 The Film Buffs' Forecast podcast - based on the long running radio show on 3RRR (102.7 FM) in Melbourne, Australia, Film Buffs' is a show for in-depth information about what's happening in the world of movies. -- Broadcasting every week on Saturday afternoon - midday - 2pm - we have the latest release information on new films coming to Australian Cinemas, Australian films in development and/or production, video and DVD releases, interviews and reviews.Primary Format :
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12/07/08 Film Buffs Podcast
Simone Ubaldi reviews Mamma Mia, before we spend the rest of the program on an Australian soundtracks special, with Dennis Nicholson and Mark Hartley - there’s so much more to this than just the music.
Direct linkListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05/07/08 Film Buffs PodcastSamuel Johnson is in to talk about actor-director relationships, which will be explored in Open Channel’s workshop on Directing Actors for Screen, running 21-31 July; entertainment lawyer Shaun Miller chats about films and legal matters, in anticipation of the There’s No Business Like Screen Business short course, also at Open Channel from 19-20 July; Simone [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 28/06/08 Film Buffs PodcastAdrian Rosenfeldt tells us about Waxing the Sun - the band and the documentary - screening Friday July 4 at the VCA from 8pm; Ian Thompson reviews the DVD release Awake; Brian McFarlane reviews Mike Leigh’s latest, Happy-Go-Lucky; actor Daniel Fredrickson is on the phone talking about his new film, Ten Empty, directed by Anthony [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21/06/08 Film Buffs PodcastVeteran UK writer/director Mike Leigh is on the phone to discuss his latest film, Happy-Go-Lucky; Brian MacFarlane reviews Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, Then She Found Me; writer/director Peter Duncan joins us on the phone to chat about his latest project, Unfinished Sky; Ian Thompson reviews Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman and The Invasion, both available on [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 14/06/08 Film Buffs PodcastBrian McFarlane reviews Rats and Cats, a new series of books about screen adaptations from A&C Black Norton, and the latest edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film; we pay tribute to Australian actor Lloyd Lamble, who died on April 10, aged 94; Simone Ubaldi reviews The Band’s Visit; The Melbourne International Animation Festival runs [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07/06/08 Film Buffs PodcastJulius Avery, director of Jerrycan - winner of the Jury Prize for Short Films at Cannes 08 - is on the phone from the Falls Creek Film Festival; Melbourne producer Daniel Scharf talks about DigiSPAA; Paul Byrne has a review of Leatherheads; we take a look at “nature gone wild” flicks Rogue, Primeval, Black Water [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 31/05/08 Film Buffs PodcastDirector Tony Rogers, writer/actor Adam Zwar and composer Sam Mallet are in to talk about their latest production, Rats & Cats; Mark Hartley reviews The Orphanage;
Nick Matteo and Peter Kemp review the DVD release of John Turturro’s Romance and Cigarettes; Nick Matteo chats about small screen happenings - Paul Haggis‘ The Black Donnellys (Foxtel Showcase [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 24/05/08 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi reviews Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones documentary, Shine A Light, The Counterfeiters and Un secret; Nick Matteo has a review of the television series Rome (8.30pm Wednesday, Foxtel Showcase); Julian Wu reviews Sakuran; Mark Hartley has been to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and also reviews the HBO series [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 17/05/08 Film Buffs PodcastProducer Bridget Callow chats about her film Bitter & Twisted, starring Noni Hazelhurst, Gary Sweet and Matt Newton, which recently had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival
Paul Byrnes reviews Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Brian MacFarlane pays tribute to Hazel Court and reviews Gone Baby Gone
Nick Matteo looks at the small screen with reviews of Flight [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10/05/08 Film Buffs PodcastComing to you today from the 10th annual Industry Open Day, part of the 25th St Kilda Film Festival presented by Triple R
Loads of interviews…
Vincent Miller, one of the founders of Red Stitch Actors Theatre, talks about his film Thank You Father; Ross Colebatch from Inside Film magazine explains what the magazine is about and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 26/04/08 Film Buffs PodcastNick Matteo reviews the surf-noir television series John From Cincinnati (Showcase, Monday 8.30pm, with repeat screenings daily)
Leonard Abrahamson, director of Garage, is on the phone for a chat
Melbourne filmmaker and VCA graduate, Adam Bostock, talks about his new film, The Postman, one of the free screenings at the upcoming St Kilda Film Festival
Director Brad Haynes [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 19/04/08 Film Buffs PodcastBoris Trbic previews the Audi Festival of German Films 2008, presented by the Goethe-Institut Australien in association with Palace Cinemas, taking place from 16-27 April
To coincide with the AFI 50th birthday free screenings of Gallipoli at Federation Square on ANZAC Day, we have an extended interview with actor David Argue
Documentary filmmaker, lecturer, writer and curator [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12/04/08 Film Buffs PodcastPaul Byrne reviews The Spiderwick Chronicles
Simone Ubaldi reviews Lars and the Real Girl, followed by an interview with the director, Craig Gillespie
Actor Nicholas Bell is also on the phone for a chat about his career
Nick Matteo reviews the television series The Wire (around midnight Tuesdays, Nine) and pays tribute to Charlton Heston, who died on [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05/04/08 Film Buffs PodcastDirector Brian McKenzie talks about his work on the Love’s Harvest series of mini-documentaries, screening on SBS at 8pm, commencing Wednesday 9 April
Paul Byrne has a review of 10,000 B.C.
Screenwriter, teacher and father of C.W., Billy Marshall-Stoneking, is on the phone for a chat about drama
Writer/director Rob McAuley is in to talk about his [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 29/03/08 Film Buffs PodcastBrian McFarlane reviews The Black Balloon and the remake of St Trinian’s
We have an excellent extended interview with Susie Porter, chatting about her role in the new ABC TV drama East Of Everything, the release of Feeling Sexy on DVD and her recent stage work with Phillip Seymour Hoffman
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We speak with producer/director Robert Connolly about the trend within the Australian film industry to move its production centre from Sydney to Melbourne
Simone Ubaldi reviews two new films: the latest from Gillian Armstrong, Death Defying Acts, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08/03/08 Film Buffs PodcastWe have an extended interview with writer Lawrie Zion and producer Yael Bergman about their documentary, The Sounds of (A)usLisa Dethridge reviews some of the films coming up in the Alliance Française French Film Festival 2008
Brian McFarlane reviews The Jane Austen Book Club
Nick Matteo reviews The Tudors (9.30pm Wednesday, Foxtel Showcase) and Cashmere Mafia (9.30pm [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01/03/08 Film Buffs PodcastProducer Eva Orner talks about her 2008 Academy Award-winning documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side
The Bicycle Film Festival 2008 is calling for entries and Melbourne Event Producer Pip Carroll is in the studio to give us the rundown
Nick Matteo reviews two more new television shows - the sit-com Rules of Engagement (7.30pm Wednesday, Ten/Ten HD) [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 23/02/08 Film Buffs PodcastA fistful of reviews this week…
Lisa Dethridge reviews the Seth Gordon documentary The King of Kong, about a high school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vying for the Guinness World Record on the classic arcade game, Donkey Kong
Gary Hillberg reviews the DVD release of El Cid, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, which [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 16/02/08 Film Buffs PodcastBrian McFarlane reviews Alvin and The Chipmunks and the remake of 3:10 To Yuma, directed by James Mangold and starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale
Gary Hillberg and Peter Kemp review Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter
This week’s special guest in the studio is Damien Walshe-Howling, who portrays [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09/02/08 Film Buffs PodcastPaul Harris returns this week with guests a-plenty…
Colin and Cameron Cairnes are Melbourne-based filmmakers and comedy writers who have been making short films for over a decade. Their latest film - Beggars Belief - is one of the 16 finalists in Sony Tropfest 2008
Producer Aleks Radovic and debut film director Oscar Redding discuss their [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02/02/08 Film Buffs PodcastNikki Fagan and Simone Ubaldi bring you this week’s edition, with guest reviewers Rochelle Siemienowicz from The Big Issue and Pete Koval
Reviews this week include Joy Division, The Jane Austen Book Club and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Another pair of great interviews: producer Rebecca Yeldham discusses the making of The [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 19/01/08 Film Buffs PodcastNick Fike and Simone Ubaldi present the final Summer Film Buffs Forecast. Kevin Janner presents a music special next week, before Paul Harris returns the first weekend in February
Reviews this week include Cloverfield, Juno, Charlie Wilson’s War and The Kite Runner
Two excellent interviews: Emma Crimmings, director of the documentary Two Men and Two [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12/01/08 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi and Nick Fike continue as your hosts for Summer Film Buffs, with guest reviewer Kris Mrksa
Reviews this week include: Se, jie (Lust, Caution) from Ang Lee; American Gangster, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe and directed by Ridley Scott; I Am Legend, starring Will Smith; and some recent DVD releases, including the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05/01/08 Film Buffs PodcastWelcome to Film Buffs for 2008… Simone Ubaldi and Nick Fike will be your Summer Film Buffs hosts until the end of January.
Reviews aplenty this week - Atonement, The Darjeeling Limited, No Country For Old Men and I’m Not There
Co-directors Rhys Graham and Natasha Gadd are in the studio to discuss their documentary exploring Australian [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15/12/07 Film Buffs PodcastFinishing the year with our annual round-up, featuring all of our regular contributors - highlights, lowlights, our annual poll and a surprise guest.
This is the last Film Buffs podcast for 2007 - see you again in 2008.
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Lisa Dethridge previews two movies opening on Boxing Day: Todd Haynes‘ rumination on Bob Dylan, I’m Not There; and Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále (I Served [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01/12/07 Film Buffs PodcastVCA graduates Jonathan Auf Der Heide and Poppy Shmith are in to talk about their films, Hell’s Gates and Grind Girls
Alex Frayne is on the line to talk about his new psychological thriller, Modern Love, which opens soon for a limited season at Cinema Nova
Director Michael Pattinson chats about his career and the making of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 24/11/07 Film Buffs PodcastThree graduates of Swinburne TAFE’s Advanced Diploma of Screen are in the studio to talk about the course and their graduate works
Hope is a feature documentary screening at the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival about Amal Basry, one of the seven survivors of the SIEV-X maritime disaster of 2001 - director Steve Thomas discusses [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 17/11/07 Film Buffs PodcastSaluting Australian actresses…
Simone Ubaldi gives an in-depth review of Elizabeth: The Golden Age, directed by Shekhar Kapur, with Cate Blanchett reprising her role as Elizabeth
Boris Trbic reviews Eastern Promises, the new David Cronenberg film about the Russian Mafia in London, starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts
Alexandra Schepisi chats about her life, career and directorial debut, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10/11/07 Film Buffs PodcastThis week, composer David Thrussell co-hosts a special on Italian film music from the ’60s and ’70s, featuring discussion of the music from Spaghetti Westerns, gialli and metaphysical crime thrillers.
Direct linkListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3/11/07 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi has a review of Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One), based on the book by Harlan Coben and directed by Guillaume Canet
Bruce Beresford is on the phone for an extended interview covering a range of topics, including his new book, Josh Hartnett definitely wants to do this… true stories from a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 27/10/07 Film Buffs PodcastBoris Trbic reviews the controversial and critically acclaimed 4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile
(4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), Romania’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 2008 Academy Awards
Nick Matteo gives a rundown of zombies on screen
Simone Ubaldi has been to see Control, the feature film directorial [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20/10/07 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi reviews Mike White’s first feature film, Year Of The DogAdrienne McKibbins, a self-confessed Hindi film fan, gives the rundown on The Indian Film Festival 2007, screening at Cinema Nova until Monday 29 OctoberPeter Kemp reviews Once, a modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20/10/07 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi reviews Mike White’s first feature film, Year Of The Dog
Adrienne McKibbins, a self-confessed Hindi film fan, gives the rundown on The Indian Film Festival 2007, screening at Cinema Nova until Monday 29 October
Peter Kemp reviews Once, a modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 13/10/07 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi reviews The Brave One, directed by Neil Jordan and starring Jodie FosterVeteran Australian actor Terence Donovan is on the phone to discuss Bruce Beresford’s 1978 film, Money MoversBoris Trbic reviews Pierrepoint, Adrian Shergold’s film starring Timothy Spall, about the life and times of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain’s most prolific hangmanNick Matteo takes a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 13/10/07 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi reviews The Brave One, directed by Neil Jordan and starring Jodie Foster
Veteran Australian actor Terence Donovan is on the phone to discuss Bruce Beresford’s 1978 film, Money Movers
Boris Trbic reviews Pierrepoint, Adrian Shergold’s film starring Timothy Spall, about the life and times of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain’s most prolific hangman
Nick Matteo takes a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 6/10/07 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi reviews the political action thriller, The Kingdom, starring Jamie FoxxAcademy Award-winning co-writer/director/producer of Happy Feet and actor, Warren Coleman, is on the phone to chat about his varied careerJessica Nicholas reviews the Scandinavian drama Efter brylluppet (After The Wedding)Veteran make-up artist José Luis Pérez also talks about his extensive career, particularly his work [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 6/10/07 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi reviews the political action thriller, The Kingdom, starring Jamie Foxx
Academy Award-winning co-writer/director/producer of Happy Feet and actor, Warren Coleman, is on the phone to chat about his varied career
Jessica Nicholas reviews the Scandinavian drama Efter brylluppet (After The Wedding)
Veteran make-up artist José Luis Pérez also talks about his extensive career, particularly his work [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 29/9/07 Film Buffs PodcastLisa Dethridge reviews Hairspray and Away From Her; and Simone Ubaldi reviews Air Guitar NationActor and producer John L. Simpson is on the phone to talk about his career, his recent foray into film distribution with Titan View and his most recent production, men’s groupShane Lawtey chats about the Free Range TV Short Film Festival, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 29/9/07 Film Buffs PodcastLisa Dethridge reviews Hairspray and Away From Her; and Simone Ubaldi reviews Air Guitar Nation
Actor and producer John L. Simpson is on the phone to talk about his career, his recent foray into film distribution with Titan View and his most recent production, men’s group
Shane Lawtey chats about the Free Range TV Short Film Festival, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 22/9/07 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi reviews Stardust, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess, currently screening nationally
Lisa Dethridge reviews some of the films screening in the Lavazza Italian Film Festival through Palace Cinemas
Nick Matteo reviews the new television series, Damages
Jon Hewitt discusses his recently completed horror movie, Acolytes, starring Joel Edgerton; and the retrospective of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 22/9/07 Film Buffs PodcastSimone Ubaldi reviews Stardust, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess, currently screening nationallyLisa Dethridge reviews some of the films screening in the Lavazza Italian Film Festival through Palace CinemasNick Matteo reviews the new television series, DamagesJon Hewitt discusses his recently completed horror movie, Acolytes, starring Joel Edgerton; and the retrospective of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15/9/07 Film Buffs PodcastDirector Bill Mousoulis and actor Alex Spears are in the studio to talk about Bill’s latest film, A Nocturne, a vampire flick which is screening on opening night at this year’s Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF)
Brian MacFarlane reviews two books by Andrew Moor - Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces and The Cinema [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15/9/07 Film Buffs PodcastDirector Bill Mousoulis and actor Alex Spears are in the studio to talk about Bill’s latest film, A Nocturne, a vampire flick which is screening on opening night at this year’s Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF)Brian MacFarlane reviews two books by Andrew Moor - Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces and The Cinema [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8/9/07 Film Buffs PodcastSue Marriott from WIFT(Vic) (Women In Film & Television) is on the phone to tell us about the Producers’ Forum coming up on September 12, featuring several guest speakers covering various areas of film and television production
Brian MacFarlane reviews Lady Chatterley, a French adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence classic, directed by Pascale Ferran
Nick Matteo reviews [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8/9/07 Film Buffs PodcastSue Marriott from WIFT(Vic) (Women In Film& Television) is on the phone to tell us about the Producers’ Forum coming up on September 12, featuring several guest speakers covering various areas of film and television productionBrian MacFarlane reviews Lady Chatterley, a French adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence classic, directed by Pascale FerranNick Matteo reviews [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1/9/07 Film Buffs PodcastBrian MacFarlane reviews This Is England, the powerful story of a troubled boy growing up in 1983 working class England, based on the experiences of writer/director Shane Meadows; and The Jammed, Dee McLachlan’s thriller about trafficking and the sex slave trade in MelbourneNikolai Lebedev, the director of Volkodav iz roda serykh psov (The Wolfhound), screening [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1/9/07 Film Buffs PodcastBrian MacFarlane reviews This Is England, the powerful story of a troubled boy growing up in 1983 working class England, based on the experiences of writer/director Shane Meadows; and The Jammed, Dee McLachlan’s thriller about trafficking and the sex slave trade in Melbourne
Nikolai Lebedev, the director of Volkodav iz roda serykh psov (The Wolfhound), screening [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |