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Movies, Movies, Movies goes nocturnal in a deeply PM conversation for sleepwalkers. One film about the day (The Taste of Things), against a film about the night (The Strangers: Chapter 1) with eating in common. The night-talkers play 'what's the definition of mise-en-scene', discuss objects of optimism, André is afraid to bring up Sciamma, and the 2 agree on 2 films that 'nobody is craving at the moment' until they're saved by the wise words of Oregon filmmaker Theda Hammel. Spoiler alert: there's talk about Martin + Thelma and how carriages are movies and organising disordered thoughts. We live in a time of cruel art. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cannes is the sister city of Beverly Hills which makes it a moving target for MMM. Jen and André have a conversation about a film festival 16,746 km away from FBi Radio. It's an Andrea year, not a Lynne year, and all about showing up to work but not in a Reichardt way. Directors do their job, budget cuts become jump cuts, and we try to figure out what Megalopolis says about our past friendships. Noticing patterns J+A discuss The Strangers (all 3 of them), Straub-Huillet, Liv Tyler's sliding door acting, what's starring Junglepussy, a treatise on the Sydney film movement of stylists becoming directors, debunking Fever Ray and Jen's discovery of Haile Gerima. Eora. Fedora. Sean Baker. Anora. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MMM dressed as motorbikes to attend the premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga by George Miller, a director who at 79 years old still has it. Afterwards, the duo gather in studio to discuss the biggest talkie of the year. Jen conjures the experience of Mel Gibson eating steak on set barehanded, running in circles as feminine storytelling, Noah and the Whale, what happens when wives edit together, how Byron Bay is in NSW, and both Chris Hemsworth and John Howard's big bloodied nipples - all composite parts of Furiosa's whole. André admits to craving continuity, Jen discusses the news of a Mousetrap film produced by Margot, and between reflections on Moulin Rouge J+A pay respect to the mastermind Tina Turner. The windmill continues to spin. Vrrrrrrr vrrrrrrrrrr vrooom roar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Movies, Movies, Movies hosts a conversation with documentary filmmaker Lucie McMahon on her film Things Will Be Different - which is being released nationally in cinemas with special QandA screenings. An ode to the Walker Street Public Housing Estate in Melbourne as it heads to demolition, Things Will Be Different is a bittersweet document of Walker Street's last two residents, living with the uncertainty of eventual displacement. One of the film's subjects - William Gwyne - joins the zoom, sharing his experience working in Factual, collaboration, what it took to depict the housing crisis, surviving notices to vacate, and their hopes for the film's educational power. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sydney Film Festival is a full menu; J and A wishlist their dream-directors, films, play dates, crew members, friends (aka peers), memories (real and false) and anticipated tiny meals coming ground-under for this year's friendly SFF. They discuss the lineup; looking for films that go ‘boo’, mix-bag curation, Rachel House, Theda coming over to my house, arbitrary choices, wee/poo and high/low selectivity, the word 'anachronistic' to describe the French New Wave "thinking they discovered something new but it was actually just India" and the Beatlemania of Stress Positions. Ruby Arrowsmith-Todd holds down a shrinking shack Flux: Art + Film section, Jen explains how to religiously read the jumbo schedule (and Bible dip), then J and A special-mention the precarious French strikers, the cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, and 93 year old documentary filmmakers not-wasting time at Opera Quays. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cream suits and clover honey: MMM is joined by filmmaker/union photographer Lily Bennett to discuss the dissociative power of guns, cameras, career insurrection, and bokeh. In an abundance of spoilers we strip La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), learn photography in Civil War (Alex Garland), and use tennis as a position through Challengers (Luca Guadagnino). The holy T take us to the court of love, death, and tennis, finishing with an interview featuring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor (25:10 for the sprinters). This rare megalopolis comeback covers Fellini’s Roma, eyes of duck in film, spirits, Jen clocking 14 fedoras at the cinema and finding the answer. Here are three films about being good at your job. How do people ever pick between options? Go Steelers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode title: The Sound of Gus'. Gus enters the studio to unearth the Sydney Underground Film Festival, while spotlighting the unspotlightable film Sound of Freedom. Expect deep truths about propaganda, Gus' appreciation of the holy trinity (Harmony Korine, Yorgos Lanthimos, and André Shannon) and also Gus' first take on the deep fake this is Mel Gibson's movie world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gus and André come into the studio and have their breath stolen from them (a term coined by critic Priya Leigh) to discuss celebrity sightings including Jacob Elordi, Troye Sivan, and Jane Campion. Why are they all so...just like us? The two Buffs then enter a pitching contest between "Gangas" and "Etc Etc Etc..." - two compelling productions set deep inside the Nation's hole. Gus protects his right to not have a favourite Canberra song, while André celebrates Cate Shortland's 35mm screening of Somersault (2004) at the Australian Fyshwick, Telopea, and Roundabout School. Fights break out but the love games win. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Priya + Enoch introduce a new segment called Pitch Off where they compete for the best Sam Kerr Stan Original, do we love a blood soaked football rehearsal or are we headering in the direction of a bended love story? We wonder who will answer the call to be Lars Von Trier's new girlfriend, and who Florence Pugh gets her legal advice from before picketing. In Spotlight Gus interviews Al Cossar, the artistic director of MIFF and gets some recs for MIFF Play, the festival's streaming service available now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Talk To Me + The Sweet East Enoch and Priya take on two British-core indie adventure films that navigate the cultural cringe of the world's most infamous colonies. Bruce interviews Nick Pinkerton, the uncompromising writer who could have just called his film Sweet East but started it with The, and Jen and André acknowledge some of the people we've loved and lost over the past few weeks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bruce Koussaba sits down with Nick Pinkerton to talk about The Sweet East, having its Australian premiere at MIFF this weekend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gus McGrath sits down with Simon Miraudo, author of the new book about Australian censorship: Book of the Banned: devilish movies, dastardly censors and the scenes that made Australia sweat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Priya and Enoch are in the studio, and it's "Barbenheimer Pt 2. - The Grande Finale"! You'll hear everything from "The School of Rock" being the epicentre of movies & music, news on the newly announced "Polly Pocket Movie", and what Enoch's mum's reaction to the infamous Barbie quote, "We mothers stand still so our daughter can look back to see how far they've come" was. PLUS, Gus shares his interview with author Simon Miraudo about his upcoming release "Book of The Banned: Devilish Movies, Dastardly Censors and the Scenes that Made Australia Sweat". Not only does this interview detail the ridiculous history of film censorship in Australia but where we are now and how censorship is getting...worse. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Barbie + Oppenheimer Bruce Koussaba and Jenna Parker declare war on the cultural phenomenon of Barbenheimer. In a spiteful episode of Movies Movies Movies featuring a hateline, a casting call for Bruce's mysterious film project, a capsule review in limerick form, and some Franism (not Drescher but Lebowitz) the two hosts outline why everyone's got it wrong. Then, Bruce asks some insightful questions to Sam Twyford-Moore about his recently published book 'Cast Mates' - it's fantastic! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rush + You Hurt My Feelings + What Was I Made For? Priya and Enoch come for the twinks and the dolls this week as Billie Eilish and Troye Sivan cross the picket lines. Jane Birkin has died and Priya is yet to find the perfect picture to post to her stories and Barbenheimer inspires a trip down memory lame to look at all the other release date clashes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No Hard Feelings + The Stroll, behold Jen and André are hard and have feelings, answering what makes a comedy work (hint: it needs to be funny). And then there’s a Barbie premiere that demands attendance, and André is nowhere to be found because they’re in the bathroom stuck in P town. Also the Tw-hulks chat authentic artificiality, Jacques Demy, Chris Lilley comedy - the two do some shit talking - and land on some beautiful ways to respect a Barbie. Business as usual. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Idol + And Just Like That Priya interviews SFF short film winner Dave Ma about his award winning romantic short The Dancing Girl and The Balloon Man. But not before Jen recaps the entirety of Movies Movies Movies and cinema from 2018 - 2023. The journeys of Margot, Warwick, Kylie, Sia, Fran Drescher and Nat Randall. Will the actors strike? Is Hollywood over? Was Amy Siemetz robbed or just average? Is the Australian film industry a race to the middle with everyone paid to say no? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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“I am really more and more certain that it’s all about energy and flow - how creativity works: that it really is a power”. Filmmaker Jane Campion joins Jen and André for a deeply revealing discussion about her enduring approach to creating the images that so many of us know from her powerful oeuvre. Jane is being honoured at the 70th SFF, which runs until June 18th. The three discuss whether Jane is an experimental filmmaker, the power of flow vs frequency, her pop-up film school in Aotearoa, and surprisingly the genius of George Lucas. Stay tuned for the moment the zoom conversation cuts out. The ultimate cut. This episode was made possible thanks to Emerson Ray Rosenthal, Baby Sam, and Laura Jean. Thank you so much for supporting Movies, Movies, Movies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Priya and Enoch discuss the cultural impact of the spiderverse, why watch movies when you can practice psychic remote viewing and are Eric Rohmer films still deeply riveting or Pinterest screen grabs for white women See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.