Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung on The Taste of Things, a 19th Century culinary romance starring Juliette Binoche; plus a nineties cult classic and a picaresque journey through America.

We meet the filmmaker duo behind Hollywood rom-com The Fall Guy; the cinematographer of Luca Guadagnino’s new tennis movie, Challengers; Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi; and an interview from the archives with Eleanor Coppola.

Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher discusses her beguiling fantasy La Chimera, and Vietnamese American star Kieu Chinh reflects on her Hollywood career, and latest role in The Sympathizer.

Hollywood star Dev Patel on his directorial debut Monkey Man,  and director Pablo Berger discusses his Oscar nominated animated tragi-comedy Robot Dreams.

A shocking Homeric adventure story of modern migration, and a drama from Sudan that featured in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes.

Academy Award winning actor Olivia Colman on her career and new film Wicked Little Letters.

Director Rose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding, a violent romantic thriller starring Kristen Stewart, plus, three films screening around the country as part of this year's French Film Festival.

Going behind the scenes on the biggest film on the planet, Dune:Part Two, plus, an intimate new Palestinian film and Oscar nominated doc Four Daughters.

Chilean director Maite Alberdi on her Oscar nominated documentary The Eternal Memory, plus sun-drenched coming of age drama How To Have Sex.

Co-directors Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke on their road trip comedy Drive-Away Dolls, plus, a new vampire movie from Montreal, and Melbourne Cinematheque's tribute to The Taviani Brothers.

Dominic Sessa on his breakout role in Alexander Payne's Oscar nominated The Holdovers, plus Finnish actor Alma Poysti talks about working with Finnish master Aki Kaurismaki.

Oscar nominated doc 20 Days in Mariupol, a raw, unflinching account of the Ukrainian siege, and New Yorker John Wilson on his Emmy nominated series How To with John Wilson.

Fresh from an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, Todd Haynes talks bout his feature May December. 

We're back for 2024 with Oscar nominated and Palme d'Or winning film Anatomy of a Fall, and touching Korean-Canadian drama Riceboy Sleeps.

Korean-born American filmmaker Celine Song discusses her first feature, one of the best reviewed films of the year, Past Lives, a love story about migration, connection and fate, and French actor/director Louis Garrel on his quirky mother-son crime caper The Innocent, a very charming film set in Lyon.

U.S. indie director Greta Gerwig discusses her billion dollar blockbuster Barbie, followed by three guest critics who write for ABC Arts give their verdict on both Barbie and the other big box office hit of the year, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Filmmaker Warwick Thornton on The New Boy, his outback fable about an Aboriginal boy who comes under the care of a renegade catholic nun in 1940s Australia and his apprehension at directing Cate Blanchett in the role. Plus, the team behind Mission Impossible movie - director Christopher McQuarrie and some of his cast stop by to discuss the seventh film in the evergreen action franchise.

U.S. actor Nicholas Braun AKA Cousin Greg from the hit series Succession talks about his role of a lifetime. Plus, local filmmaker Alena Lodkina's the sophomore feature Petrol, and British acting legend Lesley Manville talks about her role in the TV series Citadel.

Cate Blanchett discusses her acclaimed film Tar, in which she plays a celebrity orchestra conductor who falls from grace. Plus, two more celebrated Australian actresses, Toni Collette and Angourie Rice, who chat about TV shows they were a part of this year, The Power and The Last Thing He Told Me.

Michael Mann, the director of summer blockbuster Ferrari joins us, plus, a trippy new Nicolas Cage film and Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott play lovers in All of Us Strangers.

Legendary British character actor David Thewlis on his role in The Artful Dodger, and Berlin Golden Bear winner On the Adamant.

Joel Edgerton on starring in Paul Schrader's new film; an intimate doc from Sari Braithwaite, and Trent Dalton on the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe.

Susanna Fogel on Cat Person, a sharp examination of the horrors of dating born from a New Yorker story that went viral, and Ken Loach on what may be his final film.

Kitty Green on her unnerving backpacker thriller, and a new doc from two Swedish filmmakers that explores our obsession with image.