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Film: John Landis and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Updated: 2011-11-04 16:30:00
Description: 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 i...more...

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Film: Roland Emmerich and Beau Willimon
Updated: 2011-10-28 15:30:00
Description: 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 hop...more...

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Film: A celebration of 1970's American Cinema
Updated: 2011-10-21 16:05:00
Description: 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 Fre...more...

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Film: Tilda Swinton, Julia Leigh & British Film
Updated: 2011-10-17 11:34:00
Description: 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 hea...more...

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Film: Woody Allen
Updated: 2011-10-07 16:00:00
Description: 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 Sm...more...

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Film: Lars Von Trier on new film Melancholia
Updated: 2011-09-30 14:10:00
Description: 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 l...more...

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Film: Nicholas Winding Refn
Updated: 2011-09-23 17:15:00
Description: 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 biogra...more...

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FilmProgramme: Mike Figgis
Updated: 2011-09-16 16:40:00
Description: Mike Figgis on Nicholas Ray's last film and Frank Cottrell Boyce on screenwriting....more...

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Film: Gary Oldman and Marni Nixon
Updated: 2011-09-09 16:05:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Jane Eyre and Self Made
Updated: 2011-09-02 15:30:00
Description: 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....more...

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Film: One Day and The Skin I Live In
Updated: 2011-08-26 13:35:00
Description: 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 ...more...

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Film: Cowboys & Aliens and Vera Day
Updated: 2011-08-19 16:05:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Project Nim, Roman Gavras & Mark Gatiss
Updated: 2011-08-12 16:05:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Dominic Cooper & The Light of Asia
Updated: 2011-08-05 16:10:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Anjelica Huston; Mark Gatiss on Horror
Updated: 2011-07-29 17:19:00
Description: 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 ...more...

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Film: Jennifer Aniston; Mike Mills; Mark Gatiss
Updated: 2011-07-22 18:32:00
Description: 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 Set...more...

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The legacy of Harry Potter; Aidan Gillen; Jane Asher
Updated: 2011-07-18 14:12:00
Description: 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 Th...more...

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Film Programme: The Tree of Life and David Schwimmer
Updated: 2011-07-08 15:30:00
Description: 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......more...

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Film: Tom Hanks on Larry Crowne
Updated: 2011-07-01 16:00:00
Description: 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, Fiv...more...

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Film: Kristen Wiig
Updated: 2011-06-24 16:00:00
Description: 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....more...

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Film:Kevin Macdonald, Brendan Gleeson & Paolo Sorrentino
Updated: 2011-06-17 16:15:00
Description: 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....more...

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FilmProgramme: Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in Potiche
Updated: 2011-06-10 19:00:00
Description: 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 th...more...

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Film: Ayrton Senna and American aristocrats
Updated: 2011-06-03 16:20:00
Description: 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, ...more...

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Film: From X-Men to Pythagoras and Jane Russell.
Updated: 2011-05-27 15:30:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Cannes; Isadora; A restored Twenties classic
Updated: 2011-05-20 17:01:00
Description: A view from Cannes, Karel Reisz' Isadora, a restored classic of silent cinema and this week's cinema with Francine Stock....more...

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Film Programme: Francine Stock talks to Emilio Estevez, Joe Cornish and top producer Jerry Bruckheimer. .
Updated: 2011-05-13 16:00:00
Description: 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....more...

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Film: Film Programme - Joe Wright on his new film Hanna
Updated: 2011-05-06 15:30:00
Description: 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 N...more...

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Film Programme: Ray Winstone on new film Tracker
Updated: 2011-04-29 15:30:00
Description: Ray Winstone on his new film Tracker and Christian Carion on spy movie Farewell....more...

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Film: Little White Lies and The Man Who Fell to Earth
Updated: 2011-04-11 09:55:00
Description: 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 historia...more...

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Film: Werner Herzog
Updated: 2011-03-25 17:11:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Richard Ayoade
Updated: 2011-03-18 17:00:00
Description: 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 Bogar...more...

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Film: Fair game, Norwegian Wood, Benda Bilili.
Updated: 2011-03-11 17:00:00
Description: 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 docume...more...

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Film: Joanna Hogg
Updated: 2011-03-04 17:01:00
Description: 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 ...more...

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Film: Oscar guide
Updated: 2011-02-25 16:30:00
Description: 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 Aro...more...

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Film: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
Updated: 2011-02-18 16:30:00
Description: 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 po...more...

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Film: Hailee Steinfeld and Keira Knightley
Updated: 2011-02-11 17:00:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Helen Mirren on Brighton Rock
Updated: 2011-02-04 17:00:00
Description: 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 co...more...

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Film: Paul Giamatti & Donald Sutherland
Updated: 2011-01-28 17:00:00
Description: 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 Tar...more...

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Film: Ken Loach and the pop-up cinema
Updated: 2011-01-21 17:00:00
Description: 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 cinemat...more...

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Film: Black Swan & Blue Valentine 14 Jan 11
Updated: 2011-01-14 16:56:00
Description: 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 th...more...

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Film: Helena Bonham Carter 7th Jan 11
Updated: 2011-01-07 17:00:00
Description: 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 listen...more...

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Film: Simon Beaufoy 31 Dec 10
Updated: 2010-12-31 17:10:00
Description: The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy on 127 Hours. The pick of world cinema in 2010 and 2011....more...

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Film: Jesse Eisenberg & Jake Gyllenhaal 24 Dec 10
Updated: 2010-12-24 17:05:00
Description: 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 Tamar...more...

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Film: Peter Weir and Catfish 17 Dec 10
Updated: 2010-12-17 17:00:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Airplane 10 Dec 10
Updated: 2010-12-10 17:00:00
Description: 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 ...more...

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Film: Monsters 03 Dec 10
Updated: 2010-12-03 17:00:00
Description: 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 Soci...more...

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Film: Graham King 25 Nov 10
Updated: 2010-11-26 17:00:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Anton Corbijn 19 Nov 10
Updated: 2010-11-19 17:01:00
Description: 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....more...

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Film: Mike Leigh 05 Nov 10
Updated: 2010-11-05 16:59:00
Description: 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 relea...more...

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Film: Lisa Cholodenko & Carlos 29 Oct 10
Updated: 2010-10-29 16:00:00
Description: 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 Bu...more...

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Film: Three Writers 22 Oct 10
Updated: 2010-10-22 11:30:00
Description: 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 scr...more...

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Film: Simon Beaufoy, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Moira Buffini 15 Oct 10
Updated: 2010-10-15 16:00:00
Description: 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 ...more...

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Film: Oliver Stone & Rhys Ifans 08 Oct 10
Updated: 2010-10-08 16:00:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Murray Melvin & Mark Cousins 01 Oct 10
Updated: 2010-10-01 16:00:00
Description: 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. Rodr...more...

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Film: Ben Affleck 24th Sept 10
Updated: 2010-09-24 16:02:00
Description: 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 ...more...

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Film: Stephen Woolley & Spot Sam Kydd 17 Sept 2010
Updated: 2010-09-17 16:00:00
Description: 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...more...

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Film: Stephen Frears & John C Reilly 10 Sept 10
Updated: 2010-09-10 16:03:00
Description: 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....more...

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Film: Thelma Schoonmaker 03 Sept 10
Updated: 2010-09-03 16:00:00
Description: 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 dir...more...

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