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Cultural Capital
by Cultural Capital
A film podcast about Melbourne and cinema, with Eloise Ross, Andy Hazel, Anders Furze and the occasional special guest. RSS feed: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:231960728/sounds.rss
Episodes
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Episode 68 - Little Women, an interview with Gillian Armstrong and our Top 3 Films of 2019
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...
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Episode 67 - Knives Out, The Irishman and Top 3 whodunnits
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...
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Episode 66 - The King, Hustlers and Top 3 Spins On Shakespeare
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...
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Episode 65 - Ad Astra, Buoyancy and Top 3 rescue missions in film
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...
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Episode 64 - Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and the last of MIFF
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…
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MIFF 2019 Episode 3 - The Lodge, Your Face, End of the Century, And Then We Danced and more
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...
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MIFF 2019 Critics Campus x Cultural Capital
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…
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MIFF 2019 Episode 2 - The Nightingale, Bacurau
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…
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MIFF 2019 Episode 1 - Beanpole and One Child Nation
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...
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The MIFF 2019 Program Launch
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...
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Episode 63 - Parasite, Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell interview, Top 3 of 2019 so far
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...
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Episode 62 - Acute Misfortune and Cannes Film Festival 2019
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...
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Episode 61 - Gloria Bell, 1985, Thunder Road
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...
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Episode 60 - Destroyer and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival
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...
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Episode 59 - If Beale Street Could Talk, The Clock and Velvet Buzzsaw
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) Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast...
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Episode 58 - Loro, Juliette Binoche Forever and Certified Copy, Most anticipated 2019 film
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,...
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Episode 57 - Best films of 2018
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…
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Episode 56 - Roma, Dumplin', Second Act, Buster Scruggs and overlooked films of 2018
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,...
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Episode 55 - Widows, I Used To Be Normal, The Other Side of the Wind
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…
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Episode 54 - A Star Is Born and top 3 films about fame
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...
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Episode 53 - Ecstasy, CASFFA, AACTA Film Festival and The House With a Clock in its Walls
The "Hedy Lamarr came over the oceans" edition. A wave of film festivals has hit Melbourne and Cultural Capital are surfing its crest, megaphone in one hand, ticket stub in the other, calling it as we see it. Anders and Eloise get the lowdown on the highlights of the Czech and Slovak Film…
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Episode 52 - The Jane Fonda Special
The Fonda Fonda Fonda edition... Inspired by a talk she gave in Melbourne last week, the podcast trio turn their attention to the marvel that is Jane Fonda. Taking a look at her filmography, her politics, her workouts, her obsessions and inspiration. This is a one-off special devoted to one of...
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MIFF 2018 - Episode 4: Highlights from the festival
The "LAZZaro!" edition. As MIFF 2018 disappears into the rearview, it’s time to review. Cultural Capital regroup to compare notes, look at the films getting a wider release over the coming months, pick favourites and single out disappointments, and share the Cultural Capital Film Diary. 00:50…
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MIFF 2018 - Episode 3: Cultural Capital X Critics Campus
The "I'm excited to going back to watch stuff on my Mac" edition. Cultural Capital invite the participants in this year's MIFF's Critics Campus on the pod to discuss the experience of spending a week as a film critic, share highlights of the festival so far and contemplate the future of film...
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MIFF 2018 - Episode 2: Shoplifters, You Were Never Really Here and more
The mid-MIFF with a neon midriff edition. 01:08 Shoplifters 10:06 Wildlife 15:56 You Were Never Really Here 24:00 The Image Book 29:05 Let the Corpses Tan 30:42 Fugue 36:15 Hard Paint 39:24 Full Moon in Paris 41:00 What we're looking forward to Find us: Twitter: TheCultCapPod Facebook: Cultural...
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Episode 51 - MIFF 2018 Preview, The Green Fog, Genevieve Bailey interview, the best of 2018 so far
For our final episode before MIFF we review Guy Maddin's Vertigo homage, The Green Fog, and share our impressions of MIFF films we've already seen (including Acute Misfortune, First Reformed, Shoplifters, Burning and Capharnaüm), and those we're most excited to see. Andy includes an interview he...
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The MIFF 2018 Program Launch
Breathless but full of complementary hors d'oeuvres and some house red, Anders, Andy and special guest Jo DiMattia rushed from the MIFF program launch at Melbourne's opulent Forum Theatre to pool their thoughts. Is the slate of Australian films the strongest MIFF has ever had? Did the programmers...
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Episode 50 - Disobedience, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Top 3 Films About Faith
The “vividly rendered” / Anwen as Jeanne edition. For the fiftieth episode of Cultural Capital we show our utter professionalism by doing what we always do, we talk about films. And briefly talk about ourselves talking about films. We review Sebastian Leilo’s Disobedience, open the Cultural…
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Episode 49 - From Cannes, and an interview with short film Palme d'Or winner Charles Williams
An episode from the windy rooftop of Terasse des Journalistes at the Cannes Film Festival, recorded just hours before the closing ceremony. Andy takes a look at some festival highlights including reviews of Spike Lee's 'Blackkklansman', Bi Gan's 'Long Days Journey Into Night', David Robert...
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Episode 48 - Trench, Top 3 Noirs of the 21st Century, Tully, Breath, Avengers Infinity War
The "Is that a noir? I don't know." edition This episode, Melbournian film podcast reviews Melbournian film noir, when Cultural Capital takes a look at Paul Anthony Nelson's Trench. We share a brief interview with Nelson, the film's writer director, and its co-star Perri Cummings, and count down…
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Episode 47 - Maurice, I Feel Pretty, A Quiet Place, Death in Brunswick
The “Hugh Grant’s tugged forelock” edition This week we punt along the Cam in the English summer sun while a young Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves share glances full of longing as we review the reissue of James Ivory’s ‘Maurice’. We also get grubby in 80s Melbourne suburbia with John Ruane’s black...
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Episode 46 - The Party, I Am Not a Witch
The "surprisingly short Party" edition 00:38 The Party 14:30 Cultural Capital Film Diary 15:55 I Am Not a Witch Cultural Capital keep it tight this week, just like Sally Potter's 71 minute 'The Party', and Rungano Nyoni's focus on the experiences of eight-year-old Shula in her remarkable debut...
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Episode 45 - All About Eve, Blockers, Ready Player One and Top 3 Films About Ageing Stars
The “Joan Crawford. Again.” edition. 00:43 All About Eve 20:05 Film Diary 21:00 Terror Nullius 23:40 Blockers 25:46 Ready Player One 28:40 Top 3 Films about Ageing Stars of Stage and Screen This episode we look at one of the highlights of the Young at Heart Film Festival, the classic All About…
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Episode 44 - Desert Hearts and Let the Sunshine In
The "Female directors / romantic dramas" edition 00:42 Desert Hearts 17:42 Cultural Capital Film Diary 19:02 Let the Sunshine In Melbourne is a city of many things, and most of these things are arts festivals. This week we take a look at highlights from two festivals running in March. Donna...
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Episode 43 - A Fantastic Woman, Love Serenade and the Melbourne Women in Film Festival
The "Oh I'm odd. I'm very odd." edition. 00:44 - A Fantastic Woman 15:00 - Cultural Capital Film Diary 17:50 - An interview with Melbourne Women in Film Festival director Sian Mitchell 29:25 - Love Serenade It's not enough to celebrate the Melbourne Women in Film Festival, we have to talk to its...
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Episode 42 - Black Panther, Lady Bird , Menashe
The "Wakanda movie is this?" edition. Since Eloise is drinking coconut milk on a beach in Thailand, Anders and Andy team up to take on the excitingly Afro-centric Marvel superhero blockbuster Black Panther, Greta Gerwig's award-ridden comedic drama Lady Bird and browse through the Cultural…
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Episode 41 - Phantom Thread, Sweet Country and Top 3 Films about fashion
The "... and sausages" edition. Since Anders is drinking coconut milk on a beach in Thailand, Andy and Eloise are joined by critic and writer Jo Di Mattia to compare look-books for Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-nominated romantic drama Phantom Thread, and search for justice in Warwick Thornton's...
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Episode 40 - The Post, Mary and the Witch's Flower, Agnes Varda and Faces Places
The surprisingly pithy edition. For episode 40 we look at two of the most notable films opening in the first two weeks of 2018 (Andy talked about the very impressive Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri last episode). We also commemorate ACMI's Agnes Varda season with a discussion of the...
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Episode 39 - Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Film Diary, our Top 5 Films Of 2017
The "summer in northern Italy" edition: 00:50 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 29:25 Cultural Capital Film Diary 30:20 Top 5 Films of 2017 (including guests Hayley Inch, Ben Rigby, Jo Di Mattia and Donovan Renn) There were so many films released in 2017 and we barely saw any of them. Still, from the...
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Episode 38 - Edith Head Exhibition, MUBI And Our Favourite Costumes
The "iconic" edition. We'll be back to our normal programming next week with our Top 5s of the year and lots of other movie chat, but this week we went to the exhibition Edith Head: The Costume Designer. Our visit prompted in depth discussions about costumes, costumers and costuming. We also…
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Episode 37 - Mudbound, Lucky, Film Diary and MUBI
The HDS signature edition. 00:40 Mudbound 14:58 Lucky 28:10 Cultural Capital Film Diary 30:30 MUBI Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod (Can you spot which line Andy overdubbed? You probably can.)
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Episode 36 - Bad Genius, South East Asian cinema and Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool
The “It’s pronounced ‘Heddy’ not ‘Heidi’ Lamarr” edition. 00:50 Bad Genius 14:02 South East Asian Cinema 25:55 Film Diary 28:30 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 38:20 Giveaways Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod
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Episode 35 - Home Again, The Untamed, Top 3 Californian romantic comedies
The "Nancy Meyers interior decorated" edition 01:00 Home Again 15:48 The Untamed 24:45 Cultural Capital Film Diary 27:50 Giveaways 28:20 Top 3 Californian Romantic Comedies Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod
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Episode 34 - Blade Runner 2049, What If It Works? Top 3 dystopian futures of cinema
The "Andy, your interviews are becoming sound art" edition 00:45 Blade Runner 19:45 Cultural Capital Film Diary 21:25 What if it Works? and an interview with director Romi Trower 47:23 Top 3 dystopian futures of cinema Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod
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Episode 33 - ...mother!, Beatriz At Dinner, Top 3 Movies Set In One Location
The "It's impossible to be bored / I was bored" edition: 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - …mother! (spoilerchat begins at 11:20) 27:33 - Beatriz at Dinner 41:20 - Cultural Capital Film Diary 42:35 - MUBI 48:21 - Top 3 Films Using One Location During our discussion about Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rope,...
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Episode 32 - Girls Trip, MUBI, Film Diary, Top 3 girl gang movies
The “forgotten women of Hausu” edition 00:55 Girls Trip 21:33 Cultural Capital Film Diary 24:55 MUBI 32:14 Top 3 Girl gangs in the movies During her chat about Heathers, Eloise mentions this article “Heathers: An Oral History” which is very interesting:...
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Cultural Capital MIFF Dispatch 3 - Day 17
The “MIFF 2017: Dedicated to those who served” Edition. On the final day of the Melbourne International Film Festival we’re joined by writer, critic, author and theorist Anwen Crawford to share our experiences of week three of MIFF. We also share our favourite films of the festival and spare a...
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Cultural Capital MIFF Dispatch 2 - Day 11
The "Birth of the Talkies" edition Author and film critic Anwen Crawford joins Andy, Eloise and Anders to talk the highs and lows of week 2 of MIFF. Get a ringside seat as Eloise and Anwen take on Andy over Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck, marvel at the dizzying representations of queer identity on…
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Cultural Capital MIFF Dispatch 1 - Day 4
The "Precautious. Precocious." Edition Join us as we check in on Day 4 of the Melbourne International Film Festival as we share our highlights, disappointments and recommendations live from the Festival Hub. 01:05 Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guardagnino) 08:35 Celia (Ann Turner) 11:29 Pop Aye...
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Episode 31 - Daphne, City of Ghosts, Dunkirk and Chavela
The "Yass Kween Smash the Patriarchy" edition: 00:50 Daphne 12:45 City of Ghosts 25:42 Cultural Capital Film Diary 26:35 Dunkirk 36:58 Chavela Facebook: Cultural Capital Podcast Twitter: TheCultCapPod
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