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Melbourne Women in Film Festival highlights & Melbourne Cinémathèque’s upcoming noir season

Incidentally, the theme for Primal Screen this week was volunteer-run organisations that make it possible to watch films on the big screen with an audience, that you otherwise mightn’t.

The small but mighty…

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Oscars Fever! Plus reviews of ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’, ‘I’m Still Here’ and ‘Dahomey’

It’s Oscars fever in the studio this week! Even if you don’t have a medically certifiable diagnosis of fever, perhaps you have some milder symptoms still attributable to the 97th Academy Awards –…

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Bird and the Last Showgirl

This week on Primal Screen, guest host Alice takes us through reviews of Andrea Arnold's stunning tribute to childhood in BIRD as well as THE LAST SHOWGIRL that holds what could be the…

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Grand Tour, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and more!

This week on Primal Screen, guest host Will Cox is joined by Alex McShane to review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Grand Tour.

Our favourite frazzled English woman is…

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'The Brutalist', 'A Complete Unknown', and 'Babygirl'

On Primal Screen we review three films that have just hit cinemas!

THE BRUTALIST is the epic period drama following a visionary architectwho (Adrian Brody) has fled post-war Europe to America for the…

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First show of 2025! Reviewing Nosferatu and Anora

For the first show of Primal Screen for 2025, Flick Ford is joined in the studio by Alice McShane and Anthony Carew to review NOSFERATU and ANORA. A remake of the iconic 1922…

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Melbourne Cinémathèque turns 40, Tom Zubrycki's oeuvre, and Agnieszka Holland's Green Border (2023)

We're celebrating the Melbourne Cinémathèque's 40th anniversary this week, with two of the pre-eminent film society's co-curators in the studio. Primal Screen favourite Cerise Howard and Associate Professor Adrian Danks (making his PS…

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Autopsy on the Musical: Wicked vs The People's Joker

This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Alice McShane and Will Cox to discuss two wildly different films. Wicked offers a polished, mainstream iteration of a beloved musical, while The…

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Are you not entertained? Discussions of Gladiator II and Memory

"This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford discusses with guest reviewers Thomas Caldwell and Stuart Richards this week's upcoming releases. The Roman Empire is on everyon's minds as Gladiator II is released onto…

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Top picks of the program for Melbourne Queer Film Festival

This week’s episode dives into the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF), taking place 14–24 November 2024. We’re joined by special guest and former co-host Cerise Howard, program director at MQFF and Patrick Kelly…

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Getting Spooky with The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Witches & Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

It's spooky season this week Primal Screen gears up for a very special Halloween Edition of the show.

Former Primal Screen host Paul Anthony Nelson and Co-organiser of Melbourne Horror Film Society Melisa…

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Primal Screen is a show all about screen culture - from movies on the big screen to whatever you're streaming. It's a mix of new releases and retrospective film and television reviews, plus interviews with film practitioners and industry professionals.

Hosted and produced by Flick Ford.
Podcast editing and social media by Gina Cameron and Isabella Radevski.

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