The Screen Show

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

Hollywood 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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Nathan Turnbull
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Beth Stewart
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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

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

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.

CREDITS

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

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Nathan Turnbull
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Ishana Shyamalan, daughter of director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) discusses her debut feature, a horror thriller starring Dakota Fanning called The Watchers.

Director Jaydon Martin on his award winning docu-fiction film Flathead which screens as part of Sydney Film Festival.

Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the couple behind cult Australian TV series Colin From Accounts talk about Season 2.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Bella Tropiano
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

We go behind the scenes on smash-hit stalker drama Baby Reindeer with cinematographer Krzysztof Trojnar. 

Academy Award winning director Kevin Macdonald on High & Low - John Galliano, a gripping look at the rise-and-fall story of one of the most influential names in couture fashion.

Cult Mexican star Eugenio Derbez talks about his role in Radical, where he plays a frustrated school teacher in a dangerous Mexican border town.

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

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.

Brazilian filmmaker Ana Vaz on It Is Night in America, a post-colonial eco-critique of modern day Brasilia which screens at ACMI as part of Senses of Cinema.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls + Roi Huberman
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown