The Screen Show

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

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

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Roi Huberman
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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.)

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Emrys Cronin
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown 

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Roi Huberman
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, John Jacobs
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, John Jacobs
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown