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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Thu, 23 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Francine Stock on the hits and misses of the Cannes Film Festival, plus British director Clio Barnard on The Selfish Giant and Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight. Plus Olivier Assayas on nostalgia and radical politics in Something In The Air.
Thu, 16 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Francine Stock on The Great Gatsby premiere and the films to watch out for at the Cannes Film Festival. Jay Bulger on his Ginger Baker music documentary. Neil Brand on spy music.
Thu, 9 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Actor Riz Ahmed talks to Francine Stock about The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Plus director Jeff Nichols on Mississippi adventure, Mud. The writers/producers of Star Trek Into Darkness. And film maker Sarah Gavron explains how a holiday in Greenland became her latest documentary.
Thu, 2 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Director Pedro Almodovar tells Francine Stock his raunchy new comedy I'm So Excited is a commentary on Spanish politics. Actor Tom Courtenay looks back at Billy Liar, 50 years on. Adam Leon explains why he wanted to show the grittier, real New York in his new feature Gimme The Loot about young graffiti artists. And with The Reluctant Fundamentalist due for release next week, the young British actor Riz Ahmed tells the story of his big break and how he was discovered by the director Michael Winterbottom.
Thu, 25 Apr 13
Duration:
29 mins
Francine Stock talks to Steve Coogan about The Look of Love and to Jack Black about Bernie. Both films are based on real people - how can biopics be honest and innovative? And the actor Terence Stamp looks back at this career from Billy Budd to The Collector, Theorem and The Limey as the British Film Institute opens a retrospective on his work next week.
Thu, 18 Apr 13
Duration:
29 mins
This week the Film Programme debates whether films can really change the world. Francine Stock talks to Jeremy Irons about his documentary Trashed which looks at global waste and discusses the feature film Promised Land, starring Matt Damon and Frances McDormand, which tackles fracking. The director Susanne Bier explains why she wanted to reinvent the rom com and we hear from the actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz about his new film Rebellion.
Thu, 11 Apr 13
Duration:
29 mins
Director Derek Cianfrance talks to Francine Stock about The Place Beyond the Pines. Documentary maker Dror Moreh on how he got former Israeli secret service chiefs to talk on film.
Thu, 4 Apr 13
Duration:
28 mins
Francine Stock talks to Harmony Korine about his new and most commercial film to date, Spring Breakers starring James Franco, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens.
Thu, 28 Mar 13
Duration:
28 mins
Francine Stock talks to Oscar winning film director Danny Boyle about a lifetime spent making films, including his latest "Trance", a noirish art heist starring James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson, in which a fine art auctioneer (McAvoy) joins forces with a hypnotherapist (Dawson) to recover a lost painting.
Thu, 21 Mar 13
Duration:
29 mins
Francine Stock talks to Francois Ozon about In The House; re-visits sixties thriller Point Blank with director John Boorman and discusses the unsettling Compliance with Craig Zobel
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