PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – March 24th

In this week’s Plato’s Cave show the team review Rithy Panh’s extraordinary documentary, The Missing Picture, Wadjda and Michel Gondry’s The We and the I. With Josh Nelson, Tara Judah and Thomas Caldwell. Plato’s Cave – March 24th Episode (.MP3)

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – September 10th

This week on Plato’s Cave the team discuss the documentary Blank City (DVD), Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo, and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1949 film, Under Capricorn (DVD). With Josh Nelson, Tara Judah and Thomas Caldwell. Plato’s Cave – September 10th Episode (.MP3)

PODCAST: ABC 774 – November 30th

In this week’s Friday Film, Raf & I discuss Rohan Spong’s musical documentary All the Way Through Evening, Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share and the robo-buddy film Robot and Frank on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne. ABC 774 – November 30th Episode (.MP3)

REVIEW: New York: A Documentary Film

It’s been called the city that never sleeps, the Metropolis of America, the Capital of the World or simply, the Big Apple. Whatever names it goes by though, few places on Earth have exerted such a profound influence upon the Western cultural and political imagination as New York City. Beneath the bright lights of its […]

REVIEW: Taxi Driver

Thirty-five years after it claimed the Palme d’Or for best feature film at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver remains a landmark work of cinema. An iconic depiction of loneliness, violence and urban alienation, Scorsese’s film stands out within that period of American cinema during the late 1960s and 1970s often referred […]