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Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay left Sam Lashes Casey in charge of the tunes, and was pleasantly surprised his mature taste in music.
On with the show:
Rowena Duncum:
Jamie and Lashes kicked off the show by catching up with Ro, who was in Queenstown after the Dairy Women s Network conference last night.
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Jeremy Rookes and Stu Loe:
Today s farmer panel pondered the Big Dry on the east coasts of both islands, the banning of the live cattle export trade and the respective rugby prowess of our panellists.
Don Fraser:
Chloe Zhao interview: Nomadland, Eternals, and how she ll bring her hybrid doco-drama approach to the Marvel universe
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There s a buoyant scene in Nomadland – the hotly tipped Oscars favourite from writer-director Chloe Zhao – where Fern (Frances McDormand), a 60-something widow who has packed up and driven away from her old life in Nevada, arrives in Quartzsite, Arizona for the annual gathering of RV dwellers known as the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous.
Kev and Del Smaldon are pretty excited - and with good reason. Their business, Mount Larcom Tourist Park, has just been named a finalist in the national Grey Nomad Awards. The news further cements the Gladstone region s reputation as a bucket list destination for mature-age tourists. The Mt Larcom Tourist Park has been shortlisted in the 2020 Best Grey Nomad Small Caravan Park category. The winners will be announced on March 2 at a celebratory event on the Sunshine Coast. Conveniently located on the national highway west of Gladstone, the Mt Larcom Tourist Park at Balfour St offers nearly seven acres of manicured lawns, stunning gardens or bush in a multi-tiered setting.
Nomadland sets Frances McDormand to shine against landscape of American West in grey nomad tale
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Nomadland is adapted from Jessica Bruder s non-fiction book of the same name, based on interviews with older Americans forced into itinerant lives by economic necessity.
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In a performance that has her tipped as an Oscars favourite, Frances McDormand leads Chloe Zhao s Venice Gold Lion-winning Nomadland a song of exile in which a 60-something widow takes to the open road, searching for home or something like it.
Set in a present day where the gig economy is simply an established fact and the American Dream has long gone to seed, Nomadland opens with the brief history of Empire, Nevada.