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Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Man On A Ledge
Shame
Any Questions For Ben?
The Artist
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
The Grey
My Week With Marilyn
Buck
The Vow
Safe House
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Contraband
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Late Bloomers
Tyrannosaur
Killer Elite
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Project X
A Separation
Carnage
Gone
Like Crazy
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Margin Call
Coriolanus
Headhunters
John Carter
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
The Kid With A Bike
21 Jump Street
Vincent Wants To Sea
The Rum Diary
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
The Raid
The Hunger Games
Black & White & Sex
Le Havre
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Dr Seuss' The Lorax
Tomboy
A Dangerous Method
Mirror Mirror
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
This Must Be The Place
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
Goodbye, First Love
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
The Deep Blue Sea
Rebellion
Life In Movement
Near Dark
Footnote
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
The Lucky One
Romantics Anonymous
Battleship
The Lady
Spud
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Cafe De Flore
The Way
Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy
Wish You Were Here
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
W.E.
Delicacy
The Avengers
The Five Year Engagement
Duel In The Sun (DVD Classic)
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Act Of Valor
Iron Sky
King Of Devil's Island
Safe
Trishna
It Happened One Night (DVD Classic)
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Careless Love
Dark Shadows
Silent Souls
The Dictator
The Woman in Black
Careful He Might Hear You (DVD Classic)
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Bel Ami
Declaration of War
Get The Gringo
Imitation of Life (DVD Classic)
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
David and Margaret report on the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival - including the opening and closing films, and on which films are creating the most buzz. The Australian film Sapphires is sure to get a mention.
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Prometheus starring Guy Pearce and Charlize Theron
Friends With Kids
Swerve
The Duel
East of Eden (DVD Classic)
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Rock Of Ages
Le Chef
Take This Waltz
Elena
Three Colours: Red (DVD Classic)
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Snow White & the Huntsman
A Royal Affair
Brave
Marley
Don't Look Now (DVD Classic)
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
The Three Stooges
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift
Margaret
Polisse
Sweetie (DVD Classic)
(2012-07-04) Margaret and David review: The Amazing Spider-Man; Ted; Where Do We Go Now? A Happy Event; and David's DVD Classic is the 1981 film Mephisto. Also mentions of films in the Revelation Perth International Film Festival.
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Not Suitable for Children
The King is Dead
Hysteria
Le Dernier Combat (DVD Classic)
Also mentions of films in the Revelation Perth International Film Festival.
Bryan Brown is one of our most respected actors. Since the 1970s he's been at the forefront of the Australian cinema scene, and has been an outspoken advocate for it. He has appeared in over 70 film and television productions, including Breaker Morant, Newsfront, The Thorn Birds, Cocktail, Two Hands and Beautiful Kate.
Filmed live at the recent Sydney Film Festival - David Stratton was in conversation with Bryan Brown - in a lively and revealing discussion. It was a great chance to hear from this man who has won two AFI awards for his acting, has been a significant producer and supporter of talent, and who is one of our most iconic actors on the international stage.
Since her role of Rhonda Epinstalk in MURIEL'S WEDDING, Rachel Griffiths has gone on to become one of Australia's most respected stage and screen actors.
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Role for HILARY AND JACKIE in 1999, she is also the winner of three AFI Awards. Rachel has also appeared on Broadway and starred in the acclaimed television series SIX FEET UNDER and BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
In a candid interview, Margaret speaks to Rachel about her life, career and hopes for the future.
Further comments
In Conversation with Rachel Griffiths
DAVID: Good evening. Tonight an At the Movies special: In Conversation with Rachel Griffiths. Since her breakthrough role in MURIEL'S WEDDING, Griffiths has gone on to become one of our most versatile actors. Nominated for an Academy Award and winner of three AFI Awards, Griffiths has also appeared on Broadway and starred in the acclaimed television series SIX FEET UNDER and BROTHERS & SISTERS. Margaret recently spoke to Rachel about her career and her life.
MARGARET: Well, Rachel, I must say it's very nice having you back in Australia.
RACHEL: Oh, it's such a pleasure.
MARGARET: I want to go back in time to when you were very young and the influences in your life that most probably had a say in where you are now?
RACHEL: Wow! God, I haven't been asked to go back for a while. I had a pretty interesting childhood creatively, in that we didn't have a television for a lot of it so there was a lot of, I guess, product I wasn't exposed to. My mother took me to a variety of often strange theatre. You know people suspended and Shakespeare or Indian dance or outdoor performances in interesting contexts. Basically if it was cheap and strange we went.
I was quite academic. I had a great passion for history and politics and literature and I did very well at school and I just followed the expected path off to university. I went to Melbourne University to study arts, having no idea really what I woul
This week David Stratton speaks to the legendary Italian film composer, Ennio Morricone - who has been responsible for some of cinema's most influential film soundtracks.
Morricone has worked with such directors as Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone, Terrence Malick, Brian Di Palma, John Carpenter, and many, many more.
Recorded live at the Adelaide Festival, this is a rare opportunity to hear from the composer of over 400 soundtracks on how he creates, collaborates and continues to dazzle film lovers all over the world.
Margaret and David discuss the movies which were released in July whilst they were on a break.
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Beauty
Storm Surfers (3D)
The Sapphires
The Campaign
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Bernie
The Bourne Legacy
Bully
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Holy Motors
Hope Springs
Wunderkinder
Total Recall
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Moonrise Kingdom
Chinese Takeaway
Your Sister's Sister
Damsels In Distress
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Madagascar 3 Europe's Most Wanted
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Monsieur Lazhar
Hit & Run
Kath & Kimderella
David and Margaret broadcast from the 69th Venice Film Festival
Movies discussed/reviewed this week:
Bait
Last Will
Ruby Sparks
Lore
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review; 'Crazy, Stupid, Love', Project Nim, The Whistleblower, Amarcord and The Sorcerer and the White Snake. Margaret speaks with directors Glen Ficarra and John Requa, and actor/producer Steve Carell from 'Crazy, Stupid, Love'.
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review; The Hunter, Norwegian Wood, Real Steel, Footloose, Higher Ground and revisit the classic movie Chimes At Midnight.
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review; Red State, The Cup, The Thing, What's Your Number?, Take Shelter and revisit the classic movie The Women.
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review Midnight in Paris (2011), Contagion (2011), Warrior (2011) and Drive (2011), interview Drive (2011) director Nicolas Winding Refn and revisit the classic movie The Seventh Seal (1957)
Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush introduce At the Movies celebrating 25 Years of International Cinema reviewed by Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton. The programme contains retro highlight footage, bloopers and interviews from when they first co host 'The Movie Show' on SBS that originally aired in 1986 that went on to become At the Movies when the show was picked up by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review; Anonymous, Autoluminescent : Rowland S Howard, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, In Time, Our Idiot Brother and revisit the classic movie Notorious.
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review; The Debt, Burning Man, This Is Not A Film, The Tall Man, Moneyball and revisit the classic movie Seven Samurai.
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review; Arthur Christmas, The First Grader, The Ides of March, We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Orator and revisit the classic movie Muriel's Wedding.
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review; Restless, The Ages of Love, The Inbetweeners Movie, Toomelah, X and revisit the classic movie It's a Wonderful Life.
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review; The Adventures of Tintin, Tower Heist, The Salt of Life, Puss in Boots, Albert Nobbs, The Skin I Live In, Happy Feet Two,
Melancholia, The Iron Lady, and The Women on the 6th Floor.
Magaret and David review the following movies: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, We Bought A Zoo, The Muppets, Hugo,
J Edgar, The Descendants and A Few Best Men.
David speaks with director Tomas Alfredson, writer Peter Staughan, actors Gary Oldman, Colin firth and Svetlana Khodchenkova of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and also interviews the director of A Few Best Men, Stephan Elliott.
