The Screen Show

We meet director David Leitch and producer Kelly McCormick, the husband and wife filmmaker duo behind The Fall Guy, a new rom-com about a stunt man set in Sydney, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. An interview with Oscar winning Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who’s latest film Evil Does Not Exist looks at the environmental impact of glamping to explore themes of innocence lost and compassion.You’ll also hear from Sayombhu Mukdeepro, the Thai cinematographer behind Luca Guadagnino’s new film, an erotic tennis melodrama called Challengers starring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor. Plus, remembering Eleanor Coppola with an interview from the archives.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Vietnamese American veteran star Kieu Chinh on her latest role in the TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer winning novel The Sympathizer, where she stars alongside Robert Downey Jnr and Sandra Oh. Kieu also reflects on her turbulent career as an Asian superstar who became a refugee after the fall of Saigon in 1975, and rebuilt her career thanks to some good friends in Hollywood.Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher discusses La Chimera, a beguiling fantasy, romantic adventure, spiritual journey and heist movie starring Josh O'Connor and Isabella Rossellini. Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John JacobsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Hollywood star Dev Patel on his directorial debut Monkey Man, a thrilling action film set in a fictional Indian city. Director Pablo Berger discusses his Oscar nominated tragi-comedy Robot Dreams, an animation that follows the adventures and misfortunes of a dog and a robot in 1980's New York, and curator Eloise Ross discusses Melbourne Cinematheque's season of films on Ann Hui, one of Hong Kong's most important filmmakers.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Dylan PrinsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone on his Academy Award nominated film IO Capitano,  a shocking adventure story of modern migration that follows two Senegalese teenagers on a Homeric journey from West Africa to Italy longing for a brighter future. Plus, director Mohamed Kordofani on Goodbye Julia, a Sudanese drama about two women who represent the complicated relationship between north and south Sudan and the first movie from Sudan to feature in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Hamish CamilleriExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Academy Award winner Olivia Colman talks about her career and role in new film Wicked Little Letters, a poison pen mystery based on a true scandal that stunned England in the 1920's. The film's director Thea Sharrock also gives her take. Plus, as it releases on the streaming platform SBS on Demand, we re-visit some of Jason's conversation with filmmaker Sari Braithwaite about her poetic doc Because We Have Each Other (listen to the whole interview here.)Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Dylan PrinsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Director Rose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding, a lesbian romantic thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager whose love affair with a female bodybuilder puts her on a collision course with her violent criminal family. Plus, three films screening around the country as part of this year's French Film Festival: Ama Gloria, Along Came Love and Rosalie.* Jason's interviews with filmmakers and actors for the French Film Festival were gathered in Paris where he was a guest at an international press event organised by Unifrance, a French government body that promotes cinema.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell Stapleton + Dylan PrinsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Melbourne born cinematographer Greig Fraser talks about his work on the biggest film on the planet right now, Dune: Part Two. Palestinian filmmaker Lina Soualem on Bye Bye Tiberias, an intimate film about her mother Hiam Abass, a famous actress, and four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation. Plus, producer Nadim Cheikhrouha discusses  inventive Oscar nominated documentary Four Daughters, about a Tunisian woman whose two eldest daughters were radicalised by Islamic extremists. Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Isabella TropianoExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker on her Cannes Un Certain Regard winner How to Have Sex, a sun-drenched coming of age drama about consent and sexual politics. Chilean director Maite Alberdi on her Oscar nominated documentary The Eternal Memory, a profound love story about Augusto and Paulina, one of Chile's most high profile couples, as they navigate Augusto’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and set out to build an archive of memory; and film programmer Kate Jinx with a report from this year's Berlinale.CREDITSPresenter, Jason Di RossoProducer,  Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Emrys Cronin and Dylan PrinsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Co-directors Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke on Drive-Away Dolls, a comedy starring Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan about two women in search of a fresh start who embark on an impromptu road trip. In new Quebecois film Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, a young female vampire is unable to kill to meet her need for blood, but may have found a solution in a young man with suicidal tendencies, director Ariane Louis-Seize joins us from Montreal. Plus, a discussion with film critic and co-curator Adrian Danks on  Melbourne Cinematheque's season of films from The Taviani Brothers.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

American actor Dominic Sessa on his breakout role in Alexander Payne's Oscar nominated The Holdovers, a bittersweet drama set in the seventies about an unlikely trio stranded at an elite boarding school over Christmas. Finnish actress Alma Poysti on starring in Aki Kaurismaki's Fallen Leaves, a film that follows two lonely souls in modern day Helsinki; and French director Bertrand Bonello on his latest film The Beast, an unsettling dystopian romance.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ann Marie DebettencorExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown