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On this episode, Sydney film critic, Glen Falkenstein joins the podcast via Zoom chatting about the impact of COVID-19 on both the Film Festival circuit as well as cinema in general. We don't let Coronavirus stop us from reviewing films though, as we discuss Come to Daddy, Monos, Happy New Year Colin Burstead and It Must Be Heaven. This episode is the perfect quarantine boredom buster.
Join our hosts this episode as they pick over the meagre handful of films they managed to see in the first week of the 2019 Sydney Film Festival. Lip service is paid to the documentary Anthropocene and Clare Denis' High Life, but the meat goes to the films that both hosts manages to attend and those were Jennifer Kent's sophomore effort "The Nightingale" and Ben Wheatley's surprising little entry "Happy New Year Colin Burstead. Join us next week for whatever our hosts made time for during week 2 of the festival!
Happy New Year listeners! Mary and Sarah deal with the various personal issues raised by Ben Wheatley’s Happy New Year Colin Burstead (2018).
Bullet-Point film reviews of Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Wildlife, The Grinch, Suspiria, Waru, Robin Hood, The Girl In The Spider's Web, Assassination Nation, Shoplifters & Happy New Year Colin BursteadDIRECT LINK
Live: MK3D 2. Ben Wheatley on Taxi Driver, Lenny Abrahamson on Dumb & Dumber, Rita Osei on Bliss! and Kermode on Rock Docs.Follow Mark @KermodeMovieWant to come to a recording of a show? You can book tickets to next month’s MK3D here:https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=DE10DF8E-85B6-4260-8569-11D43282FC2C&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=15A02F0E-D19D-4FB1-BCF0-783C3389508BIf it says it is sold out - don’t despair, there are often returns so check again nearer the time.If you are not in London, Mark is doing his one-man show "How Does It Feel?” In Birmingham on 21 January 2019:https://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/mark-kermode-how-does-it-feel.htmlAnd in Newcastle on 4 February:https://www.newcastlegateshead.com/whats-on/mark-kermode-how-does-it-feel-p967821For info on Ben Wheatley’s Film and UK Q&A tour of Happy New Year Colin Burstead, follow @ColinBurstead and @Rookfilms For Lenny Abrahamson follow @lennyabrahamsonFor info on the Irish Film Festival London go to: www.irishfilmlondon.comOr click here: https://www.irishfilmfestivallondon.com/festival-programme/For Rita Osei’s film Bliss! With Freya Parks follow @RitaOsei or @FreyaParks To watch the film go to Amazon:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bliss-Freya-Parks/dp/B07H4XB1DM/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539255851&sr=1-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=bliss&dpPl=1&dpID=51ROR3AELyL&ref=plSrchOr to iTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/bliss/id1427871538www.markkermode.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Special Edition. This episode we are talking with our chief film critic Paul Salt about his experiences at the hugely popular 62nd BFI London Film Festival. He reviews: Happy New Year Colin Burstead, Suspiria, Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Wild Rose, Assassination Nation, In Fabric, Roma, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Shadow (Ying), They Shall Not Grow Old, Dragged Across Concrete. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.