Game Recognises Game: Gwyneth Paltrow on Kay Stone in Marty Supreme
Nadine Whitney spoke to Gwyneth Paltrow about her Hollywood star influences and the backstory she created for Kay Stone.…
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Addition Director Marcelle Lunam and lead Teresa Palmer on bringing Toni Jordan’s book to life on screen
Addition is the latest film from director Marcelle Lunam and actor Teresa Palmer. It's a screen adaptation of the novel by Toni Jordan, telling the story of Grace, a woman who counts everyt…
Sentiments with Value: Stellan Skarsgård on Sentimental Value
Stellan Skarsgård as Gustav Borg in Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value is a man who is searching for connection with the two daughters, Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) h…
Wagner Moura on Capitalism and Crime in The Secret Agent
Nadine Whitney spoke with Wagner Moura about Brazil’s past and present and the timeliness of The Secret Agent in the face of dictatorships and how they emerge and are sustained by wealth.…
Primate delivers with rabid chimp savagery and viscous visceral viciousness
Roberts and co-scribe Ernest Riera haven’t gone in for cohesive and logical narrative, they’ve gone for rabid chimp savagery and viscous visceral viciousness.…
Óliver Laxe & Kanding Ray on the sonic tension of Sirāt
In the following interviews, Nadine Whitney talks to director Óliver Laxe about the landscape and use of music in the film, while in the second interview, Andrew F Peirce talks to composer Kanding Ray about building that sonic profile for the film.…
Nadine Whitney's Best Australian Films of 2025 List
From stunning shorts to shocking horrors, these are Nadine Whitney's favourite Australian films of 2025 in no order as order is tyranny. Honourable Mentions: Dangerous Animals, Salt Along the Ton…
James L. Brooks and Emma Mackey on hopefulness and changing the world in Ella McCay
James L. Brooks isn’t only responsible for bringing The Simpsons to television screens for decades, he’s also the co-creator of Taxi and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. For the big screen he’s the award-wi…
Diamonds are Forever: Reflecting on Reflection in a Dead Diamond with Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are French writers and directors based in Belgium. They have made four films together: Amer, The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, Let the Corpses Tan, and now the v…
Maciej J. Drygas' Trains (Pociagi) is a haunting human experience
Although the legend of mass panic in screenings of The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, the 50-second film by the Lumière brothers which first screened in 1895 is untrue, it is true that cinem…
A Little Life: Joel Edgerton on Train Dreams
Train Dreams directed by Clint Bentley and adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella by Bentley and Greg Kwedar (Sing Sing) is an immense film about a small and unnoticed life. Robert Granier (Joel Edgerto…
Mary Bronstein on falling down in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is Mary Bronstein’s portrait of a woman pushed beyond her ability to cope after a ceiling leak means that she and her daughter need to move out of their apartment. It’s tens…