Articles Tagged David Fincher

PODCAST: ABC 774 – 3rd October

In this week’s Friday Film segment I discuss the David Fincher film, Gone Girl starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, and the Kristen Wiig/Bill Hader-led American Indy, The Skeleton Twins. Plus, talkback on your ‘favourite on-screen Twins’ on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne.

PODCAST: ABC 774 – 19th September

In this week’s Friday Film I discuss the Kelly Reichardt-directed, Night Moves starring Jesse Eisenberg, and the latest feature animation from studio Laika, Boxtrolls. Plus, talkback on your ‘favourite film trios’ on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne.

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – January 12th

This week the Plato’s Cave team review The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Arrietty and Hugo, plus we discuss issues surrounding language, culture and nationality in cinema. With Josh Nelson, Tara Judah and Thomas Caldwell. Plato’s Cave – January 12th Episode (.MP3)

REVIEW: Choke

There’s a particular moment in David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) where the disenfranchised male narrator voices an angry tirade against his female counterpart, insisting that “she ruined everything”. Choke, the second of author Chuck Palahniuk’s novels to be adapted for the screen, contains a near identical lament, however to dismiss either film (as some critics […]

REVIEW: Zodiac

Since his major directorial debut in 1992, David Fincher has carved out a reputation as a filmmaker of nightmarishly dark, claustrophobic, and unrelenting narratives pervaded by the kind of brute nihilism that hovers at the edges of the Hollywood mainstream. In many ways, Fincher is to the post-MTV generation, what Scorsese was to the American […]