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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Oct 23, 2024 • 54min
Dylan River on Thou Shalt Not Steal + Kate Winslet becomes Lee Miller
Alice Springs based filmmaker Dylan River on his binge-able new TV series Thou Shalt Not Steal, 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 biographical film starring Kate Winslet, about Lee Miller, the extraordinary woman who gave the world some of the most indelible, shocking photographic images of World War 2. We're joined by one of the film’s producers, Kate Soloman, and Miller’s son, Antony Penrose.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Beth StewartExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Oct 16, 2024 • 54min
Memoir of a Snail + He Ain't Heavy
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 Vincent Smith joins us.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Oct 9, 2024 • 54min
The Apprentice, The Franchise, Lonely Planet
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, an unexpected romance set at a writers' retreat in Morocco.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tegan NichollsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Oct 3, 2024 • 54min
The Critic, Hold Your Breath, Ghostlight
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 and Kelly O'Sullivan, are behind new film Ghostlight, a drama that follows a construction worker who joins a local theatre production of Romeo and Juliet.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Sep 26, 2024 • 54min
Francis Ford Coppola on his sci-fi Roman epic Megalopolis
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Sep 19, 2024 • 55min
Paola Cortellesi's There's Still Tomorrow - the highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy
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.We meet the cast from La Maison, an addictive new French TV series about an iconic family fashion house thrown into scandal.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Sep 12, 2024 • 54min
James McAvoy: Speak No Evil + Hugo Weaving: Slow Horses
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Sep 5, 2024 • 54min
Josh Margolin pays homage to his Grandmother in action-comedy Thelma
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 Australian tour Iranian-British actor and comedian Omid Djalili discusses his career, which has seen him work alongside Hollywood greats including Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Ridley Scott and Brad Pitt.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tegan NichollsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Aug 29, 2024 • 54min
Rising Australian star Charlie Vickers on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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 agency that organises an international press event for film journalists from around the world every year.)
Aug 22, 2024 • 51min
Bridesmaids and Ghostbusters director on his new film Jackpot!
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 with New York based critic Sheila O'Malley.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Emrys CroninExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
