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 produc...
Jun 20, 2024•54 min
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 F...
Jun 13, 2024•54 min
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 pro...
Jun 06, 2024•55 min
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, ...
May 30, 2024•54 min
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 pro...
May 23, 2024•54 min
Ahead of its second season, American actor Josh Brolin chats with Jason about his role in Outer Range , the sci-fi neo-Western story of a family's encounter with a mysterious black void. British production designer Christopher Oddy on The Zone of Interest , a film which took home multiple Oscars for its portrayal of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, as they strive to build a dream life for their family living beside the camp. In Australia for the German Film Festival, multi a...
May 16, 2024•55 min
Joel Edgerton on new sci-fi series Dark Matter , where he stars opposite Jennifer Connelly as a man abducted by an alternate version of himself. Oscar winning Japanese director Kore-eda discusses Monster , a film about a mother who demands answers from her son's teacher when he begins acting strangely. Australian-Macedonian director Goran Stolevski talks about Housekeeping for Beginners , a tender story about an unlikely family. Director Wes Ball speaks about rekindling the Planet of the Apes fr...
May 09, 2024•54 min
In Fremont , a former translator for the US military in Afghanistan works in a Chinese fortune cookie factory as she struggles to rebuild her life in San Francisco. Jason speaks to the film's Iranian-British director Babak Jalali, and cult U.S. actor Gregg Turkington. Director Tim Carlier on Adelaide set film Paco , a film about filmmaking, the importance of sound, and the lifestyle of a freelance film creative. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Simon Branthwaite ...
May 02, 2024•54 min
Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung on The Taste of Things , a 19th Century culinary romance starring Juliette Binoche. Philip Brophy on his nineties cult classic Body Melt , which screens as part of Cinema Reborn , an annual festival bringing newly restored classics to the big screen, and The Sweet East , a picaresque journey through America by a high school senior who gets her first taste of the wider world. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Dylan Prins Exe...
Apr 25, 2024•54 min
We meet director David Leitch and producer Kelly McCormick, the husband and wife filmmaker duo behind The Fall Guy , a new rom-com about a stunt man set in Sydney, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. An interview with Oscar winning Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who’s latest film Evil Does Not Exist looks at the environmental impact of glamping to explore themes of innocence lost and compassion. You’ll also hear from Sayombhu Mukdeepro, the Thai cinematographer behind Luca Guadagnino’s ...
Apr 18, 2024•54 min
Vietnamese American veteran star Kieu Chinh on her latest role in the TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer winning novel The Sympathizer , where she stars alongside Robert Downey Jnr and Sandra Oh. Kieu also reflects on her turbulent career as an Asian superstar who became a refugee after the fall of Saigon in 1975, and rebuilt her career thanks to some good friends in Hollywood. Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher discusses La Chimera , a beguiling fantasy, romantic adventure, spiritual...
Apr 11, 2024•54 min
Hollywood star Dev Patel on his directorial debut Monkey Man , a thrilling action film set in a fictional Indian city. Director Pablo Berger discusses his Oscar nominated tragi-comedy Robot Dreams , an animation that follows the adventures and misfortunes of a dog and a robot in 1980's New York, and curator Eloise Ross discusses Melbourne Cinematheque's season of films on Ann Hui , one of Hong Kong's most important filmmakers. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Dyl...
Apr 03, 2024•54 min
Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone on his Academy Award nominated film IO Capitano , a shocking adventure story of modern migration that follows two Senegalese teenagers on a Homeric journey from West Africa to Italy longing for a brighter future. Plus, director Mohamed Kordofani on Goodbye Julia , a Sudanese drama about two women who represent the complicated relationship between north and south Sudan and the first movie from Sudan to feature in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes. Presenter,...
Mar 27, 2024•54 min
Academy Award winner Olivia Colman talks about her career and role in new film Wicked Little Letters , a poison pen mystery based on a true scandal that stunned England in the 1920's. The film's director Thea Sharrock also gives her take. Plus, as it releases on the streaming platform SBS on Demand, we re-visit some of Jason's conversation with filmmaker Sari Braithwaite about her poetic doc Because We Have Each Other (listen to the whole interview here .) Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sar...
Mar 20, 2024•54 min
Director Rose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding , a lesbian romantic thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager whose love affair with a female bodybuilder puts her on a collision course with her violent criminal family. Plus, three films screening around the country as part of this year's French Film Festival: Ama Gloria , Along Came Love and Rosalie. * Jason's interviews with filmmakers and actors for the French Film Festival were gathered in Paris where he was a guest at an international pr...
Mar 13, 2024•55 min
Melbourne born cinematographer Greig Fraser talks about his work on the biggest film on the planet right now, Dune: Part Two. Palestinian filmmaker Lina Soualem on Bye Bye Tiberias , an intimate film about her mother Hiam Abass, a famous actress, and four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation. Plus, producer Nadim Cheikhrouha discusses inventive Oscar nominated documentary Four Daughters , about a Tunisian woman whose two eldest daughters were radicalised by Islamic extremis...
Mar 06, 2024•54 min
British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker on her Cannes Un Certain Regard winner How to Have Sex, a sun-drenched coming of age drama about consent and sexual politics. Chilean director Maite Alberdi on her Oscar nominated documentary The Eternal Memory, a profound love story about Augusto and Paulina, one of Chile's most high profile couples, as they navigate Augusto’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and set out to build an archive of memory; and film programmer Kate Jinx with a report from this year's Berli...
Feb 28, 2024•54 min
Co-directors Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke on Drive-Away Dolls, a comedy starring Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan about two women in search of a fresh start who embark on an impromptu road trip. In new Quebecois film Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, a young female vampire is unable to kill to meet her need for blood, but may have found a solution in a young man with suicidal tendencies, director Ariane Louis-Seize joins us from Montreal. Plus, a discussion with film ...
Feb 21, 2024•53 min
American actor Dominic Sessa on his breakout role in Alexander Payne's Oscar nominated The Holdovers, a bittersweet drama set in the seventies about an unlikely trio stranded at an elite boarding school over Christmas. Finnish actress Alma Poysti on starring in Aki Kaurismaki's Fallen Leaves, a film that follows two lonely souls in modern day Helsinki; and French director Bertrand Bonello on his latest film The Beast, an unsettling dystopian romance. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Cor...
Feb 14, 2024•54 min
Ukranian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov's 20 Days in Mariupol is a raw, unflinching account of the Ukrainian siege through the courageous reporting of AP journalists. On the back of the film's Oscar nomination for best documentary, Mstyslav joins us. In the Emmy nominated series How To With John Wilson, an anxious New Yorker attempts to give everyday advice while dealing with his own personal issues. Creator and star John Wilson is our guest. Mstyslav Chernov is an online guest at this year's Austra...
Feb 07, 2024•54 min
Hollywood director Todd Haynes on his drama May December. Starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, and fresh from an Oscar nom, it unpicks the story of a married couple whose tabloid romance gripped the world twenty years earlier. Plus, as it becomes available to stream on Docplay , Adrian Francis discusses Paper City, his moving feature documentary about the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton Executive producer, Rhi...
Jan 31, 2024•54 min
Fresh from five Oscar noms, French director Justine Triet on Anatomy of a Fall, which also took home the 2023 Palme d'Or, an electric courtroom drama starring Sandra Hüller, about woman suspected of her husband's murder and the various moral dilemmas that arise. Korean Canadian actor and filmmaker Anthony Shim discusses Riceboy Sleeps, his touching indie drama about a Korean single mother raising her adolescent son in the suburbs of Canada during the 1990s. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sa...
Jan 24, 2024•54 min
Korean-born American filmmaker Celine Song discusses her first feature, one of the best reviewed films of the year, Past Lives, a love story about migration, connection and fate, and French actor/director Louis Garrel on his quirky mother-son crime caper The Innocent, a very charming film set in Lyon.
Jan 17, 2024•54 min
U.S. indie director Greta Gerwig discusses her billion dollar blockbuster Barbie, followed by three guest critics who write for ABC Arts give their verdict on both Barbie and the other big box office hit of the year, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
Jan 10, 2024•54 min
Filmmaker Warwick Thornton on The New Boy, his outback fable about an Aboriginal boy who comes under the care of a renegade catholic nun in 1940s Australia and his apprehension at directing Cate Blanchett in the role. Plus, the team behind Mission Impossible movie - director Christopher McQuarrie and some of his cast stop by to discuss the seventh film in the evergreen action franchise.
Jan 03, 2024•54 min
U.S. actor Nicholas Braun AKA Cousin Greg from the hit series Succession talks about his role of a lifetime. Plus, local filmmaker Alena Lodkina's the sophomore feature Petrol, and British acting legend Lesley Manville talks about her role in the TV series Citadel.
Dec 27, 2023•54 min
Cate Blanchett discusses her acclaimed film Tar, in which she plays a celebrity orchestra conductor who falls from grace. Plus, two more celebrated Australian actresses, Toni Collette and Angourie Rice, who chat about TV shows they were a part of this year, The Power and The Last Thing He Told Me.
Dec 20, 2023•54 min
Michael Mann, the director of summer blockbuster Ferrari joins us, plus, a trippy new Nicolas Cage film and Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott play lovers in All of Us Strangers.
Dec 13, 2023•54 min
Legendary British character actor David Thewlis on his role in The Artful Dodger, and Berlin Golden Bear winner On the Adamant.
Dec 06, 2023•54 min
Joel Edgerton on starring in Paul Schrader's new film; an intimate doc from Sari Braithwaite, and Trent Dalton on the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe.
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 1 min
