The Screen Show
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The Screen Show, hosted by renowned Sydney-based film critic Jason Di Rosso, is your ultimate guide to the world of film, television, and streaming. Each episode explores the latest films, TV shows and streaming originals through reviews, analysis and exclusive conversations with directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, showrunners and production designers, from A-list Hollywood talent to Australian creatives and emerging and established talent from around the world, providing you with VIP access to the minds shaping today's entertainment landscape.
From blockbusters to award season predictions (including the Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs and AACTAs) and film festival coverage (including Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, and all the Australian film festivals), The Screen Show keeps you on top of cinematic trends, award nominees and winners, international favourites, indie darlings, Australian gems, cult classics, retrospectives, and box office hits.
Whether you're interested in cinema or TV streaming, The Screen Show covers it all, celebrating cinematic storytelling in all its forms.
From blockbusters to award season predictions (including the Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs and AACTAs) and film festival coverage (including Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, and all the Australian film festivals), The Screen Show keeps you on top of cinematic trends, award nominees and winners, international favourites, indie darlings, Australian gems, cult classics, retrospectives, and box office hits.
Whether you're interested in cinema or TV streaming, The Screen Show covers it all, celebrating cinematic storytelling in all its forms.
Episodes
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Jul 21, 2022 • 54min
Where the Crawdads Sing + Paper City
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.
Jul 14, 2022 • 54min
The Gray Man + Figaro + The Black Phone
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.
Jul 7, 2022 • 55min
NAIDOC Week + two Finnish directors + Chris Hemsworth & Taika Waititi
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.
Jun 30, 2022 • 54min
The cinematographer behind Elvis + the Netflix malaise + Killing It
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.
Jun 23, 2022 • 54min
Baz Luhrmann on Elvis + The Boys + Nude Tuesday
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.
Jun 16, 2022 • 54min
U.S. documentarian Frederick Wiseman + Jack Davenport + a doc about Greek exile music
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.
Jun 9, 2022 • 55min
Sydney Film Festival + A Hero + Benediction
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.
Jun 2, 2022 • 54min
Obi-Wan Kenobi + the man behind Heartstopper + Kodie Bedford
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.
May 26, 2022 • 54min
Little Tornadoes + Ablaze + a new short film by Nash Edgerton
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.
May 19, 2022 • 54min
Sophie Hyde & Chloe Rickard talk females in film + How To Please a Woman
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.
