The Screen Show

Rising Australian star Charlie Vickers discusses his career and playing the villain Sauron in The Rings of Power, prequel to The Lord of the Rings.

French actor Léa Drucker on Last Summer, a film by veteran director Catherine Breillet that explores the taboos of a stepmother–stepson relationship.

(This interview was recorded in Paris, where Jason was a guest of Unifrance, the French government agency that organises an international press event for film journalists from around the world every year.)

Hollywood director Paul Feig discusses Jackpot!, his action comedy featuring Awkwafina. Set in the near future it's about the establishment of a new kind of lottery, the catch: kill the winner to legally claim the multi-billion dollar jackpot.

British-Irish filmmaker Rich Peppiat on his doc Kneecap, about the Irish rap trio of the same name.

An interview from the archives on the late Gena Rowlands with New York based critic Sheila O'Malley.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Emrys Cronin
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown 

Canadian director Matthew Rankin on Universal Language, his off-beat transformation film set in Canada's beigest city, steeped in the influence of Iranian Cinema.

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut Janet Planet is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-age tale set in the nineties. Actor Julianne Nicholson discusses her role in the film.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Roi Huberman
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Melbourne International Film Festival is set to kick off, Australia's biggest annual showcase of cinema, and we meet the filmmakers behind two films screening as part of this year's event...British filmmaker Luna Carmoon who's 4 x Venice-winning feature debut Hoard is an off-kilter coming of age tale set in South London, about a traumatised, rubbish-fixated teen; and Melbourne based, Hong Kong born experimental filmmaker Audrey Lam, on her first feature Us and the Night, a dreamlike film that takes inspiration from her years working in public libraries.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, John Jacobs
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

In M. Night Shyamalan's Trap, a man and his teenage daughter discover they're at the centre of a dark and sinister event while watching a pop concert. The legendary thriller director behind The Sixth Sense joins us.

Lea Glob on her mesmerising doc Apolonia, Apolonia, which covers 13 years in the life of talented artist Apolonia Sokol.

Catherine Deneuve takes on a satirical portrayal of Bernadette Chirac, wife of former French President Jacques Chirac in The President's Wife. We meet director Léa Domenach.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, John Jacobs
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, stars of Deadpool and Wolverine, discuss coming together in the latest in the Marvel superhero film franchise

Hollywood actor Bobby Cannavale on Ezra, where he plays a comedian who goes on life-changing road trip with his autistic son.

Mexican director Lila Aviles on her moving family drama Totem, inspired  by the experience of losing her husband.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Nathan Turnbull
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Director Lee Isaac Chung on Twisters, a disaster film starring Daisy Edgar Jones and Glen Powell, about a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives to test a radical new weather alert system.

Beautifully shot on 16mm, Cannes Un Certain Regard contender Việt And Nam tells the love story of two gay mineworkers in Vietnam. Filmmaker Quý Minh Trương joins Jason.

Iceland's Rúnar Rúnarsson discusses his feature When the Light Breaks, a tender story of a teen grieving for her first love's death during one long summer day.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Emrys Cronin
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Yorgos Lanthimos on his latest absurdist black comedy Kinds of Kindness, about a man seeking to break free from his predetermined path.

Australian filmmaking duo Jim Weir and Jack Clark on Birdeater, a psychological thriller that tells the story of a bride-to-be being invited to her own fiancé's bucks party.

U.S. director Ti West discusses his horror MaXXXine, which stars Mia Goth as an adult film star and aspiring actress in 1980's Hollywood.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Beth Stewart
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Hollywood star Austin Butler discusses his role in Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders, where he plays the lead opposite Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer in a tender film about the golden age of biker culture.

Rashida Jones and Hidetoshi Nishijima on new TV series Sunny, which follows the life of an American woman living in Kyoto whose life is up-ended when her husband and son disappear.

French director Élise Girard talks about Sidonie in Japan, where Isabelle Huppert plays an author on a book tour of Japan haunted by the ghost of her late husband.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

One of France’s finest and most-awarded actors Emmanuelle Devos talks about her role in provocative new drama A Silence, from writer/director Joachim Lafosse, who also joins us. It's the story of a married couple who grapple with the fallout after a long-held family secret is exposed.

Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet on her adaptation of bestselling novel Un Amor, a bittersweet, gritty and striking exploration of gender roles, love, obsession and desire.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, John Jacobs
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Guy Pearce stars as a British preacher caught up in 1830s Māori wars in The Convert, a sweeping historical drama. Pioneering, legendary New Zealand director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors) joins us.

In 18th-century Denmark, an impoverished war hero played by Mads Mikkelsen sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land. Nikolaj Arcel, director of the very good The Promised Land, is our guest.

CREDITS

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Emrys Cronin
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal on his experience in front of and behind the camera on Apple TV's remake of legal thriller Presumed Innocent.

Direct from its Best First Film win at Cannes and screening at SFF, Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel discusses Armand, which stars Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) as a mother called into her six-year-old son’s school. Mayhem follows...

Artist & filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich talks about The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, her anti biopic about the French-Martinican surrealist, also screening at Sydney Film Festival.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Nathan Turnbull
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Ishana Shyamalan, daughter of director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) discusses her debut feature, a horror thriller starring Dakota Fanning called The Watchers.

Director Jaydon Martin on his award winning docu-fiction film Flathead which screens as part of Sydney Film Festival.

Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the couple behind cult Australian TV series Colin From Accounts talk about Season 2.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Bella Tropiano
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

We go behind the scenes on smash-hit stalker drama Baby Reindeer with cinematographer Krzysztof Trojnar. 

Academy Award winning director Kevin Macdonald on High & Low - John Galliano, a gripping look at the rise-and-fall story of one of the most influential names in couture fashion.

Cult Mexican star Eugenio Derbez talks about his role in Radical, where he plays a frustrated school teacher in a dangerous Mexican border town.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Jason is joined by Australian director George Miller and producer Doug Mitchell to talk Mad Max: Furiosa, the latest instalment in the post-apocalyptic action adventure film franchise starring Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy.

Brazilian filmmaker Ana Vaz on It Is Night in America, a post-colonial eco-critique of modern day Brasilia which screens at ACMI as part of Senses of Cinema.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls + Roi Huberman
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Ahead of its second season, American actor Josh Brolin chats with Jason about his role in Outer Range, the sci-fi neo-Western story of a family's encounter with a mysterious black void. 

British production designer Christopher Oddy on The Zone of Interest, a film which took home multiple Oscars for its portrayal of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, as they strive to build a dream life for their family living beside the camp. 

In Australia for the German Film Festival, multi award-winning director Andreas Dresen on his affecting historical drama From Hilde, With Love, which depicts the true story of a young German woman drawn into the anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. 

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Joel Edgerton on new sci-fi series Dark Matter, where he stars opposite Jennifer Connelly as a man abducted by an alternate version of himself. 

Oscar winning Japanese director Kore-eda discusses Monster, a film about a mother who demands answers from her son's teacher when he begins acting strangely. 

Australian-Macedonian director Goran Stolevski talks about Housekeeping for Beginners, a tender story about an unlikely family.

Director Wes Ball speaks about rekindling the Planet of the Apes franchise with a new storyline in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

In Fremont, a former translator for the US military in Afghanistan works in a Chinese fortune cookie factory as she struggles to rebuild her life in San Francisco. Jason speaks to the film's Iranian-British director Babak Jalali, and cult U.S. actor Gregg Turkington. 

Director Tim Carlier on Adelaide set film Paco, a film about filmmaking, the importance of sound, and the lifestyle of a freelance film creative.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Simon Branthwaite
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung on The Taste of Things, a 19th Century culinary romance starring Juliette Binoche. 

Philip Brophy on his nineties cult classic Body Melt, which screens as part of Cinema Reborn, an annual festival bringing newly restored classics to the big screen, and The Sweet East, a picaresque journey through America by a high school senior who gets her first taste of the wider world.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Dylan Prins
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

We meet director David Leitch and producer Kelly McCormick, the husband and wife filmmaker duo behind The Fall Guy, a new rom-com about a stunt man set in Sydney, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. 

An interview with Oscar winning Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who’s latest film Evil Does Not Exist looks at the environmental impact of glamping to explore themes of innocence lost and compassion.

You’ll also hear from Sayombhu Mukdeepro, the Thai cinematographer behind Luca Guadagnino’s new film, an erotic tennis melodrama called Challengers starring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor. Plus, remembering Eleanor Coppola with an interview from the archives.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Vietnamese American veteran star Kieu Chinh on her latest role in the TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer winning novel The Sympathizer, where she stars alongside Robert Downey Jnr and Sandra Oh. Kieu also reflects on her turbulent career as an Asian superstar who became a refugee after the fall of Saigon in 1975, and rebuilt her career thanks to some good friends in Hollywood.

Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher discusses La Chimera, a beguiling fantasy, romantic adventure, spiritual journey and heist movie starring Josh O'Connor and Isabella Rossellini. 

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, John Jacobs
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Hollywood star Dev Patel on his directorial debut Monkey Man, a thrilling action film set in a fictional Indian city. 

Director Pablo Berger discusses his Oscar nominated tragi-comedy Robot Dreams, an animation that follows the adventures and misfortunes of a dog and a robot in 1980's New York, and curator Eloise Ross discusses Melbourne Cinematheque's season of films on Ann Hui, one of Hong Kong's most important filmmakers.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Dylan Prins
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone on his Academy Award nominated film IO Capitano,  a shocking adventure story of modern migration that follows two Senegalese teenagers on a Homeric journey from West Africa to Italy longing for a brighter future. Plus, director Mohamed Kordofani on Goodbye Julia, a Sudanese drama about two women who represent the complicated relationship between north and south Sudan and the first movie from Sudan to feature in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Hamish Camilleri
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Academy Award winner Olivia Colman talks about her career and role in new film Wicked Little Letters, a poison pen mystery based on a true scandal that stunned England in the 1920's. The film's director Thea Sharrock also gives her take. Plus, as it releases on the streaming platform SBS on Demand, we re-visit some of Jason's conversation with filmmaker Sari Braithwaite about her poetic doc Because We Have Each Other (listen to the whole interview here.)

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Dylan Prins
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Director Rose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding, a lesbian romantic thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager whose love affair with a female bodybuilder puts her on a collision course with her violent criminal family. Plus, three films screening around the country as part of this year's French Film Festival: Ama Gloria, Along Came Love and Rosalie.

* Jason's interviews with filmmakers and actors for the French Film Festival were gathered in Paris where he was a guest at an international press event organised by Unifrance, a French government body that promotes cinema.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton + Dylan Prins
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Melbourne born cinematographer Greig Fraser talks about his work on the biggest film on the planet right now, Dune: Part Two. Palestinian filmmaker Lina Soualem on Bye Bye Tiberias, an intimate film about her mother Hiam Abass, a famous actress, and four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation. Plus, producer Nadim Cheikhrouha discusses  inventive Oscar nominated documentary Four Daughters, about a Tunisian woman whose two eldest daughters were radicalised by Islamic extremists. 

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Isabella Tropiano
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker on her Cannes Un Certain Regard winner How to Have Sex, a sun-drenched coming of age drama about consent and sexual politics. Chilean director Maite Alberdi on her Oscar nominated documentary The Eternal Memory, a profound love story about Augusto and Paulina, one of Chile's most high profile couples, as they navigate Augusto’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and set out to build an archive of memory; and film programmer Kate Jinx with a report from this year's Berlinale.

CREDITS

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer,  Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Emrys Cronin and Dylan Prins
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Co-directors Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke on Drive-Away Dolls, a comedy starring Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan about two women in search of a fresh start who embark on an impromptu road trip. In new Quebecois film Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, a young female vampire is unable to kill to meet her need for blood, but may have found a solution in a young man with suicidal tendencies, director Ariane Louis-Seize joins us from Montreal. Plus, a discussion with film critic and co-curator Adrian Danks on  Melbourne Cinematheque's season of films from The Taviani Brothers.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

American actor Dominic Sessa on his breakout role in Alexander Payne's Oscar nominated The Holdovers, a bittersweet drama set in the seventies about an unlikely trio stranded at an elite boarding school over Christmas. 

Finnish actress Alma Poysti on starring in Aki Kaurismaki's Fallen Leaves, a film that follows two lonely souls in modern day Helsinki; and French director Bertrand Bonello on his latest film The Beast, an unsettling dystopian romance.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Ann Marie Debettencor
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Ukranian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov's 20 Days in Mariupol is a raw, unflinching account of the Ukrainian siege through the courageous reporting of AP journalists. On the back of the film's Oscar nomination for best documentary, Mstyslav joins us.

In the Emmy nominated series How To With John Wilson, an anxious New Yorker attempts to give everyday advice while dealing with his own personal issues. Creator and star John Wilson is our guest.

Mstyslav Chernov is an online guest at this year's Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC)

John Wilson is a special guest of this year's Antenna Documentary Film Festival

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Hollywood director Todd Haynes on his drama May December. Starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, and fresh from an Oscar nom, it unpicks the story of a married couple whose tabloid romance gripped the world twenty years earlier. Plus, as it becomes available to stream on Docplay, Adrian Francis discusses Paper City, his moving feature documentary about the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Fresh from five Oscar noms, French director Justine Triet on Anatomy of a Fall, which also took home the 2023 Palme d'Or, an electric courtroom drama starring Sandra Hüller, about woman suspected of her husband's murder and the various moral dilemmas that arise. 

Korean Canadian actor and filmmaker Anthony Shim discusses Riceboy Sleeps, his touching indie drama about a Korean single mother raising her adolescent son in the suburbs of Canada during the 1990s. 

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Emrys Cronin
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Korean-born American filmmaker Celine Song discusses her first feature, one of the best reviewed films of the year, Past Lives, a love story about migration, connection and fate, and French actor/director Louis Garrel on his quirky mother-son crime caper The Innocent, a very charming film set in Lyon.

U.S. indie director Greta Gerwig discusses her billion dollar blockbuster Barbie, followed by three guest critics who write for ABC Arts give their verdict on both Barbie and the other big box office hit of the year, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Filmmaker Warwick Thornton on The New Boy, his outback fable about an Aboriginal boy who comes under the care of a renegade catholic nun in 1940s Australia and his apprehension at directing Cate Blanchett in the role. Plus, the team behind Mission Impossible movie - director Christopher McQuarrie and some of his cast stop by to discuss the seventh film in the evergreen action franchise.

U.S. actor Nicholas Braun AKA Cousin Greg from the hit series Succession talks about his role of a lifetime. Plus, local filmmaker Alena Lodkina's the sophomore feature Petrol, and British acting legend Lesley Manville talks about her role in the TV series Citadel.

Cate Blanchett discusses her acclaimed film Tar, in which she plays a celebrity orchestra conductor who falls from grace. Plus, two more celebrated Australian actresses, Toni Collette and Angourie Rice, who chat about TV shows they were a part of this year, The Power and The Last Thing He Told Me.

Michael Mann, the director of summer blockbuster Ferrari joins us, plus, a trippy new Nicolas Cage film and Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott play lovers in All of Us Strangers.

Legendary British character actor David Thewlis on his role in The Artful Dodger, and Berlin Golden Bear winner On the Adamant.

Joel Edgerton on starring in Paul Schrader's new film; an intimate doc from Sari Braithwaite, and Trent Dalton on the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe.

Susanna Fogel on Cat Person, a sharp examination of the horrors of dating born from a New Yorker story that went viral, and Ken Loach on what may be his final film.

Kitty Green on her unnerving backpacker thriller, and a new doc from two Swedish filmmakers that explores our obsession with image.

Behind the scenes on Martin Scorsese's epic Killers of the Flower Moon with casting director and longtime collaborator of Scorsese, Ellen Lewis. Plus, acclaimed Australian-Macedonian director Goran Stolevski on his new film Housekeeping for Beginners as it screens at MQFF, and we re-visit Jason's conversation with Martin Scorsese as his 2016 film The Silence released.

Lion  director Garth Davis talks about his new film Foe, a sci-fi starring Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan, plus two producers behind some of the best Asian cinema of the last decade.

U.S. based Australian director Craig Gillespie on Dumb Money, a film that follows some serious chaos on Wall Street; and a new doc on Hollywood icon Rock Hudson.

The Screen Show explores the best that both film and television have to offer.

Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli on Sick of Myself. Set amongst the cultural milieu of Oslo the film is a satire on narcissism and personal branding. Plus, we re-visit another Norwegian film, the hit The Worst Person in the World.

David Gordon Green on horror blockbuster of the week The Exorcist: Believer, plus a glitzy new streaming series and a time-travel slasher.

British director Gareth Edwards talks about his futurist sci-fi blockbuster The Creator; plus, a moving Australian-Iranian film produced by Cate Blanchett.

U.S. cinematographer Nicole Hirsch Whitaker on Netflix's newest big hit One Piece, and Belgiandirector Charlotte Vandermeersch on The Eight Mountains, abouta life-defining friendship in the Italian Alps.

We meet the director of Sundance winner Scrapper, and the producing partners of Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon who also serve as Executive Producers on Morning Wars.

U.S. director Michael Chaves on gothic horror The Nun II, plus docs on the man who invented the bulletproof vest, and scientist Tim Flannery on a global search to find good climate leadership.

Independent film producer Mel Eslyn on directing her first feature Biosphere, and a new doc on rock music impresario & Mushroom Records founder Michael Gudinski.

We meet the filmmaker behind Past Lives, labelled one of the best films of the year and a frontrunner for awards seasons, plus, Alena Lodkina on her acclaimed feature Petrol.

Jason meets Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason, and the artistic director of the Berlin Film Festival.

Cannes Un Certain Regard winner Molly Manning Walker, plus revered Australian filmmaker Jeni Thornley and U.S. actor Zach Woods on The Afterparty.

A Melbourne Film Festival special with Argentine director Laura Citarella and U.S. film critic and screenwriter Nick Pinkerton.

Two brothers from Adelaide talk to Jason about how they made one of the stand-out films at Sundance this year, plus the director of Berlin best film winner Alcarràs.

Greta Gerwig talks about her version of the phenomenon that is Barbie and how Margot Robbie came to her with the idea, plus, a critics' chat on the week's biggest releases Barbie and Oppenheimer.

One of the world's foremost choreographers Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan) on his first directorial feature Carmen. Plus, new Australian films Shadow and Dark Emu.

One of Australia's most internationally acclaimed filmmakers Warwick Thornton on his new film, plus the director and stars of the latest Mission Impossible.

Tina Satter on her film Reality which stars Sydney Sweeney as American whistleblower Reality Winner; and French rom-com Other People's Children, the story of a Parisian social worker who discovers she wants children later in life.

We meet James Mangold,  director of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny; and Damon Fepulea'i, the filmmaker behind Red, White and Brass, a very likeable comedy from NZ.

Léa Seydoux is a stand-out in Mia Hansen-Løve's new film One Fine Morning, and Melbourne filmmaker David Easteal discusses his wonderful road movie The Plains.

Some highlights and stand-outs from this year's Sydney Film Festival with guests Nashen Moodley, Lav Diaz and Amiel Courtin Wilson.

Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher talks about starring in new Stephen King horror The Boogeyman, plus we meet the makers of two films from Alice Springs and the Pilbara that deal with parents, children and their carers.

We meet Melissa McCarthy and Halle Berry, stars of this week's biggest release The Little Mermaid, plus Parks and Rec actor Ben Schwartz talks about starring opposite Nicolas Cage in new film Renfield; and an influential German director.

Rising Australian star Angourie Rice talks about starring opposite Jennifer Garner in The Last Thing He Told Me, and Simon Baker and Ivan Sen discuss outback mystery Limbo.

Russian-born Australian film-maker Alena Lodkina on her bewitching feature Petrol, plus British acting legend Lesley Manville and Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool.

Jason speaks to Hollywood star Chris Pratt and director James Gunn about the latest Guardians of the Galaxy instalment, plus a new film about the 2015 attacks across Paris, and Japanese anime Suzume.

A sporty edition this week as we meet Ted Lasso's Jamie Tartt, discuss a new film about a Ukranian gymnast and deep dive into Burt Lancaster film The Swimmer.

Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan, the stars of Evil Dead Rise join Jason. Plus, a powerful new doc that attempts to uncover the truth behind the Balibo Five murders.

French actor and filmmaker Louis Garrel on his breezy heist comedy The Innocent, and a discussion on K-Thrillers ahead of a showcase at Sydney's Golden Age cinema.

Actor Nicholas Braun who plays Cousin Greg in Succession joins Jason to chat about the final season of the hit series, and Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski on his beautiful Oscar nominated film EO.

Toni Collette and John Leguizamo talk about their roles in new TV series The Power, and a discussion on the enduring appeal of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides.

One of the brightest lights in American horror movie making speaks about his latest work Pearl, and Hollywood director James Gray on Armageddon Time, one of the best films of 2022.

One of Australia's most exciting young directors Goran Stolevski on his latest film Of an Age and a chat with Hollywood cinematographer Jesse M. Feldman about his work on Interview with the Vampire.

Jason is joined by Laura Poitras who took home the top prize at Venice for her film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, plus a new film about the NYC music scene of the early 2000's.

Jason speaks to director Chinonye Chukwu about the film Till, which tells the story of the brutal lynching of Emmett Till, and a look at the importance of director Robert Bresson ahead of a season at the Melbourne Cinematheque.

Cult French actor Vincent Cassel talks about his role in a new spy series; Scottish director Charlotte Wells on her beautiful BAFTA winning film Aftersun, and a discussion on Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy.

We speak to British actor Ben Aldridge about his starring roles in Spoiler Alert and Knock at the Cabin, plus director Lukas Dhont on his Cannes winning film Close.

An interview this week with actor Paul Rudd, who stars in the upcoming Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. Also joining us is director of the film, Peyton Reed, the man behind Hollywood comedies like Bring It On and The Break-Up. Plus, ahead of a retrospective of her work at ACMI this month, critically acclaimed filmmaker Clara Law joins us.

U.S. filmmaker Darren Aronofsky speaks about his new film The Whale, which has earned Brendan Fraser a best Oscar nom. Plus, a look at the career of one of the most acclaimed screenwriters of all time.

Cate Blanchett talks to Jason about her Oscar nominated performance in Tár, and a new cross-cultural rom-com from the creators of Love Actually and Notting Hill.

Joel Edgerton talks about his role in The Stranger, and American showrunner Bryan Fuller is along too, he's one of the most exciting minds working in TV today.

Jason leads a conversation with three of Australia's brightest and most exciting filmmakers from the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival.

Two legends of the screen this week, George Miller and Charlotte Rampling.

We meet French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve who discusses her English language debut Bergman Island, and Joanna Hogg on the sequel to The Souvenir.

Pedro Almodovar on working with Penelope Cruz again in Parallel Mothers.  Pablo Larrain talks turning Kristen Stewart into Lady Diana in his film Spencer, and Sharon Horgan on her fantastic black comedy Bad Sisters.

Italian actor Sabrina Impacciatore on her starring role in the latest season of The White Lotus. We meet the director of Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness, and Sam Worthington and Cliff Curtis on the latest Avatar.

This week actor Alfred Molina joins us to talk about his lead role in Amazon's cosy new mystery series, plus Tim Minchin on the new film version of Matilda the Musical.

Luca Guadagnino talks about his Venice winning romance-horror Bones and All. Gary Oldman on the latest season of Slow Horses, and a new espionage thriller set in Russia.

We meet the director of The Menu, a fine dining scene satire starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Tayor-Joy. Plus, British actor Rebecca Hall on her new psychological horror and Melissa George chats about The Mosquito Coast.

Director Maria Schrader on She Said, the story of how two New York Times reporters  broke the story around sexual assault in Hollywood, and from acclaimed director Charlotte Sieling (Borgen, The Killing, The Bridge), Margrete — Queen of the North.

Moroccan director Maryam Touzani on her Cannes Un Certain Regard selected drama and Morocco's entry to next year's Academy Awards, and a documentary deep-dive into Melbourne and Sydney's rich history of filmmaking co-ops.

Hollywood writer-director-producer James Gray on his magnificent and moving new film Armageddon Time, and an offbeat comedy centering on the story of a mother and daughter in post-crisis Spain.

In this episode you'll meet Nicholas Stoller, the director of Bros, a gay rom-com starring Billy Eichner. Plus the Australian screenwriter on Mrs Harris goes to Paris and a haunted new series from Netflix.

Comedian and late night TV host Seth Meyers on his new spoof series which features a bunch of A-list stars including Cate Blanchett, and a new doc about one of the greatest and most explosive tennis players of all time.

Danish director Christoffer Boe on A Taste of Hunger, a  drama set in the gastronomic powerhouse of Copenhagen that blends ambition and Michelin stars with a hurtful betrayal. Plus, The Plains, a remarkable road movie in which a man commutes home at the end of the working day in Melbourne's outer suburbs each evening. Within the microcosm of the car the film becomes a meditation on time, memory, relationships and work. Filmmaker David Easteal joins us.

Two directors who have made thrillers about police investigating horrendous crimes and the psychological impact it has on them.

One of the most talented actors of his generation, Joel Edgerton, is in to discuss his role in new Australian thriller The Stranger, and one of the most exciting minds working in TV today, Bryan Fuller, on his new doc series.

Exciting Australian director Goran Stolevski on his lush folk horror You Won't Be Alone. Luca Guadagnino's doc about Salvatore Ferragamo, and, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Ningla A-Na, one of the greatest Australian docs is restored.

A new documentary series that gives voice to the Australian wars, and we revisit a conversation with Australian actor Murray Bartlett upon his Emmy win for The White Lotus.

Upon the sad passing of one of the most exciting directors in the world, Jean-Luc Godard, we revisit a panel discussion from 2015.

It was recorded during a two day symposium at the University of Technology, focusing on his feature films – in particular 2010's Film Socialism and 2014's Goodbye to Language – shot in 3D.

It's almost impossible to describe these multilingual, non-narrative films in conventional plot terms – the former is set on the ill-fated cruise ship Costa Concordia and then in a family run petrol station – characters include a Nazi war criminal and a Russian detective. The latter was shot around Godard's house near lake Geneva and features a couple who are played by two different sets of actors, and a dog named Roxy (Godard's own). The shards of plot and character that both films offer find some solid ground on familiar Godardian obsessions: European identity; the Holocaust and the legacy of Western civilisation.

Speakers are Miriam Ross from Wellington's Victoria University, Julian Murphet, director for the centre for Modernism Studies at the University of New South Wales, filmmaker and Deakin University film scholar Dirk de Bruyn and Alex Gawronski, artist and scholar from the Sydney College of the Arts.

The director of an intimate new doc about Tasmania's Franklin River; Irish director Colm Bairéad on his exquisite film centered around a young foster girl, and UK filmmaker Peter Strickland's absurdist portrait of an arts collective.

Legendary Australian filmmaker George Miller on his new movie. Plus, Only Murders in the Building, a comedy starring Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short.

Sharon Horgan, Sarah Greene and Eva Birthistle on witty black comedy Bad Sisters; the directors who took home the top prize at MIFF, and film curator Dennis Lim on South Korean legend Hong Sangsoo.

Jason leads a conversation with three of the brightest and most exciting filmmakers from this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival.

Sophie Hyde talks about her new film, which stars Emma Thompson in an empowering portrayal of middle-aged sexuality, and U.S. actor Brandon Perea on his breakout role in Jordan Peele's new sci-fi horror. 

Screen legend Charlotte Rampling discusses her role in Juniper, in which she has a broken leg, drinks gin by the jug full and generally makes life miserable for those around her. Plus, a powerful documentary about a man with a week to live.

Director Eric Gravel discusses his gripping French drama about a single mother pushed to her limits. Cinematographer Stephen Murphy talks about his work on Atlanta, and we meet formally daring filmmaker Charlie Shackleton.

Olivia Newman talks about directing the film adaptation of the global bestselling phenomenon Where the Crawdads Sing, and filmmaker Adrian Francis on his moving doc about three survivors of the 1945 bombing of Tokyo.

U.S. directors The Russo Brothers talk about their latest blockbuster The Gray Man. Actor Danielle McDonald on playing an opera singer in Falling For Figaro, and Hollywood producer Jason Blum on a new horror starring Ethan Hawke in a terrifying mask.

A crime series set in Arrernte country and a new doc that looks at Indigenous Australia's connection to AFL. Plus, two exciting directors from the far north, and we're at the Sydney premiere of Thor: Love and Thunder.

We meet the female cinematographer behind Baz Luhrmann's epic Elvis. An analysis of where streaming services have gone wrong recently, and L.A. based Aussie actor Claudia O'Doherty on her latest role in the quirky series Killing It.

A chat with Baz Lurhmann about his box office hit Elvis. Damon Herriman stars in a deliriously silly new comedy about love, nudity and gibberish, and we meet the stars of superhero series The Boys.

A conversation with the great American documentarian Frederick Wiseman as a retrospective of his work launches. British actor Jack Davenport on his role in the UK remake of a French hit, and a new doc that looks at a Greek music born of exile.

Nashen Moodley, artistic director of Sydney Film Festival is in to talk festival highlights as the event opens this week. He's joined by the curators of Screenability, a section of SFF that shines a spotlight on people with disability, and also the Travelling Film Festival, which showcases this world-class cinema in regional locations Amir Jadidi, Iranian star of Oscar and Cannes winning director Asghar Farhadi's new film A Hero, talks about the complex themes raised in this powerful drama about family, vulnerability and debt, and as the great British filmmaker Terence Davies' mesmerising new film Benediction releases, we revisit an excerpt of a conversation he had with Jason Di Rosso as it premiered at the 2021 British Film Festival.

As Obi-Wan Kenobi, the latest incarnation in the Star Wars universe arrives, we meet Deborah Chow, the first female director in the film franchise's history, as well as one of the stars of the series, Moses Ingram. We're also joined this week by Executive Producer Patrick Walters from See-Saw Films who are behind a slate of the best TV right now including Heartstopper and The Essex Serpent, plus, screenwriter Kodie Bedford, who's credits include Mystery Road, Squinters, Troppo and Firebite joins us for a career chat.

Writer-director Aaron Wilson on Little Tornadoes, his beautiful portrait of life in small town Australia in 1971, a time when the country was swept up in change. Opera singer Tiriki Onus on his debut film Ablaze, where together with filmmaker Alec Morgan he uncovers a 70-year-old lost film made by the first Aboriginal filmmaker, his grandfather William ‘Bill’ Onus. Plus, Nash Edgerton joins us from Dublin to talk about his latest film, a short about a couple of pranksters which he stars in alongside Rose Byrne called Shark, set to play at St Kilda Film Festival.

We meet two Australian women making waves in film & TV to hear about their personal experiences in the industry....Chloe Rickard - Partner, COO and Executive Producer at Jungle Entertainment who are behind some of our most high-profile shows including No Activity, The Moodys and Wakefield; and Sophie Hyde - director of the feature films Animals, 52 Tuesdays and 2022 Sundance hit Good Luck To You Leo Grande which stars Emma Thompson. Plus, director Renee Webster on How To Please a Woman, a lively female liberation drama with Sally Phillips in the lead (Veep, Bridget Jones), about a woman in her fifties who starts an all-male house house cleaning business.

Director Leah Purcell and actor Rob Collins on The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, Purcell's powerful post-colonial revision of a short story by Henry Lawson, which in her hands becomes a mesmerising outback western presented through a feminist, First Nations lens. Plus, Jonathan Alley tells us how he wove his admiration for cult band The Triffids into the beautiful documentary Love in Bright Landscapes, and Liz Doran, the co-creator and lead writer on a new 1970's set surf series Barons explains why this was a moment in time she was inspired to put on screen.

British actor Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) talks about playing the writer Roald Dahl in the new film To Olivia, set in the late 1950s, early 1960s, a period when he was married to American actor Patricia Neale and the couple lost their young child to measles. Plus, African American Italian director Jonas Carpignano on To Chiara, which won Best European Film at Cannes and follows a young Calabrian woman who learns some difficult family truths upon her father's disappearance.

Two interviews with directors who have made films about families, parenting and memory…...you’ll meet Korean-American writer director and film critic Kogonada, who talks about his mysterious, gentle sci-fi film After Yang, set in a near future society where androids can be bought as companions. Plus, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma , who’s new film is called Petit Maman, and asks the question, what if a child could travel back in time and meet their mother or father at the same age?

Director Tom Gormican on The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and how he convinced Nicolas Cage to play himself in a meta-comedy-thriller about fame, bankruptcy and movies. Plus, British actor Tom Blyth is Billy the Kid in a new streaming series from Vikings creator Michael Hirst. He explains how a kid from Nottingham ended up playing one of the most famous figures of the wild west.

Hollywood director Robert Eggers on his Viking epic The Northman, a revenge thriller that follows a Prince seeking justice for the murder of his father, with an all-star cast including Alexander Skarsgård and Nicole Kidman. British actress Imogen Poots on the trippy neo-Western thriller Outer Range, and Audrey Diwan, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival discusses her intimate film Happening, which follows a bright young student seeking an abortion in 1960's France.

One of the world's most successful box office entertainers, Michael Bay (The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbour, Transformers), speaks about his latest blockbuster, the explosive heist thriller Ambulance, in which Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II star as adoptive brothers on a car chase through L.A. in a stolen ambulance. And, the story of an Australian film pioneer comes to life in a new documentary called When the Camera Stopped Rolling, a very personal tale of trailblazing and trauma told through the lens of cinematographer Jane Castle about her mother Lilias Fraser.

This week the Academy Awards celebrated Australian cinematographers Greig Fraser, who took home an Oscar for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune, and Ari Wegner, who was nominated for The Power of The Dog, a film which took home the best director award for Jane Campion. We re-visit conversations with both. Plus, UK based Australian actor Christopher Chung who joins Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott-Thomas in the new spy series Slow Horses.

Streaming on Amazon Prime, Master is a gothic horror set on a haunted university campus that examines the ongoing legacy of American racism. We're joined by director Mariama Diallo. Plus, Uberto Pasolini, the producer behind The Full Monty on his new, Belfast-set film Nowhere Special, a tender drama about a father-son relationship where tragedy looms.

Melbourne filmmaker Danny Cohen on Anonymous Club, his 16mm doc about Melbourne musician Courtney Barnett, an introspective,  introverted & reluctant world-famous rock-star. Plus, U.S. director Mimi Cave talks about her horror take on the meet-cute/rom-com in Fresh and Hollywood star Sebastian Stan on getting into character for his villainous role.

French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve on her English language debut Bergman Island, a film that engages with the legacy of Ingmar Bergman as a couple retreat to the pristine Swedish island of Fårö where the filmmaker shot some of his most famous films, looking to find inspiration, and, British director Joanna Hogg on the sequel to The Souvenir, her lauded 2021 film. The Souvenir II continues to follow an ambitious film student in 1980's Britain, this time in the aftermath of the turbulent relationship at the centre of the first film, with a magnetic and manipulative older man.

Susanna Nicchiarelli discusses her period biopic Miss Marx, a vibrant take on the life of Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor, who was among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism. Plus, filmmaker Philippa Bateman spotlights First Nations singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in the new documentary Wash My Soul in the River's Flow, a cinematic interpretation of a legendary concert from 2004 interwoven with archival footage to ultimately present a story of loss, love and home.

Filmmaker Blerta Basholli on her Albanian-Kosovan drama Hive, which became the first film in Sundance history to win all three main awards in its World Cinema category – the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Directing Award. It's based on the true story of a widow who becomes an entrepreneur after losing her husband in the Kosovo War. Plus, A Night of Knowing Nothing, a stunning exploration of university life in India as a student writes letters to her estranged lover. These letters grant insight into the drastic changes taking place around her and the life of her and her fellow students. Director Payal Kapadia joins us from her home in Mumbai.

Mike Mills on his new film C'mon C'mon, a sweet, stripped back road trip across America about family bonds and connection starring Joaquin Phoenix. Plus, Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen on his triple Oscar nominated documentary animation Flee, and meet the Australians who won the international competition at Clermont-Ferrand.

Bosnian writer-director Jasmila Žbanić talks about depicting the Srebrenica Massacre in her film Quo Vadis, Aida? Indie American actor Ione Skye reveals her Top Shelf of film, and Bill Code on his debut documentary feature The Lake of Scars, a story of allyship, environment and reconciliation around efforts to preserve Indigenous scar trees and artefacts in the Lake Boort area of northern Victoria.

Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds discuss the historical coming of age film Belfast, screenwriter Bina Bhattacharya and actor and writer Arka Das talk about Here Out West, a cinematic postcard to Western Sydney. Plus I, Tonya and Cruella director Craig Gillespie on bringing the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape scandal to the small screen. 

Pedro Almodóvar discusses Parallel Mothers, his intricately woven mystery about two women’s journey into motherhood and the scars of the Spanish Civil War, starring Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit. And Pablo Larraín discusses Spencer, his unconventional Princess Diana biopic set during a Christmas weekend at Sandringham starring Kristen Stewart. 

Oscar winner Chloé Zhao on Nomadland, plus Swedish writer-director Roy Andersson on his 2021 film About Endlessness, and film scholar Nick Pinkerton on Tsai Ming Liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

The legendary and multi-talented French actor Julie Delpy and the Australian cinematographer behind lavish period soap Domina.

American director Sean Baker on his sex comedy about a has-been porn star Red Rocket. Plus, German acting legend Udo Kier talks about his latest role as a retired hairdresser who has one last cut and blow dry to perform….for a society funeral.  

Writer-director Adam McKay on his disaster movie comedy Don't Look Up as a satire of inaction on climate change, plus he reflects on Succession's success as one of that show's directors and executive producer. Fellow American Dasha Nekrasova (Red Scare podcast) talks about her debut feature, The Scary of Sixty-First, a horror movie inspired by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. And Norwegian director Joachim Trier discusses his award-winning romantic comedy tragedy The Worst Person in the World.

Dune director Denis Villeneuve discusses casting Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides and interpreting the Arabic and Islamic influences in Frank Herbert's original novel. Plus, the film's Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser explains why the desert sky is white, and fellow Aussie Ari Wegner, who shot Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, talks eroticism, landscape and the female gaze.

Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude on his Berlinale Golden Bear winner Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, a black comedy about a middle aged school teacher fighting the moral panic over her appearance in an online sex tape. Plus, director Tom McCarthy on Stillwater, the follow up to his Oscar winner Spotlight starring Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin and Camille Cottin about an American man fighting to overturn his daughter's murder conviction in France, and L.A. based Australian actor Hannah Levien (Brand New Cherry Flavour) gives us her Top Shelf screen faves.

Award-winning actor Rosamund Pike speaks about her new role in a fantasy show that aspires to take the Game of Thrones throne, The Wheel of Time, and rising New Zealand talent Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie discusses her lead role in Last Night in Soho, plus, director Madeleine Martiniello on her documentary Palazzo Di Cozzo, a portrait of  Melbourne's Italian furniture mogul Franco Cozzo who became a household name for his flamboyant TV ads.

Cary Fukunaga on directing No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s last Bond film. Plus John Hoffman, the showrunner of Hulu's hit show Only Murders in the Building, on making a black comedy about true crime podcasts with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez.

Two of the most forthright, accomplished and widely admired filmmakers on the show this week......Paul Schrader on his new film The Card Counter, which premiered in competition at Venice and follows on from Schrader’s tormented environmental allegory as a film about an isolated man who struggles when the world comes calling, and Terence Davies, who’s marvellous new film Benediction is screening as part of this year's British Film Festival.

We meet the author of a new monograph about David Lynch’s Inland Empire, his strangest and most haunting film. Spanish artist and filmmaker Amalia Ulman talks about casting herself and her mother in a film inspired by two real life scammers which is one of the highlights at this year's Sydney Film Festival, and talented Australian actor Hal Cumpston shares his Top Shelf.

The man behind the phenomenally successful mob series The Sopranos talks about the new prequel. We meet the writer-director of a centrepiece film at this year's Italian Film Festival, and Jason's thoughts on Ridley Scott’s new medieval tragedy which stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer.

Today’s show is a preview of some of the works screening at Sydney Film Festival.....the first is about one of the most accomplished Australian film directors you’ve probably never heard of - John Farrow. He won an Oscar and worked with stars like Robert Mitchum and John Wayne and we meet two men who have finally brought his story to the big screen. Plus, one of Japan's great new talents Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

A special edition this week, dedicated to the new Australian film Nitram, which dramatises the long lead up to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre. In a wide ranging discussion, director Justin Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant discuss what inspired them to make a film about this real life tragedy, the themes they sought to explore, as well as the similarities and differences to their earlier films Snowtown and The True History of the Kelly Gang.

Another big week as we welcome Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen on to the show......star of the Academy Award winning film Another Round and the TV series Hannibal, plus franchises including James Bond and Star Wars. Mads talks with Jason about his role in a new revenge thriller out this week. Hollywood actor Billy Bob Thornton discusses his role in the unconventional legal drama Goliath, and a new streaming film set in a prestigious Parisian ballet academy.

A bumper edition this week as we meet one of the most prolific filmmakers in the world, Steven Soderbergh, plus French actor, writer & director Mélanie Laurent, and NZ born director Jessica Hobbs who took home an Emmy this week for her work on The Crown.

Two twisted love stories this week......a glossy erotic thriller about misplaced obsession starring Sydney Sweeney, and a raw, tender and disturbing portrait of a crumbling marriage. The directors of The Voyeurs and The Killing of Two Lovers join us.

A new film about a couple who fall in love and what happens when one of them starts to transition....a very ambitious film from Australian director David O’Donnell. We also meet Trent O’Donnell, his film Ride the Eagle, is a comedy about grief in which Susan Sarandon stars, and as it lands on SBS on Demand we revisit our interview with Thomas Vinterberg about his Oscar winning film Another Round.

Gracie Otto on her new film which charts the rise and fall of one of the most famous recording studios of the 1980's, founded by Beatles producer Sir George Martin, and NZ director James Ashcroft talks about his stylish horror that greatly impressed at Sundance.

A critics' roundtable discussion on Leos Carax's ambitious new film Annette, a weird and wonderful rock opera starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver, and we meet the makers of new horror series Brand New Cherry Flavour, a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, kittens & showbusiness in early 90's L.A.

We meet Australian actor Murray Bartlett, the star of the show everyone's talking about - The White Lotus. Plus, British actor Rebecca Hall on her role in a new horror about grief, and we revisit a wonderful conversation with Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat.

Director Shawn Levy on his new film Free Guy, where Ryan Reynolds plays a computer generated character in a video game with goofy charm. Plus, an update on MIFF and we revisit a conversation on Academy Award nominated doco Collective.

This Podcast Extra edition features the second half of Jason's interview with Australian writer, director and editor James Vaughan, who is behind the exciting debut feature Friends and Strangers, one of only two Australian films selected for the prestigious Rotterdam Film Festival (hear the first part of the discussion in our episode from Thursday August 5th, titled: Friends and Strangers + Vacant Possession.)

This week, two Australian films and their directors, both deal with themes of race, colonisation and land in Sydney. The first, Friends and Strangers, is one of two Australian films selected for Rotterdam this year, a must-see debut feature from James Vaughan. The second is a restored classic from the 90s, Vacant Possession, written and directed by Margot Nash.

Joshua Jackson, star of Dr Death joins us to talk about his role in the ghoulish new TV series, and a panel discussion with three filmmakers who have made documentaries about family, screening here as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Freshly nominated for an Emmy award, we meet The Handmaid's Tale's Australian star Yvonne Strahovski who stars in a new sci-fi. Director Emma Seligman chats about her indie festival hit Shiva Baby, and Spanish filmmaker Icíar Bollaín on her subverted rom-com Rosa's Wedding.

We meet Winston Duke, the lead actor in new film Nine Days, who you probably know from Black Panther and the Marvel films more generally, but first up we're going back in time to 1971 and a new documentary series that believes this was the year that music changed everything.

Australian director Cate Shortland speaks to us about entering the Marvel cinematic universe with Black Widow, and the ally she found in Scarlett Johansson. Plus, director of French box office hit Perfumes, and we revisit a conversation on tropical noir Mystery Road for NAIDOC week.

British director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia, The Iron Lady) on her new film Herself, a Dublin set drama about a mother escaping a toxic marriage. Phyllida also speak about working with Meryl Streep. Plus, an informative chat about the behind the scenes workings at the Cannes Film Festival.

Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu talks about directing In the Heights, the new film based on Lin Manuel Miranda's musical. We meet the maker of a Brazilian film about a housekeeper left to her own devices when her bosses are thrown in jail for corruption, and revisit a conversation with musical superstar David Byrne.

Director Pietro Marcello on Martin Eden, one of Jason's favourite films of the past 12 months. Australian director Patrick Hughes on his big name Hollywood action comedy The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, and British director Kate Herron on working with Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson for Marvel TV series Loki.

Legendary and multi-talented French actor Julie Delpy discusses her impressive new film about divorce, grief and turning her back on conventional ways of showing women and tragedy on screen. Plus, Australian cinematographer Denson Baker on recreating the sunlight of ancient Rome for TV.

The director of TV hit Unorthodox has a new rom-com about a soulful android screening here as part of the German Film Festival, she speaks to us about the film. Creator of the Al Pacino led series Hunters on his new sci-fi show for Amazon, and the director of Lapsis, a charming indie set in the gig economy in a near future New York.

A conversation about one of Australia’s finest screen actors, David Gulpilil, with the director of a new documentary about his life and work, and film scholar Erika Balsom on her beautifully written new book which examines avant-garde filmmaker James Benning’s 2004 film Ten Skies.

We meet Gillian Wallace Horvat, the protagonist of I Blame Society, a slasher black comedy about a young female filmmaker in Los Angeles driven to kill by the frustrations of a male dominated Hollywood, and Craig Gillespie, the Australian director behind the new punk inspired Cruella starring Emma Stone and Emma Thompson also joins us.

Rising Australian star Angourie Rice talks about starring opposite Kate Winslet in buzzy new cop show Mare of Easttown. A critic's chat on Chilean director Pablo Larraín's new film Ema, and Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher talks about lockdown and making her short film Four Roads.

Oscar nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor talks about his role in lockdown film Locked Down in which he stars opposite Anne Hathaway, director Kari Skogland on how real world events shaped the Marvel series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and the Italian director ofTwo of Us, of a French thriller

awarded best debut film at this year’s French Oscars

We meet one of the most prolific actors of his generation, action movie star Jason Statham, plus a woman many feel deserved to be among the nominees for the Oscars this year, minimalist American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt. And, the showrunner of a new TV series set in the confines of a mountain top psychiatric hospital.

Australia has been attracting some big films to its shores recently and today you’ll hear from the Australian director and American producer of Mortal Kombat, a studio picture shot in Adelaide, plus, the director of a new film starring and co-written by Eddie Izzard.

We meet two Oscar nominated directors this week....Pete Docter (Up, Inside Out, Monsters, Inc.) who has made a new animated film for Disney + called Soul, and Bryan Fogel, who is behind a new documentary about the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashogg.

Jason discusses the rom-com in the post-romantic age with the editor of a new book on the subject, plus Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth star as a couple grappling early onset dementia in Supernova. We meet director Harry Macqueen.

An archival interview with prolific French director, film scholar and campaigner for cinema Bertrand Tavernier, who passed away on the 25th of March, aged 79.

Director Dominic Cooke on his prestige spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Courier. A review of multi-Oscar nominated film The Father, and U.S. producer Kelly McCormick on her stylish revenge thriller Nobody.

Australian star Guy Pearce talks to us about his role in The Last Vermeer where he plays a controversial figure in the Dutch art world. We revisit a conversation with Garrett Bradley on her Oscar nominated documentary Time, and a new film series that looks at the mutual fascination between cinema and music.

We speak to the director of French Exit, a quirky comedy of manners starring Michelle Pfeiffer. A new take on 'New Hollywood' by Swedish film scholar Fredrik Gustafsson, and ahead of a retrospective, a discussion with Professor Jane Mills on Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller.

Måns Mårlind, co-creator of Scandi-noir sensation The Bridge is back with a big budget show set in the immediate aftermath of WW2, he joins us to talk about it. Plus, a discussion on Soviet filmmaker Aleksei German's GOMA retrospective, and a review of Shaka King's new feature film.

Golden Globe winner Chloé Zhao on Nomadland. Swedish auteur Roy Andersson talks about his trademark style and how it finds its way into his new film, and film scholar Nick Pinkerton on his book about Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming Liang's masterpiece Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

Showrunner Maja Jul Larsen got her start on Danish hits like Borgen and Follow the Money and talks to us about helming a series of her own. The production designer of WandaVision on bringing the Marvel fantasy universe to life, and a tender mother-daughter film from Israel starring Unorthodox's Shira Haas.

We hear from the makers of a beautiful, Oscar nominated documentary about a fading culture in the alpine region of Italy, and the director of a documentary about the bizarre assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

Thomas Vinterberg has made a lot of films since he co-founded the Dogme 95 movement with Lars von Trier and he opens up about his latest. The Dry and Star Wars actor Genevieve O'Reilly for Top Shelf, and Lee Isaac Chung on his film about the American Dream.

We meet a man who can do almost no wrong in British television....he bought back Dr Who to the BBC and broke new ground at the end of the 90s with Manchester set TV show Queer as Folk, and he's back with a series breaking records for its poignant depiction of the Aids crisis.

Hollywood star Naomi Watts on coming home to star in Penguin Bloom. Euphoria creator Sam Levinson on his Netflix film Malcolm & Marie which stars Zendaya and John David Washington, and a thriller that begins on a bustling African street and segues to a snowy corner of France.

We zone in on the really exciting space that is Arab cinema, meeting the makers behind three wonderful films from 2020 - Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman; Maryam Touzani from Morocco, and Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui.

In this special edition of The Screen Show we revisit our celebration of the centenary year of the birth of one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time - Federico Fellini.

Sofia Coppola heads up this highlights edition, talking about her new buddy movie. We revisit a critics' panel on French movie visionary Jean Pierre Melville, and meet the cinematographer behind cult hit Search Party.

Three conversations with three of Australia's most talented directors, who all made significant works in 2020 - Warwick Thornton, Shannon Murphy and Kitty Green.

In a pandemic themed summer special we feature John Cusack, Gillian Flynn, Desiree Akhavan, and the Australian filmmaker behind a Spanish set lockdown series.

An interview with Juliette Binoche, star of a Boxing Day film called How to be A Good Wife, a kitschy, satirical film about a conservative ladies prep school in the tumultuous year of 1968.

In this special Podcast Extra, A-lister Eric Bana talks about coming home to take on the lead role of Aaron Falk in the film adaptation of Jane Harper's page-turner The Dry, and his wider Hollywood career.

Sigourney Weaver talks to us about starring in the thoughtful New York-set coming of age film about ambition and talent, My Salinger Year, and rock and roll documentary maker Julien Temple has made a new film about one of the most significant figures in Irish music.

We go behind the scenes on The Crown with Jessica Hobbs, a NZ-Australian director in demand in the UK TV industry, and a preview of a retrospective coming to Australia this summer, on the lush cinematic worlds of one of Hong Kong’s and the world’s greatest filmmakers.

We meet the filmmakers behind two new releases likely to unsettle....one is a documentary about a group of Sports journalists who uncover corruption in Romania's hospitals, the other is about a lifelike robot who spends time in the company of two very different masters.

A new French film about a family tragedy on the land, Wolf of Wall Street actor Cristin Milioti talks about her latest role in time-loop rom-com Palm Springs, and some thought provoking film works that deal with some of the pressing themes of this year of great upheaval.

Two big names on the show this week, David Byrne, who has teamed up with Spike Lee to make a captivating concert film of his Broadway show American Utopia, and Werner Herzog who has made an unconventional doco about comets and meteorites for Apple TV.

A critic's chat on David Fincher's new film Mank as it gets set to release in cinemas and then on Netflix. And for NAIDOC Week we journey back to a conversation with filmmaker Warwick Thornton about his spellbinding isolation documentary.

This week’s show is dedicated to the body-swap genre and its various tangents. We speak to film scholar Deb Verhoeven to trace its origins; director Christopher Landon who is behind a brand new body-swap blockbuster; and Claudia Karvan who talks about her experience in a 90s Australian take.

Luca Guadagnino talks to us about his new TV series, a coming of age story set on a U.S. army base in Northeast Italy, and we meet the makers of a documentary that does a pretty good job of explaining just how weird the world of images has become thanks to the internet.

Indie filmmaker Miranda July is our guest this week, talking about her quirky new crime film Kajillionaire, and we look at Aaron Sorkin's latest work for Netflix, a dramatisation of a notorious political trial from the 1960s starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Eddie Redmayne.

Two documentaries that stare into the flames today, one about the world’s most well known climate activist, Greta Thunberg, and another that looks at the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19.

Channing Godfrey Peoples talks about her film Miss Juneteenth, a soulful exploration of Black Texan culture, and Garrett Bradley on her critically acclaimed documentary Time, about a woman's fight to reform the justice system in America. And, Schitt's Creek.

We meet the Australian cinematographer who took out an Emmy award a few weeks ago for his work on the Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian, and a critics panel on minimalist film noir master Jean Pierre Melville ahead of a retrospective on his work.

We're coming to you this week with three really big interviews......Gillian Flynn and John Cusack talk about their roles as creator and star of new pandemic series Utopia, and Sofia Coppola speaks about her wonderful new film which reunites her with Bill Murray.

Moroccan writer-director Maryam Touzani talks about her powerfully subtle film based on a real life story. A new podcast looks back at an iconic Australian TV series that was also David Bowie's favourite show, and we meet the makers of a new film about Slim Dusty.

After 30 years Bill and Ted are back as middle-aged metalheads. Actor Natasha Wanganeen talks through films meaningful to her for Top Shelf, and we finally get to South Korean director Park Chan-Wook's masterful adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl.

A critical discussion on the new film I Am Woman, about the life and career of feminist songstress Helen Reddy. Lulu Wang joins us for Top Shelf, and a look at HBO's Lovecraft Country, a sci-fi depiction of being Black in America that reimagines genre fiction.

A discussion on Christopher Nolan's blockbuster Tenet, a time travel, spy thriller starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki. We meet the creatives behind supernatural series Hungry Ghosts, and the main stars of Cannes Jury Prize winner and Oscar nominee Les Misérables.

In this special edition of The Screen Show we celebrate the centenary year of the birth of one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time with a panel of international Fellini scholars, and filmmakers Baz Luhrmann and Guy Maddin.

We discuss the sexy new series being called the best drama of the year. Plus, writer-director Quentin Dupieux talks about his comedy-horror Deerskin; an animated film from India screening at MIFF, and Catherine McClements on Meryl Streep.

We speak to Xavier Grobet, Emmy nominated cinematographer on HBO's superhero series Watchmen, and guest critics discuss revenge drama Hyenas and the ambitious Russian DAU project, both standout offerings at Melbourne International Film Festival's online event.

Colombian director Franco Lolli talks about casting his own mother in relationship drama Litigante. Jonathan Furmanski on his work behind the camera on hipster hit Search Party, and academic Bruce Isaacs explores Hitchcock's notion of 'pure cinema.'

Shannon Murphy's debut Babyteeth is one of the most important Australian films of the year, she joins us. Plus, an online series filmed entirely in lockdown in Spain and a bold and timely work from U.S. filmmakers The Ross Brothers.

We meet writer Meg O'Connell and actor Pallavi Sharda, some of the creatives behind lockdown series Retrograde, a review of Judd Apatow's The King of Staten Island, and a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective. 

An Australian theme runs through the show as Jason meets directors Tony McNamara (The Favourite, The Great) and Natalie Erika James (Relic), plus Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason talks about his unexpected take on Nordic noir.

Jason speaks with the directors of three films releasing in cinemas this week, Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui, British satirist Armando Iannucci and Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman.

A look at the state of play regarding cinemas reopening. Jason meets the director of space movie Proxima, and former Quizmaster Mark Humphries on a new BBC miniseries about the real life scandal that hit the UK's Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

On the back of protests against police brutality we discuss what this means for policing on screen. Jason speaks with the director of TV series Made in Italy, a new doco about climate change and Joanna Hoggs' The Souvenir.

Jason speaks with the cinematographer on Spike Lee's new film Da 5 Bloods. A discussion on the Northern Irish sitcom Derry Girls, and an interview from Paris with writer-director Justine Triet.

Has Australian director Kitty Green made the first #metoo drama? Actor Fayssal Bazzi talks Charlie Chaplin for On Actors, and a charming new cringe-comedy to check out by Egyptian-American comedian Ramy Youssef.

Warwick Thornton discusses his spellbinding new documentary The Beach. Warwick's son and fellow filmmaker Dylan River is in for Top Shelf, and Rob Brydon and Michael Winterbottom talk The Trip to Greece.

Two conversations this week with two of the most prolific, talented and nicest people working in Hollywood - writer, producer, director and actor Paul Feig who heads up a new TV series called Love Life, and NZ born actress Melanie Lynskey.

High Fidelity has been given a millennial makeover with a new TV series. Hugh Jackman plays a charismatic and corrupt figure in Bad Education, and Australian director Shannon Murphy on the thrill of working on Killing Eve.

We weigh in on the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People. U.S. filmmaker Luke Lorentzen on his doco that trails a family of paramedics in Mexico City, and a local documentary that puts the spotlight on an iconic architect.