For Your Reference

Send a text
Welcome to our Reference Degustation where, every February, we explore common and recurring themes of a writer/director's filmography. Month long celebration of rough scrappy familial ties of Lynne Ramsay.

Complete missions with precision but struggle to connect the dots to the bigger picture. Release the files and burn it all to the ground with You Were Never Really Here this week.

If you'd like to watch along, we plan on covering the below...

Ratcatcher (1999)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Die My Love (2025)

Check out more tasty Reference Degustations...

2020 - Hayao Miyazaki
2021 - Taika Waititi
2022 - Quentin Tarantino
2023 - Takashi Miike
2024 - Martin Scorsese
2025 - Spike Lee

Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram

Send a text
Welcome to our Reference Degustation where, every February, we explore common and recurring themes of a writer/director's filmography. Month long celebration of rough scrappy familial ties of Lynne Ramsay.
Wear the mask created to fool the world and hide from yourself. Shake off the oedipus feelings and find compassion in Soweto with We Need to Talk About Kevin this week.
If you'd like to watch along, we plan on covering the below...
Ratcatcher (1999)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
|You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Die My Love (2025)
Check out more tasty Reference Degustations...
2020 - Hayao Miyazaki
2021 - Taika Waititi
2022 - Quentin Tarantino
2023 - Takashi Miike
2024 - Martin Scorsese
2025 - Spike Lee

Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram

Send us a text
This week we chat to Writer/Director Kalu Oji for the film, Pasa Faho. We discuss how the visual language connects to past, present and future as well as writing from experience and exploring big themes through characters that feel like real people.

Pasa Faho has special event screenings across Australia, with more to be announced. It will also be released on SBS later this year.
Lido - Feb 5 6:30 PM
The Sun - Feb 6 6:45 PM TBC
Mercury - 12 Feb 7:00PM
Thornbury Picture House - Sat Feb 14 3:50 PM
Brunswick Picture House - Sat Feb 14 5:00 PM
Cinemateque @ GOMA - Feb 15 2:30 PM
ACMI - Feb 19 6:30 PM
Launceston Film Society - Village Cinemas - Feb 23 6PM, 25 4pm & 6:30PM, 26 Feb 6PM No Q&A
Luna Leederville - Feb 25 6:30 PM
NFSA - Feb 28 1:00 PM
Narooma Kinema - March 5
For info on more screenings head to their website: https://tendays.film/PASAFAHO

As suggested by Kalu, double feature watching of Pasa Faho & Black Orpheus.

Note: this interview is audio only. For other video interviews check out our YouTube playlist.

Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram

Send us a text
Welcome to our Reference Degustation where, every February, we explore common and recurring themes of a writer/director's filmography. This year we found our way to Scotland with Lynne Ramsay.
Navigate the garbage filled streets to the canal of struggle and friendship? Hop on the bus with Ratcatcher this week.
If you'd like to watch along, we plan on covering the below...
Ratcatcher (1999)
Morvern Callar (2002)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Die My Love (2025)
Check out more tasty Reference Degustations...
2020 - Hayao Miyazaki
2021 - Taika Waititi
2022 - Quentin Tarantino
2023 - Takashi Miike
2024 - Martin Scorsese
2025 - Spike Lee

Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram

Send us a text
In this week’s Reference Max we review Marty Supreme, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Night Patrol & My Brother's Band. A little Oscars chat but hopefully we’ll record a bonus predictions soon.

Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram