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As I wait for my interview with filmmaker Payal Kapadia to commence, I hear the clouds cackle. And right on cue, on a warm summer evening in Sydney, it begins to rain. I smile, thinking that perhaps t…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. If there's a minor blessing that has emerged from the pandemic, it's…
Karla Sofía Gascón made Academy Award history as the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an acting award for her performance as the titular character in Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.…
How do you follow up a film which managed to dethrone Citizen Kane as the best film of all time? Well, if you’re first-time feature filmmaker Dougal Wilson, you approach directing Paddington in Peru w…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Jason Raftopoulous is a filmmaker who I owe my continued writing career to. I…
Let's take a moment to look ahead in 2025 to a few of the Australian films that will get people talking. Two particular films had their world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2024, where…
In the wake of its success at the Golden Globes and its current frontrunner status at the Academy Awards, Brady Corbet’s film The Brutalist has been one of the most acclaimed and discussed films of th…
Writer, director, producer, collaborator Tanya Modini has received her second Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) award nomination for her short film And the Ocean Agreed. This no…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Die Bully Die is a short film built on the notion of retribution and exorcisi…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. For this final chat in the series, Andrew catches up with pro…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. For this chat, Andrew catches up with Irish director John Cro…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. On this episode, Andrew catches up with Academy Award winning…