We bring you an informed look at screen culture. In an age of 'peak TV' where the world’s best actors, producers and directors increasingly fluctuate between the small screen and the big, The Screen Show explores the best that both film and television have to offer.

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Thursday 16 May 2019

  • Peterloo: Interview with director Mike Leigh

    Mike Leigh's Peterloo is a drama full of depth and richness.

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  • Talking TV with Lauren Carroll Harris: Catch 22

    Our TV critic Lauren Carroll Harris talks to Jason Di Rosso about the what the new hyperblokey mini series Catch-22 brings to today’s culture of political mania and drone invasions.

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  • Arts news — Mortal Kombat will be "the biggest production that's ever been in Adelaide"

    A reboot of the epic action movie will be brought to life in South Australia later this year.

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  • The Heiresses: Interview with director Marcello Martinessi

    Marcelo Martinessi discusses the themes of class, confinement and shame in The Heiresses

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Thursday 9 May 2019

  • Acute Misfortune: interview with director Thomas M. Wright

    Acute Misfortune is a story about the late painter Adam Cullen, and the young journalist who attempts to write a book about him.

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  • Talking TV with Lauren Carroll Harris: Fleabag

    Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the creator and star of this series, part of a wave of perverse comedies about people in their thirties whose lives are going nowhere.

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  • Arts news — Warwick Thornton bags another prize for Sweet Country

    Thornton has won an Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film.

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  • Ága: interview with filmmakers Milko Lazarov and Veselka Kiryakova

    Ága is an arctic love story set in one of the coldest places on earth, about a couple yearning for their estranged daughter.

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  • Review: The Hustle

    This film fits in with recent female-centred Hollywood titles that have been marketed as populist feminist entertainment, but it hasn't worked.

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Thursday 2 May 2019

  • Miranda Tapsell and Gwilym Lee talk about Aussie rom-com Top End Wedding

    This new Australian film has themes of identity, place and belonging at its heart.

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  • Talking TV with Lauren Carroll Harris: Veep

    We look at where this major TV comedy finds itself in its seventh and final season.

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  • Arts news — Avengers: Endgame sets a global box office record

    The finale of the Marvel series had made $1.7 billion worldwide as of Monday.

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  • Top Shelf: Sue Maslin

    Sue Maslin is one of Australia's most successful film producers, her credits include The Dressmaker, Japanese Story and Road to Nhill.

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  • ACMI celebrates the films of Iranian New Wave director Jafar Pahani

    The Australian Centre for the Moving Image is currently celebrating the works of Iranian New Wave director Jafar Pahani.

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Thursday 25 Apr 2019

  • Celeste: interview with Radha Mitchell and Ben Hackworth

    This is an ambitious film about family secrets, sex and mortality, and it's always good to see an Australian team reaching to make something this bold.

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  • Talking TV: an interview with the creator of hit Icelandic noir Trapped

    Lauren Carroll Harris speaks to Baltasar Kormákur, the creator and showrunner behind a thriller from Iceland that has become a global phenomenon.

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  • Review: Avengers: Endgame

    This is a film that's both mournful and angry, with low light cinematography that seems to cloak its characters in grey shadow.

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  • Cinema Reborn: interview with curator Adrian Danks

    An annual showcase of recent restorations of canonical movies called Cinema Reborn is currently providing an alternative to the Hollywood blockbuster.

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Thursday 18 Apr 2019

  • Gloria Bell: interview with Julianne Moore

    Academy Award winning actor Julianne Moore joins us to talk about her role in Sebastian Lelio's remake of the Chilean film Gloria.

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  • Talking TV: Killing Eve

    As the much anticipated Killing Eve returns to screens for Season 2, TV critic Lauren Carrol-Harris joins Jason to discuss where things seems to be heading, and how it's expanding on themes of female love and solidarity, trauma and dark comedy.

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  • Arts news — Game of Thrones sets Australian viewing records for Foxtel

    More than 900,000 viewers tuned to Foxtel's linear broadcast, with another 330,000 streaming the show.

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  • Breaking Habits: interview with director Rob Ryan

    A surprising new documentary out this week tells the incredible story of a former corporate executive who becomes a medicinal cannabis farmer, and takes on the persona of a nun.

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  • Review: Burning

    There's a silent, creeping desperation in the South Korean psychological thriller Burning, winner of the critics' prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival, that is initially so understated it almost lulls you into a sense of complacency.

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Thursday 11 Apr 2019

  • The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: interview with Terry Gilliam

    Jason Di Rosso speaks to Terry Gilliam about directing The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, one of the most disaster plagued films of all time.

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  • Talking TV with Lauren Carroll Harris: interview with the creators and stars of Pen15

    Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine speak to us about their successful teen comedy Pen15, and contemplate why it's striking such a chord with all age ranges.

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  • Arts news — a Grease prequel in the works

    The film, titled Summer Loving, is in development by Paramount.

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  • Top Shelf: Geraldine Hakewill

    We invited the star of Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries in to tell us about some films and TV shows that inspire her.

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Thursday 4 Apr 2019

  • Film critics panel: Pet Sematary

    We look at how the 2019 remake of Stephen King's horror Pet Sematary holds up.

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  • Arts news — Helen Mirren and the US Department of Justice weigh in on Netflix

    Should streaming services like Netflix be eligible to enter their films in to the Oscars race? The US Department of Justice says yes.

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  • Talking TV with Lauren Carroll Harris: Round the Twist

    On its 30th anniversary, Lauren Carroll Harris looks back at groundbreaking Australian kids TV show Round the Twist with creator Paul Jennings.

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  • Awavena is a VR experience by Emmy award winning director Lynette Wallworth

    Awavena transports you to an Amazonion village to hear the story of a woman who becomes her tribe's first female Shaman, and through immersive technology brings audiences into contact with indigenous communities.

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  • Vale Agnes Varda

    Filmmaker Agnes Varda died this week aged 90. Few directors were more admired by cinephiles.

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Thursday 28 Mar 2019

  • Film critic Miriam Bale on Jordan Peele's new horror Us

    Get Out director Jordan Peele is back with a new film called Us starring Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke.

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  • Arts news — The Forrest Gump sequel that almost-was

    Forrest Gump would have danced with Princess Diana and been in the back of OJ Simpson's Bronco in a scrapped sequel, according to its screenwriter.

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  • 21st Century Fox has officially been acquired by Disney and the launch of Apple TV +

    We dig deeper into some big news out of Hollywood set to completely change the landscape of mega studios and streaming giants.

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  • Talking TV with Lauren Carroll Harris: Now Apocalypse

    Acclaimed writer-director Gregg Araki talks about his surreal new millennial comedy Now Apocalypse.

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Thursday 21 Mar 2019

  • Talking TV with Lauren Carroll Harris: After Life

    Does Ricky Gervais explore any new territory with his new Netflix series? Satirist Mark Humphries joins Lauren Carroll Harris and Jason Di Rosso to discuss.

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  • Karyn Kusama directs Nicole Kidman in superb cop thriller Destroyer

    From the moment director Karyn Kusama debuted on the world stage at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, it was clear she had an uncommon gift for colour and light.

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  • Arts news — fake art, resignations and re-hirings

    Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara has stood down over sexual misconduct allegations, while Guardians of the Galaxy Director James Gunn has been re-hired, after his own public embarassment.

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  • Film curator Richard Sowada talks Design on Film

    Melbourne Design Week is underway and part of this year's program is the Design on Film Festival, which explores the world of design and architecture on film.

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Thursday 14 Mar 2019

  • Hotel Mumbai: an interview with Dev Patel and Anthony Maras

    It's understandable that filmmakers are drawn to real life atrocities, but dramatising evil can be a tricky endeavour if you're hoping to say something meaningful.

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  • Solange's When I Get Home redefines album art

    American singer, songwriter and producer Solange has just released a new album called When I Get Home, and with it a 33 minute film that shows how the music industry is changing its approach to the moving image.

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  • Arts news — Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin arrested over college admissions scandal

    The actors are amongst the dozens of people arrested over a scheme to help cheat their children's way in to elite universities.

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  • Top Shelf: Marcus Graham

    Actor Marcus Graham is in to talk about five films that he loves.

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  • Review: Sometimes Always Never is a low key comedy about family grief

    There's a touch of Wes Anderson in its fetishised suburban aesthetic, but not too much - it's less crammed, more open to emotion.

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