Hosted by Jimmy Bernasconi (‘Sacred Cinema’, ABC Radio), ‘Films for Today’ explores how the art of cinema can help us understand the social, cultural and political issues that currently trouble us. Each week, Jimmy selects a seminal film and contemplates its profound insights into the most pressing challenges of our time. For questions or enquiries about the show, you can reach Jimmy at [email protected] or on Instagram by searching ‘filmsfortoday’.
All Roads Lead to Rome - 'Rome, Open City' (1945) d. Roberto Rossellini, 'La Dolce Vita' (1960) d. Federico Fellini & 'Il Divo' (2008) d. Paolo Sorrentino
29 mins; April 21, 2024
Vengeful Street Fighters - 'Old Boy' (2003) d. Park Chan-wook, 'John Wick' (2014) d. Chad Stahelski & David Leitch & 'Monkey Man' (2024) d. Dev Patel
29 mins; April 14, 2024
Missing Persons - 'The Vanishing' (1988) d. George Sluizer, 'Prisoners' (2013) d. Denis Villeneuve & 'The Sweet East' (2023) d. Sean Price Williams
29 mins; April 07, 2024
Accidental Love Bots - 'Metropolis' (1927) d. Fritz Lang, 'Her' (2013) d. Spike Jonze & 'Robot Dreams' (2023) d. Pablo Berger
29 mins; March 31, 2024
Monsters in the Forest - 'Predator' (1987) d. John McTiernan, 'Monsters' (2010) d. Gareth Edwards & 'Monster' (2023) d. Kore-eda Hirokazu
29 mins; March 24, 2024
Kidnapped - 'The Searchers' (1956) d. John Ford, 'Funny Games' (1997/2007) d. Michael Haneke & 'Gone Baby Gone' (2007) d. Ben Affleck
29 mins; March 17, 2024
Heroes in the Sand - 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) d. David Lean, 'Black Hawk Down' (2001) d. Ridley Scott & 'Dune: Part Two' (2024) d. Denis Villeneuve
Cooks and Cannibals - 'Babette's Feast' (1987) d. Gabriel Axel, 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover' (1989) d. Peter Greenaway & 'The Taste of Things' (2023) d. Anh Hung Tran
29 mins; February 25, 2024
Suffocating Authority - 'Rope' (1948) d. Alfred Hitchcock, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) d. Milos Forman & 'The Iron Claw' (2023) d. Sean Durkin
29 mins; February 18, 2024
Fictitious Figures - 'Meet John Doe' (1941) d. Frank Capra, 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (1999) d. Anthony Minghella & 'American Fiction' (2023) d. Cord Jefferson
29 mins; February 11, 2024
Mundane Malevolence - 'Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles' (1975) d. Chantal Akerman, 'Little Children' (2006) d. Todd Field & 'The Zone of Interest' (2023) d. Jonathan Glazer
29 mins; February 04, 2024
Under the Wing - 'The Last Detail' (1973) d. Hal Ashby, 'Malcolm' (1986) d. Nadia Tass & 'The Holdovers' (2023) d. Alexander Payne
29 mins; January 28, 2024
Motherhood Now - 'The End We Start From' (2023) d. Mahalia Belo, 'Poor Things' (2023) d. Yorgos Lanthimos & 'The Boy and the Heron' (2023) d. Hayao Miyazaki
29 mins; January 21, 2024
Fight For Your Life - 'A Matter of Life and Death' (1946) d. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 'A Hidden Life' (2019) d. Terrence Malick & 'One Life' (2023) d. James Hawes
29 mins; January 14, 2024
Salvation by Sedation - 'Life is Beautiful' (1997) d. Roberto Benigni, 'Shutter Island' (2010) d. Martin Scorsese & 'Leave the World Behind' (2023) d. Sam Esmail
29 mins; January 07, 2024
2023: A Year in Review
29 mins; December 30, 2023
Home for the Holidays (Early Release) - 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946) d. Frank Capra, 'Black Christmas' (1974) d. Bob Clark & 'Home Alone' (1990) d. Chris Columbus
29 mins; December 21, 2023
Requesting Your Favourite Films of 2023
1 min; December 19, 2023
Final Solutions - 'Toy Story' (1995) d. John Lasseter, 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) d. Quentin Tarantino, 'How to Have Sex' (2023) d. Molly Manning Walker
29 mins; December 17, 2023
Delayed Anonymous Romance - 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin' (2005) d. Judd Apatow, 'Last Tango in Paris' (1972) d. Bernardo Bertolucci & 'Fallen Leaves' (2023) d. Aki Kaurismäki
29 mins; December 10, 2023
Napoleonic Weakness - 'Napoleon Dynamite' (2004) d. Jared Hess, 'Napoleon' (2023) d. Ridley Scott & 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1951) d. Elia Kazan
29 mins; December 03, 2023
Eat the Rich - 'Delicatessen' (1991) d. Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' (1972) d. Luis Buñuel & 'Saltburn' (2023) d. Emerald Fennell
29 mins; November 26, 2023
Ends of Eras - 'Falling Down' (1993) d. Joel Schumacher, 'Anatomy of a Fall' (2023) d. Justine Triet & 'The Last Emperor' (1987) d. Bernardo Bertolucci
29 mins; November 19, 2023
Been There, Done That - 'The Worst Person in the World' (2021) d. Joachim Trier, 'Passages' (2023) d. Ira Sachs & 'The Great Beauty' (2013) d. Paolo Sorrentino
29 mins; November 12, 2023
Romantic - 'Bright Star' (2009) d. Jane Campion, 'Grizzly Man' (2005) d. Werner Herzog & ' Before Midnight' (2013) d. Richard Linklater
29 mins; November 05, 2023
Heroes of the Past - 'Killers of the Flower Moon' (2023) d. Martin Scorsese, 'Akira' (1988) d. Katsuhiro Otomo & 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1962) d. John Frankenheimer
29 mins; October 29, 2023
Pair Bonding - 'Nebraska' (2013) d. Alexander Payne, 'Thelma & Louise' (1991) d. Ridley Scott & 'Before Sunset' (2004) d. Richard Linklater
29 mins; October 22, 2023
No Man Is an Island (LFF/Radiothon Special) - 'The Bikeriders' (2023) d. Jeff Nichols, 'Maestro' (2023) d. Bradley Cooper & 'The Killer' (2023) d. David Fincher
29 mins; October 15, 2023
Discussing Life - 'Naked' (1992) d. Mike Leigh, 'Before Sunrise' (1995) d. Richard Linklater & 'Mindwalk' (1990) d. Bernt Amadeus Capra
29 mins; October 08, 2023
Realising the Fantasy - 'La La Land' (2016) d. Damien Chazelle
29 mins; September 10, 2023
Lost Love - 'Brief Encounter' (1945) d. David Lean, 'Past Lives' (2023) d. Celine Song & 'Casablanca' (1942) d. Michael Curtiz
29 mins; September 04, 2023
From Naught to Naughty - 'Talk to Me' (2022) d. Danny and Michael Philippou, 'Kids' (1995) d. Larry Clark & 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial' (1982) d. Steven Spielberg
29 mins; August 27, 2023
Alien Encounters - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977) d. Steven Spielberg, 'Godland' (2022) d. Hlynur Pálmason & 'Asteroid City' (2023) d. Wes Anderson
29 mins; August 20, 2023
About Parents - 'About My Father' (2023) d. Laura Terruso, 'All About My Mother' (1999) d. Pedro Almodóvar & 'About Time' (2013) d. Richard Curtis
29 mins; August 13, 2023
Iconic/Demonic - 'Mazey Day' (2023) d. Uta Briesewitz, 'Demon 79' (2023) d. Toby Haynes & 'Loch Henry' (2023) d. Sam Miller
29 mins; August 05, 2023
Barbenheimer (Special Early Episode) - 'Barbie' (2023) d. Greta Gerwig, 'Oppenheimer' (2023) d. Christopher Nolan & 'Melancholia' (2011) d. Lars von Trier
29 mins; July 24, 2023
Politics on the Plain - 'Sweet Home Alabama' (2002) d. Andy Tennant, 'Alcarrà s' (2022) d. Carla Simón & Sonia Castelo & 'Blazing Saddles' (1974) d. Mel Brooks
29 mins; July 23, 2023
Phantasmic Figures - 'He's Just Not That Into You' (2009) d. Ken Kwapis, 'Run Rabbit Run' (2023) d. Daina Reid & 'Mr. Nobody' (2009) d. Jaco Van Dormael
29 mins; July 16, 2023
Excavating Germans - 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' (2023) d. James Mangold, 'Blind Spot' (1981) d. Claudia von Alemann & 'The Tin Drum' (1979) d. Volker Schlöndorff
29 mins; July 09, 2023
The Love Horse - 'American Pie' (1999) d. Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, 'No Hard Feelings' (2023) d. Gene Stupnitsky & 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (2004) d. Michel Gondry
29 mins; July 02, 2023
Honour Thy Family - 'Omen' (2023) d. Baloji, 'You Hurt My Feelings' (2023) d. Nicole Holofcener & 'Ordinary People' (1980) d. Robert Redford
29 mins; June 25, 2023
The Multiverse, NY - 'Annie Hall' (1977) d. Woody Allen, 'Synecdoche, New York' (2008) d. Charlie Kaufman & 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' (2023) d. J. Dos Santos, K. Powers & J. K. Thompson
29 mins; June 18, 2023
Trouble in Paradise - 'L'Avventura' (1960) d. Michelangelo Antonioni, 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' (2008) d. Nicholas Stoller & 'Infinity Pool' (2023) d. Brandon Cronenberg
29 mins; June 11, 2023
A Single Mother's Burden - 'As Good as It Gets' (1997) d. James L. Brooks, 'Erin Brockovich' (2000) d. Steven Soderbergh & 'One Fine Morning' (2022) d. Mia Hansen-Løve
29 mins; June 03, 2023
Conservative/Progressive - 'The Blue Caftan' (2022) d. Maryam Touzani, 'Princess Mononoke' (1997) d. Hayao Miyazaki & 'The Sound of Music' (1965) d. Robert Wise
29 mins; May 28, 2023
The Church of Sport - 'Any Given Sunday' (1999) d. Oliver Stone, 'Raging Bull' (1980) d. Martin Scorsese & 'Moneyball' (2011) d. Bennett Miller
29 mins; May 21, 2023
The Monstrous Feminine - 'Shrek' (2001) d. Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, 'Monster' (2003) d. Patty Jenkins & 'Saint Omer' (2022) d. Alice Diop
29 mins; May 13, 2023
Masculine Cowardice - 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' (2007) d. Andrew Dominik, 'Beau is Afraid' (2023) d. Ari Aster & 'Nocturnal Animals' (2016) d. Tom Ford
The Simulate 90s - 'Dark City' (1998) d. Alex Proyas, 'The Matrix' (1999) d. the Wachowski Sisters & 'The Thirteenth Floor' (1999) d. Josef Rusnak
29 mins; April 23, 2023
Lifting Off - 'Gattaca' (1997) d. Andrew Niccol, 'Sunshine' (2007) d. Danny Boyle & 'Interstellar' (2014) d. Christopher Nolan
29 mins; April 16, 2023
The Dance of Romance - 'Dirty Dancing' (1987) d. Emile Ardolino, 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1953) d. Howard Hawks & 'Pearl' (2022) d. Ti West
29 mins; April 09, 2023
The Seeds of War - 'City of God' (2002) d. Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund, 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (2022) d. Edward Berger & 'Wag the Dog' (1997) d. Barry Levinson
29 mins; April 01, 2023
Escape to the Seaside - 'Two Tickets to Greece' (2022) d. Marc Fitoussi, 'Pierrot le Fou' (1965) d. Jean-Luc Godard & 'The Green Ray' (1986) d. Éric Rohmer
29 mins; March 26, 2023
The Enemy Within - 'Face/Off' (1997) d. John Woo, 'To Leslie' (2022) d. Michael Morris & 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (1964) d. Stanley Kubrick
29 mins; March 19, 2023
Princes, Prowlers and Progenitrices - 'Harold and Maude' (1971) d. Hal Ashby, 'Empire of Light' (2022) d. Sam Mendes & 'In the Bedroom' (2001) d. Todd Field
29 mins; March 12, 2023
Princesses, Predators and Protectors - 'Leon' (1994) d. Luc Besson, 'An Education' (2009) d. Lone Scherfig & 'Aftersun' (2022) d. Charlotte Wells
29 mins; March 05, 2023
Consolidating Competence - 'Tár' (2022) d. Todd Field, 'Being There' (1979) d. Hal Ashby & 'Armaggedon' (1998) d. Michael Bay
29 mins; February 26, 2023
Coming of Age at Work - 'Caddyshack' (1980) d. Harold Ramis, 'Mystic Pizza' (1988) d. Donald Petrie & 'Adventureland' (2009) d. Greg Mottola
29 mins; February 18, 2023
The Roaring (20)20s - 'Babylon' (2022) d. Damien Chazelle, 'The Whale' (2022) d. Darren Aronofsky & 'Triangle of Sadness' (2022) d. Ruben Östlund
29 mins; February 12, 2023
Listening to Your Conscience - 'Pinocchio' (2022) d. Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson, 'Heathers' (1988) d. Michael Lehmann & 'Donnie Darko' (2001) d. Richard Kelly
29 mins; February 04, 2023
Going Undercover - 'Mean Girls' (2004) d. Mark Waters, 'The Departed' d. Martin Scorsese & 'Le Doulos' (1962) d. Jean-Pierre Melville
29 mins; January 29, 2023
Dark Knights - 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (2001) d. Chris Columbus, '12 Angry Men' (1957) d. Sidney Lumet & 'Ladybird' (2017) d. Greta Gerwig
29 mins; January 22, 2023
21st Century Vigilance - 'Saw' (2004) d. James Wan, 'V for Vendetta' (2005) d. James McTeigue & 'The Dark Knight' (2008) d. Christopher Nolan
29 mins; January 15, 2023
Containing the Year - 'The Apartment' (1960) d. Billy Wilder, 'My Night at Maud's' (1969) d. Éric Rohmer & 'When Harry Met Sally' (1989) d. Rob Reiner
29 mins; December 25, 2022
A Kafkaesque Christmas - 'Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life' (1993) d. Peter Capaldi, 'Brazil' (1985) d. Terry Gilliam & 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999) d. Stanley Kubrick
29 mins; December 18, 2022
Russia, Part II - 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925) d. Sergei Eisenstein, 'Mirror' (1975) d. Andrei Tarkovsky & 'The Sacrifice' (1986) d. Andrei Tarkovsky
Ruling Over the Dominion - 'Willow' (1988) d. Ron Howard, 'Margrete - Queen of the North' (2021) d. Charlotte Sieling & 'Moonrise Kingdom' (2012) d. Wes Anderson
29 mins; November 27, 2022
Raising Hell, Raising Heaven - 'Hellraiser' (1987) d. Clive Barker, 'Armageddon Time' (2022) d. James Gray & 'Gladiator' (2000) d. Ridley Scott
29 mins; November 21, 2022
Adam McKay's Apex - 'Anchorman' (2004), 'Talladega Nights' (2006), 'Step Brothers' (2008), 'The Other Guys' (2010), 'The Big Short' (2015), 'Vice' (2018) & 'Don't Look Up' (2021)
29 mins; November 13, 2022
Canberra Short Film Festival Special w/ Stephanie Begg and Josh Mawer
29 mins; November 06, 2022
The Home Ground Advantage - 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' (1974) d. Tobe Hooper, 'Barbarian' (2022) d. Zach Cregger & 'Blood Diamond' (2006) d. Edward Zwick
29 mins; October 30, 2022
College Boys - 'Old School' (2003) d. Todd Phillips, 'Liberal Arts' (2012) d. Josh Radnor & 'Brad's Status' (2017) d. Mike White
29 mins; October 24, 2022
Robert Altman's America - 'Nashville' (1975), 'The Player' (1992) & 'Short Cuts' (1993)
29 mins; October 16, 2022
Blending Art Forms w/ Terry Zwigoff - 'Louie Bluie' (1985), 'Crumb' (1994), 'Ghost World' (2001), 'Bad Santa' (2004) & 'Art School Confidential' (2006)
29 mins; September 25, 2022
Secular Faith - 'The Hunt' (2012) d. Thomas Vinterberg, 'Ghost World' (2001) d. Terry Zwigoff & 'Sideways' (2004) d. Alexander Payne
29 mins; September 18, 2022
Intro to Infidelity - 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' (1946) d. Tay Garnett, 'Closer' (2004) d. Mike Nichols & 'Both Sides of the Blade' (2022) d. Claire Denis
29 mins; September 11, 2022
Double-Edged Talent - 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' (1962) d. Robert Aldrich, 'All About Eve' (1950) d. Joseph L. Mankiewicz & 'The Pianist' (2002) d. Roman Polanski
29 mins; September 04, 2022
(K)nowhere to Look - 'Nope' (2022) d. Jordan Peele, 'Don't Look Up' (2021) d. Adam McKay & 'Network' (1976) d. Sidney Lumet
29 mins; August 28, 2022
Middle Eastern Cinema w/ Sarah Barrie - 'About Elly' (2009) d. Asghar Farhadi, 'Women Without Men' (2009) d. Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari & 'Incendies (2010) d. Denis Villeneuve
29 mins; August 21, 2022
Enemies of the State - 'Cool Hand Luke' (1967), 'The Conference' (2022) & 'The People vs. Larry Flynt' (1996)