Flick ford is joined by guest critics Emma Westwood and Sally Christie for a horror double. They tuck into Mimi Cave’s dating app horror FRESH and then they journey into Alex Garland’s rural horror MEN. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Presenter Flick Ford speaks with former Director of Film Programs at ACMI (and now Creative Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival) Kristy Matheson, about ACMI’s new retrospective on the works of Iranian Director Abbas Kiarostami. Flick is then joined by Melbourne filmmaker Subah Kamal to talk about Asghar Farhadi’s A HERO. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Flick Ford chats to Dr. Andy Lynch and Alexa Scarlata about alternative streaming platforms. They then review Danny Boyle’s new Sex Pistols bio-pic PISTOL and the rural horror series FROM. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Flick Ford and Lisa Kovacevic talk to Artistic Director Thomas Caldwell about the Children’s International Film Festival and Associate Professor Liam Burke about what parents want from Aussie kids’ TV. Lisa and Flick review the popular kids' TV show BLUEY. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Host Flick Ford chats to director and writer Franziska Stünkel about her latest film THE LAST EXECUTION which is screening as part of the German Film Festival. And Will Cox and Dr. Stuart Richards drop by to discuss the true-crime HBO mini-series THE STAIRCASE, PETITE MAMAN by Céline Sciamma and more. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Host Flick Ford speaks to Monash University Associate Professor Belinda Smaill about the podcast series SEEING GREEN that revisits Aussie film classics through an environmental lens. Flick is then joined by Dr. Simon Troon, Researcher from Environment and Media Research at Monash University, who shares a mix of climate change films, from action to drama to documentaries. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https:/...
Host Eloise Ross chats to Claire Jankelson, Director of The South African Film Festival, about how the festival got started and what to check out. Journalist Anders Furze then joins Eloise to review Season 2 of RUSSIAN DOLL, THE GILDED AGE and Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the television comedy GRACE AND FRANKIE. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Host Will Cox speaks with Alice McShane, Program Manager of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) about what to expect from HRAFF's 2022 program. Will is then joined by guest reviewer Thao Phan to review Kogonada’s meditative sci-fi AFTER YANG, before heading to Spain and reviewing Nic Cage's new film THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_...
Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewers Will Cox and Vyshnavee Wijekumar for a chat with Melbourne-based musician Dave Jacob about his reimagined techno punk score of James Cameron’s cult classic ALIEN. Flick, Will and Vyshnavee then review Robert Eggers’ bloodthirsty Viking flick THE NORTHMAN and the enigmatic drama fantasy MEMORIA starring Tilda Swinton. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pr...
Flick Ford and Will Cox are joined by award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer Jane Castle. They discuss her documentary WHEN THE CAMERA STOPPED ROLLING about her pioneering filmmaker mother, Lilias Fraser. Stuart Richards then joins Flick and Will to review the wild multiverse martial arts movie EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, and whacky sci-fi tv series SEVERANCE. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https:...
Flick Ford is back in the studio chatting live with Gillian Armstrong, one of Australia’s most celebrated filmmakers, who will be the subject of upcoming Melbourne Cinémathèque screenings. Flick and film critic Cerise Howard ask Gillian about her diverse filmography and the changes she has seen in Australian cinema over her extensive career. Film critic Eloise Ross then joins Flick and Cerise to review Armstrong's films STARSTRUCK, her 1982 musical comedy, as well as her 1987 drama HIGH TIDE. Fa...
Host Lisa Kovacevic chats with Melbourne director David Willing about his debut feature film SURROGATE and is then joined by reviewers Will Cox and Stuart Richards to discuss the life giving and life destroying element carbon, in the new documentary CARBON: THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY. They also discuss a community divided by the climate catastrophe and their long road to recovery in the ABC's PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF MALLACOOTA, and Richard Linklater’s nostalgic homage to the 1960s - APOLLO 10½: A S...
It’s fright night on Primal Screen! Stuart Richards is joined by guest critics Will Cox and Eloise Ross. We hear from Perri Cummings and Paul Anthony Nelson of Cinema Viscera about their new Melbourne-based horror APPARITIONS, peer into the dark side of college campuses in Mariama Diallo’s psychological horror MASTER and discuss Ti West’s new American slasher X. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter....
Lisa Kovacevic chats to UK-based producer Nicky Bentham about her new true crime comedy THE DUKE starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. Lisa is also joined by film critics Will Cox and Vyshnavee Wijekumar to discuss menstruation and giant red pandas in the new animated Pixar film TURNING RED, and the age-old relationship humans have with water in Jen Peedom’s RIVER.
Lisa Kovacevic and is joined by Will Cox and Stuart Richards as they chat with Danny Cohen about his new Courtney Barnett documentary ANONYMOUS CLUB. They also review Mia Hansen-Løve’s BERGMAN ISLAND and Steven Soderbergh’s KIMI. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewer Emma Westwood as they discuss Matt Reeves' THE BATMAN and Lily Horvát's PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME. They also talk to Director and Writer Susanna Nicchiarelli about her new biopic MISS MARX Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Flick Ford is joined by film critics Emma Westwood and Lisa Kovacevic in spotlighting female-focussed tv dramas that are currently streaming. They review the teen survival series YELLOWJACKETS, the drug-fuelled teen drama EUPHORIA, and Sex and the City reboot AND JUST LIKE THAT. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Host Flick Ford discusses the European Film Festival Europa Europa with Artistic Director Thomas Caldwell and film critic Cerise Howard. They also review Pedro Almodóvar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS and Michael Showalter’s Christian Evangelist biopic THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
For the first show of the year, Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewer Will Cox as they look back on this summer’s top films. They review the Princess Diana biopic SPENCER, Paul Thomas Anderson’s LICORICE PIZZA and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, THE LOST DAUGHTER. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Guest presenters Karl Chapman and Maudie Osborne talk music in film. They share and discuss soundtrack selections, including music from Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy drama LICORICE PIZZA and Edgar Wright’s psychological Horror LAST NIGHT IN SOHO. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
For Paul Anthony Nelson's final show, he is joined by Flick Ford to review their collective Top 10 New Films of 2021 as well as their top 5 discoveries from this year.
Flick Ford and guest reviewers, Jack Ralph and Will Cox review two new releases in DUNE dir. Denis Villeneuve (2021) and THE BEATLES: GET BACK dir. Peter Jackson (2021). Flick Ford also discusses DUNE with writer, Chris Dite. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Flick Ford is joined by guest critic Cerise Howard. Cerise interviews BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (2021) director Radu Jude, and the team review TITANE (Julia Ducournau, 2021). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
Flick Ford and Cerise Howard are joined by Japanese Film Festival Programmer Simonne Goran for a chat about this year's event. Plus, reviews of two titles in Melbourne cinemas now: NO TIME TO DIE (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021), where Flick and Cerise are joined by panel master Karl Chapman for the 101 on 007, and THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion, 2021) - an examination of toxic masculinity with a score from Jonny Greenwood.
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...
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. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
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). Facebook: h...
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). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
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). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen...
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). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/ Twitter: http...
