Synopsis
The latest releases, the hottest stars and the leading directors, plus news and insights from the film world
Episodes
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Richard E Grant
07/02/2019 Duration: 37minWith Antonia QuirkeRichard E. Grant talks to Antonia Quirke about his Oscar nominated role in Can You Ever Forgive Me ? and how his life has changed since he got the nomination.Joel Edgerton discusses his drama about gay conversion therapy, Boy Erased, which he wrote, directed and acted in. He reveals why he was nervous about asking Russell Crowe to star in it.Zing Tsjeng talks about the first time she saw herself reflected on the big screen and how Velvet Goldmine changed her life.
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Seamus McGarvey: 50 Shades of Grey to The Greatest Showman
31/01/2019 Duration: 27minWith Antonia Quirke.Award-winning cinematographer Seamus McGarvey takes us behind the scenes of The Greatest Showman, The Hours and 50 Shades Of Grey
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Vice
24/01/2019 Duration: 27minWith Francine StockIn a special edition called Moving Image, Francine Stock talks to writer/director Adam McKay about the cinematic influences on his political drama Vice, which received eight Oscar nominations this week. He reveals what former Vice President of the USA Dick Cheney thought of Christian Bale's portrayal of him, complete with fat suit.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Back to the Future
21/01/2019 Duration: 05minA series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Mary Queen of Scots
17/01/2019 Duration: 43minWith Antonia Quirke.Director Josie Rourke discusses her film debut Mary, Queen Of Scots, and explains how one tweet about the film's historical accuracy became the thing that journalists wanted to talk to her about.Composer Neil Brand starts a new series about famous scores that were last minute replacements. First up is 2001: A Space Odyssey in which Stanley Kubrick famously scrapped the original soundtrack in favour of some classical hits.Writer, drag performer and film-maker Amrou Al-Khadi explains why they saw themselves reflected on screen in Bend It Like Beckham, and why it has nothing to do with football. Listener James Burgess reveals his screen epiphany.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Halloween
14/01/2019 Duration: 08minA series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Stan & Ollie
10/01/2019 Duration: 27minWith Antonia QuirkeWriter Jeff Pope on what happened to Laurel and Hardy when they toured provincial theatres in the UK in the 1950sComedian Lucy Porter discusses the duo know as the female Stan & Ollie, Byron and Garvin.Director Reinaldo Marcus Green reveals the reasons he felt compelled to make Monsters And Men, his drama about the killing of an unarmed African American man by a New York police officer.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Braveheart
07/01/2019 Duration: 07minA series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Timothée Chalamet, Yorgos Lanthimos
03/01/2019 Duration: 27minWith Antonia Quirke.Timothée Chalamet talks about avoiding the cliches of playing a drug addict in his new drama Beautiful Boy and what happened to him after the success of Call Me By Your Name.Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos admits he wasn't that interested in historical accuracy when making The Favourite, his award-winning period drama about the court of Queen Anne with its sexual and political intrigue.Poet Rosalind Jana reveals how God's Own Country transformed her life.A truly unique movie is currently being shot in Sheffield, the first film ever to be made by an autistic director. The Dawn Of The Dark Fox is helmed by Michael Smith with Tom Stubbs, set inside Michael's mind. They have recorded an exclusive audio diary of the shoot with producer Alex Usborne.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Spirited Away
31/12/2018 Duration: 07minA series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Nic Roeg
27/12/2018 Duration: 27minWith Francine Stock.Nic Roeg, who died in November, had a profound effect on many British film-makers. Francine Stock hears from some of the directors who fell under his spell, including Danny Boyle, Asif Kapadia, Carol Morley, Andrew Haigh and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey. And there's a chance to listen to the man himself, including highlights from an edition of The Film Programme that was recorded in Roeg's living room. Plus, Jenny Agutter, Paul Mayersberg, Jeremy Thomas and Terence Stamp from The Film Programme vaults.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Superman
24/12/2018 Duration: 06minA series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Christmas Presents
20/12/2018 Duration: 38minWith Antonia QuirkeCritics Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and cinema programmer Clare Binns swap gifts around the imaginary Film Programme tree and discuss the best films of 2018.Among their favourites are Black Panther, Cold War, Summer 1993, Mission Impossible 6, The Happy Prince, Shoplifters, McQueen and The Rider.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Taxi Driver
17/12/2018 Duration: 06minA series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Pitch Battle: The Conclusion
13/12/2018 Duration: 34minWith Antonia QuirkeIn a year when we've seen yet more bio-pics about Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria, The Film Programme decided to do something about and find some subjects that are also suitable for the movie treatment. They put out a call to historians and history buffs for some serious alternatives. The candidates have ranged from the queen who was behind the Gunpowder Plot to an African American bare knuckle boxer who tried to take the British title at the start of the 19th century. And in this week's edition, those pitches are heard by a panel of industry insiders - BFI Senior Production Executive Lizzie Francke, Head Of Creative at Film 4 Ollie Madden and development consultant Rowan Woods. Find out what they would green-light in this concluding part of Pitch Battle.They hear pitches from historians Tracy Borman, Kate Williams, Helen Antrobus, and Stephen Bourne, writers Jack Bernhardt and Greg Jenner, and listener Gerard Corvin.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Cinema Paradiso
10/12/2018 Duration: 05minA series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Boots Riley, Alfonso Cuaron
06/12/2018 Duration: 35minWith Antonia QuirkeMusician and director Boots Riley explains how he managed to get the American film industry to fund his ferocious anti-capitalist satire Sorry To Bother You.Alfonso Cuaron reveals just how autobiographical Roma, his tale of life in Mexico City in the 70s really is, and just how much power a blockbuster like Gravity gives a director.In the latest part of the series Screen Reflections, writer Gena-Mour Barrett reveals how the sight of Whoopi Goldberg in a nun's habit in Sister Act changed the way she thought about herself.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: The Magnificent Seven
03/12/2018 Duration: 06minA series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Moving Image - The Godfather
29/11/2018 Duration: 27minWith Francine Stock.In the next instalment of her new series, Moving Image, Francine Stock talks to McMafia director James Watkins about a key influence on his film-making career, The Godfather. He is joined by legendary editor Walter Murch who worked his magic in the cutting room of Francis Ford Coppola's epic crime drama.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: 633 Squadron
26/11/2018 Duration: 05minA series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.