The Screen Show

Cate Blanchett and Nikki Amuka-Bird on Rumours , Guy Maddin's black comedy that follows the leaders of seven wealthy democracies who get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis.+  Piece by Piece is directed by our guest Morgan Neville in his animated directorial debut. It follows the life and career of American musician Pharrell Williams, who stars in the film through the l...

Viggo Mortensen on The Dead Don't Hurt , a spin on the Western and the actor-director's second film behind the camera. Winner of the APSA Young Cinema Award, and nominated for Best Film and Best Screenplay, Japanese-American filmmaker Neo Sora discusses Happyend , his debut fiction feature set in a near-future Tokyo as a catastrophic earthquake looms. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corb...

Hollywood director Jon M. Chu on  Wicked , the musical fantasy phenomenon starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, that puts a new spin on the Wizard of Oz's meanest character. NYC-based filmmaker Caroline Lindy on her debut Your Monster , a charming, genre-defying indie musical. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Danish actor Connie Nielson on starring in the big blockbuster of the week, Ridley Scott's sumptuous swords and sandals melodrama, Gladiator II . Director James Bradley on Welcome to Babel , a documentary about Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen’s plans to create an epic work depicting his homeland’s tumultuous recent history. As it launches on SBS on Demand, we revisit some of Jason's intervie...

Documentary filmmakers Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker on Slice of Life , a road movie serving insights into how former Pizza Hut buildings around the U.S. have been repurposed. As a new doc releases at the British Film Festival exploring the classic films and iconic pairing of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, the legendary, Academy Award winning James Ivory joins us. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Prod...

Director Jason Reitman and cast, including Gabriel Labelle, Rachel Sennott, and Dylan O’Brien, discuss Saturday Night , a film that captures the behind-the-scenes energy of SNL, and the impact the long-running sketch show had on American culture when it arrived on TV screens in the 1970s.  Shari Sebbens stars in The Moogai , where she plays a young mother who becomes increasingly unstable due to a...

Alice Springs based filmmaker Dylan River on his binge-able new TV series Thou Shalt Not Stea l, one of the best things we’ve made in this country in the streaming era. It’s a love story, a road trip, a coming of age fable and a political critique, told from a black perspective, the perspective of a 17 year old, illiterate but streetwise juvenile delinquent named Robyn. A discussion about Lee , a...

Academy Award winning animator Adam Elliot is back with Memoir of a Snail , a bittersweet memoir of a melancholic misfit who learns how to find confidence amid the clutter of her everyday life. Starring real-life mother-daughter duo Greta Scaachi and Leila George, He Ain't Heavy  is an impressive debut feature about a young woman who sets out to rescue her drug-addicted brother. Director David Vin...

Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi on The Apprentice ,  a film that depicts Trump’s early years as a property developer in New York City in the 70s and 80s. British actor Himesh Patel discusses   The Franchise , a comedy satire from Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes that zooms in on the cast and crew working on a superhero  movie. Liam Hemsworth and Laura Dern discuss new Netflix film Lonely Planet...

British actor Gemma Arterton talks about her role in The Critic , a period drama in which she plays a struggling actress lured into a blackmail scheme by a powerful theatre critic played by Ian McKellen. Husband and wife directors Karrie Crouse and Will Joines on Hold Your Breath , an eerie horror set amongst the severe dust storms of 1930's Oklahoma. Another husband and wife duo, Alex Thompson an...

One of the greatest directors of all time, Francis Ford Coppola, in conversation about his sci-fi Roman epic Megalopolis . Director Megan Park and actor Maisy Stella on sweet coming of age comedy-drama My Old Ass . Producer Bianca Stigter discusses Occupied City ...Steve McQueen's excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city of Amsterdam. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer,...

Director Paola Cortellesi discusses There's Still Tomorrow ,  a neorealist inspired comedy-drama about an abused wife in post-second world war Rome...the highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy. The Oscar winning director behind Toy Story, Josh Cooley, and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura on Transformers One , the animated blockbuster starring Chris Hemsworth & Bryan Tyree Henry as sworn enemies...

Hollywood star James McAvoy on the best thriller of the year so far, Speak No Evil , where he plays the lead villain in a film that's a convincing portrayal of an Anglo-American culture clash. Australian actor Hugo Weaving discusses his new role as the villain in the latest season of UK spy hit Slow Horses , where he stars opposite Gary Oldman.  Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett So...

Director Josh Margolin on Thelma , an action comedy about a 93-year-old who gets duped by a phone scammer and sets out on a quest across the city to reclaim what is hers. The life of French painter Pierre Bonnard and his wife Marthe de Méligny is explored over five decades in  Bonnard: Pierre and Martha . Jason meets actor Cecile de France and director Martin Provost in Paris. Ahead of an Australi...

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 age...

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...

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 Co...

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 bor...

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...

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 D...

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 hi...

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...

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 G...

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 striki...

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...