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Jason di Rosso interviews the makers of the movies and tv you need to see.
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As a new doc releases at the British Film Festival exploring the classic films and iconic pairing of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, the legendary, Academy Award winning James Ivory joins us.Documentary filmmakers Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker on Slice of Life, a road movie serving insights into how former Pizza Hut buildings around the U.S. have been repurposed.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Director Jason Reitman and cast, including Gabriel Labelle, Rachel Sennott, and Dylan O’Brien, discuss Saturday Night, a film that captures the behind-the-scenes energy of SNL, and the impact the long-running sketch show had on American culture when it arrived on TV screens in the 1970s. Shari Sebbens stars in The Moogai, where she plays a young mother who becomes increasingly unstable due to a malevolent spirit she believes is trying to take her children. Ahead of the screenings at the Adelaide Film Festival, director Sarra Tsorakidis discusses Ink Wash, a film that follows a painter grappling with a break-up as she approaches her 40th birthday.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tegan NichollsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Alice Springs based filmmaker Dylan River on his binge-able new TV series Thou Shalt Not Steal, one of the best things we’ve made in this country in the streaming era. It’s a love story, a road trip, a coming of age fable and a political critique, told from a black perspective, the perspective of a 17 year old, illiterate but streetwise juvenile delinquent named Robyn.A discussion about Lee, a biographical film starring Kate Winslet, about Lee Miller, the extraordinary woman who gave the world some of the most indelible, shocking photographic images of World War 2. We're joined by one of the film’s producers, Kate Soloman, and Miller’s son, Antony Penrose.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Beth StewartExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Academy Award winning animator Adam Elliot is back with Memoir of a Snail, a bittersweet memoir of a melancholic misfit who learns how to find confidence amid the clutter of her everyday life.Starring real-life mother-daughter duo Greta Scaachi and Leila George, He Ain't Heavy is an impressive debut feature about a young woman who sets out to rescue her drug-addicted brother. Director David Vincent Smith joins us.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Liam Hemsworth and Laura Dern discuss new Netflix film Lonely Planet, an unexpected romance set at a writers' retreat in Morocco.Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi on The Apprentice, a film that depicts Trump’s early years as a property developer in New York City in the 70s and 80s.British actor Himesh Patel discusses The Franchise, a comedy satire from Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes that zooms in on the cast and crew working on a superhero movie.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tegan NichollsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
British actor Gemma Arterton talks about her role in The Critic, a period drama in which she plays a struggling actress lured into a blackmail scheme by a powerful theatre critic played by Ian McKellen.Husband and wife directors Karrie Crouse and Will Joines on Hold Your Breath, an eerie horror set amongst the severe dust storms of 1930's Oklahoma.Another husband and wife duo, Alex Thompson and Kelly O'Sullivan, are behind new film Ghostlight, a drama that follows a construction worker who joins a local theatre production of Romeo and Juliet.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
One of the greatest directors of all time, Francis Ford Coppola, in conversation about his sci-fi Roman epic Megalopolis.Director Megan Park and actor Maisy Stella on sweet coming of age comedy-drama My Old Ass.Producer Bianca Stigter discusses Occupied City...Steve McQueen's excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city of Amsterdam.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Director Paola Cortellesi discusses There's Still Tomorrow, a neorealist inspired comedy-drama about an abused wife in post-second world war Rome...the highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy.The Oscar winning director behind Toy Story, Josh Cooley, and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura on Transformers One, the animated blockbuster starring Chris Hemsworth & Bryan Tyree Henry as sworn enemies.We meet the cast from La Maison, an addictive new French TV series about an iconic family fashion house thrown into scandal.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Hollywood star James McAvoy on the best thriller of the year so far, Speak No Evil, where he plays the lead villain in a film that's a convincing portrayal of an Anglo-American culture clash.Australian actor Hugo Weaving discusses his new role as the villain in the latest season of UK spy hit Slow Horses, where he stars opposite Gary Oldman. Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Director Josh Margolin on Thelma, an action comedy about a 93-year-old who gets duped by a phone scammer and sets out on a quest across the city to reclaim what is hers.The life of French painter Pierre Bonnard and his wife Marthe de Méligny is explored over five decades in Bonnard: Pierre and Martha. Jason meets actor Cecile de France and director Martin Provost in Paris.Ahead of an Australian tour Iranian-British actor and comedian Omid Djalili discusses his career, which has seen him work alongside Hollywood greats including Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Ridley Scott and Brad Pitt.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tegan NichollsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Rising Australian star Charlie Vickers discusses his career and playing the villain Sauron in The Rings of Power, prequel to The Lord of the Rings.French actor Léa Drucker on Last Summer, a film by veteran director Catherine Breillet that explores the taboos of a stepmother–stepson relationship.(This interview was recorded in Paris, where Jason was a guest of Unifrance, the French government agency that organises an international press event for film journalists from around the world every year.)
Hollywood director Paul Feig discusses Jackpot!, his action comedy featuring Awkwafina. Set in the near future it's about the establishment of a new kind of lottery, the catch: kill the winner to legally claim the multi-billion dollar jackpot.British-Irish filmmaker Rich Peppiat on his doc Kneecap, about the Irish rap trio of the same name.An interview from the archives on the late Gena Rowlands with New York based critic Sheila O'Malley.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Emrys CroninExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Canadian director Matthew Rankin on Universal Language, his off-beat transformation film set in Canada's beigest city, steeped in the influence of Iranian Cinema.Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut Janet Planet is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-age tale set in the nineties. Actor Julianne Nicholson discusses her role in the film.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Melbourne International Film Festival is set to kick off, Australia's biggest annual showcase of cinema, and we meet the filmmakers behind two films screening as part of this year's event...British filmmaker Luna Carmoon who's 4 x Venice-winning feature debut Hoard is an off-kilter coming of age tale set in South London, about a traumatised, rubbish-fixated teen; and Melbourne based, Hong Kong born experimental filmmaker Audrey Lam, on her first feature Us and the Night, a dreamlike film that takes inspiration from her years working in public libraries.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John JacobsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
In M. Night Shyamalan's Trap, a man and his teenage daughter discover they're at the centre of a dark and sinister event while watching a pop concert. The legendary thriller director behind The Sixth Sense joins us.Lea Glob on her mesmerising doc Apolonia, Apolonia, which covers 13 years in the life of talented artist Apolonia Sokol.Catherine Deneuve takes on a satirical portrayal of Bernadette Chirac, wife of former French President Jacques Chirac in The President's Wife. We meet director Léa Domenach.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John JacobsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, stars of Deadpool and Wolverine, discuss coming together in the latest in the Marvel superhero film franchiseHollywood actor Bobby Cannavale on Ezra, where he plays a comedian who goes on life-changing road trip with his autistic son.Mexican director Lila Aviles on her moving family drama Totem, inspired by the experience of losing her husband.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Nathan TurnbullExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Director Lee Isaac Chung on Twisters, a disaster film starring Daisy Edgar Jones and Glen Powell, about a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives to test a radical new weather alert system.Beautifully shot on 16mm, Cannes Un Certain Regard contender Việt And Nam tells the love story of two gay mineworkers in Vietnam. Filmmaker Quý Minh Trương joins Jason.Iceland's Rúnar Rúnarsson discusses his feature When the Light Breaks, a tender story of a teen grieving for her first love's death during one long summer day.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Emrys CroninExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Yorgos Lanthimos on his latest absurdist black comedy Kinds of Kindness, about a man seeking to break free from his predetermined path.Australian filmmaking duo Jim Weir and Jack Clark on Birdeater, a psychological thriller that tells the story of a bride-to-be being invited to her own fiancé's bucks party.U.S. director Ti West discusses his horror MaXXXine, which stars Mia Goth as an adult film star and aspiring actress in 1980's Hollywood.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Beth StewartExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
1Hollywood star Austin Butler discusses his role in Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders, where he plays the lead opposite Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer in a tender film about the golden age of biker culture.Rashida Jones and Hidetoshi Nishijima on new TV series Sunny, which follows the life of an American woman living in Kyoto whose life is up-ended when her husband and son disappear.French director Élise Girard talks about Sidonie in Japan, where Isabelle Huppert plays an author on a book tour of Japan haunted by the ghost of her late husband.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
One of France’s finest and most-awarded actors Emmanuelle Devos talks about her role in provocative new drama A Silence, from writer/director Joachim Lafosse, who also joins us. It's the story of a married couple who grapple with the fallout after a long-held family secret is exposed.Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet on her adaptation of bestselling novel Un Amor, a bittersweet, gritty and striking exploration of gender roles, love, obsession and desire.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, John JacobsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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That interview with Desiree Akhavan was one of the best things I've listened to in a long while!! Thank you Jason and Desiree both!