The Film Programme
By BBC Radio 4
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Podcast Description
Interviews and analysis from the world of cinema. Francine Stock talks to directors, writers and critics about the latest film releases, classics on DVD and movies on television.
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Film: 24 May 2012 - Cannes Film Festival | Francine Stock reports from the 65th Cannes Film Festival, speaking to jury member Alexander Payne, director of Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson, and Ken Loach whose latest, The Angels' Share, is his 11th film in competition for The Palme d'Or. | 24 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 17052012 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | A celebration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, considered by many to be Britain's Citizen Kane. With contributions from director Martin Scorsese, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and filmmaker Kevin Macdonald. | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 100512: Julie Delpy and Jonny Lee Miller | Francine Stock meets with Jonny Lee Miller to discuss his role in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows. Screenwriter Paul Laverty talks about his Bolivian epic, Even the Rain. Nigel Havers looks back at his time in Borneo with a wild Nick Nolte. Julie Delpy on 2 Days in New York, and why she wants to direct Woody Allen in her next film. | 10 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 3 May 12: Tom Courtney & Neil Brand | Sir Tom Courtenay looks back at his first film role The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Neil Brand is behind the piano to study the music of the British New Wave. Critic Sandra Hebron discusses two psychological dramas of a different kind - Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, and Dirk Bogarde in Reiner Fassbinder's Despair | 3 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 25 April - Tom Hiddleston & Janet McTeer | Tom Hiddleston talks about his role in The Avengers Assemble and Janet McTeer discusses her Oscar nominated role in Albert Nobbs starring Glenn Close in the title role. Chris Langham talks to Francine about his part in the British film, Black Pond and critic Scott Jordan Harris looks at the work of Roger Ebert, the world's most famous film critic. | 26 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 19 Apr 12 Emily Blunt and Juliette Binoche | Francine Stock meets with Emily Blunt to talk about her new film, an adaptation of Paul Torday's best-seller, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Director Kevin MacDonald makes the case for Bob Marley as one of the most important cultural icons of the 20th century. Juliette Binoche talks about her new film, Elles, an exploration of modern day prostitution in Paris. Producer: Craig Smith. | 19 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 12 Apr 12 Michael Sheen in Port Talbot | In a special edition of the programme, Matthew Sweet travels to Port Talbot in Wales to meet one of its most famous sons, Michael Sheen. He discusses The Gospel of Us, the film version of his biblical passion play performed amongst the local community last Easter. The actor also takes Matthew on a tour of the town that produced two other stars of the big screen - Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins. Producer: Craig Smith. | 12 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 05 Apr 12 This Must Be the Place; Headhunters | Francine Stock and film-maker Paolo Sorrentino discuss This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn as a jaded rock star. Morten Tyldum on his Norwegian thriller Headhunters. Four Weddings and a Funeral director Mike Newell professes his love for Jean Renoir's classic POW drama, La Grande Illusion. | 5 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 29 March 12 Hugh Grant; Jafar Panahi | In an extended interview, Francine Stock meets with Hugh Grant to talk about his new role as the voice of an incompetent buccaneer in the Aardman Animations 3-D stop-motion film, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. He also discusses his role in The Leveson Inquiry, and why he thinks the films of Jean-Luc Godard are pretentious nonsense. Also on the programme, a profile of Jafar Panahi, one of Iran's most famous directors, whose latest work, This Is Not A Film, is an attempt to make a film under house arrest. We also investigate the routes around the censors taken by earlier filmmakers in other countries. | 29 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 22 Mar 12 Jennifer Lawrence; Brian Cox | Francine Stock meets with Jennifer Lawrence to discuss her lead role in The Hunger Games. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne discuss their new film, Kid with a Bike. Director Andrew Haigh on his indie breakthrough hit, Weekend, about an intimate relationship between two men in Nottingham. Actor Brian Cox does his best impression of Orson Welles and explains why he'll be performing the entire script of 'the greatest film never made', Welles's adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. | 22 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 15 Mar 12 Mark Wahlberg; Celebrating Ken Russell | Francine Stock meets with Mark Wahlberg to discuss his new film, Contraband, his love of European thrillers, and why his criminal record has helped his acting career. Polish director Agnieszka Holland discusses her new film, In Darkness, a real-life tale of a group of Jews who hid from the Nazis in the sewers of Lvov, in Poland. And a celebration of the late director Ken Russell, as Kim Newman reviews a new cut of The Devils, and from behind the piano Neil Brand deconstructs Russell's use of music in his films from Gustav Mahler to The Who. | 15 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 9 Mar 12: John Cusack & Juliet Stevenson | John Cusack discusses his latest film, The Raven and Juliet Stevenson talks about working on Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers. The team behind Cheek By Jowel's theatre company move to the big screen with Bel Ami and actor Riz Ahmed talks about working on Tess of the d'Urbervilles set in India | 8 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 010312: Minnie Driver & Marc Evans | Minnie Driver and director Marc Evans discuss their Welsh high school musical, Hunky Dory. How do Oscar winning films actually perform at the box office? Bernardo Bertolucci’s film The Conformist is re-examined and director Markus Schleinzer discusses his new film, Michael | 1 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 230212:Woody Harrelson, Oscars' Diary & Black Gold | Woody Harrelson talks about his new movie, Rampart; Stephen Frears on his favourite film, Otto Preminger's Laura; Grant Orchard & Sue discuss their Oscar-nominated short, A Morning Stroll and producer Ali Jaafar talks about his new film, Black Gold. | 23 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 16 Feb: Max von Sydow and Ciaran Hinds | Matthew Sweet talks to the actors Max von Sydow and Ciaran Hinds about their latest films and explores the world of cult director Norman J Warren. Also Neil Brand explains how atonal music and Hammer horror discovered that they were made for each other. Producer: Zahid Warley | 16 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 09 Feb: A Dangerous Method | David Cronenberg talks about A Dangerous Method. James Watkins discusses Woman in Black, James Bobbin on The Muppets. Producer: Craig Smith | 9 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 2 Feb The Descendants | Francine Stock and Alexander Payne discuss his Oscar-nominated film The Descendants. | 2 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 26 Jan Three Oscar-nominated directors | Francine Stock talks to three Oscar-nominated directors - Martin Scorsese, Michel Hazanavicius and Woody Allen. Uggie, the Jack Russell from The Artist, has been snubbed by the Academy despite an online campaign to have him receive a best actor nod. But should animals receive Academy Awards? Susan Orlean, author of a new biography of Rin Tin Tin, believes so. She explains why. Director Volker Schlöndorff discusses his Oscar winning film from 1979, The Tim Drum, an adaptation of Gunter Grass's celebrated novel of the same name. And former cast member of Radio 4's The Archers Felicity Jones discusses her new film, Like Crazy. | 26 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 19 Jan Ralph Fiennes | Francine Stock talks to Ralph Fiennes about his Coriolanus and delves into the murky world of J.Edgar which is directed by Clint Eastwood and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Naomi Watts. | 19 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 12 Jan 12 War Horse; Shame | Francine Stock weighs up the week's two big releases - Steven Spielberg's War Horse and Steve McQueen's Shame. Spielberg is already being tipped for an Oscar and McQueen has been gathering plaudits from all over the world for his film which features Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender in a study of sex addiction. | 12 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 5 Jan 12 The Iron Lady; Mother and Child | The Film Programme strays into the territory of Greek tragedy this week embracing the family, family politics and politics itself. Francine Stock talks to Olivia Colman about playing opposite Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady, Phyllida Lloyd's film about Margaret Thatcher; she discusses teenage pregnancy,lost daughters and redemption with Rodrigo Garcia the director of Mother and Child which stars Annette Bening and Naomi Watts; and she joins the critic Jonathan Romney to assess the celebrated Chilean film, Post Mortem which is released this month on DVD. Then, in a final flourish she invites the historian Jeffrey Richards, to reflect on the strange impact which an Atlantic crossing can have on a film''s title. | 5 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 29Dec11: The Artist & Silent Films | Francine Stock and guests explore the enduring appeal of silent film as The Artist, a celebration of the era, opens in cinemas across the UK | 29 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Daniel Craig and the late Ken Russell | Francine Stock talks to Daniel Craig about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, looks ahead to next year's likely hits and pays tribute to the genius of Ken Russell | 22 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 151211: Eddie Marsen & Carol Morley | Carol Morley talks to Francine Stock about her disturbing documentary, Dreams of a Life and one of the undisputed stars of British cinema, Eddie Marsan, shares a few acting tips. Andrew Collins gives his verdict on the nominations for this year's Golden Globes and Jonathan Romney and Hannah McGill pick the year's best foreign language films and look forward to 2012 | 15 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: 081112: Nick Broomfield talks about his new film | Directors abound this week. Nick Broomfield discusses his documentary on Sarah Palin, Ben Wheatley sketches the motives behind Kill List and Mike Cahill explains Another Earth. | 8 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Martin Scorsese on Hugo and the future of cinema. | Martin Scorsese talks to Francine Stock about cinema's future, his passion for its history and the way he's used 3D to conjure them both to dazzling life in his new film, Hugo. | 1 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Kenneth Branagh, Nanni Moretti & Michael Shannon | Conflict is this week's theme. It begins with the clash between Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier during the filming of The Prince and The Showgirl - a story which lies at the heart of Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn starring Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams; it continues with the friction caused when belief bumps into psychoanalytic dogma in Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope; it encompasses the struggle between invading Nazis and Welsh farmers in Resistance - a counterfactual film made by Owen Sheers and Amit Gupta; and it concludes with Michael Shannon's fight with his personal demons in Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols' follow up to Shotgun Stories. Francine Stock lends an ear to all the factions and questions their assertions in this week's Film Programme. | 24 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film:17 Nov 11: Terence Davies on The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Davies plunges into The Deep Blue Sea and Daniel Henshall explains why he seized the chance to play Australia's most notorious serial killer in Snowtown | 17 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Bruce Robinson, Errol Morris and Andrea Arnold | The Film Programme this week features ill -fated romance, outer space and excessive drinking. So something for everyone! Francine Stock talks to Withnail's creator, Bruce Robinson about his return to directing with The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp; Errol Morris will be discussing his new documentary --Tabloid -- about Joyce McKinney the former beauty queen known to some readers and newspaper editors in the Seventies as the woman at the centre of the sex in chains scandal;and Fish Tank's director Andrea Arnold explains her involvement with Wuthering Heights. Then to round it all off the critic Nigel Floyd revisits the cult science fiction film, Silent Running which gave Bruce Dern his first lead role as a kind of cosmic gardener. | 14 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: John Landis and Philip Seymour Hoffman | Francine Stock meets three of the biggest stars in American cinema - Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Landis and Miranda July. Philip Seymour Hoffman will be discussing his debut as a director, Jack Goes Boating and the challenge of playing a man whose integrity is matched by his diffidence. Miranda July offers a few tips on how to navigate the charming but quirky world of The Future where cats speak and time stands still; and John Landis - the director of An American Werewolf in London and Michael Jackson's Thriller video - explains why he's always been fascinated by monsters in the movies. The critic, Andrew Collins, will also be popping in to evaluate the nominations for this year's British Independent Film Awards - and what they say about the health of our film industry. | 4 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Roland Emmerich and Beau Willimon | Francine Stock meets with director Roland Emmerich whose new film Anonymous claims William Shakespeare is not the man behind the plays. Is George Clooney a future President of the United States of America? His character in the Ides of March is hoping to go all the way to the White House - at any cost. The man behind the film Beau Willimon discusses the grubby game of getting elected. Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo explains why his film Miss Bala is a desperate plea to the Mexican authorities to rid his country of organised crime. Analogue film made by the old photochemical process is fast becoming a thing of the past. It's been announced that a trio of leading film camera manufacturers - Arri, Panavision and Aaton - have made their last. Paul J Franklin - the man responsible for the onscreen wizardry of Christopher Nolan's Batman films - laments its demise. | 28 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: A celebration of 1970's American Cinema | In a special edition of the Film Programme Francine Stock and guests travel back four decades to what might be the most extraordinary year in American cinema - 1971. The year that saw the release of such films as Klute, The Last Picture Show, The French Connection and Carnal Knowledge | 21 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Tilda Swinton, Julia Leigh & British Film | Tilda Swinton discusses her role in We Need to Talk About Kevin, Julia Leigh talks about her erotically charged debut Sleeping Beauty. Director Goran Olsson discusses his documentary Black Power Mix Tape and Francine and guests debate the current healthy state of British cinema. | 17 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Woody Allen | Francine Stock travels to Manhattan for an extended interview with the supreme exponent of screen neurosis in the 1970s and beyond, Woody Allen, currently enjoying his biggest box office success in years with Midnight in Paris. Producer: Craig Smith | 7 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Lars Von Trier on new film Melancholia | Francine Stock talks to Lars von Trier about his new film Melancholia; John Madden reveals the details of his new spy thriller The Debt; Ali Samadi Ahadi discusses his film documenting the protests in Iran in 2009, The Green Wave. And Francine also looks at digital projection and why it's leaving some cinema goers in the dark. | 30 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Nicholas Winding Refn | Francine Stock talks to Nicholas Winding Refn about his new film, Drive, starring Ryan Gosling as a stuntman who drives getaway cars in his spare time. A collection of early Humphrey Jennings films are reviewed by the British filmmaker’s biographer Kevin Jackson. There's also an interview with Andrew Rossi who went undercover to produce Page One, a documentary about the New York Times and Neil Brand is on hand to discuss some of your least favourite film scores. | 23 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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FilmProgramme: Mike Figgis | Mike Figgis on Nicholas Ray's last film and Frank Cottrell Boyce on screenwriting. | 16 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Gary Oldman and Marni Nixon | Gary Oldman talks to Francine Stock about playing George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy and Marni Nixon recalls her part in one of the great musicals- West Side Story | 9 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Jane Eyre and Self Made | Moira Buffini on screenwriting Jane Eyre; Martin Scorsese on Italian cinema; Athina Rachel Tsangari's Greek film Attenberg inspired by the wild life documentaries of Sir David Attenborough and artist Gillian Wearing's film, Self Made. | 2 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: One Day and The Skin I Live In | Matthew Sweet talks to Anne Hathaway about mastering a Yorkshire accent for One Day; Elena Anaya on acting for Pedro Almodovar in The Skin I Live In; and Jonathan Balcon on the re-release of Ealing comedies Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Lavender Hill Mob. | 26 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Cowboys & Aliens and Vera Day | Matthew Sweet talks to Harrison Ford about Cowboys & Aliens, discusses a Brazilian horror classic with Mark Gatiss and hears how Vera Day put Marilyn Monroe's nose out of joint | 19 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Project Nim, Roman Gavras & Mark Gatiss | James Marsh, winner of an Oscar for Man on Wire, talks about his new film, Project Nim. The debut film from Roman Gavras - Our Day Will Come and more from Mark Gatiss on horror movies | 12 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Dominic Cooper & The Light of Asia | Dominic Cooper talks to Matthew Sweet about playing Saddam Hussein's psychopathic son, Uday as well as his double and Mark Gatiss revels in Franju's horror classic, Nuits Rouges | 5 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Anjelica Huston; Mark Gatiss on Horror | In this week's Film Programme Matthew Sweet talks to Hollywood royalty, Anjelica Huston. Their extended conversation embraces her latest excursion into kids films, Horrid Henry but also her reflections on Montgomery Clift, Jean Paul Sartre, Dick and Dom, her father and childhood in Ireland. She's joined by the designer, Wayne Hemingway, who shares his enthusiasm for the vintage film, Jazz on a Summer's Day and by Mark Gatiss who reveals the extraordinary story of the Spanish Dracula in the second instalment of his series about foreign horror. | 29 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Jennifer Aniston; Mike Mills; Mark Gatiss | Modern love is the focus in this week's film programme presented by Matthew Sweet. A septuagenarian Christopher Plummer comes out after forty years of marriage when his wife dies in Mike Mills' Beginners; Jennifer Aniston plays a randy dentist in Seth Gordon's new film, Horrible Bosses; and Rita Hayworth torments herself and Glenn Ford in the luminescent, Gilda. There's also the first of six trips into the weird and wonderful world of horror with the comedian and actor, Mark Gatiss. | 22 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The legacy of Harry Potter; Aidan Gillen; Jane Asher | As the Hogwarts Express prepares to chug off into the sunset Francine Stock reflects on the legacy of Harry Potter. We’ll also be talking to Aidan Gillen about his role in Treacle Jnr - the new film by the much lauded independent director, Jamie Thraves who remortgaged his home to fund the feature. Jane Asher shares her thoughts about starring in Skolimowski's cult classic, Deep End. And we'll also be hearing about Martin Scorsese's programme of films for the Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall, and other innovative screening locations, from the Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to an East End boxing club. | 18 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film Programme: The Tree of Life and David Schwimmer | Film director Terence Malick on The Tree of Life and two cautionary tales: David Schwimmer's new film Trust and Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier. And pianist Neil Brand on supernatural film scores... | 8 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Tom Hanks on Larry Crowne | Francine Stock meets with Tom Hanks to discuss his new comedy Larry Crowne. Critic Karen Zarindast discusses Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, a tale of a troubled marriage. Director Bob Rafelson looks back at his celebrated feature from 1970, Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson. Film historian Ian Christie discusses a glut of Russian-made films inspired by the cosmos. Producer: Craig Smith. | 1 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Kristen Wiig | Comedian Kristen Wiig on Bridesmaids, her rom-com from the female point of view. Director Denis Villeneuve discusses his Oscar-nominated film Incendies. Viva Riva director Djo Munga reveals his struggle to make the Congo's first gangster film. This month marks the centenary of Bernard Herrmann's birth. Friend and fellow composer Laurie Johnson remembers. | 24 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film:Kevin Macdonald, Brendan Gleeson & Paolo Sorrentino | Kevin Macdonald and Brendan Gleeson share top billing in this week's Film Programme which also features a report on Edinburgh's International Film Festival which opened this week. | 17 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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FilmProgramme: Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in Potiche | Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in Potiche; Ivan Passer's lost gem from the '80's Cutters Way; cameraman, Seamus McGarvey and the BFI's Bryony Dixon to consider how doubling the frame rate at which films are shot might affect the clarity of the images and director Steve James on his new film The Interrupters. | 10 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Ayrton Senna and American aristocrats | In this week's edition of The Film Programme Francine Stock examines the very latest and very best current documentary releases, such as Asif Kapadia's much lauded Senna and Jerry Rothwell's subtle account of the family in the age of the sperm bank, Donor Unknown. The BBC's Storyville's editor, Nick Fraser, will be paying tribute to two acknowledged masters, the Maysles Brothers. And to round things off Charlie Phillips, one of the organisers of the Sheffield Documentary Festival, and the documentary film director Emily James discuss crowd funding - a business model that's revolutionising the genre. | 3 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: From X-Men to Pythagoras and Jane Russell. | In the Film Programme this week Francine Stock talks to the screenwriter Jane Goldman about the latest X-Men feature; discusses metaphysics and the intractability of goats with Michelangelo Frammartino, the director of the brilliant and mysterious Le Quattro Volte; and shares in the author and critic Kim Newman's enthusiasm for a comedy thriller featuring Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum and Vincent Price. There's also a master class in the kind of music that makes an action sequence really fizz from Neil Brand. | 27 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Cannes; Isadora; A restored Twenties classic | A view from Cannes, Karel Reisz' Isadora, a restored classic of silent cinema and this week's cinema with Francine Stock. | 20 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film Programme: Francine Stock talks to Emilio Estevez, Joe Cornish and top producer Jerry Bruckheimer. . | From multiplex to art house -- Francine Stock talks to Emilio Estevez, Joe Cornish and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and meets the man behind Pirates of the Caribbean, Jerry Bruckheimer. | 13 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Film Programme - Joe Wright on his new film Hanna | In the Film Programme this week Francine Stock talks to the director of Atonement, Joe Wright about his new film, Hanna; the charismatic Christoph Waltz, who stars in Water for Elephants, discusses the craft of screen acting; and the film historian Neil Brand reflects on cinema's ironic use of music. There's also a look back to two cult films released in 1968 - Bob Rafelson's Head and the even rarer Joanna, directed by Mike Sarne, which has just been released on DVD. | 6 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film Programme: Ray Winstone on new film Tracker | Ray Winstone on his new film Tracker and Christian Carion on spy movie Farewell. | 29 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Little White Lies and The Man Who Fell to Earth | Francine Stock talks to the director, Guillaume Canet, about his latest film, Little White Lies, which has sold five million tickets in France alone and is opening in cinemas here now. She's also joined by the writer, Paul Mayersberg and the historian, Pasquale Iannone. Paul will be discussing the genesis of Nicholas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth while, on the eve of a big Bertolucci season on London's Southbank, Pasquale considers the importance of his second feature, Before the Revolution. Last but not least, the critic Tony Rayns, examines China's attitude to foreign films and what the future might hold for directors trying to get a toehold in its huge market. | 11 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Werner Herzog | Francine Stock discusses cave art with the veteran German director Werner Herzog and quizzes Kevin MacDonald about The Eagle, a version of Rosemary Sutcliff's classic book. There's also an interview with Brian Cox about two of his favourite films and the sound designer, Matt Wand, offers us a glimpse into the world of the Foley artist - the people who not only make Marilyn's heels go clickety clack and Clint's horses go cloppity clop but invite us to dream. | 25 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Richard Ayoade | Richard Ayoade and Joe Dunthorne discuss Submarine. Neil Brand is behind the piano to deconstruct the recurring hook in film scores from Taxi Driver to True Grit. Filmmaker Richard Jobson assesses The Singer Not the Song, starring Dirk Bogarde. Ken Loach talks about his latest - Route Irish. | 18 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Fair game, Norwegian Wood, Benda Bilili. | Francine Stock meets with Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, the writers behind Fair Game, a political thriller starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. Star Wars super-fan Jamie Benning explains why he has spent four years making three unofficial documentaries about the initial trilogy. Lesley Manville dissects her performance in Mike Leigh's Another Year. Director Anh Hung Tran discusses his adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. Staff Benda Bilili are a collection of disabled musicians who have been propelled from the streets of Kinshasa to international acclaim thanks to a new documentary. Its co-director Renaurd Barret explains all. Producer: Craig Smith | 11 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Joanna Hogg | Francine Stock talks to British director Joanna Hogg about Archipelago, a tense and awkward family drama set on the island of Tresco. Director Andrew Ruhemann discusses his Oscar-winning animation, The Lost Thing. Francine visits The Junior Film Club in Lewes, Sussex to report on an inventive initiative to engage children in film. Director Marc Evans discusses his road movie Patagonia, starring the singer Duffy in her first film role. | 4 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Oscar guide | The awards season reaches its grand finale this Sunday with the 83rd Annual Academy Awards and Francine Stock is here with an indispensable guide to this year's crop of films hoping for Oscar glory. With contributions from, amongst others, Darren Aronofsky, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams, Helena Bonham Carter and Mike Leigh. Film critic Adam Smith will explain why he won't be glued to the television late in to Sunday night. Australian director David Michod discusses his accomplished first feature Animal Kingdom, a family crime drama set in Melbourne, and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance film festival last year. Producer: Craig Smith. | 25 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost | Francine Stock meets with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to discuss Paul. Neil brand is here to give a musical guide through the world of dreams in film. Iranian director Rafi Pitts discusses The Hunter, a metaphorical meditation on the current political situation in his home country. Liverpudlian Geoff Woodbridge is a big fan of horror films. He's just watch one a day for the last year. He explains why and picks out a couple of favourites. | 18 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Hailee Steinfeld and Keira Knightley | Francine Stock talks to Hailee Steinfeld the young actress who stars with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon in The Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit. Sir Christopher Frayling is also on hand to give an assessment of the modern Western. Keira Knightely discusses her role in the adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go. Author Jonathan Coe asseses the career of Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi, seen as one of the first 'feminist' directors. Director David O. Russell talks family politics in real-life boxing tale The Fighter. | 11 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Helen Mirren on Brighton Rock | Francine Stock meets with Dame Helen Mirren star of a new version of Brighton Rock. Stephen Frears discusses his love of Howard Hawks and focuses on Only Angels Have Wings from 1939, starring Cary Grant and Rita Hayworth. Critic Nigel Floyd considers two films from the 1960s - Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment and A Blonde in Love. John Cameron Mitchell talks about his latest, Rabbit Hole, starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart. | 4 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Paul Giamatti & Donald Sutherland | Francine Stock talks to Paul Giamatti, the star of Sideways, about his new comedy drama Barney's Version. Donald Sutherland, the star of Don't Look Now and MASH, considers the difference between Hollywood in the 1970s and today. From Andrei Tarkovksy to Sylvester Stallone: Andrei Konchalovsky discusses state censorship, Stalin and Hollywood blockbusters. Lord David Puttnam, Asif Kapadia and Antonia Quirke reveal their final film diaries. | 28 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Ken Loach and the pop-up cinema | Inspired by stories of listeners staging their own site-specific screenings, Francine Stock tries to set up her own pop-up cinema. Along the way, Francine asks the help of various experts and societies about what you really need to organise a cinematic happening. But of course, what she needs most is a director who's willing to show their film and take part in the event. Will Ken Loach, the new patron of the British Federation Of Film Societies, be her knight in shining armour ? | 21 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Black Swan & Blue Valentine 14 Jan 11 | Francine Stock looks ahead to Radio 4's Film Season, asking for listeners' diaries of their movie watching habits over January. The result will be a snapshot of the nation's viewing preferences - where we watch films (on television, computer or in the cinema) and on what format - DVD or download. Francine will try to find out if the digital revolution has finally arrived or is it just a media myth, and to discern what we are watching, whether its new releases or old favourites. Plus, Francine will be publishing a record of her own viewing habits via Twitter during the season. Francine talks to award contenders Darren Aronofsky and Ryan Gosling, director of Black Swan and star of Blue Valentine respectively. Plus, actor/director Peter Mullan discusses NEDS, which stands for Non-Educated Delinquents. | 14 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Helena Bonham Carter 7th Jan 11 | Francine Stock talks to Helena Bonham Carter about playing the Queen Mother in The King's Speech and why she was like "marshmallow, but made with a welding machine". In anticipation of Radio 4's film season, the Film Programme is asking its listeners to keep a diary of their film-viewing during the month of January to get a snap-shot of how we watch movies in the 21st century Actor Diego Luna discusses his directorial debut Abel, which broke box-office records in his native Mexico Neil Brand begins a new series in which he demonstrates the unusual ways that film music can paint pictures in our heads | 7 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Simon Beaufoy 31 Dec 10 | The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy on 127 Hours. The pick of world cinema in 2010 and 2011. | 31 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Jesse Eisenberg & Jake Gyllenhaal 24 Dec 10 | Francine Stock talks to Brokeback Mountain star Jake Gyllenhaal about his new comedy Love And Other Drugs. The star of The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg, reveals why he's not on Facebook even though he played its creator Mark Zuckerberg Tamara Drewe scribe Moira Buffini and independent cinema owner Kevin Markwick discuss the year in film Colin Shindler reveals the most successful film of 1960, the year of La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura, Psycho, Peeping Tom and Saturday Night And Sunday Morning. | 24 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Peter Weir and Catfish 17 Dec 10 | Francine Stock talks to Peter Weir, the director of Witness and The Truman Show, about his new drama, The Way Back The directors of Catfish, one of the big hits of the Sundance Film Festival, discuss their documentary about an on-line romance that takes a turn for the surreal. Nikki Bedi meets the members of a community who saved their cinema from closure in Prestatyn and learns the secrets of their success Writer Andrew Collins considers the influence of video games on modern movies and asks if they really have taken cinema to the next level | 17 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Airplane 10 Dec 10 | The creators of Airplane, Jerry and David Zucker, discuss the comedy's 30 year legacy and its star Leslie Nielsen Ex-Bond villain Matthieu Amalric reveals some of 007's secrets The Film Programme continues its series on the quiet revolution in community cinemas, talking to local film heroes and taking an audio 'snapshot' of some of the most lively and memorable places to watch film around the country. | 10 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Monsters 03 Dec 10 | Gareth Edwards on his D-I-Y movie Monsters. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett reveals the tricks of the composer's trade. Nikki Bedi visits Chorley Empire Community Cinema where the dress code is sometimes fancy. Dave Phillips from The Abergavenny Film Society discusses their opinions of The Maid. | 3 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Graham King 25 Nov 10 | Producer Graham King on working with Scorsese and Angelina Jolie. Nikki Bedi visits The Star And Shadow in Newcastle as part of The Big Film Society tour of the United Kingdom. Etienne Comar discusses the real life drama behind Of Gods And Men. Colin Shindler turns back time to November 1960. | 26 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Anton Corbijn 19 Nov 10 | Director Anton Corbijn on his new film, The American. A report on the Heartland film society in Aberfeldy. Director Fernando Trueba and designer Javier Mariscal discuss Chico and Rita. Christopher Frayling on the Mexican Revolution in film. | 19 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Mike Leigh 05 Nov 10 | In an extended interview, Francine Stock talks to Mike Leigh about his latest drama, Another Year Actress Phyllida Law remembers the work of her husband Eric Thompson and the Magic Roundabout spin-off movie, Dougal And The Blue Cat, which is released on DVD for the very first time Director Matt Reeves discusses his reasons for making an American version of the critically acclaimed Swedish vampire film Let The Right One In | 5 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Lisa Cholodenko & Carlos 29 Oct 10 | Francine Stock talks to Lisa Cholodenko, director of The Kids Are All Right, starring Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as a couple whose relationship begins to founder when their children track down their biological father. Screenwriters Moira Buffini, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Beaufoy reveal the secrets of a good ending Olivier Assayas, the director of Carlos, discusses geo-politics, international terrorism and the reason why his five and a half hour epic is not eligible for an Oscar. | 29 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Three Writers 22 Oct 10 | Francine Stock hosts a discussion with three screenwriters, including The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy, Hilary And Jackie writer Frank Cottrell Boyce and Moira Buffini, who adapted Tamara Drewe and Jane Eyre for the big screen Archivist and director Kevin Brownlow discusses his honorary Oscar which he will receive next month Nigel Floyd on the award-winning Possession with Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani Colin Shindler turns back the clock and reveals what critics really thought of Saturday Night And Sunday Morning | 22 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Simon Beaufoy, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Moira Buffini 15 Oct 10 | The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy, 24 Hour Party People and Welcome To Sarajevo scribe Frank Cottrell Boyce, and Tamara Drewe adaptor Moira Buffini reveal some secrets of screenwriting. Neil Brand joins Francine Stock to play and discuss the work of composer Max Steiner, famous for Casablanca and Gone With The Wind Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Barry Evans, the likely lad of British cinema and television in the 1970s Kim Newman ventures into The Night Of The Demon, the classic horror movie finally being released on DVD this week | 15 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Oliver Stone & Rhys Ifans 08 Oct 10 | Oliver Stone on his return to Wall Street. Rhys Ifans and Bernard Rose discuss Mr Nice. Tim Hetherington revisits Restrepo, his documentary about the war in Afghanistan. Pasquale Iannone reviews Videocracy and Vincere | 8 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Murray Melvin & Mark Cousins 01 Oct 10 | Murray Melvin reveals the reason why he never picked up his award for best actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Mark Cousins describes what happened when he brought cameras to a small village in Kurdistan and let the children make their own films. Rodrigo Cortes on making a movie set entirely in a coffin | 1 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Ben Affleck 24th Sept 10 | Ben Affleck on why he rang Warren Beatty and Sean Penn for advice. Francine visits two of the oldest cinemas in the country - The Phoenix in East Finchley and Duke Of York's in Brighton. Robin Williams on World's Greatest Dad. Colin Shindler sends a dispatch from September 1960 | 24 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Stephen Woolley & Spot Sam Kydd 17 Sept 2010 | An exclusive interview with Stephen Woolley on the set of Made In Dagenham. Jonathan Kydd reveals the popularity of the game Spot Sam Kydd. Debra Granik takes us on a virtual tour of the Ozark Mountains, the location for her new drama, Winter's Bone | 17 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Stephen Frears & John C Reilly 10 Sept 10 | Stephen Frears goes wild in the country with Tamara Drewe. John C Reilly makes it up as he goes along in Cyrus. Neil Brand's unique audio description of Metropolis. | 10 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Film: Thelma Schoonmaker 03 Sept 10 | An exclusive interview with Thelma Schoonmaker on Shutter Island and Hugo Cabaret. Opera singer William Shimell tells Francine Stock about his feature film debut opposite Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy, and Narguess Farzad reveals why Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami could only make the film in Europe. Beau Travail director Claire Denis discusses the influence of A Bout De Souffle, plus assistant director Pierre Rissient takes us behind the scenes of Godard's revolutionary film | 3 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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