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• 24 May 2012 - Cannes Film Festival

  Thu, 24 May 12

  Duration:
  28 mins

  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.

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• 17052012 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

  Thu, 17 May 12

  Duration:
  28 mins

  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.

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• 100512: Julie Delpy and Jonny Lee Miller

  Thu, 10 May 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  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.

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• 3 May 12: Tom Courtney & Neil Brand

  Thu, 3 May 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  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

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• 25 April - Tom Hiddleston & Janet McTeer

  Thu, 26 Apr 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  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.

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• 19 Apr 12 Emily Blunt and Juliette Binoche

  Thu, 19 Apr 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  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.

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• 12 Apr 12 Michael Sheen in Port Talbot

  Thu, 12 Apr 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  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.

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• 05 Apr 12 This Must Be the Place; Headhunters

  Thu, 5 Apr 12

  Duration:
  28 mins

  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.

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• 29 March 12 Hugh Grant; Jafar Panahi

  Thu, 29 Mar 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  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.

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• 22 Mar 12 Jennifer Lawrence; Brian Cox

  Thu, 22 Mar 12

  Duration:
  29 mins

  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.

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