The Screen Show

We meet the female cinematographer behind Baz Luhrmann's epic Elvis. An analysis of where streaming services have gone wrong recently, and L.A. based Aussie actor Claudia O'Doherty on her latest role in the quirky series Killing It.

A chat with Baz Lurhmann about his box office hit Elvis. Damon Herriman stars in a deliriously silly new comedy about love, nudity and gibberish, and we meet the stars of superhero series The Boys.

A conversation with the great American documentarian Frederick Wiseman as a retrospective of his work launches. British actor Jack Davenport on his role in the UK remake of a French hit, and a new doc that looks at a Greek music born of exile.

Nashen Moodley, artistic director of Sydney Film Festival is in to talk festival highlights as the event opens this week. He's joined by the curators of Screenability, a section of SFF that shines a spotlight on people with disability, and also the Travelling Film Festival, which showcases this world-class cinema in regional locations Amir Jadidi, Iranian star of Oscar and Cannes winning director Asghar Farhadi's new film A Hero, talks about the complex themes raised in this powerful drama about family, vulnerability and debt, and as the great British filmmaker Terence Davies' mesmerising new film Benediction releases, we revisit an excerpt of a conversation he had with Jason Di Rosso as it premiered at the 2021 British Film Festival.

As Obi-Wan Kenobi, the latest incarnation in the Star Wars universe arrives, we meet Deborah Chow, the first female director in the film franchise's history, as well as one of the stars of the series, Moses Ingram. We're also joined this week by Executive Producer Patrick Walters from See-Saw Films who are behind a slate of the best TV right now including Heartstopper and The Essex Serpent, plus, screenwriter Kodie Bedford, who's credits include Mystery Road, Squinters, Troppo and Firebite joins us for a career chat.