Meet the stars and director of the new release Conclave, a film that takes us inside the Vatican after the death of a pope.

Plus, we revisit interviews with Hollywood stars Austin Butler and Olivia Colman.

French director Justine Triet on Anatomy of a Fall, which received five Oscar nominations and took home the Palme d'Or in 2023. The film is an electric courtroom drama, about a woman suspected of her husband's murder and the various moral dilemmas that arise.

Hollywood director Todd Haynes on his drama May December. Starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, and also nominated for an Oscar, it unpicks the story of a married couple whose tabloid romance once gripped the world.

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

An interview this week with actor Paul Rudd, who stars in the upcoming Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. Also joining us is director of the film, Peyton Reed, the man behind Hollywood comedies like Bring It On and The Break-Up. Plus, ahead of a retrospective of her work at ACMI this month, critically acclaimed filmmaker Clara Law joins us.

U.S. filmmaker Darren Aronofsky speaks about his new film The Whale, which has earned Brendan Fraser a best Oscar nom. Plus, a look at the career of one of the most acclaimed screenwriters of all time.

Cate Blanchett talks to Jason about her Oscar nominated performance in Tár, and a new cross-cultural rom-com from the creators of Love Actually and Notting Hill.

Joel Edgerton talks about his role in The Stranger, and American showrunner Bryan Fuller is along too, he's one of the most exciting minds working in TV today.

Jason leads a conversation with three of Australia's brightest and most exciting filmmakers from the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival.

Two legends of the screen this week, George Miller and Charlotte Rampling.

We meet French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve who discusses her English language debut Bergman Island, and Joanna Hogg on the sequel to The Souvenir.

Pedro Almodovar on working with Penelope Cruz again in Parallel Mothers.  Pablo Larrain talks turning Kristen Stewart into Lady Diana in his film Spencer, and Sharon Horgan on her fantastic black comedy Bad Sisters.

Italian actor Sabrina Impacciatore on her starring role in the latest season of The White Lotus. We meet the director of Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness, and Sam Worthington and Cliff Curtis on the latest Avatar.

This week actor Alfred Molina joins us to talk about his lead role in Amazon's cosy new mystery series, plus Tim Minchin on the new film version of Matilda the Musical.

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Beth Stewart
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Luca Guadagnino talks about his Venice winning romance-horror Bones and All. Gary Oldman on the latest season of Slow Horses, and a new espionage thriller set in Russia.

We meet the director of The Menu, a fine dining scene satire starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Tayor-Joy. Plus, British actor Rebecca Hall on her new psychological horror and Melissa George chats about The Mosquito Coast.

Director Maria Schrader on She Said, the story of how two New York Times reporters  broke the story around sexual assault in Hollywood, and from acclaimed director Charlotte Sieling (Borgen, The Killing, The Bridge), Margrete — Queen of the North.

Moroccan director Maryam Touzani on her Cannes Un Certain Regard selected drama and Morocco's entry to next year's Academy Awards, and a documentary deep-dive into Melbourne and Sydney's rich history of filmmaking co-ops.

Hollywood writer-director-producer James Gray on his magnificent and moving new film Armageddon Time, and an offbeat comedy centering on the story of a mother and daughter in post-crisis Spain.

In this episode you'll meet Nicholas Stoller, the director of Bros, a gay rom-com starring Billy Eichner. Plus the Australian screenwriter on Mrs Harris goes to Paris and a haunted new series from Netflix.

Comedian and late night TV host Seth Meyers on his new spoof series which features a bunch of A-list stars including Cate Blanchett, and a new doc about one of the greatest and most explosive tennis players of all time.

Danish director Christoffer Boe on A Taste of Hunger, a  drama set in the gastronomic powerhouse of Copenhagen that blends ambition and Michelin stars with a hurtful betrayal. Plus, The Plains, a remarkable road movie in which a man commutes home at the end of the working day in Melbourne's outer suburbs each evening. Within the microcosm of the car the film becomes a meditation on time, memory, relationships and work. Filmmaker David Easteal joins us.

Two directors who have made thrillers about police investigating horrendous crimes and the psychological impact it has on them.

One of the most talented actors of his generation, Joel Edgerton, is in to discuss his role in new Australian thriller The Stranger, and one of the most exciting minds working in TV today, Bryan Fuller, on his new doc series.

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Exciting Australian director Goran Stolevski on his lush folk horror You Won't Be Alone. Luca Guadagnino's doc about Salvatore Ferragamo, and, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Ningla A-Na, one of the greatest Australian docs is restored.

A new documentary series that gives voice to the Australian wars, and we revisit a conversation with Australian actor Murray Bartlett upon his Emmy win for The White Lotus.

Upon the sad passing of one of the most exciting directors in the world, Jean-Luc Godard, we revisit a panel discussion from 2015.

It was recorded during a two day symposium at the University of Technology, focusing on his feature films – in particular 2010's Film Socialism and 2014's Goodbye to Language – shot in 3D.

It's almost impossible to describe these multilingual, non-narrative films in conventional plot terms – the former is set on the ill-fated cruise ship Costa Concordia and then in a family run petrol station – characters include a Nazi war criminal and a Russian detective. The latter was shot around Godard's house near lake Geneva and features a couple who are played by two different sets of actors, and a dog named Roxy (Godard's own). The shards of plot and character that both films offer find some solid ground on familiar Godardian obsessions: European identity; the Holocaust and the legacy of Western civilisation.

Speakers are Miriam Ross from Wellington's Victoria University, Julian Murphet, director for the centre for Modernism Studies at the University of New South Wales, filmmaker and Deakin University film scholar Dirk de Bruyn and Alex Gawronski, artist and scholar from the Sydney College of the Arts.

The director of an intimate new doc about Tasmania's Franklin River; Irish director Colm Bairéad on his exquisite film centered around a young foster girl, and UK filmmaker Peter Strickland's absurdist portrait of an arts collective.

Legendary Australian filmmaker George Miller on his new movie. Plus, Only Murders in the Building, a comedy starring Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short.

Sharon Horgan, Sarah Greene and Eva Birthistle on witty black comedy Bad Sisters; the directors who took home the top prize at MIFF, and film curator Dennis Lim on South Korean legend Hong Sangsoo.

Jason leads a conversation with three of the brightest and most exciting filmmakers from this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival.

Sophie Hyde talks about her new film, which stars Emma Thompson in an empowering portrayal of middle-aged sexuality, and U.S. actor Brandon Perea on his breakout role in Jordan Peele's new sci-fi horror. 

Screen legend Charlotte Rampling discusses her role in Juniper, in which she has a broken leg, drinks gin by the jug full and generally makes life miserable for those around her. Plus, a powerful documentary about a man with a week to live.

Director Eric Gravel discusses his gripping French drama about a single mother pushed to her limits. Cinematographer Stephen Murphy talks about his work on Atlanta, and we meet formally daring filmmaker Charlie Shackleton.

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.

Liam Hemsworth and Laura Dern discuss new Netflix film Lonely Planet, an unexpected romance set at a writers' retreat in Morocco.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Olivia Newman talks about directing the film adaptation of the global bestselling phenomenon Where the Crawdads Sing, and filmmaker Adrian Francis on his moving doc about three survivors of the 1945 bombing of Tokyo.

U.S. directors The Russo Brothers talk about their latest blockbuster The Gray Man. Actor Danielle McDonald on playing an opera singer in Falling For Figaro, and Hollywood producer Jason Blum on a new horror starring Ethan Hawke in a terrifying mask.

A crime series set in Arrernte country and a new doc that looks at Indigenous Australia's connection to AFL. Plus, two exciting directors from the far north, and we're at the Sydney premiere of Thor: Love and Thunder.

We meet the female cinematographer behind Baz Luhrmann's epic Elvis. An analysis of where streaming services have gone wrong recently, and L.A. based Aussie actor Claudia O'Doherty on her latest role in the quirky series Killing It.

A chat with Baz Lurhmann about his box office hit Elvis. Damon Herriman stars in a deliriously silly new comedy about love, nudity and gibberish, and we meet the stars of superhero series The Boys.

A conversation with the great American documentarian Frederick Wiseman as a retrospective of his work launches. British actor Jack Davenport on his role in the UK remake of a French hit, and a new doc that looks at a Greek music born of exile.

Nashen Moodley, artistic director of Sydney Film Festival is in to talk festival highlights as the event opens this week. He's joined by the curators of Screenability, a section of SFF that shines a spotlight on people with disability, and also the Travelling Film Festival, which showcases this world-class cinema in regional locations Amir Jadidi, Iranian star of Oscar and Cannes winning director Asghar Farhadi's new film A Hero, talks about the complex themes raised in this powerful drama about family, vulnerability and debt, and as the great British filmmaker Terence Davies' mesmerising new film Benediction releases, we revisit an excerpt of a conversation he had with Jason Di Rosso as it premiered at the 2021 British Film Festival.

As Obi-Wan Kenobi, the latest incarnation in the Star Wars universe arrives, we meet Deborah Chow, the first female director in the film franchise's history, as well as one of the stars of the series, Moses Ingram. We're also joined this week by Executive Producer Patrick Walters from See-Saw Films who are behind a slate of the best TV right now including Heartstopper and The Essex Serpent, plus, screenwriter Kodie Bedford, who's credits include Mystery Road, Squinters, Troppo and Firebite joins us for a career chat.

Writer-director Aaron Wilson on Little Tornadoes, his beautiful portrait of life in small town Australia in 1971, a time when the country was swept up in change. Opera singer Tiriki Onus on his debut film Ablaze, where together with filmmaker Alec Morgan he uncovers a 70-year-old lost film made by the first Aboriginal filmmaker, his grandfather William ‘Bill’ Onus. Plus, Nash Edgerton joins us from Dublin to talk about his latest film, a short about a couple of pranksters which he stars in alongside Rose Byrne called Shark, set to play at St Kilda Film Festival.

We meet two Australian women making waves in film & TV to hear about their personal experiences in the industry....Chloe Rickard - Partner, COO and Executive Producer at Jungle Entertainment who are behind some of our most high-profile shows including No Activity, The Moodys and Wakefield; and Sophie Hyde - director of the feature films Animals, 52 Tuesdays and 2022 Sundance hit Good Luck To You Leo Grande which stars Emma Thompson. Plus, director Renee Webster on How To Please a Woman, a lively female liberation drama with Sally Phillips in the lead (Veep, Bridget Jones), about a woman in her fifties who starts an all-male house house cleaning business.

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 Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Russell Stapleton
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Director Leah Purcell and actor Rob Collins on The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, Purcell's powerful post-colonial revision of a short story by Henry Lawson, which in her hands becomes a mesmerising outback western presented through a feminist, First Nations lens. Plus, Jonathan Alley tells us how he wove his admiration for cult band The Triffids into the beautiful documentary Love in Bright Landscapes, and Liz Doran, the co-creator and lead writer on a new 1970's set surf series Barons explains why this was a moment in time she was inspired to put on screen.

British actor Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) talks about playing the writer Roald Dahl in the new film To Olivia, set in the late 1950s, early 1960s, a period when he was married to American actor Patricia Neale and the couple lost their young child to measles. Plus, African American Italian director Jonas Carpignano on To Chiara, which won Best European Film at Cannes and follows a young Calabrian woman who learns some difficult family truths upon her father's disappearance.

Two interviews with directors who have made films about families, parenting and memory…...you’ll meet Korean-American writer director and film critic Kogonada, who talks about his mysterious, gentle sci-fi film After Yang, set in a near future society where androids can be bought as companions. Plus, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma , who’s new film is called Petit Maman, and asks the question, what if a child could travel back in time and meet their mother or father at the same age?