The Film Programme

Sep 30 2021 599 ep. 24.2k

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The latest releases, the hottest stars and the leading directors, plus news and insights from the film world

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The Last Picture Show

Sep 30 2021 56 mins

Francine Stock and Antonia Quirke co-present the final edition of The Film Programme. They discuss the future of cinema in the age of streaming, and hear from David Oyelowo, Matt Damon, Rebecca O'Brien and Sally Potter. They also reveal their favourite last scenes in the history of the movies.

Chris Menges, Local Hero

Sep 23 2021 34 mins

With Antonia QuirkeOscar winning cinematographer and director Chris Menges takes us behind the scenes of Local Hero, The Mission and Kes, and reveals how he ended up in a Zanzibar prison with Michael Parkinson.Bait director Mark Jenkin records his last audio diary about the making of his horror movie, Enys Men, which was delayed by a year because of lockdown and was filmed during t

Emma Thomas: How Batman Began

Sep 20 2021 27 mins

With Antonia QuirkeProducer Emma Thomas reveals the conversation she had with partner Christopher Nolan that led to the making of Batman Begins, the film the changed the course of the superhero movie.Robert Shaw's son Ian takes us behind some of the scenes in Jaws that form the basis of his new play The Shark Is Broken, and explains why the famous Indianapolis speech had to be film

Mark Gatiss: Anthony Hopkins superfan

Sep 14 2021 34 mins

Mark Gatiss tells Antonia Quirke what it was like to work with his hero Anthony Hopkins on The Father, and how he persuaded him to reprise a famous scene from one of his classic films as a birthday present for fellow League Of Gentleman member Reece Shearsmith.Sean Barton reveals some secrets from the editing suite and how he made the audience gasp in a famous scene from Jagged Edg

Maria Djurkovic

Sep 02 2021 27 mins

With Antonia QuirkeYou might think that fewer movies would be made during a pandemic, with continual testing and all the restrictions on social distancing. In fact, the British film industry has never been busier, and production designer Maria Djurkovic explains why that's the case.Script supervisor Angela Allen reveals all the unpaid jobs she did during her five decades in the fil

Hossein Amini on Heat

Aug 26 2021 27 mins

In the final edition of Moving Image, Francine Stock talks to Hossein Amini about the film that has obsessed him since the first time he saw it in 1995. Heat was the first film to bring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino together in the same scene and it's had an influence on the writer of Drive, The Wings Of A Dove and McMafia ever since.

Jude Law, Ayten Amin and Mark Jenkin

Aug 19 2021 27 mins

Jude Law talks about his latest release The Nest, a suspenseful family drama set in Surrey in the 1980s, what he really likes about making movies and what acting in Contagion taught him about pandemics.Egyptian director Ayten Amin describes working with non-professional actors in her feature film Souad about young girls and their relation with social media.Mark Jenkin's filmmaking

Alvin Rakoff

Aug 12 2021 27 mins

With Antonia Quirke94 year old director Alvin Rakoff talks about giving Sean Connery his big break, why his friend Peter Sellers wired his home for sound and what it was like directing Laurence Olivier in A Voyage Around My FatherAuthor Anna Cale and historian Matthew Sweet talk about the phenomenon that was Diana Dors and reveal how her life would have changed if she had only marr

Juliet Stevenson on Truly, Madly, Deeply

Aug 05 2021 27 mins

Juliet Stevenson revisits a moving and tearful scene from Truly, Madly, Deeply which broke new ground in the portrayal of grief. Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy talk about researching for Damon's role as an oil rig worker in their new film Stillwater. Mark Jenkin continues his movie making audio diary as he tries, with difficulty, to film pick-up shots to be cut into the prod

Francis Lee on My Beautiful Laundrette

Jul 29 2021 27 mins

My Beautiful Laundrette, written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears, was one of the early films produced for Channel 4. First screened in 1985, it tells the story of a young British Pakistani, Omar, played by Gordon Warnecke, who is given a failing laundrette to run by his entrepreneurial uncle. Omar recruits an old school friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis) to help him