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The Screen Show

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Jason di Rosso interviews the makers of the movies and tv you need to see.

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54:07

Miranda July and the Chicago 7

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2020/10/21

Indie filmmaker Miranda July is our guest this week, talking about her quirky new crime film Kajillionaire, and we look at Aaron Sorkin's latest work for Netflix, a dramatisation of a notorious political trial from the 1960s starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Eddie Redmayne.

54:06

Activism and documentary with Alex Gibney and Nathan...

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2020/10/14

Two documentaries that stare into the flames today, one about the world’s most well known climate activist, Greta Thunberg, and another that looks at the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19.

54:08

Visions of America with Channing Godfrey Peoples and...

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2020/10/07

Channing Godfrey Peoples talks about her film Miss Juneteenth, a soulful exploration of Black Texan culture, and Garrett Bradley on her critically acclaimed documentary Time, about a woman's fight to reform the justice system in America. And, Schitt's Creek.

54:08

Emmy winner Greig Fraser and a critics' panel on Jean...

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2020/10/01

We meet the Australian cinematographer who took out an Emmy award a few weeks ago for his work on the Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian, and a critics panel on minimalist film noir master Jean Pierre Melville ahead of a retrospective on his work.

54:07

Conspiracies...mysteries with John Cusack, Gillian...

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2020/09/24

We're coming to you this week with three really big interviews......Gillian Flynn and John Cusack talk about their roles as creator and star of new pandemic series Utopia, and Sofia Coppola speaks about her wonderful new film which reunites her with Bill Murray.

52:45

Transformation, nostalgia and an Australian icon

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2020/09/17

Moroccan writer-director Maryam Touzani talks about her powerfully subtle film based on a real life story. A new podcast looks back at an iconic Australian TV series that was also David Bowie's favourite show, and we meet the makers of a new film about Slim Dusty.

52:36

Bill and Ted's bodacious return and a masterful spy...

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2020/09/10

After 30 years Bill and Ted are back as middle-aged metalheads. Actor Natasha Wanganeen talks through films meaningful to her for Top Shelf, and we finally get to South Korean director Park Chan-Wook's masterful adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl.

53:52

Feminism, family and new wave genre fiction

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2020/09/03

A critical discussion on the new film I Am Woman, about the life and career of feminist songstress Helen Reddy. Lulu Wang joins us for Top Shelf, and a look at HBO's Lovecraft Country, a sci-fi depiction of being Black in America that reimagines genre fiction.

54:08

Sci-fi, spirits and a politically-charged debut

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2020/08/27

A discussion on Christopher Nolan's blockbuster Tenet, a time travel, spy thriller starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki. We meet the creatives behind supernatural series Hungry Ghosts, and the main stars of Cannes Jury Prize winner and Oscar nominee Les Misérables.

54:37

Celebrating the centenary year of Federico Fellini

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2020/08/20

In this special edition of The Screen Show we celebrate the centenary year of the birth of one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time with a panel of international Fellini scholars, and filmmakers Baz Luhrmann and Guy Maddin.

54:04

Satire, power and race

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2020/08/13

We discuss the sexy new series being called the best drama of the year. Plus, writer-director Quentin Dupieux talks about his comedy-horror Deerskin; an animated film from India screening at MIFF, and Catherine McClements on Meryl Streep.

54:07

Fantastical and symbolic realities

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2020/08/06

We speak to Xavier Grobet, Emmy nominated cinematographer on HBO's superhero series Watchmen, and guest critics discuss revenge drama Hyenas and the ambitious Russian DAU project, both standout offerings at Melbourne International Film Festival's online event.

53:51

Corruption, hipsters and Hitchcock

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2020/07/30

Colombian director Franco Lolli talks about casting his own mother in relationship drama Litigante. Jonathan Furmanski on his work behind the camera on hipster hit Search Party, and academic Bruce Isaacs explores Hitchcock's notion of 'pure cinema.'

53:52

Family, community and love in the time of lockdown

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2020/07/23

Shannon Murphy's debut Babyteeth is one of the most important Australian films of the year, she joins us. Plus, an online series filmed entirely in lockdown in Spain and a bold and timely work from U.S. filmmakers The Ross Brothers.

54:29

Isolation, loss and a new history of film

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2020/07/16

We meet writer Meg O'Connell and actor Pallavi Sharda, some of the creatives behind lockdown series Retrograde, a review of Judd Apatow's The King of Staten Island, and a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective.

54:06

Ambiguous takes on noir, history and horror

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2020/07/09

An Australian theme runs through the show as Jason meets directors Tony McNamara (The Favourite, The Great) and Natalie Erika James (Relic), plus Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason talks about his unexpected take on Nordic noir.

54:07

Moral dilemmas, quirky Dickens and global tensions

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2020/07/02

Jason speaks with the directors of three films releasing in cinemas this week, Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui, British satirist Armando Iannucci and Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman.

54:06

Cinemas reopen, space and scandals

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2020/06/25

A look at the state of play regarding cinemas reopening. Jason meets the director of space movie Proxima, and former Quizmaster Mark Humphries on a new BBC miniseries about the real life scandal that hit the UK's Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

54:07

Where to now for cop shows? Plus, fashion and politics

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2020/06/18

On the back of protests against police brutality we discuss what this means for policing on screen. Jason speaks with the director of TV series Made in Italy, a new doco about climate change and Joanna Hoggs' The Souvenir.

54:06

Negotiating ideas of difference on religion, class...

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2020/06/11

Jason speaks with the cinematographer on Spike Lee's new film Da 5 Bloods. A discussion on the Northern Irish sitcom Derry Girls, and an interview from Paris with writer-director Justine Triet.

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