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In this feat of Zoom sound art we chat to MIFF’s 2020 Critics Campus - all 8 of them - to discuss everything but MIFF 2020. Topics include the hologram of Philip Seymour Hoffman in Casper, the 1973 film Duvidha, Mandy/Midsommar/Suspiria, cinema as hypnosis, Elizabeth Debicki witnessing a car crash irl, wall projections of films, Sims cinema, and pretending to be Agnès Varda. This year’s MIFF Critics Campus included: Isabella Mahoney @izsbiz Shaheen Ahmed @Aakori_Baakori Angus McGrath @ExCbr Annika Morling @itsoverannikan Bruce Koussaba @garbadiive Michelle Wang @_mwangx Merryana Salem @akajustmerry Jack Rowland @jackrowland_

Bait + I May Destroy You, plus the Filmlordes talk to director Alex Wu about SFF 2020, and his award winning work 'Idol'. Plus, we discuss the news surrounding SBS and SFF, and update the segment with some new stings. Also, Zendaya made a film during Covid-19 lockdown (brag?) with Sam Levinson. We're back!

Disclosure + Life Drawing Live, plus the Filmlordes interview Yolanda Frost, a performance artist and orgy organiser, who participated in the life drawing event as a model. Also in film news: Dendy Opera Quays changes to United Cinemas, Karrabing Film Collective make their film 'The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland' available at DEMO, and we have a discussion about SBS' Life Drawing Live event with one of the models.

In the words of Fiona Apple 'ladies, ladies, ladies': Sydney Film Festival has completely capitulated to complaints from the community after they praised and awarded the most tone-deaf film in recent memory, Mukbang, Enoch Mailangi talks about the 100 signatures confirming the systemic racism at NIDA, and we review two things that have been getting us through lockdown 2020: Meriem Benani and Orian Barki's 2 Lizards and Ramy.

Netflix is atoning for blackface- Chris Lilley gone, Black Lives Matter playlist in, same with SBS On Demand. Sydney Film Festival is online and, also on SBS On Demand, which André thinks has curation about as lame as when Venice Film Festival programmed Joker and Roman Polanski in the same year. LA based filmmaker and friend Oates Wu is back to filming in China after being stranded there for four months because of covid and cinemas are officially going to open July 1! We review Warwick Thornton's The Beach and Eric André hidden camera comedy Bad Trip and speak with Dr Karen Pearlman about her Esfir Shub movie I Want To Make A Film About Women, which is available online as part of the Sydney Film Festival. She gives us a great interview about revolutionary filmmaking and revisionist herstory!

We speak with Nashen Woodley, Sydney Film Festival director, about this years festival operating online, how someone on Jobseeker could afford it and what his read of the cinematic zeitgeist that we aren't getting this year.

Slamdance submissions are open losers so get your DIY films uploaded, The Hub is up for lease and Grandaddy Lynch has a new scary animation available FREE. We review Filmlorde Mark Cousin's new series Women Make Film, ciphered by Tilda Swinton and Days of Heaven, a film about sunsets on a wheat farm by Terence Malick and we introduce Western Sydney Shorts!

Carriageworks + Event Cinemas George St, plus the Filmlordes talk to Ingrid Dieckman, curator of Pink Flamingo Cinema, about running a DIY film space during a pandemic. We discuss the upcoming films that are merely being talked about instead of developed, the end of Event Cinemas George St, and how Berliners are projecting films onto buildings and thinking they've invented something new. *Movies, Movies, Movies is growing up, so this episode has no recorded stings as part of ongoing construction*

Black Moon + Non-Binary, plus the Filmordes welcome new Mornings host Maia Bilyk with a curated listicle. Do we love iso-Arca, and hate quar-louis Malle? Ignore the puns and stay for our personalised list of films Maia needs to watch to stay up to date with the Filmlordes. We also discuss the bonkers/immense success of Trolls World Tour. [recorded live over Zoom]

Marie Antoinette + Madeline + Airplane Graveyard, and the Filmlordes farewell the host of Mornings, Bridie Tanner. After 2 strong years of bare knuckle film talk the Filmlordes say goodbye to Bridie with a review of one of their own films, Airplane Graveyard. Grab the tissues cause Kirsten Dunst doesn't tear jerk, and prepare for a sweet farewell in classic Filmlorde fashion.

Forever + Emma, and the Filmlordes discuss Roger Corman's insta-film festival. On Movies, Movies, Movies we pay respect to memelorde gayvapeshark who made a name on Adult Swim's Bottom Text and discuss the state of film under Covid-19. We also plug Roger Corman's insta-film festival, a call to arms for filmmakers under quarantine.

The film lordes zoom in with Bridie to talk about Adam Curtis, American fetishisation of kitsch Australian cinema and what Apitchatpong has beein doing in isolation. Desiree Akhavan, who was just on a writers retreat in South Australia spoke with us from a spooky basement apartment in New York to tell us to watch Centre Stage and we review Hypernormalisation and Bottom Text.

Flower of My Secret + The Skin I Live In; and the Filmlordes announce their online series of film screenings at Seventh Gallery. With their first show via Zoom the Filmlordes discuss Disney's delays and the ultimate auteur in quarantine: Almodóvar. In Sydney Spotlight the show Bins by Garden Reflexxx is announced. Featuring Slow Hands by Azealia Banks.

Have you ever, ever felt like this? We are back on the waves maybe in person for the last time in a while talking about how Fiona Apple cancelled cocaine and COVID-19 has cancelled Cannes. We spoke to a leading medical advisor about pandemic accuracy in films and what NOT to watch, and make a few suggestions of our own, including everything by Desiree Akhavan. Reach out have with your COVID-19 stories from the inside of the industry, we will be broadcasting every week and we'd love to hear from you

Downhill + Queen and Slim, plus an interview with writer/director artist Leilah Weinraub, on her work Shakedown. While Jen is self-quarantining in Adelaide André steers the ship talking about Bernie Sanders' watchlist, the 2020 fall of SXSW, and in Sydney Spotlight we recommend watching Shakedown on Pornhub - an arthouse documentary about the legendary L.A strip club night. In a chat with Leilah Weinraub we take a glimpse into the film, screening on Pornhub for the month of March. *Featuring 'Drama' by Torraine Futurum, Rubby

Bernie Babe Mark Ruffalo stars in Dark Waters, Todd Haynes's (The Buttegieg of cinema) new post-9/11 Erin Brokovich movie, Parasite's success is causing the South Korean government to look into improving the lives of people living in basement apartments and Celine Sciamma (director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire) was part of a walk out from the Cesar Awards when they decided in their wisdom to honour Roman Polanski with an award. We also sat down with Leigh Whannell to talk about his new film The Invisible Man, catch the full interview on the FBi facebook page.

What films make you cry? Honeyland is everything they said it was and For Sama reminds us that it's everyone's responsibility to record and communicate abuses of power. Tilda Swinton is coming to Australia to make movies with Mad Max director George Miller she's also making 'Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice' with Almodóvar and a Parasite TV show and The Matrix 4 has started shooting, although not in Sydney :(

It's Harley Quinn to you, Birds of Prey opts for its deadname to please Google. Olivia Coleman is going to star in Maggie Gylenhaal's debut feature and Hyperlinks is on this weekend! We stan Assayas! Plus reviews of Maya Newell's new documentary In My Blood It Runs and Zoë Kravitz is there for your February spiral in High Fidelity.

Are open air cinemas even any good? we're giving away double passes anyway because the banks told us to. The independent spirit awards went absolutely off last night, The Safdies and The Farewell cleaning up and British artists are trying to save and preserve icon Derek Jarman's house. We review M.I.A's new platform on Patreon where she's releasing short documentaries and Margot Robbie's first solo superhero film as Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey.

The Lighthouse + 73 Questions with Greta Gerwig, Gayby Baby director Maya Newell is on the show to discuss her new film In My Blood It Runs. An Under the Skin TV show is rumoured, Billie Eilish is going to perform at the Oscars and, Tiffany Haddish will star in Paul Schrader's new film.