The Screen Show

Following the sad news of RJ Mitte's passing, we're revisiting our Top Shelf conversation with the actor best known for playing Walter White Jr. in Breaking Bad, widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. In 2019, Mitte joined us in the studio to reflect on the films and television that shaped him, sharing some of his favourite screen classics and the performances that left a lasting impression.

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility returns to the screen for a new generation, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles stepping into the iconic roles of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The A-list duo discuss re-imagining one of literature's most enduring stories.
In the harrowing new documentary Naza, anonymous Israeli whistleblowers describe the remote killing of Palestinians in Gaza during recent military operations. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (No Other Land), the film uses its nocturnal setting to explore surveillance, accountability and moral distance, making it one of the most powerful and unsettling films of the year.
Dragana Jurišić is a photographer and filmmaker from the former Yugoslavia. Her documentary The Balkan Cowboy (screening at the Adelaide Film Festival), follows the folklore of a larger-than-life amateur filmmaker whose homemade Westerns captured her imagination as a child, and sets her on a path to shooting her own Western using locals from across the splintered Balkan divides, to create a new story that pieces together a history fractured by war crimes.
La Bola Negra has emerged as one of the most talked-about films of the year. The ambitious Spanish-language drama from Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi weaves stories of love, memory and queer identity across generations, and is already being tipped as a serious Oscar contender after a celebrated festival run.

Two new television dramas reviewed: the ABC's Dustfall, which investigates a harrowing sexual assault case after a teenage girl is found with amnesia in a sugarcane field, and HBO Max's War, a series starring Sienna Miller and Dominic West that follows a bitter, high-profile divorce.

Two Academy Award winners, Aaron Sorkin and Mikey Madison, discuss The Social Reckoning, Sorkin's return to the world he helped create with The Social Network. The writer-director reflects on revisiting the rise of social media in a dramatically different political and cultural moment, while Madison talks about stepping into one of the film's central roles.
Film critic and MIFF programmer Kate Jinx joins us fresh from the New York Film Festival to discuss two of the event's stand-out films, both heading to Australian screens soon: You Can See Everything and The History of Concrete.
Plus, in anticipation of The History of Concrete, we revisit part of our conversation with filmmaker John Wilson about his hugely popular TV series How To with John Wilson (Listen to the whole thing here.)
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John Steinbeck's East of Eden gets a lavish new Netflix adaptation led by Florence Pugh, while My Sad Dead turns Mariana Enríquez's unsettling ghost stories into a supernatural drama directed by acclaimed Chilean director Pablo Larraín. Jason and Wenlei weigh in.