No Other Land, I’m Still Here and Grand Tour (Movie Squad Podcast #476)
It’s an international smorgasbord on this week’s edition of the Movie Squad pod, as your intrepid hosts take you on a cinematic quest that stretches across the globe.
First up, Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo tell guest Brekky host Damon Sutton about No Other Land, the Oscar-nominated documentary about the forced displacement of villagers in the West Bank, made by a cross-cultural filmmaking collective, which includes a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist.
Then, Simon Miraudo reviews another Oscar-nominated flick: Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, which tells the true nightmare of Eunice Pavia (Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres), and her decades-long bureaucratic battle against a Brazilian dictatorship to learn the fate of ‘disappeared’ husband.
Both films are now showing in select Australian cinemas.
Stay tuned for an extended pod-exclusive review of Grand Tour, a woozy travelogue that spans both continents and decades, and fuses echoes of Old Hollywood romance and screwball comedy with a video essay on colonialism, performance and contemporary Asia. It plays Perth Festival from March 3 – 9. Check out the rest of the remaining Perth Festival film season line-up here!
Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam! And find out more about Movie Squad’s curation of Throwback Thursdays at Joondalup Festival in March!
Plus, don’t forget VHS Tracking’s Trash Classics screening series at Luna Palace Cinemas, which includes the Friday 28 February session of Samurai Cop! You can also catch Simon in conversation with the legendary Mike Leigh for a special Zoom Q&A following his latest film, Hard Truths, at Luna Palace Cinemas on Tuesday 4 March!
