The Screen Show

Pamela Anderson and Gia Coppola on The Last Showgirl, a film about a seasoned showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.

British director Andrea Arnold on Bird, a surprising coming-of-age fable starring Nikiya Adams and Barry Keoghan.

Actor Claes Bang discusses William Tell, where a once peaceful hunter leads his people in rebellion in 14th-century Switzerland.  (WILLIAM TELL will be available to rent or buy on all the usual digital platforms from March 10.)

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Brendan O'Neill
• Executive Producer, Rhiannon Brown

Superstars Renee Zellweger, Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor discuss Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

Cannes Best Director winner Miguel Gomes on Grand Tour, a dream-like road movie through Asia about romantic obsession and colonial decadence.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Carey Dell
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

The first terrorist attack to be broadcast live around the world happened in 1972, on September the 5th, at the Munich Olympics. A group of Palestinian gunmen took 11 members of the Israeli team hostage, and all of those ended up dead. In this episode, Jason speaks to Swiss-German director Tim Fehlbaum, and cast including an excellent Peter Saarsgard, about September 5, a film that takes us back to those events through the eyes of the sports journalists who brought the news to the world.

Plus, a very different film, made by a couple of friends who are a kind of Swedish Hamish and Andy, comedy duo Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson. Their film, The Last Journey, is about Filip's ageing father Lars, a former French high school teacher who has become pessimistic about his life and his frail body. Filip decides his father needs an intervention, and with Fredrik in tow, they hire an old Renault and takes Lars south for a road trip to France, a country his father has always associated with summer holidays, family and freedom.

Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn discusses her film Babygirl, a sexual thriller with Nicole Kidman in the lead as a powerful CEO who embarks on an affair with her much younger intern.

Academy Award winning director Pablo Larrain on Maria, where Angelina Jolie stars as the world's greatest opera singer, Maria Callas.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Matthew Crawford
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Two major films this awards season focus on visionary artists...

A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, depicts the story of folk hero Bob Dylan's transition to electric music. Jason interviews director James Mangold and actor Edward Norton, who plays Pete Seeger in the film. 

The Brutalist centres on a great modernist architect trying to rebuild his life after fleeing post-war Europe. Fresh from winning several Golden Globe Awards, director Brady Corbet joins us.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Lea Glob on her mesmerising doc Apolonia, Apolonia, which covers 13 years in the life of talented artist Apolonia Sokol.

Producer Nadim Cheikhrouha discusses the inventive Oscar-nominated documentary Four Daughters, about a Tunisian woman whose two eldest daughters were radicalised by Islamic extremists.

Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov's Oscar-nominated 20 Days in Mariupol is a raw, unflinching account of the Ukrainian siege through the courageous reporting of AP journalists. 

Meet the stars and director of the new release Conclave, a film that takes us inside the Vatican after the death of a pope.

Plus, we revisit interviews with Hollywood stars Austin Butler and Olivia Colman.

French director Justine Triet on Anatomy of a Fall, which received five Oscar nominations and took home the Palme d'Or in 2023. The film is an electric courtroom drama, about a woman suspected of her husband's murder and the various moral dilemmas that arise.

Hollywood director Todd Haynes on his drama May December. Starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, and also nominated for an Oscar, it unpicks the story of a married couple whose tabloid romance once gripped the world.

Jesse Eisenberg discusses his film, A Real Pain, which he directed and stars in alongside Kieran Culkin, in a story that centres around mismatched cousins travelling through Poland in honour of their grandmother.

Robert Eggers and Lily-Rose Depp on Nosferatu, a gothic tale that delves into the obsession between a tormented young woman and the vampire infatuated with her.

U.S. filmmaker Sean Baker discusses his Palme d'Or winning film Anora, which follows a sex worker's unexpected Cinderella story.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Simon Branthwaite
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, stars of Deadpool and Wolverine, discuss coming together in the latest in the Marvel superhero film franchise.

Jason is joined by Australian director George Miller and producer Doug Mitchell to talk Mad Max: Furiosa, the latest instalment in the post-apocalyptic action adventure film franchise starring Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy.

We meet director David Leitch and producer Kelly McCormick, the husband and wife filmmaker duo behind The Fall Guy, a rom-com about a stuntman, set in Sydney, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.