Nine years. 108 episodes. 126 filmmakers. Lots of minutes. It’s been a brilliant run, but it had to end at some point, and nine years feels like the right number. It’s a lot without dipping into double figures, which feels too many. That said, there’s an important caveat: this is not necessarily the end of […]

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Our next guest is something of a mystery. In fact, they are everything of a mystery. And in order to preserve that mystery, we're not actually going to tell you who it is. If all this sounds incredibly enigmatic, then… yes. That's what we're going for. You'll find out why in about a week-and-a-half. But […]

As guest Rhys Graham tells us, he almost didn't pick the legendary Polish filmmaker, for fears it was too pretentious a choice. After all, the Three Colours trilogy long felt like the epitome of European cinema, the symbol of inaccessible, languid arthouse films. Sure, we all know that the films themselves are actually beautiful, empathetic […]

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Rhys Graham is a Melbourne-based artist who has worked across drama, documentary, publishing, and photography. Best known for his work as a filmmaker, Rhys has directed and co-directed shorts, features, documentaries and anthologies, with credits that include Words From the City (2007), Murundak: Songs of Freedom (2011), Galore (2013), and the Tim Winton adaptation The […]

As much as we love it when a guest picks a pre-ordained canonical legend - a David Lynch, an Akira Kurosawa, a Martin Scorsese - there's a lot of value in the left-field choices. Like, say, Bruno Dumont. That was not a name we were expecting to hear when we asked guest David Caesar who […]

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Our next guest is a prolific Aussie filmmaker who's been working steadily in both film and television for years. You might know him from his collaborations with Ben Mendelsohn in Australiana comedies Idiot Box (1996), Mullet (2001) and Prime Mover (2009). He also made the period crime comedy Dirty Deeds (2002), featuring Bryan Brown, Toni […]

Handsome, talented, and possessed of an undeniably seductive accent. Yes, it was a pleasure having Stephen on the show, and as a bonus, he wanted to talk about Xavier Dolan, who is also all of those things. Stephen is passionate about film and never shy of an opinion, which is why we were so eager […]

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New year, new us. Or the same old us. Which we're hoping is how you like it, because we have no plans to change. Or do we? You'll have to keep listening to find out. Enough with the mysterious foreshadowing, because we're kicking off 2019 with Glasgow's finest ever export, Stephen A Russell! Stephen is […]

We're going to keep this one uncharacteristically short, because we're all kinda wiped from 2018. And frankly, nobody needs a long read on New Year's Eve. Or New Year’s Day. In fact, regardless of the date you’re reading this, we’re just going to assume you have somewhere to be. So let's just take a quick […]

It had to happen eventually. Sometimes, a well-known filmmaker is chosen for Hyphenates, and we'll often have no idea which direction the discussion will go. But with directors like Lars Von Trier, you have a pretty solid idea of what kind of discussion is about to take place. Sure enough, the question of whether he's […]

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Long before she landed what is arguably her most iconic role to date, Cassandra Magrath was burning it up on Aussie screens. She was a regular on iconic TV shows like Ocean Girl and SeaChange, she guested on high profile programs Janus and Blue Heelers, and scored her movie debut in the 1996 comedy Hotel […]

We all know kids love parks. But did you know Kidds love Parks? We only found out when we invited filmmaker, critic, and festival curator Briony Kidd on the show to talk about a filmmaker she loves: South Korean cult director Park Chan-wook! We've had a lot of near-misses with Park over the years, as […]

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If there's anyone who fits the multi-hyphenate brief, it's Briony Kidd. Briony's a Hobart-based filmmaker who wrote and directed the 2011 short The Room at the Top of the Stairs, which screened around the world at festivals and can be viewed on the Shudder platform. She's currently in development on a feature film inspired by […]

We've had guests on the show who have had a personal connection to their filmmaker of the month. Brian Trenchard-Smith talked about Quentin Tarantino asking his advice on a rough cut. Edgar Wright talked about consulting with George Miller on how to film car chases. And we certainly got the personal touch when we talked […]

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We've been fans of Scott Derrickson's work for over a decade now. It was 2005's The Exorcism of Emily Rose that put him on the map, the creeping slow-burn horror film that merged the courtroom drama with the exorcism sub-genre in all the right ways. Since then, Scott has gone on to direct the science […]

100 episodes! Not counting the pilot, which we called episode 00 because it was a guest-free test run. Still, this was episode 100 proper, and we had to find a suitable way to celebrate the occasion. So we invited Greg McLean, the writer/director of one of the most influential Australian films of all time, Wolf […]

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They were three partial strangers, with some things in common, meeting collectively for the first time. A brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse. And that was just Daina. Before the day was over, they broke the rules. Bared their souls. Recorded a podcast. And touched each other (metaphorically) in a way […]

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It's fun to watch people who only know Eric Bana only as Serious Dramatic Actor discover his roots in Aussie TV sketch comedy - but for our money, it's a less incredulous career leap than the one taken by Bana's Full Frontal co-star, Daina Reid. Of course, the use of “incredulous” here should be read […]

What is the secret formula that made Nora Ephron's romantic comedies so much better than all the others? Who are the two Nora avatars that appear throughout her films? How did she commit one of the greatest trolls in history, one that wouldn't be apparent for thirty years? To find out, we talk to the […]

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If you've been paying close attention to Australia screen culture, you know who Corrie Chen is. And if you haven't, please remember that you heard about her here first so we can bask in her current and future reflected glory. Corrie's science fiction short film Reg Makes Contact received an AACTA nomination for Best Short […]

Have you been keeping a close eye on the file names of the podcast episodes? If so, you're a deeply strange person. But you'll also have noticed that we're climbing into the high 90s, and we're only a few shows away from the magic 100. And who can resist the lure of a big round […]

“I just don't think any of his movies for me go below a B, and some of them are an A+. And I think that's a pretty admirable range for someone who worked over so many decades and so many changing paradigms of the industry he was working in.” This month, ARP talks AJP as […]

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If you haven't seen Alex Ross Perry's films, then stop reading this and come back when you have. No, we're kidding, never stop reading us. We should always be your number one priority. But your number two priority should be tracking down his misanthropic comedy-drama Listen Up Philip (2014), starring Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Krysten […]

“Amongst all this chaos he's just got a real truthful grasp on humanity. And that for me makes it so much more interesting when [you] throw it into these crazy worlds.” It was a heap of fun having Abe Forsythe on the show this month, even if it was down a skype line. If you've […]

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Abe Forsythe has been all over Australian film and television for as long as we can remember, noting of course that we can only remember as far back as about 1991. But still, that's an impressive run. As an actor, he's starred in the hit series Always Greener, Fireflies, Laid, Howzat!, and plenty more. He's […]

We can't remember how long ago we added Ming-Zhu Hii to our guest wishlist, but in the intervening years she's directed short films, landed prominent roles on half of Australia's comedy and drama TV shows, and appeared in films like Peter Rabbit and That's Not Me. Frankly, we're lucky we were able to book her. […]

You've definitely seen the work of Ming-Zhu Hii. Maybe you caught her in some of Australian television's best comedies, appearing with Kates McCartney and McLennan in Get Krack!n, or starring alongside Shaun Micallef in The Ex PM. Or maybe you saw her in really any of our high-profile dramas, in Sisters, or Newton's Law, or […]

In this episode's announcement, we boasted that we had one Kid Blue talking about another Kid Blue. But it's no coincidence that our guest Noah Segan and his filmmaker of the month played distinct characters who just happened to share a name. And the only place you can hear the story behind it is by […]

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Our next guest has appeared in everything from Dawson's Creek to NCIS, from Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever to Fanboys. But let's not bury the lede here: you know him best as the frequent collaborator of filmmaker Rian Johnson, appearing as stoner Dode in instant cult classic Brick (2005), The Duke in The Brothers Bloom […]

“Partly, I didn't work on anything for [Friedkin] because I didn't want to disappoint him.” Seven is one of the greatest procedural films of all time. A dystopic vision of the present, a philosophical examination of justice and punishment, and perhaps the bleakest vision of optimism ever filmed. No, really. All of that came from […]

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1995's Se7en - or Seven if you prefer, but we're going by what the film's actual opening titles tell us - has almost been memed beyond recognition thanks to its shocking and unforgettable ending. But it remains a true classic, a work of horror and beauty that holds up to multiple re-watches. It's one of […]

Welcome to 2018! According to cinema, it's the year of Rollerball and, we guess, Terminator Salvation. So we have that to look forward to. It was a blast to kick off 2018 with Eloise Ross, a guest we've been hoping to book on the show for some time, and as you've hopefully heard by now, […]

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Welcome back! Honestly, it's like you were never gone. We certainly weren't: we're already hard at work on the first shows of the new year, and we have some great stuff coming up. Really, you should hit subscribe as soon as possible. If you've already subscribed, you should unsubscribe and then immediately resubscribe just for […]

Despite all evidence to the contrary, that was a year. Sure, democracy, the environment, and all societal structures collapsed around us, but across the world there was universal agreement that some good had come out of 2017: Hell Is For Hyphenates and that video of Agnès Varda dancing with Angelina Jolie at the 2017 Governors […]

“What I am absolutely stunned by is that [Pialat's] cinema is absolutely disconnected [to] the idea of an artificial fabricated idea of reality, but it's actually soaked into reality.” This probably goes without saying, but if you ever get the chance to chat with Luca Guadagnino about film and philosophy and gaze into his eyes […]

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No, seriously. Just to be clear, Luca Guadagnino will not be the subject of our next episode: he will be our guest. He’s gonna be on the show. Guadagnino. Hyphenates. It’s happening. The Italian filmmaker behind 2009's I Am Love, 2015's A Bigger Splash, and this year's Call Me By Your Name has become one […]

It was over a year ago when we first asked Emma if she'd like to join us on Hell Is For Hyphenates. She was interested, and immediately flagged Polanski as her filmmaker of choice. After that it was simply a matter of finding a time when our schedules aligned. What a difference a year makes. […]

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Get off the edge of your collective seat, because we're ready to announce our next guest! This month we will be joined by Melbourne writer, journalist, film historian and screenwriter Emma Westwood. Emma's enjoyed a rich and varied career in the arts, writing for outlets such as Empire, Fangoria, FilmInk, Senses of Cinema, Metro, and […]

Trivia question: what was the last episode of Hyphenates in which everyone was in the same room for the recording? The first person to correctly answer wins a set of— no, it's okay, we know you don't care. But for the record, it was the show with Kate Hardie back in April 2016. So it's […]

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Ever since a plucky stop-motion animated film from Australia won the 2004 Oscar for Best Animated Short - beating heavy-hitters Disney, Pixar and Blue Sky, no less - its director Adam Elliot has become a fixture of Australian culture. How many other local filmmakers are so recognisable that they get to play themselves in a […]

Only a few short weeks ago, you were living in blissful ignorance. You had no idea that you needed comedian, writer and actor Michael Ian Black talking the films of Sylvester Stallone. But now that you know such a thing exists, you can't go on without it in your life. Smash that subscribe button, people. […]

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Going on both merit and popularity, Michael Ian Black ranks high above the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, motion-induced blindness, the chemical methylisoborneol and the second Men In Black film, as one of our greatest ever MIBs. Top three, easy. He wrote and starred in the long-running sketch comedy show The State; he played the entrepreneurial […]

“Death is something that permeates through the whole of the Mad Max franchise, and that's fascinating to me.” - Edgar Wright A new era of Hell Is For Hyphenates dawns! Or, if we're going by Planet of the Apes terminology, it rises, then it dawns. Then it wars. With Sophie departing the show last month, […]

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If you've listened to this month's episode, then you've heard the big news: this is, sadly, our last episode with Sophie. And if you haven't listened to it, then spoiler alert. Sophie joined the show back in September 2015 when Paul took his leave, and she brought a whole new energy - and hemisphere - […]

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If you like your film talk funny and your analysis smart, then you're either a fan of Britt Hayes, or you're about to be. Britt is the associate editor of the entertainment website ScreenCrush, and has been a regular contributor to Birth. Movies. Death. (formerly Badass Digest) since its inception. She is the author of […]

We have a lot of rules on Hyphenates, all of them self-imposed. A lot of the time they make sense: we always make sure a new release from a past Filmmaker of the Month is given preference in the reviews, for instance. This makes sense if you, say, cover Sofia Coppola's career around the release […]

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Our unofficial, not-at-all set-in-stone rule of not repeating any guests - wonderful though all our guests have been - was broken in 2014 when we marked our 5th anniversary by having our very first guest, Thomas Caldwell, join us exactly five years on. This month, we're doing it again: five years ago, screenwriter, critic and […]

“I am aware that I have to please the comic fans, the Mignola fans, I gotta appease the Del Toro fans and somehow keep everybody happy or at least give them something new. The bottom line is I just gotta make a really great movie.” Seven years is a significant number. It's the number of […]

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A big question kicking around Hi4H headquarters since we released our first episode in May 2010 has been this: who will be the first person to be both a guest and a filmmaker of the month? We've talked about a lot of very talented and very still-alive filmmakers on the show… and have tried to […]

“When you need to set the ocean on fire, you hire Neil Marshall.” An American, a Brit and an Australian walk into a podcast… This month certainly isn't the first time we've recorded across three continents, but with daylight savings ending in one place and starting in another, it certainly made for some tricky scheduling […]

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If you’re into film and you're on Twitter, you definitely know who Scott Weinberg is. But for those who are yet to make the leap to the microblogging social media platform, Scott has been a film journalist for almost two decades, writing on cinema for Cinematical, FEARnet, Nerdist, Thrillist, Playboy and others. He’s one of […]

Allison Anders is a name that doesn't get mentioned nearly as much as it should. And thanks to Jennifer Reeder, this month we're pointing out why this is a mistake that needs to be corrected. From Gas Food Lodging to Grace of My Heart and Things Beyond the Sun, Anders was one of the defining […]

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We’re delighted to announce our next guest, Jennifer Reeder: an American artist, filmmaker and screenwriter. Her 2015 film A Million Miles Away (available to watch here for free!) was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and she has received nominations or wins at the Berlin International Film Festival, the AFI Fest, […]

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And the Hell Is For Hyphenates version of desperate measures is to organise an episode in slightly the wrong order. Anarchists, we. As we said in the episode announcement, we felt it was incredibly important to this month focus on Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi. With the USA imposing a […]

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We're breaking convention to do things a little backwards this month. Let us explain. Before we had confirmed a guest or filmmaker for this month, it was announced that director Asghar Farhadi would be unable to enter the United States to attend the Oscars ceremony - he is once again nominated, by the way - […]

We really didn't plan it this way, but it did work out pretty well. After all, could there by a more appropriate month for us to discuss the films of one of the most political directors in the canon? Sometimes you're blessed with synchronicity. Apart from the charged politics, this is unlike any episode of […]

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Our first guest for 2017, Rebecca O'Brien, got her start in cinema working at the Edinburgh Film Festival. She went on to work as location manager and production manager in films such as 1985's My Beautiful Laundrette and 1982's Crystal Gazing (the latter of which was co-directed by Hyphenates alum Laura Mulvey). Her first film […]

Let's skip all the non-film stuff in this recap, shall we? From Brexit to Trump and various personal crises, cinema was the last saving grace that kept us from going under. And the podcast really helped with that. With guests ranging from the legendary Laura Mulvey to actors Rhys Muldoon and Kate Hardie, writers and […]

Hyphenates has always been a show that celebrates all filmmakers, and we're equally excited by the big names as we are by the obscure ones. Wielding absolutely no influence over the choices of our guests, 2016 nevertheless seemed to be a year in which we ticked off a fair number of big-name directors that have […]

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Over the last few years, Rohan Spong has become one of Australia's most exciting documentary filmmakers. From his 2009 feature T is for Teacher, about the experiences of four transgender school teachers in America, to his 2010 film The Songs They Sang, which examined the music and art created in the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania […]

There are few things more exciting to us than getting to hear a filmmaker we admire talk about the filmmaker who influenced them. It's a special sort of insight that we rarely get, as writers and directors are more often quizzed about the films they themselves have made. So what better way to explore the […]

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One of the highlights of 2015 was that moment when The Dressmaker came out and everybody remembered how great Jocelyn Moorhouse is. It had been eighteen years since her last feature film (1997's King Lear adaptation A Thousand Acres with Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange and Jennifer Jason Leigh), and those of us who never fail […]

“They work with Stanley and go through hells that nothing in their careers could have prepared them for, they think they must have been mad to get involved, they think that they'd die before they would ever work with him again, that fixated maniac; and when it's all behind them and the profound fatigue of […]

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Rhys Muldoon is the very definition of a multi-hyphenate. As an actor, he's appeared in films such as Danny Deckchair (2003), The Crop (2004), The Extra (2005), Valentine's Day (2007) and Bitter & Twisted (2008), in television shows such as Bastard Boys, House Husbands, Blackjack, Grass Roots and Play School, and on stage in Don's […]

Good evening. It's hard to believe that it took six-and-a-half years for us to finally reach Alfred Hitchcock, but such is the unpredictability of the Hell Is For Hyphenates formula. And once we reached him, we had to go big with not just one special guest, but two! We'd begun talking with Alicia earlier in […]

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We are very excited to announce our next guest will be Alicia Malone, Australian film reporter, TV host, and lifelong lover of cinema. Our favourite part of her bio (nicked from her website) is this: “While at school she created a Film Club, electing herself President. Eventually the School Principal asked her not to get […]

This month's episode was a little tricky to record. With Kriv in Brisbane for pre-production on his movie Australia Day and Sophie on holiday in North America, scheduling proved difficult, and we were unable to find a time they were both available. So Lee - who had nothing of note going on in August - […]

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We are delighted to announce that this month our guest will be Australian director Kriv Stenders! Whether you know him from 2011's smash hit Red Dog, or last year's critically lauded mini-series The Principal, or his 2005 debut The Illustrated Family Doctor, or 2014's Simon Pegg-as-hitman action-comedy Kill Me Three Times, or 2007's criminally underrated Boxing […]