The Screen Show

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. CRE...

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 & film...

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 Seas...

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...

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 . Presente...

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 d...

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 ten...

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 freela...

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...

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 com...

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...

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...

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...

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  Bec...

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 a...

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 Fo...

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 o...

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 su...

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...

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....

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. Present...

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...

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.