The winner of a trio of awards at Venice, Sarah Friedland, discusses her narrative feature Familiar Touch, a 'coming-of-old-age' story that follows the path of an octogenarian's shifting memories and desires.

Set to screen at Adelaide Film Festival, German director Julian Radlmaier on Phantoms of July, a funny and somewhat surreal metropolitan adventure that asks some serious questions about class in contemporary Germany.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Riley Meliss
• Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

In this episode, acclaimed director Kelly Reichardt joins us to discuss The Mastermind, a heist film with Josh O'Connor in the lead as a suburban father living a double life as an art thief.

Cinematographer Maceo Bishop talks about shooting Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, a raw sports drama starring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as MMA fighter Mark Kerr, and how his lens helped shape the film’s emotional intensity.

Australian screen legends Bruce Beresford and Bryan Brown discuss The Travellers, a family drama set in regional W.A. that explores love, legacy, and the messiness of returning home.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Ross Richardson
• Editor Arts, Rhiannon Brown

Parks and Rec actor Nick Offerman discusses his role in Sovereign, a crime thriller inspired by real events in which he plays an anti-government extremist.

Brooklyn-based filmmaker Alex Ross Perry on Pavements, a hybrid work about one of the most influential bands of the '90s [available on DocPlay from October 6].

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Riley Meliss
• Editor Arts, Rhiannon Brown

Cult American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson directs One Battle After Another, in which Leonardo DiCaprio leads an action thriller about a washed-up radical living off-grid with his spirited young daughter, who goes missing.

Actor Julia Fox and director Justin Tipping discuss Him, a film set in the world of elite sport, about a young athlete whose dream becomes a nightmare under the shadow of a former champion. 

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Allyse Symons
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

The South Australian first-time filmmakers behind Lesbian Space Princess, an adult animation about an introverted lesbian space princess, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Berlinale.

Looking for Alibrandi director Kate Woods returns with Kangaroo, a family comedy about a D-list celebrity who teams up with an Indigenous girl to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned kangaroos in an outback community.

We pay tribute to Robert Redford, who passed away this week, with an excerpt from a 2018 interview with the director behind the last film he starred in, The Old Man and the Gun. You can hear the whole interview here.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Ross Richardson
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

U.S. actor and director Michael Angelo Covino discusses Splitsville, a relationship comedy about divorce, friendship, and an open marriage, in which he stars opposite Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona.

New Zealand-born Australian director Samuel van Grinsven returns with his second feature, Went Up the Hill, a ghost story led by Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things), following two strangers possessed by grief.

Plus, as it releases exclusively on DocPlay, an excerpt from Jason's interview with Justin Kurzel about Ellis Park, his documentary feature about musician Warren Ellis. You can hear the whole interview here.

CREDITS

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Riley Meliss
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, The Roses re-imagines the 1980s classic The War of the Roses. Jason speaks to director Jay Roach.

Eva Victor on her indie Sorry, Baby, which highlights Agnes' journey after a traumatic experience in her life.

Jason meets Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who is in Australia to premiere his work  A Conversation with the Sun.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Alysse Symons
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

A panel discussion of talented international directors with films in competition at the Melbourne International Film Festival discuss their journeys with Jason, including American filmmaker Andrew Patterson (The Vast of Night), whose second feature The Rivals of Amziah King, starring Matthew McConaughey, premiered at SXSW this year; Chie Hayakawa (Plan 75) from Japan, whose second feature, Renoir, premiered in Competition at Cannes; and James J. Robinson, a Filipino/Australian artist based in Los Angeles whose feature debut, First Light, had its World Premiere at MIFF.

CREDITS

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Ross Richardson and Riley Meliss
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Ari Aster on  Eddington, a satirical neo-Western set during the pandemic, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in the lead roles.

Michael Seitzman, showrunner of The Rainmaker, talks about adapting the classic John Grisham legal thriller for television.

Carey Mulligan stars in The Ballad of Wallis Island, a comedy about a lottery winner whose dream of reuniting his favourite musicians unexpectedly comes true. Director James Griffiths shares insights.

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

Legendary Australian film critic, cinephile, film scholar, programmer, and author, David Stratton, sadly passed away this week, aged 85. In 2017, he joined Jason Di Rosso in the studio to discuss David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, Sally Aitken's documentary about his lifelong love of movies.