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Ain't no valley low; here is part 2 of our interview with Stelly G featuring special guest director/writer Rachel House, talking about the sublime power of filmmaking with family both young and old. Inspiration and motivations going into the prod: we talk about the most impassioned parts of doing the job. It's about costumes and acting and ageing and knowing when the time is right. You can't see but we have wide eyes looking towards Rachel. 
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"Was it a ritual, or were you just sleeping in a park in Canberra?" asks guest Stelly G (artist/director behind Mood Ring). In the lead up to The Mountain dropping in Australian cinemas (June 27th 2024) MMM's tiny desk hosts three big mouths coming down. They've just met Rachel House, the film's director/writer. The three discuss meeting Rachel on a level, then the microphone levels peak as they argue over camping fashion, actors being scarier than models, The Mountain's three child stars, Stelly's process, the KFC in Alice Springs and playing to your strengths. Full conversation, no bleeps, tears were cried, I put this moment here.
Full Rachel House interview dropping next week, The Mountain comes to cinemas Thursday June 27th. 
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Thank J it's Friday. Director/writer Johnathan Lo is in conversation with Jen and André in the lead up to his food-movie Bong Xi Fa Cai screening at SFF (CW: short film but it's tender). JLo's first time being MMM's 3rd inspires honesty. Is my film camp? Are comedy people sad? Did you rip off Smiley Face? Is Family Guy poetic? Did you like my movie? Johnathan defends production quality while Jen defends Alan Cumming (who remembers that filmmaker from Spice World?) while special mentions are thrown at the ensemble of diners Priya Leigh, Priscilla Cui, Fergus Wilson and David Ma who do lunchtime-acting perfectly. The easiest question we ask: which Girl is John? 
Bong Xi Fa Cai is trophy-worthy on June 15th at SFF 2024, 3:00PM as part of the Dendy Awards. We highly recommend. 
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Movies, Movies, Movies gets all the meat off the bone talking to Theda Hammel, director/writer/co-editor/composer and star of Stress Positions. On the occasion of its screening at SFF they discuss people having problems with each other, and "horrifying American indie comedy". Saluting first timers Jen and André pry about taking your house everywhere you go, John Early, debuts, the Eye of the Duck, torture (seeing chicken on a floor), going naturalistic, Christopher Hitchens, a date where a man threatens to tell Jen's future but instead monologues after orgasm, and how Theda's 15 page birthday present became Brooklyn millennial folklore. People lie for a living then we get the nicest cameras possible and point them at ourselves. Movies, Movies, Movies is not about being gay hype girlies.
Stress Positions is playing at SFF Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June. 
 
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Movies, Movies, Movies goes nocturnal in a deeply PM conversation for sleepwalkers. One film about the day (The Taste of Things), against a film about the night (The Strangers: Chapter 1) with eating in common. The night-talkers play 'what's the definition of mise-en-scene', discuss objects of optimism, André is afraid to bring up Sciamma, and the 2 agree on 2 films that 'nobody is craving at the moment' until they're saved by the wise words of Oregon filmmaker Theda Hammel. Spoiler alert: there's talk about Martin + Thelma and how carriages are movies and organising disordered thoughts. We live in a time of cruel art. 
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Cannes is the sister city of Beverly Hills which makes it a moving target for MMM. Jen and André have a conversation about a film festival 16,746 km away from FBi Radio. It's an Andrea year, not a Lynne year, and all about showing up to work but not in a Reichardt way. Directors do their job, budget cuts become jump cuts, and we try to figure out what Megalopolis says about our past friendships. Noticing patterns J+A discuss The Strangers (all 3 of them), Straub-Huillet, Liv Tyler's sliding door acting, what's starring Junglepussy, a treatise on the Sydney film movement of stylists becoming directors, debunking Fever Ray and Jen's discovery of Haile Gerima.
Eora. Fedora. Sean Baker. Anora.  
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