The Screen Show

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May 29, 2014 A Million Ways To Die In The West, The Trip To Italy
This week Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunite for a holiday of fine dining and dodgy celebrity impressions in The Trip to Italy, plus a conversation about how the recent Jim Jarmusch and Wes Anderson films are expressions of both directors’ personal taste, from a love of electric guitars to fine pastries. And Seth MacFarlane channels an anxious, white, suburban everyman in the satirical Western A Million Ways To Die In The West.
15 min
May 22, 2014 Snowpiercer, Ida, My Sweet Pepper Land
The artistic director of the Sydney Film Festival Nashen Moodley discusses Snowpiercer, the science fiction action movie set on a train starring Tilda Swinton. Plus, the Western gets a reworking in My Sweet Pepper Land, a film set in a Kurdish village, and Ida re-imagines the road movie with a Jewish nun in 60s Poland.
15 min
May 15, 2014 The Babadook, Healing
This week, two very different Australian films. Healing is an ambitious prison drama with an all-star local cast, but bites off more than it can chew. The Babadook is a low budget horror that's taut and focused. Writer-director Jennifer Kent discusses the film ahead of its release next week.
26 min
May 08, 2014 Chef, Child's Pose, The Broken Circle Breakdown
Parents, kids and a sea of emotion. Calin Peter Netzer, director of the Romanian film Child’s Pose speaks about how making a movie based on his own domineering mother was like therapy. Felix Van Groeningen discusses his Oscar nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown, a story about childhood illness that’s also about bluegrass musician parents. Plus, the verdict on Jon Favreau’s Chef, a father-son road movie set in a food truck.
18 min
May 01, 2014 John Turturro, Young and Beautiful, 52 Tuesdays
Stories of sex and gender provoke and unsettle at the movies this week. Italian American actor, writer and director John Turturro discusses his new film about a male prostitute, Fading Gigolo, co-starring Woody Allen. French writer director François Ozon delivers a confronting story about a teenager on the game in Young and Beautiful and the new Australian film 52 Tuesdays explores what happens when a mother with a 16 year old daughter decides to change genders.
24 min
April 24, 2014 Transcendence, Killer of Sheep, Like Father Like Son
Uploading the human brain. Johnny Depp stars in Transcendence, a sci fi horror story about a dead scientist given new life inside a super computer, that's a cautionary tale about the price to pay for disregarding the laws of nature. But in the wake of Spike Jonze’s groundbreaking film about artificial intelligence, Her, is it saying anything new? Plus, in a groundbreaking year for African Americans on screen, guest critic Sarinah Masukor looks back to Charles Burnett’s 1977 classic, Killer of Sheep.
20 min
April 17, 2014 Ralph Fiennes, Only Lovers Left Alive
Sex, scandal and celebrity in the Victorian era. Ralph Fiennes - an actor who has excelled on the stage, screen and now behind the camera too - will be in to discuss his new film about Charles Dickens’s mistress, The Invisible Woman. Plus, put on your sunglasses at night for Jim Jarmusch’s rock'n'roll vampire romance, Only Lovers Left Alive.
23 min
April 10, 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel, Divergent, Charles Chauvel's Legacy
This week on The Final Cut, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel is a caper movie inspired by the screwball classics, that’s also about border panic and fascism. Plus, discussing the Australian film pioneer Charles Chauvel with documentarian John Doggett-Williams, as two of the director’s war classics get a re-release on dvd: 40 000 Horsemen and The Rats of Tobruk. And finally, Divergent: a poor girl’s Hunger Games?
15 min
April 03, 2014 The Lego Movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Lego Movie is the biggest film in the world right now – just this week becoming the first movie of 2014 to crack $400 million at the global box office. Made largely in Sydney by a company called Animal Logic, its Australian associate producer Amber Naismith discusses how a toy figurine with a plastic yellow face became the most loved hero on the planet. Plus, Robert Redford brings his star power to the brooding, paranoid Captain America sequel.
19 min
March 27, 2014 Nymphomaniac, Noah, Raid 2
This week on The Final Cut, Russell Crowe plays the biblical Noah and Indonesian gangsters hurt each other in inventive, gory ways in The Raid 2. Plus Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. Academic Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough, a man completing a PhD thesis on the Danish auteur, comes in to discuss what's going on between the sheets of this explicit, four hour long epic.
18 min

About The Screen Show

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The Screen Show, hosted by renowned Sydney-based film critic Jason Di Rosso, is your ultimate guide to the world of film, television, and streaming. Each episode explores the latest films, TV shows and streaming originals through reviews, analysis and exclusive conversations with directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, showrunners and production designers, from A-list Hollywood talent to Australian creatives and emerging and established talent from around the world, providing you with VIP access to the minds shaping today's entertainment landscape.