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Y.A.L.A! We are so excited to bring you an exclusive interview with Oscar-nominated bedroom beat maker Maya Mathangi Arulpragasam aka M.I.A ahead of her Australian tour dates.

A musical artist, documentary filmmaker, and globe trotting record producer, M.I.A generously shares her wisdom. From practical bedroom producing, to data wrangling samples, to creating “with what you’ve got around you…you might not have a house but you got a pot and a can of beans…” 

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When culture vulture Priya Leigh knocks…Movies, Movies, Movies answers. The podcast host loudly visits the set of MMM to closely moderate a debate on Sofia Coppola’s sociopathy, Matilda’s enduring legacy, the quest for articulation, in search of justice. Priya brings unique je sais quoi (French for ‘I know that!’) because nobody understands the machinations of cinema - an art born in machines - better than her. An actress, a director, and an assistant sit before mics while a storm’s coming. Am I the drama?

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Samuel Van Grinsven aka SVG joined Jen and Andj late last year in Adelaide after the world premiere of his new psychological supernatural minimalist second feature Went Up The Hill to find out how he set himself on fire in front of Vicky Krieps. His new film has already sold out the Sydney Opera House this week, and we'd love to know your reads of this ambiguous Aotearoa based ghost story. The FilmLordes try to guess his influences, techniques and plot points and are wrong about every single one of them. 

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Books vs Films, Party Girls vs Kink Kings, two manic festivals go live on the same night  this Thursday and that's culture. Smut Night at the Red Rattler raises money for the important and incomparable f*ck palace Hedon House at exactly the same time Garden Reflexxx presents Party Girl at the State Library of NSW. Smut Night programmer Katie Winten and Hedon House's Gala Vanting join Andj and Jen for a very special self-serving episode of Movies Movies Movies to discuss porn, Anora, invincible grapevines and show off a douche that Apichatpong signed in Bangkok. Sit back, strap on and join us IRL this Thursday at two of the most improbably locations for film screenings available in this city. Peace!

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Archie Moore! Sam Van Grinsven! Emilia Perez! Brady Sorbet! Anora! Selena G! Ariana G! Ali J! and more on this very special urgent update recorded in the FBi Studios after a turbulent Adelaide Film Festival. We ask: Anora Fedora, French Tip Manicura? And find out from Sequin in a Blue Room director how setting himself on fire was a great motivator for Vicky Krieps to improvise. Can Golden Lion winner Archie Moore name a single Pasolini film? Can Andj ever recover from sleeping through the entirety of Maria and is the journey of The Brutalist worth the destination? Where's the Daddy? All this and more on the sky of bright scars: Movies Movies Movies (full length interviews to come).

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"Dustin, what's going on in that little head of yours?"

Movies, Movies, Movies is joined by artist-photographer and star of HBO's Fantasmas Martine, zooming in with performance and film artist Bhenji Ra to celebrate their openings in Vancouver and their favourite boobs. What kind of tail would you have? Is acting easy? Julio Torres or Sebastián Silva? Go Harder.

Fantasmas, s1: Binge (Aus)

ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS: till September 29 (2024) at The Polygon, (VAN)

Biraddali Dancing on the Horizon: till Aug 10 at Western Front (VAN)

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"Lived it, breathed it, bled it". Ok Dr. Anna Broinowski. Filmmaker, satirist, educator, documentarian-cum-influencer and pop-truth sceptic, she's in the studio. We celebrate the release of her memoir 'Datsun Angel' by putting everyone in the hot seat. Sydney, to North Korea, to New York, to Tokyo, back to Sydney University and ultimately to Canberra - we talk subjects as vehicles, driving as site of debate, ugly A*stralian guys, Jen's nerves, vocabulary, delivering film masters on a skateboard, and how creativity is mothering. So many parallel mothers. Taste is vulnerability. One execrable hazing dorm.

Datsun Angel is available in soft back through Hachette described as a Wake In Fright for Chicks. 

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Ain't no valley low; here is part 2 of our interview with Stelly G featuring special guest director/writer Rachel House, talking about the sublime power of filmmaking with family both young and old. Inspiration and motivations going into the prod: we talk about the most impassioned parts of doing the job. It's about costumes and acting and ageing and knowing when the time is right. You can't see but we have wide eyes looking towards Rachel. 

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"Was it a ritual, or were you just sleeping in a park in Canberra?" asks guest Stelly G (artist/director behind Mood Ring). In the lead up to The Mountain dropping in Australian cinemas (June 27th 2024) MMM's tiny desk hosts three big mouths coming down. They've just met Rachel House, the film's director/writer. The three discuss meeting Rachel on a level, then the microphone levels peak as they argue over camping fashion, actors being scarier than models, The Mountain's three child stars, Stelly's process, the KFC in Alice Springs and playing to your strengths. Full conversation, no bleeps, tears were cried, I put this moment here.

Full Rachel House interview dropping next week, The Mountain comes to cinemas Thursday June 27th. 

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Thank J it's Friday. Director/writer Johnathan Lo is in conversation with Jen and André in the lead up to his food-movie Bong Xi Fa Cai screening at SFF (CW: short film but it's tender). JLo's first time being MMM's 3rd inspires honesty. Is my film camp? Are comedy people sad? Did you rip off Smiley Face? Is Family Guy poetic? Did you like my movie? Johnathan defends production quality while Jen defends Alan Cumming (who remembers that filmmaker from Spice World?) while special mentions are thrown at the ensemble of diners Priya Leigh, Priscilla Cui, Fergus Wilson and David Ma who do lunchtime-acting perfectly. The easiest question we ask: which Girl is John? 

Bong Xi Fa Cai is trophy-worthy on June 15th at SFF 2024, 3:00PM as part of the Dendy Awards. We highly recommend. 

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Movies, Movies, Movies gets all the meat off the bone talking to Theda Hammel, director/writer/co-editor/composer and star of Stress Positions. On the occasion of its screening at SFF they discuss people having problems with each other, and "horrifying American indie comedy". Saluting first timers Jen and André pry about taking your house everywhere you go, John Early, debuts, the Eye of the Duck, torture (seeing chicken on a floor), going naturalistic, Christopher Hitchens, a date where a man threatens to tell Jen's future but instead monologues after orgasm, and how Theda's 15 page birthday present became Brooklyn millennial folklore. People lie for a living then we get the nicest cameras possible and point them at ourselves. Movies, Movies, Movies is not about being gay hype girlies.

Stress Positions is playing at SFF Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June. 

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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. 

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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.  

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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Bruce Koussaba sits down with Nick Pinkerton to talk about The Sweet East, having its Australian premiere at MIFF this weekend. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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!

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