Danish actor Connie Nielson on starring in the big blockbuster of the week, Ridley Scott's sumptuous swords and sandals melodrama, Gladiator II.Director James Bradley on Welcome to Babel, a documentary about Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen’s plans to create an epic work depicting his homeland’s tumultuous recent history.As it launches on SBS on Demand, we revisit some of Jason's interview with the director of Flee, a three-time Oscar-nominated documentary about the hidden past of a man fleeing his home country.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tegan NichollsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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Slice of Life + film-making legend James Ivory
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.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.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Russell StapletonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
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Saturday Night, The Moogai, Ink Wash
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
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Thou Shalt Not Steal + Lee
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
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Memoir of a Snail + He Ain't Heavy
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