Test Pattern

Test Pattern is a podcast about movies and our relationship with them, hosted by Angus Truskett. Conversations about the films that shape us — first watches, deep cuts, lifelong obsessions, and the ones we build our personalities around. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Test Pattern is a tv podcast hosted by Angus Truskett, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Angus Truskett hosts Test Pattern, a tv show with 16 episodes published.

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  Jay McCarrol

  Sep 2, 202617 min

  Musician, composer and  Nirvanna the Band the Show  co-creator Jay McCarrol joins Angus Truskett to discuss  Tony , the new A24 film starring Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain. It’s a conversation about movie scores, creative instinct and nearly two decades of making things with Matt Johnson. We get into: the  E.T.  score that changed everything for Jay, finding the sparse and creaky sound of  Tony , how he knows when a piece of music is actually working, his shorthand with Matt Johnson,  The Sopranos , what’s next for  Nirvanna the Band —and the Canadian film everyone should watch. Watch the video episode on YouTube . Music by Gab Strum . Find Jay on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Sophy Romvari

  Aug 25, 202629 min

  Canadian writer-director Sophy Romvari joins Angus Truskett to discuss  Blue Heron , her debut feature, which draws on her own childhood and family history. It’s a conversation about reconstructing memory, turning lived experience into fiction and the movies that stay with us. We get into: childhood movie memories and films taped off television, capturing how memory feels,  The Tree of Life , growing up in front of her father’s camera, casting first-time actor Edik Beddoes, making exactly the movie she wanted to make—and what makes the perfect bath movie. Watch the video episode on YouTube . Music by Gab Strum . Find Sophy on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Maddelin McKenna

  Aug 12, 20261h 18m

  Maddelin McKenna is a Melbourne-based writer and director whose debut feature,  Mad Rush , is having its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival. She joins Angus Truskett for a conversation about the movies that shaped her, growing up as a theatre kid and making her first feature. We get into: Birthday movies,  The Cranes Are Flying , ignoring subtitles, reassessing old favourites through older eyes, formative cinema memories, making movies as a kid, growing up in theatre, rehearsing a movie, the origins of  Mad Rush , classy text on screen, shooting Melbourne,  Alice in Wonderland , scoring a movie, what debut features reveal about their directors, directing conversations and remembering to have fun while filmmaking. Music by Gab Strum . Find Maddelin on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Cameron James

  Jul 22, 20261h 18m

  Cameron James is an actor, comedian and podcaster currently starring in the ABC comedy series  Bad Company . He joins Angus Truskett for a conversation about small-town dreams, comedy partnerships and the movies that made him funny. We get into: podcast royalty, Netflix activations, forgetting Brett Ratner, second-screen auteurism, McG’s SEO supremacy, Mike Myers in  Michael ,  Bootmen  and the Tap Dogs, masking Eugene Levy love, community theatre,  Bad Company , Christopher Guestmaxxing, commenting on celebrity Instagram posts, comedy partnerships, the perfect music-to-comedy ratio,  The Wedding Singer ,  Housesitter , being grossed out by Cronenberg, the politics of  Deuce Bigalow , Happy Madison’s character-actor ecosystem and  Wayne’s World . Music by Gab Strum . See Cameron on tour . Find Cameron on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Hyun Lee

  Jul 7, 20261h 12m

  Hyun Lee is a Sydney-based writer, director and photographer. Her feature debut, French Girls , recently premiered at Sydney Film Festival. She joins Angus Truskett for a conversation about making a movie on a microbudget, what films get wrong about the fashion world, and what comes after French Girls . We get into: QCing your own movie, searching for festival laurels, SBS foreign films, learning to tell stories through a camera, making movies feeling suddenly achievable, noble teenage ambitions, 80s avant-garde Japanese designers, what movies get wrong about fashion, models as people rather than stereotypes, finding Mia, working with non-actors, crying on film, the onion as a dramatic device, train nerds, Young Einstein , Sydney films, skate parks and film sets, the beauty in ordinary faces, and Hyun’s five favourite movies. Music by Gab Strum . Find Hyun on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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