The Screen Show

Parks and Rec actor Nick Offerman discusses his role in Sovereign , a crime thriller inspired by real events in which he plays an anti-government extremist. Brooklyn-based filmmaker Alex Ross Perry on Pavements , a hybrid work about one of the most influential bands of the '90s [available on DocPlay from October 6]. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Riley Meliss Edi...

Cult American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson directs One Battle After Another , in which Leonardo DiCaprio leads an action thriller about a washed-up radical living off-grid with his spirited young daughter, who goes missing. Actor Julia Fox and director Justin Tipping discuss Him , a film set in the world of elite sport, about a young athlete whose dream becomes a nightmare under the shadow of a...

The South Australian first-time filmmakers behind Lesbian Space Princess , an adult animation about an introverted lesbian space princess, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Berlinale. Looking for Alibrandi director Kate Woods returns with Kangaroo , a family comedy about a D-list celebrity who teams up with an Indigenous girl to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned kangaroos in an outback commu...

U.S. actor and director Michael Angelo Covino discusses Splitsville , a relationship comedy about divorce, friendship, and an open marriage, in which he stars opposite Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona. New Zealand-born Australian director Samuel van Grinsven returns with his second feature, Went Up the Hill , a ghost story led by Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things),...

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, The Roses re-imagines the 1980s classic The War of the Roses. Jason speaks to director Jay Roach. Eva Victor on her indie Sorry, Baby, which highlights Agnes' journey after a traumatic experience in her life. Jason meets Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who is in Australia to premiere his work   A Conversation with the Sun . Presenter, Jason...

A panel discussion of talented international directors with films in competition at the Melbourne International Film Festival discuss their journeys with Jason, including American filmmaker Andrew Patterson (The Vast of Night), whose second feature The Rivals of Amziah King , starring Matthew McConaughey, premiered at SXSW this year; Chie Hayakawa (Plan 75) from Japan, whose second feature, Renoir...

Ari Aster on  Eddington, a satirical neo-Western set during the pandemic, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in the lead roles. Michael Seitzman, showrunner of The Rainmaker , talks about adapting the classic John Grisham legal thriller for television. Carey Mulligan stars in The Ballad of Wallis Island , a comedy about a lottery winner whose dream of reuniting his favourite musicians unex...

Legendary Australian film critic, cinephile, film scholar, programmer, and author, David Stratton, sadly passed away this week, aged 85. In 2017, he joined Jason Di Rosso in the studio to discuss David Stratton: A Cinematic Life , Sally Aitken's documentary about his lifelong love of movies.

British A-listers Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor on The Life of Chuck , a fantasy drama based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King.  Beloved Australian actor Essie Davis discusses her role in the upcoming Disney sci-fi series Alien: Earth . Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili speaks about her haunting abortion drama  April , which won the Special Jury Prize at Venice. Presenter,...

U.S. director Zach Cregger discusses  Weapons , his excellent horror about a community left questioning who or what is behind the disappearance of a classroom of children. The showrunners behind Apple TV+ series Platonic , in which Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen star as a charming duo of best friends in L.A. Naomi Watts on The Friend , an adaptation of the bestselling book about a writer who finds her...

British-Peruvian musician Luis Felber ( Attawalpa ) co-created the buzzy Netflix series Too Much with his wife Lena Dunham, a rom-com full of joy and complexity set in London. Luis gets beneath the surface of it all with Jason.  Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks on Together , his sticky body horror that made a mark at Sundance, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie. French master François Ozon on...

Screen legend Helena Bonham Carter on Four Letters of Love , where she stars opposite Pierce Brosnan in an adaptation of Niall Williams'  1997 novel about a couple pulled together by ghosts, fate and the power of love. Inspired by real events, acclaimed writer/director Pascal Bonitzer’s sharp dramedy The Stolen Painting follows an auctioneer whose professional and personal integrity is challenged...

As two Oscar snubbed films with excellent female leads from earlier in the year become available to watch via streaming, a highlights program featuring Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn on Babygirl , a sexual thriller starring Nicole Kidman as a powerful CEO who embarks on an affair with her much younger intern, played by Harris Dickenson; Plus, Academy Award winning director Pablo Larrain discus...

Two stand-outs from the Melbourne International Film Festival : Filmmaker Courtney Stephens on dolphin intelligence, sensory deprivation and the psychedelic experience...her new documentary looks at the strange and often confronting work of twentieth-century utopian neuroscientist John Lilly. British-Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr remembers the father he barely knew in his debut feature My Fa...

A first glance at the Melbourne International Film Festival...Russian American filmmaker Julia Loktev on her fascinating five and a half hour documentary about journalists in Russia, My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow . One of the luminaries of Australian avant-garde filmmaking Dirk de Bruyn talks about two of his profoundly personal films, appearing as part of a career retrospect...

Acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, Another Round) on his new 7-part series Families Like Ours , which is set in a hypothetical near future where global warming has led to the imminent flooding of Denmark. Director Boris Lojkine and actor Abou Sangaré discuss Cannes Un Certain Regard winner The Story of Souleymane , a deeply empathetic drama that follows a food delivery courier through t...

Australian director Justin Kurzel on his documentary Ellis Park , which follows Bad Seed and Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis as he pursues his twin passions: making music and supporting a wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra. Filmmakers Danny Boyle and Alex Garland talk political allegory and post-Brexit Britain in their new zombie film 28 Years Later , a follow-up to the cult 2002 film 28 Days Later....

Past Lives director Celine Song on her new rom-com Materialists , starring Dakota Johnson as a professional matchmaker who falls into a love triangle with her broke ex and a wealthy finance guy. The Rings of Power actor Charlie Vickers and showrunner Tony Ayres discuss working on the Netflix adaptation of Jane Harper's The Survivors , a story about a small coastal town haunted by the tragedy of th...

U.S. writer-director Jason Keller talks Stick , a new sports comedy starring Owen Wilson as a washed-up former golf pro and Peter Dager as his Gen Z protege. Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald on his doc One to One: John & Yoko ... set in 1972 New York, the film explores John Lennon and Yoko Ono's world amid a turbulent era.  White Lotus star Jason Isaacs on his latest role in The Salt Path, where he s...

Direct from Cannes, where it received a seven-and-a-half-minute standing ovation, Wes Anderson and Benicio Del Toro discuss The Phoenician Scheme . Adelaide’s Phillipou Brothers on their latest South Australian horror for A24, Bring Her Back , the follow-up to their acclaimed feature debut Talk To Me. Artistic director of Sydney Film Festival Nashen Moodley is also fresh from the Cannes Film Festi...

French director Gilles Lellouche on Beating Hearts , a genre-spanning romantic epic starring Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Colour) that follows a written-in-the-stars infatuation tested by social boundaries. Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin discusses his multi-award winning Universal Language ...in a surreal interzone between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of several characters intertw...

The newest chapter in the successful Final Destination horror franchise takes audiences back to the beginning of Death’s twisted sense of justice. Jason meets directors Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky. Irish director Lorcan Finnegan on The Surfer, a psychological surf thriller starring Nicolas Cage which takes aim at Australian masculinity and localism on a W.A. beach. As it becomes available to st...

American film director Eli Craig discusses his horror Clown in a Cornfield ...as teenagers start to go missing one by one in a Midwestern town, the local legend of Frendo the clown becomes all too real. Director Mehdi Idir on Monsieur Aznavour , a biopic about an iconic singer-songwriter who beat all odds to become one of France’s best-loved entertainers. Andrew Ahn on his adaptation of Ang Lee's ...

Screening at the Fantastic Film Festival , A Grand Mockery is an exciting example of independent filmmaking. Shot on luminous Super 8, it follows Josie, a young man leading a life of passive mundanity in Brisbane. Jason meets directors Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon. Director David Noakes discusses How the West Was Lost , a documentary about the 1946 Aboriginal pastoral workers' strike in Western Au...

As the German Film Festival  rolls out across the country, we meet two directors featured in this year's lineup... Acclaimed director Andres Veiel discusses his documentary Riefenstahl , a captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl and her complex relationship with the Nazi regime. Award-winning director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's second feature, Hysteria,  comes to Australia d...