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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Jan 17, 2024 • 54min
Summer highlights: Past Lives + The Innocent
Korean-born American filmmaker Celine Song discusses her first feature, one of the best reviewed films of the year, Past Lives, a love story about migration, connection and fate, and French actor/director Louis Garrel on his quirky mother-son crime caper The Innocent, a very charming film set in Lyon.
Jan 10, 2024 • 54min
Summer highlights: Barbie + Oppenheimer
U.S. indie director Greta Gerwig discusses her billion dollar blockbuster Barbie, followed by three guest critics who write for ABC Arts give their verdict on both Barbie and the other big box office hit of the year, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
Jan 3, 2024 • 54min
Summer highlights: Warwick Thornton + the team behind Mission Impossible
Filmmaker Warwick Thornton on The New Boy, his outback fable about an Aboriginal boy who comes under the care of a renegade catholic nun in 1940s Australia and his apprehension at directing Cate Blanchett in the role. Plus, the team behind Mission Impossible movie - director Christopher McQuarrie and some of his cast stop by to discuss the seventh film in the evergreen action franchise.
Dec 27, 2023 • 54min
Summer highlights: Cousin Greg from Succession + Alena Lodkina + Lesley Manville
U.S. actor Nicholas Braun AKA Cousin Greg from the hit series Succession talks about his role of a lifetime. Plus, local filmmaker Alena Lodkina's the sophomore feature Petrol, and British acting legend Lesley Manville talks about her role in the TV series Citadel.
Dec 20, 2023 • 54min
Summer highlights: Cate Blanchett, Angourie Rice and Toni Colette
Cate Blanchett discusses her acclaimed film Tar, in which she plays a celebrity orchestra conductor who falls from grace. Plus, two more celebrated Australian actresses, Toni Collette and Angourie Rice, who chat about TV shows they were a part of this year, The Power and The Last Thing He Told Me.
Dec 13, 2023 • 54min
Ferrari + Dream Scenario + All of Us Strangers
Michael Mann, the director of summer blockbuster Ferrari joins us, plus, a trippy new Nicolas Cage film and Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott play lovers in All of Us Strangers.
Dec 6, 2023 • 54min
David Thewlis in The Artful Dodger + Nicolas Philibert's Golden Bear winner On the Adamant
Legendary British character actor David Thewlis on his role in The Artful Dodger, and Berlin Golden Bear winner On the Adamant.
Nov 29, 2023 • 1h 1min
Joel Edgerton on Master Gardener + Because We Have Each Other + Boy Swallows Universe
Joel Edgerton on starring in Paul Schrader's new film; an intimate doc from Sari Braithwaite, and Trent Dalton on the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe.
Nov 22, 2023 • 54min
Cat Person director Susanna Fogel + Ken Loach on The Old Oak
Susanna Fogel on Cat Person, a sharp examination of the horrors of dating born from a New Yorker story that went viral, and Ken Loach on what may be his final film.
Nov 15, 2023 • 54min
The Royal Hotel + The King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
Kitty Green on her unnerving backpacker thriller, and a new doc from two Swedish filmmakers that explores our obsession with image.
