Some Advice On How To Be The Next David Stratton, From David Stratton
Just a couple Daves talkin’ about movies.
Lost on the Summit: An Interview with Sherpa’s Jennifer Peedom
Australian documentary filmmaker Jennifer Peedom has spent much of the past decade telling stories about Mount Everest. After cutting her teeth as a high-altitude filmmaker on the TV series Everest: Beyond the Limit (2006), she began her directorial career with the documentary Miracle on Everest (2008), which chronicled Lincoln Hall’s astonishing brush with death on…
A Plague Upon Their Houses: An Interview with 99 Homes’ Ramin Bahrani
Ramin Bahrani might make fictional films, but his work draws so deeply from real life that they often feel like fact. That’s not an accident. Rather, it’s a reflection of the time and effort the Iranian-American director spends researching his projects. His 2005 breakout indie film Man Push Cart came from two years spent researching…
Interview with ’13 Minutes’ Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
German director Oliver Hirschbiegel is likely best known to Australian audiences for helming Downfall (2004), a drama about Adolf Hitler’s final days that earned an Academy Award nomination and hundreds of YouTube memes. Thursday sees the release of his latest film, 13 Minutes, which returns to the subject matter of the Third Reich. The film’s…
Interview with ‘Ruben Guthrie’ Director Brendan Cowell
Growing up in this fair country of ours, it doesn’t take too long to realise that the phrase “Australian drinking culture” is a tautology. We Aussies love our booze; we forge friendships over a couple beers, we pick up at the club after a suite of shots, we share a glass of wine with our…
Giveaway: Win What We Do In The Shadows Fang-Bloody-Tastic Collector’s Edition [COMPLETED]
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, ccpopculture has 3 copies of What We Do in the Shadows’ Fang-Bloody-Tastic Collector’s Edition (Blu-Ray/DVD) to give away. Here’s what I said to say about the vampire mockumentary in my review last year: “Despite building a 90-something minute film from over 100 hours of surplus footage, Waititi and Clement pull their…
Interview with ‘That Sugar Film’ Director Damon Gameau
Up until now, Australian actor Damon Gameau had probably been best known as ‘that guy from The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, 2002)’ or ‘that guy from Underbelly: a Tale of Two Cities’. Nowadays, I suspect we’re more likely to start referring to him as ‘that sugar guy’, after his documentary, That Sugar Film. The film…
Giveaway: Win 52 Tuesdays on DVD [COMPLETED]
Thanks to Pinnacle Films, ccpopculture has 3 DVDs of 52 Tuesdays to give away. “Sophie Hyde’s directorial debut, 52 Tuesdays, is a one of a kind film. The fascinating aspect of this intimate story is also the unique form representing the chronology of the story, as it was shot every Tuesday for 52 consecutive weeks.…
Interview with ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Director Taika Waititi and Star Rhys Darby
While interviewing Taika Waititi, director, writer and star of What We Do in the Shadows, and Rhys Darby, who appears as the “alpha male” werewolf, it quickly became clear how these guys could make a film so hilarious without any need for careful scripting. Despite meeting the pair towards the tail end of a busy media…
Interview with 52 Tuesdays Director Sophie Hyde
About a week ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Sophie Hyde, the award-winning director of 52 Tuesdays. The film and the director are both remarkable – having had only a very busy work day to prepare for the interview, I went in with a list of half-written, largely-incoherent questions that she answered with aplomb,…
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