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In this week’s episode the team discuss mother!, I Am Not Your Negro and Patti Cake$. With Thomas Caldwell, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Emma Westwood and Josh Nelson. Plato’s Cave – September 18th (Podcast link)

In this piece written for Overland, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and I examine issues of racial politics, cinematic representation and their relationship to the horror genre in writer-director Jordan Peele’s debut feature Get Out. Get Out and the Horror of Representation (link to article)

“The word remake is anachronistic to the degree to which our awareness of the preexistence of other versions (previous films of the novel as well as the novel itself) is now a constitutive and essential part of the film’s structure: we are now, in other words, in “intertextuality” as a deliberate, built-in feature of the […]

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)

In this week’s Friday Film I chat with Raf about Captain Phillips, the latest film from director Paul Greengrass, and the recent Spanish Snow White adaptation, Blancanieves plus talkback on ‘Tom Hanks’ on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne. ABC 774 – November 1st Episode (.MP3)

In this week’s episode of Plato’s Cave the team turn a critical eye over recent releases, The Paperboy, Cloud Atlas and The Imposter. With Josh Nelson, Tara Judah and Thomas Caldwell. Plato’s Cave – March 4th Episode (.MP3)

In this week’s episode of Plato’s Cave the team turn a critical eye over Louis Malle’s classic Elevator to the Gallows (1958), and recent releases, Flight and Lincoln. With Josh Nelson, Tara Judah and Thomas Caldwell. Plato’s Cave – 11th February Episode (.MP3)

In this week’s Friday Film, I chat to Lindy Burns about director Quentin Tarantino and some of the controversy surrounding the release of Django Unchained on Drive with Lindy Burns on 774 ABC Melbourne. ABC 774 – January 25th Episode (.MP3)

More than half a century after it was first published and three decades since Francis Ford Coppola acquired the rights to the material, Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation novel On the Road (d. Walter Salles) has been adapted for the screen. Of the many challenges in reproducing Kerouac’s celebrated work (e.g. contending with the sprawling structure […]

This week on Plato’s Cave the team review Argo, Frankenweenie and The Intouchables plus we discuss the repackaging of mainstream films as art-house cinema. With Josh Nelson, Tara Judah and Thomas Caldwell. Plato’s Cave – October 29th Episode (.MP3)