Episodes
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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.
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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
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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 -
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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