Past Programs
Film - 2006
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Australia Talks Movies: A Prairie Home Companion - Reprise and Vale Altman
15/12/2006
Earlier this year, Radio National and Australia Talks Movies presented a special screening of Robert Altman's film, "A Prairie Home Companion". The film draws inventively upon Garrison Keilor's long-running radio series of the same name with its dry observational humour, stories of small-town America, and parade of characters ... It also features an Angel of Death, a trenchcoated, film noir style blonde - who has since claimed the film's director himself, who died at the end of a very long and interesting career.
So we're going to replay an edited version of that original program, including a rather longer version of an interview with Garrison Keilor himself.
This program was originally broadcast on 9 October.
* Because we are presenting a special edition of the program, on Friday 15 December, we are unable to take any new callers. *
Australia Talks Movies: The Da Vinci Code
05/06/2006
Mystery, codes, the Vatican, conspiracies, Opus Dei, libraries and mother goddesses will all be under discussion.
Radio National's monthly movie club takes on The Da Vinci Code. Join Paul Barclay with ABC Radio National's resident film critic, Julie Rigg; religious expert Stephen Crittenden; champion of popular film Jamie Leonarder; and specialist on women in the Bible, Elizabeth Fletcher, to examine this much-hyped Hollywood film.
Both Dan Brown's book and the film have already caused considerable angst for the Catholic Church. Has it caused angst for you? What claims does it make about truth and fiction? Is it true to the book? Was Tom Hanks a good choice? What will it mean for Opus Dei - and, is it actually a good film?
Australia Talks Movies - the first Monday of every month.
Kokoda
01/05/2006
The plight of Australian servicemen abroad has been all over the news this past week, with ANZAC Day commemorations and the death of an Australian soldier in Iraq. So it's fitting that this month's Australia Talks Movies looks at the cinematic representation of Australians at war - in Kokoda. Is Kokoda a realistic depiction of the conflict? How does it compare with other war movies?
Australia Talks Movies
03/04/2006
Sharon Stone has returned as the sexual predator in Basic Instinct 2. So we're looking at the vamp - or femme fatale - in movies. How does Sharon Stone compare to vamps Marlene Dietrich or Mae West? Join me and Julie Rigg - Radio National's resident film critic.
