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The Curb

Welcome to The Curb. A show that's all about Australian culture, film reviews, interviews, and a whole lot more... 

Here, you'll find discussions with Australian creatives about their work and their role in Australian culture. 

Support The Curb on Patreon, and make sure to follow us on Facebook. Contact with us via our email.


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Update frequency
every 2 days
Average duration
40 minutes
Episodes
365
Years Active
2016 - 2025
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Carissa Lee Talks About Navigating Barriers in the Australian Arts System in This Interview

Carissa Lee Talks About Navigating Barriers in the Australian Arts System in This Interview

Carissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer whose work spans from critical analysis, to theatre, to the new ABC Kids series, Planet Lulin, where she plays Principal Cruz. Carissa's critical work has ap…

00:45:10  |   Thu 08 Feb 2024
Robert Connolly on Why Force of Nature Was His Hardest Film Shoot Yet in This Interview

Robert Connolly on Why Force of Nature Was His Hardest Film Shoot Yet in This Interview

Robert Connolly is one of Australia's great modern directors, having exploded onto the film scene some twenty years ago with The Bank, which was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the AF…

00:22:33  |   Wed 07 Feb 2024
Patricia Clarkson Talks About Working Alongside Trace Lysette in the LGBTIQA+ Drama Monica in This Interview

Patricia Clarkson Talks About Working Alongside Trace Lysette in the LGBTIQA+ Drama Monica in This Interview

For as long as I've been a devotee of cinema, I've followed the career of Patricia Clarkson. Patricia is a genuine queen of the screen, featuring in films like The Station Agent, Far From Heaven, The…

00:28:43  |   Thu 01 Feb 2024
Sundance Interview - The Moogai Cinematographer Sean Ryan Talks About Crafting Tension on Screen for this Aboriginal Horror Film

Sundance Interview - The Moogai Cinematographer Sean Ryan Talks About Crafting Tension on Screen for this Aboriginal Horror Film

Jon Bell's unsettling 2021 short film, The Moogai, receives the feature film treatment with his 2024 horror of the same name. Making its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, The Moogai follo…

00:25:32  |   Fri 26 Jan 2024
Bad Vibrations Writer/Director Nicole Delprado and Annabel Maclean Talking About Flickerfest and Creating Tension with a Theramine in This Interview

Bad Vibrations Writer/Director Nicole Delprado and Annabel Maclean Talking About Flickerfest and Creating Tension with a Theramine in This Interview

Australian horror is experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment with the box office boom of Talk to Me, and the critical success of Godless, Monolith, You'll Never Find Me, Birdeater, and …

00:41:42  |   Wed 17 Jan 2024
The First Episode of 2024

The First Episode of 2024

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00:11:24  |   Wed 17 Jan 2024
Christmess Writer/Director Heath Davis Talks About Creating His Best Film Yet in This Interview

Christmess Writer/Director Heath Davis Talks About Creating His Best Film Yet in This Interview

Aussie indie filmmaker powerhouse Heath Davis is back with his fourth feature film, Christmess. This seasonally appropriate flick follows on fom his grounded work with his solid debut film Broke, in …

00:40:37  |   Fri 01 Dec 2023
Isla's Way Director Marion Pilowsky Talks About the Importance of Seeing the Story of an 87-Year-Old Woman in a Cinema in This Interview

Isla's Way Director Marion Pilowsky Talks About the Importance of Seeing the Story of an 87-Year-Old Woman in a Cinema in This Interview

Much of what I do with The Curb is in a bid to shine a light on voices that may not often get the chance to be heard. That mindset carries through with director Marion Pilowsky's tenderly empathetic …

00:37:34  |   Wed 29 Nov 2023
Cat Person Director Susanna Fogel Talks About Presenting the Grey Area of Modern Dating on Screen in This Interview

Cat Person Director Susanna Fogel Talks About Presenting the Grey Area of Modern Dating on Screen in This Interview

When the short story Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian was published in The New Yorker in 2017, it immediately went viral with readers resonating with the way modern day dating can quickly turn toxic. …

00:17:00  |   Wed 22 Nov 2023
Scott Hicks Talks About Exploring The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process in This Interview

Scott Hicks Talks About Exploring The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process in This Interview

Scott Hicks is an Academy Award nominated director, with his Best Picture nominated film Shine bringing his work to international attention, alongside the work of the films subject, pianist David Hel…

00:25:06  |   Fri 17 Nov 2023
Bromley: Light After Dark - David & Yuge Bromley and Director Sean McDonald Chat About Creating a Space for Open Vulnerability in This Interview

Bromley: Light After Dark - David & Yuge Bromley and Director Sean McDonald Chat About Creating a Space for Open Vulnerability in This Interview

Every so often a presence swirls into our lives in an unexpected manner and changes it just a little bit. For many Australians, whether they be wealthy or not-so-wealthy, that presence is David Broml…

00:37:24  |   Wed 15 Nov 2023
A Savage Christmas Director Madeleine Dyer Talks About Crafting a Comedic Aussie Christmas in This Interview

A Savage Christmas Director Madeleine Dyer Talks About Crafting a Comedic Aussie Christmas in This Interview

Madeleine Dyer is a writer, actor, director, and producer, whose body of work includes the 2017 comedy series Sexy Herpes, the acclaimed comedy series Colin from Accounts, where she worked with her s…

00:35:47  |   Wed 15 Nov 2023
Bird Drone Director Radheya Jegatheva Talks About Perth Sunsets and Seagulls in This Interview

Bird Drone Director Radheya Jegatheva Talks About Perth Sunsets and Seagulls in This Interview

Radheya Jegatheva is a Perth based filmmaker. His work includes the award winning short Pacing the Pool, about Perth local Richard Pace, and The Quiet, an animated film about an astronaut contemplati…

00:28:05  |   Thu 09 Nov 2023
Damage Director Madeleine Blackwell Talks About Working Alongside Ali Al Jenabi to Bring This Story of Humanity to Life in This Interview

Damage Director Madeleine Blackwell Talks About Working Alongside Ali Al Jenabi to Bring This Story of Humanity to Life in This Interview

With her delicate and gentle drama Damage, director Madeleine Blackwell has crafted a parable that layers grief, trauma, a sense of location and what it means to live away from home, and more into an…

00:26:30  |   Wed 08 Nov 2023
My Darling in Stirling Director Bill Mousoulis Talks About Creating a Musical in the Adelaide Hills in This Interview

My Darling in Stirling Director Bill Mousoulis Talks About Creating a Musical in the Adelaide Hills in This Interview

Filmmaker, critic, and cultural historian Bill Mousoulis has forged a career as, in the truest sense of the word, an independent filmmaker in Australia. His filmography spans over decades, with his w…

00:35:38  |   Thu 02 Nov 2023
Foe Director Garth Davis Talks About Creating a Human Connection on Screen with Saorise Ronan and Paul Mescal in This Interview

Foe Director Garth Davis Talks About Creating a Human Connection on Screen with Saorise Ronan and Paul Mescal in This Interview

Garth Davis is a filmmaker who has explored the human need for connection in his films. Whether it's in his Best Picture nominee Lion, or in his latest film, Foe, that sense of being one with the per…

00:22:58  |   Tue 31 Oct 2023
Anupam Sharma Breaks Down His Documentary Brand Hollywood Downunder in This Interview

Anupam Sharma Breaks Down His Documentary Brand Hollywood Downunder in This Interview

Filmmaker Anupam Sharma talks about his new documentary Brand Bollywood Downunder in this in depth interview which touches on the cross-cultural relationship between India and Australia on screen, wh…

00:25:14  |   Mon 30 Oct 2023
Paullina Simons Talks About Her New Novel Light at Lavelle and the Emotionality of Her Characters in This Interview

Paullina Simons Talks About Her New Novel Light at Lavelle and the Emotionality of Her Characters in This Interview

In this episode, Andrew interviews celebrated author Paullina Simons about her latest novel, Light at Lavelle. It tells the story Finn Evans, a Bostonian banker who at the end of the 1920s finds his …

00:33:49  |   Fri 27 Oct 2023
Monolith Director Matt Vesely Talks About Why South Australia is the Hotbed for Genre Filmmaking Right Now in This Interview

Monolith Director Matt Vesely Talks About Why South Australia is the Hotbed for Genre Filmmaking Right Now in This Interview

On this episode, Andrew chats with director Matt Vesely about his feature film debut Monolith.


Monolith is a chilling sci-fi thriller follows a journalist, played by Lily Sullivan, whose livelihood is…

00:38:41  |   Wed 25 Oct 2023
Editor William Goldenberg and Costume Designer Charlese Antoinette Jones Talk About Working on Ben Affleck's Air in These Interviews

Editor William Goldenberg and Costume Designer Charlese Antoinette Jones Talk About Working on Ben Affleck's Air in These Interviews

In this double interview episode, Andrew chats with two of the creative minds behind Ben Affleck's latest film, Air. Air tells the story of how sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) p…

00:32:06  |   Sun 22 Oct 2023
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