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Revisiting the Up series

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Hugo Weaving talks The Airport Chaplain

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John Cameron Mitchell on 25 years of Hedwig, plus Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

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MIFF 2026 Special

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Mike Leigh Retrospective

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The Birthday Trip's James Robert Woods & David Quirk interviewed + 2 Odysseys

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Farewell Sam Neill, plus The Good Boy, The Invite and The People Upstairs reviewed

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Natalie Erika James, James J. Robinson & Vincent Ward interviewed

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Supergirl & The Ice Tower

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Disclosure Day & Leviticus + Adrian Chiarella interview

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The Music of Doctor Who

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Kane Parsons talks Backrooms

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Sparks' Russell Mael + Agnieszka Holland

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Asif Kapadi, Mother Mary, Obsession

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Brunswick Underground Film Fest, Going Down, Cinema Yarra

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Deborah Mailman talks WOLFRAM

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Festivals Special with TILDE & Cinema Reborn

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The Stranger, Calle Málaga, Exit 8

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Melbourne Cinémathèque’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi season, plus reviews of Father Mother Sister Brother and The Deb

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Primal Screen - THE D-D-DRAMA

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Cherien Dabis on the making of All That's Left of You, plus reviews of Bait and I Swear

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Kinotopia launch 'Katies', plus reviews of Project Hail Mary and The Voice of Hind Rajab

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Opera on Film Special

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Perfect Neighbor, Sirât, The Testament of Ann Lee

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Hear My Eyes reimagines Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie & Fackham Hall

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Undeniable: The Evolution of Melbourne Hip Hop, Wuthering Heights, Pillion

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Interview with Lesbian Space Princess Film Makers, Sorry, Baby Review, Not Only Fred Dagg but Also John Clarke Review

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Interview with Eclipse Cinema Owner and Operator Mark Walker about its opening, Caught Stealing, 4K Restoration of Burden of Dreams

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The Naked Gun, Eddington

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Radiothon 2025 Special

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Conversation with Zoe Pepper on Birthright, Conversation with James Litchfield and Lucinda Reynolds about Alphabet Lane

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Primal Screens Top 20 Films of MIFF 2025

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Interview with Michael Shanks on Together, Fantastic Four: First Steps

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Friendship, Too Much, My Mum Jane

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Conversation with Director Paula Whetu Jones on The Doctors Wife, Review of James Gunn's Superman, Review of A Nice Indian Boy

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Conversation with James Hewison on Paris May 68: The Struggle Continues, The Story of Souleymane

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Interview with Gabrielle Brady on The Wolves Always Come at Night, Discussion of 28 Years Later

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Dangerous Animals with Director Sean Byrne, Celine Song's Materialists and Past Lives

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First Glance at MIFF 2025,Ballerina, Bring Her Back

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Scala!!!, Melbourne's History of Arthouse and Repertory Cinema

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Universal Language, Hurry Up Tomorrow

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MISCELLANIA's Film Club, The Wedding Banquet Remake and The Assessment

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Cinema Reborn, The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Dying for Sex

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The best political satire of the century (and its stage adaptation) plus review of 'Crossing'

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Boy Week! Reviews of Warfare, Sinners, and The Rehearsal

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Merle Oberon’s lifelong secret, Michael Haneke’s deceptively humanistic cinema and a piercing Magdalene Laundries drama

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Holiday makers, studio heads, and unicorns! The White Lotus, The Studio, and Death of a Unicorn in Review.

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Richard Gere and Paul Schrader reunite; Looney Tunes hits us with nostalgia; and an observational doco for cat lovers

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

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

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Bird and the Last Showgirl

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

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

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First show of 2025! Reviewing Nosferatu and Anora

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

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

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Are you not entertained? Discussions of Gladiator II and Memory

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Top picks of the program for Melbourne Queer Film Festival

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

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Memoir of a Snail and 70th Anniversary of Godzilla

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Flathead, The Apprentice & Like My Brother

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Ghostlight, Joker: Folie à Deux & Megalopolis

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The Substance, Your Fat Friend & My Old Ass

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Neo-Intimacies: A Static Vision Festival, and reviews of My Darling in Stirling (2023) & TV series The Perfect Couple

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Lido's Friday the 13th: Ozploitation at the Drive-In, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Last Summer

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Sci-fi horror galactic special with Alien: Romulus (2024), Afraid (2024) & I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

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Food on Film

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RRR In Conversation: Primal Screen Live

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MIFF is Upon Us, and Are You Ready for a Hear My Eyes and Surprise Chef Collaboration?

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DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, TOTEM and LONGLEGS with Maudie Osborne, Anthony Carew and Will Cox

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SNOWPIERCER and S/HE IS NOT HER/RE with Cerise Howard and Chris Dite

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Twisters, Emu Wars & Birdeater

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The Bike Riders and Kinds of Kindness.

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Spotlighting Kelly Reichardt (CERTAIN WOMEN, SHOWING UP)

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Reviewing THE PROMISELAND and BLACK BARBIE

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Reviews of AM I OKAY? and BRIDGERTON

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Interview with Molly Reynolds on A PORTRAIT OF LOVE, Timothy Despina Marshall discusses their debut feature IN THE ROOM WHERE HE WAITS and in conversation with film collective Dogmilk Films.

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Reviewing Jim Jarmusch's 1999 classic GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI

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FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA

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Interview with Goran Stolevski (HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS)

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Spotlight on Nicole Kidman's career (EYES WIDE SHUT, MOULIN ROUGE, DOGVILLE and many more)

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Interview with Nick Pinkerton (THE SWEET EAST) and BABY REINDEER review.

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Reviews of CHALLENGERS and EVIL DOES NOT EXIST

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Reviews of LA CHIMERA, CIVIL WAR and an interview about BACK TO BLACK.

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Reviews of MONKEY MAN and PERFECT DAYS

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Into the Archives: Molly Manning Walker, Ivan Sen, and Simon Baker

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LOVE LIES BLEEDING and interview about Melbourne Women in Film Festival

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Oscars re-cap plus interviews for THE GREAT ESCAPER and TAKE THE STEPS

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Interview with IMAX General Manager Jeremy Fee and a review of DUNE: PART TWO and award-winning Documentary FOUR DAUGHTERS

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Reviews of THE ZONE OF INTEREST, DRIVE AWAY DOLLS and an interview about MARUNGKA TJALATUNU

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In conversation with Hugo Weaving

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Film review of THE HANDOVERS, and a discussion about film screenings SCREAMS ON SCREEN and SEVENTH CINEMA

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MAY DECEMBER and MR AND MRS SMITH

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Reviewing ANATOMY OF A FALL and taking a brief look at the Oscars and what it all means...

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BEST FILMS AND TV OF 2023

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SPARK-TACULAR EXTRAVAGANZA

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Interview with Fred Schepisi (DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND) and Jasper Cohen Hunter reviews REBEL WITH A CAUSE and AUDREY NAPANANGKA

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Interview with Kitty Green (THE ROYAL HOTEL) and NAPOLEON review

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SALTBUSH and SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF

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MQFF, ALL OF US STRANGERS, MONSTER, POOR THINGS and ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS