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

This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Vyshnavee Wijekumar for a jam-packed episode!

First up, we preview Cinema Reborn, an annual film festival dedicated to the restoration and celebration of…

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

This week we welcome back our beloved host, Flick Ford! Joined by guests Thomas Caldwell and Cerise Howard.

We review Levan Akin’s deeply touching film Crossing, about a retired teacher searching for…

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

It’s Boy Week on Primal Screen, as guest host Alice McShane is joined by Will Cox and Maudie Osborne to take us through discussions and reviews of the boy-heavy releases Warfare…

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

Eloise Ross jumped into the host seat this week to interview Australia’s unofficial Merle Oberon expert, Rohan Spong. In light of the recent book, Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star…

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

This week, we're diving into three titles that, in their own unique ways, critique capitalist systems and corruption through humor and satire. Join Anthony Carew, Alice McShane, and Will Cox for their reviews…

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

This week we reviewed three films that all opened in Australian cinemas last week, but otherwise have little else in common.

Our guest host Thomas Caldwell was joined by Silvi Vann-Wall and Vyshnavee…

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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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About this program

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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