The Screen Show
ABC
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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Aug 26, 2021 • 54min
Annette + Brand New Cherry Flavour
A critics' roundtable discussion on Leos Carax's ambitious new film Annette, a weird and wonderful rock opera starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver, and we meet the makers of new horror series Brand New Cherry Flavour, a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, kittens & showbusiness in early 90's L.A.
Aug 18, 2021 • 54min
The White Lotus' Murray Bartlett, Rebecca Hall, Shahrbanoo Sadat
We meet Australian actor Murray Bartlett, the star of the show everyone's talking about - The White Lotus. Plus, British actor Rebecca Hall on her role in a new horror about grief, and we revisit a wonderful conversation with Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat.
Aug 12, 2021 • 54min
Free Guy director Shawn Levy, a MIFF update + fraud in Romania
Director Shawn Levy on his new film Free Guy, where Ryan Reynolds plays a computer generated character in a video game with goofy charm. Plus, an update on MIFF and we revisit a conversation on Academy Award nominated doco Collective.
Aug 5, 2021 • 19min
Pod Extra: James Vaughan
This Podcast Extra edition features the second half of Jason's interview with Australian writer, director and editor James Vaughan, who is behind the exciting debut feature Friends and Strangers, one of only two Australian films selected for the prestigious Rotterdam Film Festival (hear the first part of the discussion in our episode from Thursday August 5th, titled: Friends and Strangers + Vacant Possession.)
Aug 5, 2021 • 54min
Friends and Strangers + Vacant Possession
This week, two Australian films and their directors, both deal with themes of race, colonisation and land in Sydney. The first, Friends and Strangers, is one of two Australian films selected for Rotterdam this year, a must-see debut feature from James Vaughan. The second is a restored classic from the 90s, Vacant Possession, written and directed by Margot Nash.
Jul 29, 2021 • 54min
Joshua Jackson on Dr Death + filmmakers shining a light on family
Joshua Jackson, star of Dr Death joins us to talk about his role in the ghoulish new TV series, and a panel discussion with three filmmakers who have made documentaries about family, screening here as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Jul 22, 2021 • 54min
A wedding, a funeral + Yvonne Strahovski
Freshly nominated for an Emmy award, we meet The Handmaid's Tale's Australian star Yvonne Strahovski who stars in a new sci-fi. Director Emma Seligman chats about her indie festival hit Shiva Baby, and Spanish filmmaker Icíar Bollaín on her subverted rom-com Rosa's Wedding.
Jul 15, 2021 • 55min
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything + Black Panther's Winston Duke
We meet Winston Duke, the lead actor in new film Nine Days, who you probably know from Black Panther and the Marvel films more generally, but first up we're going back in time to 1971 and a new documentary series that believes this was the year that music changed everything.
Jul 8, 2021 • 55min
Cate Shortland's Black Widow, Perfumes, Mystery Road
Australian director Cate Shortland speaks to us about entering the Marvel cinematic universe with Black Widow, and the ally she found in Scarlett Johansson. Plus, director of French box office hit Perfumes, and we revisit a conversation on tropical noir Mystery Road for NAIDOC week.
Jun 30, 2021 • 54min
Directors' Fortnight preview + Phyllida Lloyd's Dublin drama
British director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia, The Iron Lady) on her new film Herself, a Dublin set drama about a mother escaping a toxic marriage. Phyllida also speak about working with Meryl Streep. Plus, an informative chat about the behind the scenes workings at the Cannes Film Festival.
