. Danielle MacLean), WILLABERTA JACK (2007 | Dir. David Tranter), EIGHT LADIES (2010 | Dir. Dena Curtis), GREEN BUSH (2005 | Dir. Warwick Thornton). Garden Reflexxx: 4 will be at Pink Flamingo Cinema in Marrickville on May 7. Huge, considered and pumped up line-up featuring Stelly G and Chiara Garrett-Saladrau and their experience of the first ever Sneaker Category in the Southern Hemisphere at the recent West Ball. Australia's most important video artist Destiny Deacon, the much-loved LOVEDAVID, our queen, mother of the masses and Darwin's new hero Bhenji Ra, cross-country heartthrob Grace Barr, the inventor of inflatable art, world renowned performance and fabric artist Evelyn Roth, a new film from Sydney's hottest filmmaker E. O. Gill starring people you saw across the room at First Draft Athena Thebus and Chloe Candlelyte who, as Xnorpowka will also be debuting a new film: White Dress and finally, to cap it all off there will be a meditative trip into the underworld performed by the newest, most macabre sound artist around Weyon inside a giant inflatable chicken brought to Sydney by Evelyn Roth in person. May 7, Pink Flamingo Cinema, doors at 7, films at 8, tickets $10 - $15 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Where we fight about in our biggest episode of all time the biggest superhero film of all time, the longest film or TV battle of all time and chat with Cinema Reborn Director Geoffrey Gardner, Irish Film Festival Director Enda Murray, 'Unquiet Graves' Director Sean Murray (IFF) and 'Dublin Oldschool' Director Dave Tynan (IFF)
Gloria Bell + 1985, the Filmlordes discuss Wanda, Cinema Reborn, and chat to Ana Kokkinos about their film Blessed. Lucy Lui gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi is imprisonned for being outspoken, and Lizzo joins the Cardi B film cast. The Filmlordes become the first film critics to ask the world; what is your favourite feminist film?
We meet Radha Mitchell and Ben Hackworth, star and director of the sultry new Australian film Celeste. Lauren Carroll Harris is talking about the new season of hit Icelandic series Trapped, and meets the creator too. Plus, a review of the new Marvel film, and a discussion with curator Adrian Danks about Cinema Reborn, an annual showcase of recent restorations of world cinema.
We meet Radha Mitchell and Ben Hackworth, star and director of the sultry new Australian film Celeste. Lauren Carroll Harris is talking about the new season of hit Icelandic series Trapped, and meets the creator too. Plus, a review of the new Marvel film, and a discussion with curator Adrian Danks about Cinema Reborn, an annual showcase of recent restorations of world cinema.
We meet Radha Mitchell and Ben Hackworth, star and director of the sultry new Australian film Celeste. Lauren Carroll Harris is talking about the new season of hit Icelandic series Trapped, and meets the creator too. Plus, a review of the new Marvel film, and a discussion with curator Adrian Danks about Cinema Reborn, an annual showcase of recent restorations of world cinema.
We meet Radha Mitchell and Ben Hackworth, star and director of the sultry new Australian film Celeste. Lauren Carroll Harris is talking about the new season of hit Icelandic series Trapped, and meets the creator too. Plus, a review of the new Marvel film, and a discussion with curator Adrian Danks about Cinema Reborn, an annual showcase of recent restorations of world cinema.
We talk about Margot Robbie starring in the new Quentin Tarantino movie as Sharon Tate, Greta Gerwig’s stalker, and Cannes bumpy start. We review On Body and Soul, and Midnight Oil 1984. Because this is our 18th segment we have a special Sydney Spotlight. We ask listeners to text in their favourite R rated movie to win tickets to Jane Campion’s Two Friends screening at Cinema Reborn at A.F.T.R.S.
Where we chat to Geoffrey Gardner from Cinema Reborn – the inaugural Festival kicks off Thursday night at AFTRS – and fight about the latest in Russian cinema, the exact of opposite of this with one of the most British movies ever made and Steven Soderbergh’s second post-retirement film
We talk about how Tom Cruise had to jump out of a plane 106 times for a stunt, and the Studio Ghibli theme park. We review Loveless and Unsane. In Sydney Spotlight we talk the hella unique festival Cinema Reborn at A.F.T.R.S.
Geoffrey Gardner, former director of the Melbourne Film Festival and Clyde Jeavons, ex curator at the British Film Institutes National Film Archive, discuss the history of film restoration.