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.
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Aug 15, 2024 • 54min
Canadian director Matthew Rankin's charming Universal Language
Canadian director Matthew Rankin on Universal Language, his off-beat transformation film set in Canada's beigest city, steeped in the influence of Iranian Cinema.Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut Janet Planet is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-age tale set in the nineties. Actor Julianne Nicholson discusses her role in the film.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Aug 8, 2024 • 54min
Luna Carmoon's 4 x Venice winning debut Hoard
Melbourne International Film Festival is set to kick off, Australia's biggest annual showcase of cinema, and we meet the filmmakers behind two films screening as part of this year's event...British filmmaker Luna Carmoon who's 4 x Venice-winning feature debut Hoard is an off-kilter coming of age tale set in South London, about a traumatised, rubbish-fixated teen; and Melbourne based, Hong Kong born experimental filmmaker Audrey Lam, on her first feature Us and the Night, a dreamlike film that takes inspiration from her years working in public libraries.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John JacobsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Aug 1, 2024 • 54min
Legendary thriller director M. Night Shyamalan
In M. Night Shyamalan's Trap, a man and his teenage daughter discover they're at the centre of a dark and sinister event while watching a pop concert. The legendary thriller director behind The Sixth Sense joins us.Lea Glob on her mesmerising doc Apolonia, Apolonia, which covers 13 years in the life of talented artist Apolonia Sokol.Catherine Deneuve takes on a satirical portrayal of Bernadette Chirac, wife of former French President Jacques Chirac in The President's Wife. We meet director Léa Domenach.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John JacobsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Jul 25, 2024 • 54min
Hugh Jackman! Ryan Reynolds! Bobby Cannavale!
Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, stars of Deadpool and Wolverine, discuss coming together in the latest in the Marvel superhero film franchiseHollywood actor Bobby Cannavale on Ezra, where he plays a comedian who goes on life-changing road trip with his autistic son.Mexican director Lila Aviles on her moving family drama Totem, inspired by the experience of losing her husband.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Nathan TurnbullExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Jul 18, 2024 • 54min
Lee Isaac Chung on disaster blockbuster Twisters
Director Lee Isaac Chung on Twisters, a disaster film starring Daisy Edgar Jones and Glen Powell, about a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives to test a radical new weather alert system.Beautifully shot on 16mm, Cannes Un Certain Regard contender Việt And Nam tells the love story of two gay mineworkers in Vietnam. Filmmaker Quý Minh Trương joins Jason.Iceland's Rúnar Rúnarsson discusses his feature When the Light Breaks, a tender story of a teen grieving for her first love's death during one long summer day.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Emrys CroninExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Jul 11, 2024 • 54min
Oscar winner Yorgos Lanthimos on Kinds of Kindness + MaXXXine
Yorgos Lanthimos on his latest absurdist black comedy Kinds of Kindness, about a man seeking to break free from his predetermined path.Australian filmmaking duo Jim Weir and Jack Clark on Birdeater, a psychological thriller that tells the story of a bride-to-be being invited to her own fiancé's bucks party.U.S. director Ti West discusses his horror MaXXXine, which stars Mia Goth as an adult film star and aspiring actress in 1980's Hollywood.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Beth StewartExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Jul 4, 2024 • 54min
Hollywood A-lister Austin Butler on The Bikeriders
Hollywood star Austin Butler discusses his role in Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders, where he plays the lead opposite Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer in a tender film about the golden age of biker culture.Rashida Jones and Hidetoshi Nishijima on new TV series Sunny, which follows the life of an American woman living in Kyoto whose life is up-ended when her husband and son disappear.French director Élise Girard talks about Sidonie in Japan, where Isabelle Huppert plays an author on a book tour of Japan haunted by the ghost of her late husband.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Jun 27, 2024 • 54min
One of France’s finest...Emmanuelle Devos
One of France’s finest and most-awarded actors Emmanuelle Devos talks about her role in provocative new drama A Silence, from writer/director Joachim Lafosse, who also joins us. It's the story of a married couple who grapple with the fallout after a long-held family secret is exposed.Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet on her adaptation of bestselling novel Un Amor, a bittersweet, gritty and striking exploration of gender roles, love, obsession and desire.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John JacobsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Jun 20, 2024 • 54min
Guy Pearce stars in Lee Tamahori's The Convert
Guy Pearce stars as a British preacher caught up in 1830s Māori wars in The Convert, a sweeping historical drama. Pioneering, legendary New Zealand director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors) joins us.In 18th-century Denmark, an impoverished war hero played by Mads Mikkelsen sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land. Nikolaj Arcel, director of the very good The Promised Land, is our guest.CREDITSPresenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Emrys CroninExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Jun 13, 2024 • 54min
Jake Gyllenhaal on the TV adaptation of Presumed Innocent
Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal on his experience in front of and behind the camera on Apple TV's remake of legal thriller Presumed Innocent.Direct from its Best First Film win at Cannes and screening at SFF, Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel discusses Armand, which stars Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) as a mother called into her six-year-old son’s school. Mayhem follows...Artist & filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich talks about The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, her anti biopic about the French-Martinican surrealist, also screening at Sydney Film Festival.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Nathan TurnbullExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
