The Screen Show

British actor Will Poulter, who has starred in The Bear, Black Mirror, The Revenant and Midsommar, talks about his latest film role in the gripping war thriller Warfare. Kriv Stenders and Richard Roxburgh on The Correspondent, the story of the arrest, trial and imprisonment of Australian journalist Peter Greste. Beloved actor and comedian Steve Coogan discusses The Penguin Lessons, a comedy-drama...

Brisbane-born Hollywood star Jacob Elordi fronts Justin Kurzel's TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North . In Lost and Found , filmmaker Raoul Peck follows Ernest Cole's journey as the first Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa. Jason meets the directors of The Count of Monte Cristo in Paris, the new French adaptation of Al...

A highlights edition looking at some films that dominated the 2025 Oscars... Jesse Eisenberg on A Real Pain, which he directed and stars in alongside Kieran Culkin (who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), in a story that centres around a pair of mismatched cousins travelling through Poland in honour of their Jewish grandmother. American filmmaker Sean Baker discusses his film Anora, which to...

Director Jonathan Ogilvie discusses his nostalgic coming-of-age film Head South , where it's the late 1970's and teenager Angus is discovering the underground post-punk music scene in Christchurch.  From the archives, David Nichols, historian and lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, on Richard Lowenstein's 1986 film Dogs in Space , a story takes place during the late 70s to t...

Legendary Hollywood director Barry Levinson discusses working with Robert De Niro on gangster movie The Alto Knights . New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft on his nursing home set horror The Rule of Jenny Pen . Plus, This Life of Mine , a delicate chronicle of mental illness screening as part of this year's French Film Festival. Presenrer, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Ril...

Australian actor Daniel Henshall talks about his latest role, in Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 , where he stars alongside Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Pattinson in a black comedy about the dangers of cloning and colonisation. As the latest season of Severance  rolls out, a show about a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and perso...

Cult British director Mike Leigh reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets and Lies) in Hard Truths ,  a challenging yet compassionate exploration of modern family life in London. Meet the filmmakers behind Sugarcane , nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year's Oscars, it's a powerful portrayal of Native resilience and its exploration of the devastating legacy of Indian reside...

Oscar nominated for Best International Feature,  The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a film shot in secret that centres on paranoia and political unrest in Tehran. Jason meets director Mohammad Rasoulof. A conversation with Oscar Best Actress nominee Fernanda Torres about her role in  I'm Still Here , a film that follows a mother whose life is shattered during Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971. Pre...

Pamela Anderson and Gia Coppola on  The Last Showgirl , a film about a seasoned showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. British director Andrea Arnold on  Bird , a surprising coming-of-age fable starring Nikiya Adams and Barry Keoghan. Actor Claes Bang discusses William Tell,  where a once peaceful hunter leads his people in rebellion in 14th-centur...

Superstars Renee Zellweger, Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor discuss Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy . Cannes Best Director winner Miguel Gomes on Grand Tour, a dream-like road movie through Asia about romantic obsession and colonial decadence. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Carey Dell Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

The first terrorist attack to be broadcast live around the world happened in 1972, on September the 5th, at the Munich Olympics. A group of Palestinian gunmen took 11 members of the Israeli team hostage, and all of those ended up dead. In this episode, Jason speaks to Swiss-German director Tim Fehlbaum, and cast including an excellent Peter Saarsgard, about September 5, a film that takes us back t...

Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn discusses her film Babygirl , a sexual thriller with Nicole Kidman in the lead as a powerful CEO who embarks on an affair with her much younger intern. Academy Award winning director Pablo Larrain on Maria , where Angelina Jolie stars as the world's greatest opera singer, Maria Callas. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Matthew Craw...

Two major films this awards season focus on visionary artists... A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, depicts the story of folk hero Bob Dylan's transition to electric music. Jason interviews director James Mangold and actor Edward Norton, who plays Pete Seeger in the film.  The Brutalist centres on a great modernist architect trying to rebuild his life after fleeing post-war Europe. Fr...

Lea Glob on her mesmerising doc Apolonia, Apolonia, which covers 13 years in the life of talented artist Apolonia Sokol. Producer Nadim Cheikhrouha discusses the inventive Oscar-nominated documentary Four Daughters, about a Tunisian woman whose two eldest daughters were radicalised by Islamic extremists. Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov's Oscar-nominated 20 Days in Mariupol is a raw, unflinchi...

Meet the stars and director of the new release Conclave, a film that takes us inside the Vatican after the death of a pope. Plus, we revisit interviews with Hollywood stars Austin Butler and Olivia Colman.

French director Justine Triet on Anatomy of a Fall, which received five Oscar nominations and took home the Palme d'Or in 2023. The film is an electric courtroom drama, about a woman suspected of her husband's murder and the various moral dilemmas that arise. Hollywood director Todd Haynes on his drama May December. Starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, and also nominated for an Oscar, it u...

Jesse Eisenberg discusses his film,  A Real Pain , which he directed and stars in alongside Kieran Culkin, in a story that centres around mismatched cousins travelling through Poland in honour of their grandmother. Robert Eggers and Lily-Rose Depp on Nosferatu , a gothic tale that delves into the obsession between a tormented young woman and the vampire infatuated with her. U.S. filmmaker Sean Bak...

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, stars of Deadpool and Wolverine, discuss coming together in the latest in the Marvel superhero film franchise. 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. We meet director David Leit...

Iranian film My Favourite Cake  explores issues of freedom, second chances, and women's rights in a country with strict restrictions. Travel-banned directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha join us from Tehran, where they are awaiting trial for themes they've brought to the surface in this film. Taiwanese superstar Eddie Peng on his role in Guan Hu's  Black Dog , about a troubled loner who r...

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...