The Screen Show

The legendary and multi-talented French actor Julie Delpy and the Australian cinematographer behind lavish period soap Domina.

American director Sean Baker on his sex comedy about a has-been porn star Red Rocket. Plus, German acting legend Udo Kier talks about his latest role as a retired hairdresser who has one last cut and blow dry to perform….for a society funeral.  

Writer-director Adam McKay on his disaster movie comedy Don't Look Up as a satire of inaction on climate change, plus he reflects on Succession's success as one of that show's directors and executive producer. Fellow American Dasha Nekrasova (Red Scare podcast) talks about her debut feature, The Scary of Sixty-First, a horror movie inspired by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. And Norwegian director Joachim Trier discusses his award-winning romantic comedy tragedy The Worst Person in the World.

Dune director Denis Villeneuve discusses casting Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides and interpreting the Arabic and Islamic influences in Frank Herbert's original novel. Plus, the film's Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser explains why the desert sky is white, and fellow Aussie Ari Wegner, who shot Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, talks eroticism, landscape and the female gaze.

Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude on his Berlinale Golden Bear winner Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, a black comedy about a middle aged school teacher fighting the moral panic over her appearance in an online sex tape. Plus, director Tom McCarthy on Stillwater, the follow up to his Oscar winner Spotlight starring Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin and Camille Cottin about an American man fighting to overturn his daughter's murder conviction in France, and L.A. based Australian actor Hannah Levien (Brand New Cherry Flavour) gives us her Top Shelf screen faves.

Award-winning actor Rosamund Pike speaks about her new role in a fantasy show that aspires to take the Game of Thrones throne, The Wheel of Time, and rising New Zealand talent Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie discusses her lead role in Last Night in Soho, plus, director Madeleine Martiniello on her documentary Palazzo Di Cozzo, a portrait of  Melbourne's Italian furniture mogul Franco Cozzo who became a household name for his flamboyant TV ads.

Cary Fukunaga on directing No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s last Bond film. Plus John Hoffman, the showrunner of Hulu's hit show Only Murders in the Building, on making a black comedy about true crime podcasts with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez.

Two of the most forthright, accomplished and widely admired filmmakers on the show this week......Paul Schrader on his new film The Card Counter, which premiered in competition at Venice and follows on from Schrader’s tormented environmental allegory as a film about an isolated man who struggles when the world comes calling, and Terence Davies, who’s marvellous new film Benediction is screening as part of this year's British Film Festival.

We meet the author of a new monograph about David Lynch’s Inland Empire, his strangest and most haunting film. Spanish artist and filmmaker Amalia Ulman talks about casting herself and her mother in a film inspired by two real life scammers which is one of the highlights at this year's Sydney Film Festival, and talented Australian actor Hal Cumpston shares his Top Shelf.

The man behind the phenomenally successful mob series The Sopranos talks about the new prequel. We meet the writer-director of a centrepiece film at this year's Italian Film Festival, and Jason's thoughts on Ridley Scott’s new medieval tragedy which stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer.