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.

With Antonia Quirke Oscar 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 the pandemic. Listeners nominate their favourite final scenes and composer Neil Brand chooses his two favourite end pieces: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Cabaret. Sweetheart director Marley Morrison nominates her favourite final scene - the brief encounter in Andrew Haigh's debut Weekend. And thank you to all of you who nominated your favourite final scene. We didn't have time to mention them all on air, so here is the complete list: Algiers Animal House Being There Be Kind, Rewind Big Night Billy Elliot Bright Star Capernaum Casablanca Chinatown Cinderella Cold War Death In Venice Empire Of The Sun Ex Machina 400 Blows Genevieve Gloria Goodbye Mr Chips Ice Cold In Alex James And The Giant Peach Local Hero Los Silensios Michael Clayton Midnight Run Monsoon Wedding Nostalgia Of Gods And Men O Lucky Man ! On The Waterfront Orlando Pan's Labyrinth Pepe Le Moko Rocks Sideways Some Like It Hot Stalker System Crasher The Apartment The Battle Of Algiers The Deer Hunter The Leopard The Lives Of Others The Long Good Friday The Mermaid The Mission The Purple Rose Of Cairo The Seventh Seal The Silence Of The Lambs The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3 The Third Man The Usual Suspects This Is Spinal Tap Tunes Of Glory Un Coeur En Hiver Withnail And I Witness

With Antonia Quirke Producer 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 filmed twice In his last ever diary entry before the programme ends on September 30th, cinema owner Kevin Markwick explains why Bond movies have always been important to the survival of The Uckfield Picturehouse; this year more than ever before.

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 Edge. Annette director Leos Carax explains why the star of his film about a two year old singing sensation is played by a puppet.

With Antonia Quirke You 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 film industry, from second unit director to editorial consultant to Katherine Hepburn's double in The African Queen. The directors of Shorta, Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Olholm, tell Antonia why their thriller about a riot in a housing estate is very different from the typical Danish movie.

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 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 audio diary continues with his experiences shooting smoking chimneys and mantlepieces. Presenter: Antonia Quirke Producer: Harry Parker

With Antonia Quirke 94 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 Father Author 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 married Bob Monkhouse.

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 production after the main photography has been completed. Presenter: Antonia Quirke Producer: Harry Parker

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 turn the business round and a gay relationship between them develops. Francis Lee, director of God's Own Country and Ammonite, tells Francine Stock about the impact it had on him as young gay man, the sexual and social issues in the film and his own encounter with Stephen Frears. Producer: Harry Parker

With Antonia Quirke Antonia reveals the favourite phone box scenes as chosen by Film Programme listeners and talks to writer/director Bruce Robinson about the phone box in Withnail And I that has now become a shrine for fans of the movie. A phone box in Uist is one of the stars of Limbo, a new drama about an asylum seeker who has to wait on one of the islands while he finds out if he can stay in this country. Director Ben Sharrock and producer Irune Gurtubai reveal what is like filming in gale force winds and dangerously high tides. Death In Venice has been described by its star Bjorn Andresen as the film that destroyed his life. Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri, the directors of The Most Beautiful Boy In The World, reveal why the film still haunts the actor 50 years after he made it.

With Antonia Quirke Director Carol Morley asked Film Programme listeners if any of them knew Muriel Box, Britain's most prolific female director and arguably most neglected. And she heard from Muriel's daughter, grandson and family friend. Carol tells Antonia why she believes Muriel deserves more recognition for her ground-breaking work. Antonia is on a mission this summer to tell people how much she loves their work, to take the opportunity while she can. This week, she tells Jude Law how much she's always wanted to talk to him about The Talented Mr Ripley and how one scene, in particular, has never left her. Barbara Sukowa has worked with some mercurial directors often known for giving actors a hard time. She tells Antonia why nobody has dared to give her a hard time on set, and about Two Of Us, a powerful drama about two women in their 70s who have been lovers for years, without their families knowing.

With Antonia Quirke Actor and producer David Oyelowo reveals how he made his directorial debut, The Water Man, almost by accident. And why, thanks to raw data, streaming has lead to greater diversity of content and changed the minds of white film executives. Gosford Park turns 20 this year. Robert Altman's whodunnit was like a who's who of British acting talent - Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Eileen Atkins, Derek Jacobi and Tom Hollander. The Rev star takes us behind the scenes of this modern classic, which had its own whodunnit.

With Antonia Quirke Festen director Thomas Vinterberg discusses the personal tragedy behind his latest film, Another Round. Friendship's Death is a 1987 movie about a journalist and an alien who meet in a hotel room in Jordan and discuss art, ethics and artificial intelligence. Its producer Rebecca O'Brien reveals how she got the film made for £180,000 and whether or not that kind of avant-garde work would get financed today.

With Francine Stock What was it like working behind the Iron Curtain, when every dot and comma of a script had to be passed by the censor. Francine delves into the archives and hears from Milos Forman, Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, Miklos Jancso, Jerzy Skolimowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Jiri Menzel and Andrei Konchalovsky.

With Antonia Quirke Stanley Tucci reveals how his latest film Supernova is the story of a long-lasting friendship, both on and off screen. He's been friends with his co-star Colin Firth for over twenty years, and Stanley reveals how he asked Colin to be in the film without the director's knowledge. The Reason I Jump is a documentary that focuses on the experiences of non-speaking autistic people and director Jerry Rothwell explains how he used sound to immerse the viewer in a different perspective on the world. It's been a month since the easing of restrictions resulted in the re-opening of cinemas. But as the full easing has been postponed by 4 weeks, cinema owner Kevin Marwick reveals how his business will be affected by only operating on 50% capacity. Antonia visits the Phoenix Cinema in Oban and talks to general manager Jenny Larnie about the reasons they are starting a streaming service There are more love letters to the cinema from listeners, and we hear from the Kremer family as they return to their favourite picture house and their favourite seats.

With Antonia Quirke. Ousmane Sembene has been called the father of African Film, single-handedly starting a movie industry in Senegal. As his 1968 film Mandabi is re-released, Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman, who saved the print from destitution, reveal how a life-threatening injury as a dock worker changed the course of Sembene's life. The Godfather changed the course of film history, its huge success helped to usher in a new generation of directors, the so-called Movie Brats, like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. But what if Francis Ford Coppola had never made the movie, which was a distinct possibility, as he was not the first film-maker to be approached by the studio. Originally they wanted Lewis Gilbert, the director of Alife, to helm the most American of crime sagas. From the archives, he reveals why this was an offer that he could resist. Nick Woollage is an award winning music producer, mixer and engineer. He shares some secrets from the mixing desk, letting us behind the scenes of scores for Atonement, Paddington 2 and How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. How did an aristocratic calypso singer from Denmark end up as the star of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye ? Writer Nat Segnit investigates the case of Nina Van Pallandt. Ousmane Sembene photo credit: Thomas Jacob.

With Antonia Quirke Ben Whishaw reveals why he went up to complete strangers on Tottenham High Road for his latest film Surge, and why nobody seemed to recognise him. After Love is the story of a Muslim convert who discovers that her husband was leading a double life. Writer/director Aleem Khan reveals how much of the story is autobiographical, and how much isn't.

With Francine Stock Actor and writer Toby Jones discusses the film that still resonates with him almost 30 years after he first saw it, In The Soup. Alexandre Rockwell's comedy beat Reservoir Dogs to the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival in 1992, but while Quentin Tarantino's movie went on to box office glory, In The Soup was so badly forgotten that within a decade only one battered copy remained. Toby reveals the part he played in helping Rockwell's movie survive.

With Antonia Quirke As cinemas opened for the first time in 5 months, have concerns about the so-called Indian variant made people think twice about visiting their local picture palace ? Antonia takes a mini-tour of London cinemas and hears from Kevin Markwick, owner of the Uckfield Picture House, and from listeners who went to the flicks on opening day: Simon Barraclough, Ruby Phelan, Pamela Hutchinson and Michael O'Kelly.

With Antonia Quirke. As cinemas are set to re-open on May 17th, Antonia Quirke visits The Uckfield Picture House that has been run by the same family for over six decades. She talks to its owner Kevin Markwick about a year that has seen his business shut for 70% of the time, and discovers why he is optimistic about the future. Sound Of Metal director Darius Marder reveals the reasons why he distorted the hearing of his star Riz Ahmed with the help of a ear piece and an app. Director Chloe Zhao discusses the influence of John Wayne on her Oscar winner Nomadland. If you are going to your local cinema on May 17th, we'd like to hear about your experience. You can write or record your thoughts and email them to [email protected]

With Antonia Quirke Director Brett Harvey reveals how he made a feature film Long Way Back just after he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. And how he managed to direct the movie suffering the effects of the insomnia caused by the illness, and why he made a short film called Hand about his condition. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, the director of Truman And Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, talks about what she discovered about the friendship and rivalry between Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams How many world famous composers does it take to make a film score ? At least half a dozen, if that film is Lawrence Of Arabia. Neil Brand reveals why so many legends of 20th century classical music were hired to write the score for David Lean's epic, only for the job to go to a relative unknown called Maurice Jarre.

With Francine Stock Francine considers the changing role of the actress in Hollywood and European cinema, from muse to producer. She hears from Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Cate Blanchett, Fanny Ardant and Anna Karina.

With Antonia Quirke The Film Programme has exclusive behind the scenes access to some of the most exciting and innovative film-makers in this country. For the past year, Mark Jenkin has been recording audio diaries for us, as he follows up his award-winning hit Bait with the supernatural tale Enys Men, a film that has been delayed and re-imagined during the pandemic. Father and daughter artists Andrew and Eden Kötting have just finished a new animation called Diseased And Disorderly, also made during lockdown, and they describe how their unique collaboration works.

With Antonia Quirke Nomadland won the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Film and is hotly tipped to win the Best Picture Oscar too. Director Chloe Zhao reveals how she cast many of her actors on a road trip across the American West. Zhao's previous film The Rider was The Film Programme's film of the year in 2018, and Antonia revisits her interview with its star Brady Jandreau, a real life rodeo rider and horse whisperer. Mark Jenkin is recording an exclusive audio diary for The Film Programme as he begins to shoot Enys Men, his follow-up to his BAFTA winner Bait. As the first day of principal photography approaches, Mark is beginning to lose sleep.

With Antonia Quirke The Power is set in a spooky hospital during the electrical blackouts of the early 70s. Antonia visits the set, itself a spooky old hospital, and meets director Corinna Faith and producer Rob Watson, who reveals that the set itself might be haunted Maria Djurkovic, the production designer who re-created the Anglo-Saxon mounds in Sutton Hoo for The Dig, reveals exactly where she was when she discovered that she had been nominated for a BAFTA at this weekend's ceremony. Cinema owner Kevin Markwick looks forward to the films that will be released, when (hopefully) cinemas will re-open from May 17th Woody Strode was one of the first Black Americans to play in the NFL after World War II and went on to become a Hollywood actor in films like Spartacus and Sergeant Rutledge. Writer Nat Segnit tells the story of his life.

Antonia Quirke considers the phenomenon and future of the so called film junket, the movie publicity process whereby film stars are serially interviewed in expensive hotels by a succession of film journalists and presenters. She looks back at the promotional encounters she's had with a cast of big Hollywood names including (in order of appearance) Gal Gadot, Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper, Annette Benning, Willem Dafoe, Glen Close, Timothee Chalamet, Jeff Bridges and Greta Gerwig. Producer: Harry Parker

Francine Stock talks to Christopher Plummer, Warren Beatty, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson and Peter O'Toole about their long careers in the movies and how a maverick attitude has helped. They reflect on their approaches to acting, how they adapted over the years and the changes they've seen in the film industry.

Antonia Quirke talks to Francis Lee, director of Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet, about the palaeontologist Mary Anning. They discuss his controversial imagining of a lesbian relationship for Anning, the importance of sound in cinema and why he has never seen his own film on the big screen. Antonia also looks at the work of MIMC, a film makers' collective in the Scottish borders and discovers the part it plays in its members' lives both socially and cinematographically. And director Mark Jenkin continues his audio diary and reveals why going on holiday just before shooting commences might not be a bad thing. Producer: Harry Parker

With Antonia Quirke Mark Jenkin takes us on a scouting trip for his new film, Enys Men, going deep into an abandoned mine in Cornwall. Production designer Suzie Davies explains how she re-created the Cold War in Crouch End Town Hall for the new Benedict Cumberbatch thriller The Courier. The last thing you might expect to survive lockdown would be a video shop. And yet Twentieth Century Flicks in Bristol is still hanging on in there. Co-owner Dave Taylor reveals his survival tactics and his new found love for Tom Hanks movies.

With Antonia Quirke Antonia presents a guide to the universe of The Coen Brothers with help from the siblings themselves. From Film Programme interviews over the last twenty years, Joel and Ethan discuss old Hollywood movies, haircuts and communism.

With Francine Stock Director Kevin Macdonald reveals the influence of The Battle Of Algiers on his latest drama, The Mauritanian, the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp for 14 years without charge. Photo credit: Tatiana Lund

With Antonia Quirke Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey has had an eventful 12 months, from being told to pack his bags overnight and get a flight to America to work on a major Hollywood movie, to catching Covid in Los Angeles, and then working on an entirely different movie in Sicily. He recounts it all in an exclusive audio diary for The Film Programme. 1917 was the biggest hit in British cinemas last year, and it belongs to a long tradition of films that appear to be shot in one take. Antonia looks at the history of one shot movies, and hears from 1917 cinematographer Roger Deakins, Victoria director Sebastian Schipper, Utoya: July 22 film-maker Eric Poppe, and Birdman star Michael Keaton. Production designer Maria Djurkovic reveals some trade secrets and explains how she built a Greek village in a British studio for the ABBA musical Mamma Mia.

With Antonia Quirke This year sees the 20th anniversary of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. To mark the occasion, Antonia revisits her encounter with Christopher Lee in 2001 and hears from London Voices, the choir who sang Elvish on the soundtrack. Bait director Mark Jenkin continues his exclusive series of audio diaries as he prepares to make a film in lockdown. This week, he begins to scout locations for his supernatural drama Enys Men. There's another Scene Stealer from writer Nat Segnit: the actor who rarely made it to the final reel, Elisha Cook Jr.

Script supervisor Angela Allen on what it was really like to work with Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles and John Huston, and why Monroe believed she was having an affair with husband Arthur Miller. With Antonia Quirke.

With Francine Stock Francine reflects on the career of Leslie Caron, who is 90 this year, and hears about her adventures in La La Land with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.

With Antonia Quirke The Dig production Designer Maria Djurkovic reveals how she re-created the famous burial mounds in Sutton Hoo in a field just outside Guildford. Director Mark Jenkin reveals what it's like to make a film in lockdown. He's currently in pre-production on Enys Men, but has to use online maps to do a recce, had to cut out a scene involving 200 extras because of social distancing rules, and must wait for an actor to get their vaccine before he can shoot a crucial scene. What's it like to let a film crew in your home and return it to its 19th century glory ? Antonia visited a house in the south of Watford that doubled as William Turner's Chelsea residence for the film Mr Turner, with the production designer Suzie Davies.

With Antonia Quirke Brothers Bill and Turner Ross discuss their film Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, set in the last night of a bar on the outskirts of Los Angeles, that resides somewhere between fiction and documentary Neil Brand reveals how a little known movie called Chappaqua changed the course of contemporary classical music Kenneth More was one of the most popular actors in Britain in the 1950's, but he's never been the subject of a biography. So, Nick Pourgourides decided to do something about it. The result, More, Please has just been published.

With Antonia Quirke. Legendary actress Ellen Burstyn talks about Pieces Of A Woman, the film that might make her the oldest person to be nominated for an Academy Award in the history of the Oscars. Deepa Mehta, the director of the Earth, Fire and Water trilogy discusses her new drama Funny Boy, set around the time of Black July, the outburst of sectarian violence that led to civil war in Sri Lanka.

With Francine Stock Francine rifles through The Film Programme archives to hear from director Richard Lester about working with The Beatles on A Hard Day's Night and Help ! And why he didn't work for several years after the 60s had ended.

With Antonia Quirke Director Christopher Nolan and author Tom Shone discuss Tom's book The Nolan Variations, and the influence of artists Escher and Francis Bacon on movies like Inception and The Dark Knight Rises. And Nolan reveals why he has a favourite glacier. Photograph: Oliver Nolan

With Antonia Quirke Lesley Manville reveals how her Oscar nomination for Phantom Thread led to her latest role as a psychotic American matriarch in Let Him Go A tale of two Picturehouses over one year: Kevin Marckwick, the owner of the Uckfield Picture House and Clare Binns, Joint MD of the Picturehouse chain, discuss their contrasting fortunes over the past twelve months and reveal why the future for cinema is still bright, despite rumours to the contrary. Photograph: Rachell Smith

With Antonia Quirke David Byrne discusses the film version of his Broadway musical American Utopia which was directed by Spike Lee. And he reveals why he's a changed man since his last concert movie Stop Making Sense. Bait director Mark Jenkin is about to return to the film he had to abandon in March because of lockdown, Enys Men. But, thanks to social distancing rules, the film is very different from the one he had originally planned, with no crowd scenes, for instance, and a tighter budget. That's quite difficult for a horror movie with a cast of 200. Andrew Kotting, the director of Gallivant and The Whalebone Box, has to leave the studio he has worked in for the last 15 years, packing up his paintings, his books, his work shed and his straw bear costume. He says goodbye to his studio in a plaintive series of audio diaries.

With Antonia Quirke Actor Tom Burke reveals how he perfected the voice of Orson Welles for his new film Mank, about the making of Citizen Kane. Rob Savage explains how he made a horror movie called Host, when every member of the cast and crew were locked down in their homes and he directed them in his pyjamas and dressing gown. Critic Pamela Hutchinson, the curator of a new season of Marlene Dietrich movies, picks her favourite Marlene moment.

With Francine Stock Heaven's Gate is a symbol of Hollywood excess and financial mismanagement. One of the biggest disasters in film history, Michael Cimino's epic is said to have killed the studio that produced it, United Artists. Francine scours through the archives to hear from two its chief protagonists, head of production Steven Bach and director Michael Cimino.

With Antonia Quirke. Ron Howard talks about the challenges of making films about real people, and what it was like to act opposite John Wayne and discovering the secret of his famously laconic acting style. Film-maker Carol Morley makes the case for Muriel Box, Britain's most prolific female director and arguably most neglected. Artist and film-maker Andrew Kotting has to leave his studio after working there for 15 years. In that time, he has amassed a treasure trove of film props, paintings, costumes and memorabilia. It's not just going to be a huge removal job but a trawl through memories of films, friends, family and the departed.

With Francine Stock In this month's edition of Moving Image, director Sarah Gavron talks about the unlikely film that influenced Rocks, her realistic drama about the life of a teenager in East London. The film is After Life, a Japanese fantasy about the recently deceased having to choose a memory that will be re-enacted and filmed, which they then can take to the afterlife with them. Gavron explains why Hirokazu Koreeda's award-winning movie is a source of constant inspiration.

With Antonia Quirke. When Fred Scott began his documentary on the making of Roy Andersson's About Endlessness, he had no idea about the drama behind the scenes that he was about to uncover. When Marion Stokes died, she left behind 70,000 VHS tapes of American television that she'd been recording 24 hours a day for 30 years. Director Matt Wolf describes the long and arduous process of sifting through those tapes to make his documentary Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Cathy Schulman, the Oscar winning producer of Crash, reveals what life was like in Hollywood before and after the pandemic struck.

With Antonia Quirke. Steve James, the director of Hoop Dreams, looks back at his ground-breaking documentary about the lives of two African-American teenagers as they try to realise their dreams of becoming professional basketball players. To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Jean Luc Godard's A Bout De Souffle, Antonia rifles through the Film Programme archives to hear from some of the directors who have been influenced by this Nouvelle Vague masterpiece - Bernardo Bertolucci, Agnes Varda, Mike Hodges and Claire Denis. As his cinema is forced to shut down for a second time this year, Kevin Markwick, the owner of The Uckfield Picture House, reflects on his next move to save the family business. Nat Segnit continues his series on Scene Stealers with the tale of Fred Dalton Thompson, a Republican senator and sometime Hollywood actor.

With Antonia Quirke Antonia continues her look at women and horror with directors Josephine Decker and Natalie Erika James. Relic was inspired by Natalie's experience of looking after her grandmother who had been diagnosed with dementia. Shirley is the story of Shirley Jackson, the author of The Haunting Of Hill House, but is not a conventional bio-pic, instead it treats an episode in her life as if it was the subject of one of her own Gothic novels. Writer Nat Segnit starts a new series on Scene Stealers, the memorable bit-part actors whose faces you recognise but whose names you can't quite remember. Nat's first subject is The Godfather alumnus and former oil baron, G.D. Spradlin.

With Antonia Quirke. This month sees the release of six horror movies directed by women. And there are many more in production and waiting release. One of them is Amulet, directed by Romola Garai. Last year, Antonia visited her on set and found out why she wanted to make her directorial debut with a horror movie. As filming starts again in Britain and America, Antonia talks to two producers, Charles Collier and Matt Kaplan, about what it's like to film in the middle of a global pandemic. The classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers is released in cinemas again, and Antonia talks to fellow fan Matthew Sweet and hears from one of the film's stars, Herbert Lom, from the Film Programme archive.

With Antonia Quirke This month sees the release of five horror movies directed by women. The first one out of the blocks is Saint Maud, written and directed by Rose Glass. She tells Antonia why she thinks so many women are turning to horror for their debut movies. Out next week is Carmilla, directed by Emily Harris. One of the stars of the films is the sound effects by foley artist Catherine Thomas. She explains how she made the sound of ants scuttling on a branch with the help of some grape stalks and a ripe banana. Cinema owner Kevin Markwick reflects on the future as the next Bond movie has been postponed and the Cineworld chain has closed its doors.

With Antonia Quirke. Tricia Tuttle, the director of The London Film Festival, reveals all the challenges that she faces organising the festival during a global pandemic. Actor Patrick Kennedy describes what it was like to be on the red carpet of this year's Venice Film Festival, where the public weren't invited and the stars had to wear masks to the premieres and keep a social distance from one another. Director Mark Jenkin knows what a festival can do for a film's reputation. After a rave review of Bait and an ecstatic response at the Berlin Film Festival in 2019, the low budget drama went on to become a huge hit around the world. He now has the unenviable task of following up an unexpected success, and is keeping an audio diary for The Film Programme as he starts to write a supernatural tale set across several time dimensions. Neil Brand continues his series on rejected scores with The Getaway, the story of what happens when a star doesn't like the music to his new movie.

With Francine Stock. Controversial cult film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky is almost as famous for a film he didn't make as he is for the films he did. The Chilean director pioneered a new type of cult movie with his psychedelic western El Topo, but it's his doomed attempt to make a version of Dune, starring Salvador Dali, that propelled him to legendary status. He tells the story of his life, from creating mimes for Marcel Marceau to working with The Beatles on The Holy Mountain.

With Antonia Quirke. Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson describe how they wrote their award-winning film Rocks in collaboration with their teenage cast. Theresa reveals why she didn't tell her older sister that the main character was based on her, until she saw the film. Director Hong Khaou talks about the autobiographical elements that underpin his new drama Monsoon, about a young British man who returns to the place of his birth in Vietnam. Hong explains why his mother refuses to watch his movies. The Film Programme is following director Mark Jenkin over the course of a year as he plans his follow-up to the award-winning Bait and faces the new challenges that the pandemic has thrown up. This week, Mark talks about the short film he made while waiting patiently for a contract to start writing a new script.

With Antonia Quirke. Writer/director Sally Potter discusses her new feature film The Roads Not Taken and why she dedicated it to her late brother Nic. She describes her experience of the coronavirus and why it became both a sad and productive time for her. Antonia visits the community cinema The Phoenix in Oban, as they prepare to open their doors for the first time in 5 months. Everything is ready for the big day, except for one thing: the films themselves. They are being sent by courier to the west coast of Scotland and with 24 hours to go, they still haven't arrived.

With Antonia Quirke Les Miserables is not another adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel, but an award-winning, autobiographical thriller set in a deprived estate in the Parisian suburbs. Ladj Ly's film made such an impact with French audiences that President Francois Macron asked to watch it. He was so shaken by what he saw on screen that he ordered his ministers to start finding solutions to the poor housing conditions in the French capital. Tenet was the film that was going to save our cinemas. Or so it was hoped. Kevin Markwick, the owner of the Uckfield Picturehouse, tells us if that dream has become a reality. In a new round of Pitch Battle, critic Ryan Gilbey pitches a remake of Withnail And I, which brings Uncle Monty centre stage. Industry insiders Clare Binns, Rowan Woods and Lizzie Francke decide whether or not to give the project the green light.

With Francine Stock "I Am Spartacus" is one of the most famous lines in film history and Francine tells the turbulent backstory of that line and how it involved the so-called Hollywood witch-hunt, in which writers had to secretly change their names to get work. She hears from actor Kerry Shale and historians Pamela Hutchinson and Colin Shindler.

With Francine Stock Earl Cameron, who died earlier this year aged 102, was one of the pioneers of British cinema, one of the first black actors to get a starring role in a British movie. Francine spoke to Earl in 2009, just after he'd been awarded the CBE, and he revealed how he entered show business almost by accident, about the racism he encountered during the war and why he didn't think BAME actors received the recognition they deserved in the British film industry. Earl's debut was the thriller The Pool Of London, and Francine also hears archive of his co-star Leslie Phillips, and from James Dearden and Simon Relph, the sons of the producing and directing team Basil Dearden and Michael Relph.

With Ben Bailey Smith With no blockbusters and several heatwaves, it's been a cruel summer for our cinemas. The Uckfield Picture House in Sussex is feeling the heat. With only dozens of customers each day, owner Kevin Markwick was relying on two films to bring audiences back to his family business. One of them, Mulan, is now being released for streaming only. Kevin tells us his plans for survival with temperatures in the 30s and only one blockbuster being released at the end of August. As an actor, Ben Bailey Smith has worked on dozens of sets and is always surprised that there aren't more disasters, given the potential for something to go wrong. He enlists the help of historian Pamela Hutchinson to tell him about some of the biggest behind-the-scenes catastrophes in movie history. Writer/director Mark Jenkin was due to follow up his award-winning movie Bait this summer, until the pandemic intervened. He now has to wait a year to start shooting. Unbowed, Mark has started to write a new film, and is documenting its progress in a series of audio diaries. This week, Mark faces the nightmare of the blank page. Neil Brand continues his series of rejected scores and reveals how one piece of music by Ennio Morricone was used in two films and one TV series, and was even released as a single, ultimately reaching no.2 in the UK charts.

With Ben Bailey Smith Actor and writer Ben Bailey Smith has worked on numerous film sets and rarely hears a working class accent unless it's an upper class actor attempting the Cockney dialect or if it's an electrician working behind the scenes. He asks writer Danny Leigh just just how much the class system plays its part in the British film industry. The Uckfield Picture House in Sussex has been run by the same family for 50 years, but the pandemic and lockdown is starting to threaten its future. Its owner, Kevin Markwick, has recorded a series of audio diaries for the programme as he prepares to open his doors for the first time in four months. Caitlin Benedict, the presenter of NB: My Non-Binary Life, presents their choice of films to stream this week: Disclosure, A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.

With Antonia Quirke Film producer Luc Roeg talks about his only acting role, as a seven year old boy alongside Jenny Agutter in Walkabout. He reveals what it was like to be directed by his dad, Nic, and why he really didn't like swimming naked in the film's most famous scene. Coky Giedroyc, the director of How To Build A Girl, gives her tips for young female filmmakers on how to survive and thrive in a male dominated industry. Writer Nat Segnit pitches a remake of La Grande Bouffe, in which some middle class friends eat themselves to death over a long weekend, to industry insiders Clare Binns, Rowan Woods and Lizzie Francke Director Carol Morley introduces her final choice for Friday Film Club, the online movie club that she set up when the cinemas closed down.

With Antonia Quirke As cinemas across the world are pinning their box-office hopes on Christopher Nolan's Tenet this summer, Antonia looks again at the director's breakthrough hit Memento, and travels back to the year 2000 when Nolan talked to Radio 4 for the first time. Filmmaker Mark Jenkin has to wait a year to shoot his follow-up to Bait as a result of the pandemic. In the meantime, he has dreamt up a new movie and is recording an audio diary of the film-making process. This week, he is grappling with a story that exists across various dimensions of time Composer Neil Brand continues his series of rejected scores with the very public controversy that surrounded the release of 1984 in 1984. While many cinemas are still closed, drive-ins have become extremely popular. Antonia experiences one for herself, armed with a bucket of popcorn.

With Antonia Quirke Director Mark Jenkin sends his latest audio diary as he embarks on a new project, while he waits another year to start shooting his follow-up to the award-winning Bait. This week's recommendation for a film to stream is High Life, a movie about lockdown and living in isolation, as convicts are sent into space for a scientific experiment. From the archives, director Claire Denis explains that her original idea was to make a film about a deadly virus. Cinema owner Kevin Markwick explains why he is not going to open the doors of the Uckfield Picture House quite yet, despite the devastating impact that the coronavirus has had on the family business. Poet Simon Barraclough cannot wait for cinemas to re-open. He has watched at least 98 films during lockdown, but explains, in verse, why watching a film on your television can never be the same as going to the cinema.

With Antonia Quirke What does a film-maker do when they can't make a film ? Three directors share their audio diaries, in which they chart their lives in lockdown. Mark Jenkin was about to start shooting his follow-up to Bait when Covid 19 intervened. He now has to wait a year until he can begin again. Carol Morley set up her own on-line film club because she was missing the communal feeling of watching a film with an audience. Andrew Kotting's film The Whalebone Box was about to be released in cinemas just at the moment when they closed down. He was planning to go on tour with the film and catch up with friends and family around the UK and Ireland.

With Francine Stock June 29th is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ray Harryhausen, the special effects supremo who gave us a seven headed hydra, a a sword fighting skeleton and a lizard from Venus in such classics as Jason And The Argonauts, The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad and 20 Million Miles To Earth. To celebrate the anniversary, Francine remembers the time she visited Ray in his London home and heard how he did all the effects himself, moving his fabulous beasts one painstaking step at a time.

With Antonia Quirke The Film Programme's recommendation for films to stream this week are three movies that shed some light on race relations in America. The three films are: BlacKkKlansman, Sorry To Bother You and Monsters And Men. Antonia delves into The Film Programme archives and hears from directors Spike Lee, Boots Riley and Reinaldo Marcus Green.

With Antonia Quirke Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi talks about Radioactive, her biopic of Marie Curie, and explains why she also wanted to recognise the work of Marie's husband Pierre. The sun never sets in the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Lapland, but like many festivals, this year it had to go online. Caitlin Benedict and Antonia Quirke revisit last year's festival and talk to programme manager Milja Mikkola about the painful decision not to hold the festival in the small town of Sodankyla for the first time in over 30 years. The Film Club choice of a movie to stream this week is the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets, in which Denis Price tries to kill 8 members of an aristocratic family, all played by Alec Guinness. Legendary cinematographer Douglas Slocombe explains how he managed to film six Alec Guinesses in one shot.

With Antonia Quirke Antonia's recommendation for a film to watch while the cinemas are closed is The Garden by Derek Jarman. The garden itself and the adjacent cottage have just been saved for the nation after a successful campaign and Antonia recalls her pilgrimage to Dungeness on the 25th anniversary of the film-maker's death, when she spoke to collaborators Simon Fisher-Turner, Spencer Leigh and Seamus McGarvey, and critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. Antonia raids the programme's archive to hear from director Ken Russell, who gave Jarman his first job in the film industry.

With Francine Stock This week's lockdown choice is not a movie, but a whole movement, the British New Wave. Francine picks four kitchen sink classics - Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, A Taste Of Honey, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and Billy Liar - for listeners to watch this week. And she hears from the stars of the New Wave - Sir Tom Courtenay, Shirley Anne Field and Murray Melvin.

With Antonia Quirke. This week The Film Programme recommends not just one lockdown movie, but a whole life-time's. The life and work of Agnes Varda, including masterpieces Cleo From 5 To 7, The Beaches Of Agnes and Faces, Places. We hear one of the last interviews Agnes gave in this country and from JR, her co-director on Faces, Places, who became her best friend, even though there was 50 years between them. Neil Brand continues his series on rejected film scores, with the epic fail of Troy, the blockbuster that sacked its composer at the last minute.

With Antonia Quirke. For this week's film club, Antonia recommends Terence Stamp's movies from the 1960s and hears from the man himself about celebrity, meeting his idols and why he left the film industry at the end of the decade. Adrian Smith from The Cult Film Club in Eastbourne tells us what happened when the club went online and ended up with 600 people taking part in the same film quiz

With Antonia Quirke This week's recommendation for a film to watch in lockdown is There Will Be Blood. Antonia hears from director Paul Thomas Anderson, stars Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano and composer Jonny Greenwood. Neil Brand reveals the story behind the score for Flash Gordon and why one composer became seriously ill with the stress of the job. Jon Naylor and Katie Hobbs tell us how they set up The Travelling Symphony Movie Club especially for the lockdown.

With Francine Stock The Film Programme's recommendation for a film to watch in self isolation this week is Raging Bull. Editor Thelma Schoonmaker and director Martin Scorsese guide Francine through the making of a classic.

Antonia Quirke plunders the Film Programme archive and hears from the makers of Women In Love: Glenda Jackson, Ken Russell and cinematographer Billy Williams And there's another round of Pitch Battle, as Lizze Francke, Rowan Woods and Clare Binns give their verdict on Gavia Baker Whitelaw's pitch to remake Avatar.

With Antonia Quirke As part of The Film Programme's guide to what to watch during self isolation, Antonia presents a special on the 1950 crime drama Night And The City. She plunders the Film Programme archives and hears from stars Richard Widmark, Herbert Lom, Googie Withers and director Jules Dassin

With Francine Stock. "I Am Spartacus" is one of the most famous lines in film history and Francine tells the backstory of that line and how involved the so-called Hollywood witch-hunt. She hears from actor Kerry Shale and historians Pamela Hutchinson and Colin Shindler.

With Antonia Quirke. Before the national lockdown, Antonia went to Hastings to visit film-maker Andrew Kotting just as he discovered that cinemas were shutting down and his latest film The Whalebone Box would not see the light of a projector for the foreseeable future. But, like a number of new releases, it will be available to stream instead Franz Waxman won an Oscar for his score for A Place In The Sun, but he might not have composed all the music on the soundtrack, as Neil Brand reveals.

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

With Antonia Quirke In November 2019, far right protesters tried to stop the premiere of Georgia's first LGBTQ film And Then We Danced. They fought with riot police and attacked cinema-goers in Tiblisi. As the film is released in this country, its star Levan Gelbakhiani talks about what it was like to be in the eye of the storm and why the cast and crew needed bodyguards during the making of the movie. Directors Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles discuss their modern day western Bacurau, in which the inhabitants of a remote Brazilian village are hunted by wealthy tourists for sport. In the latest episode of Pitch Battle, critic Pamela Hutchinson pitches a remake of a forgotten 30's comedy that has something to say about today's gender politics. Industry insiders Lizzie Francke, Rowan Woods and Clare Binns decide whether or not to give the project the all important green light.

With Antonia Quirke. John Boorman looks back at a career that includes Deliverance, Hope And Glory and Point Blank. He reveals why he's still surprised that films get made, or at least finished, given that so much can go so wrong.

With Francine Stock. Justin Kurzel, the director of True History Of The Kelly Gang, talks about the movie that has been a major influence on his film-making. Wake In Fright was made in 1971 and was in contention at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival that year. It was quickly forgotten, however, and considered lost until the film's editor discovered it in a bin in Pittsburgh in 2002. Fully restored seven years later, it went on to become a cult classic and a huge influence on Australian cinema.

Her performance in Little Joe won Emily Beecham best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Also starring Ben Whishaw it is a scifi take on the dangers of genetic engineering in flowers. It's the first film in English for Austrian director Jessica Hausner and she reveals what inspired it and the themes that recur in her films. Continuing our series on how to get a movie made, Pitch to Production, Matthew Sweet explores the tricky business of assigning rights with Clare Israel of film and literary agents David Higham Associates and development consultant Rowan Woods. Another winner at Cannes in 2019 was the French film Portrait of a Lady on Fire which took Queer Palm and Best Screenplay prizes for its writer and director Céline Sciamma. Set in eighteenth century France it is the story of the developing attraction between a female portrait painter and the young woman sitting for her. Its stars Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel who talk about the difference between being the observed and the observer in art and the fun they had shooting sex scenes. Presented by: Antonia Quirke Producer: Harry Parker

With Antonia Quirke Ken Russell's wife Lisi Tribble Russell explains why Dance Of The Seven Veils, his film about Richard Strauss, is finally going to be seen 50 years after it was banned. In a new series of Pitch Battle, Gaylene Gould pitches a remake of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes called Brothers Prefer Weaves. A panel of industry insiders, Lizzie Francke, Rowan Woods and Clare Binns decide whether or not to give this update the green light. Composer Neil Brand reveals what happened when legendary composer John Barry was sacked from Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer.

With Antonia Quirke. Director Bong Joon-ho talks about his Oscar winning Korean thriller Parasite, which has been a surprise hit in the United States. And he reveals the debt of gratitude his film owes to Alfred Hitchcock. Matthew Sweet finds out how he could get a dystopian science fiction novel from 1954 optioned as a movie. He is aided in his quest by film development consultant Rowan Woods. As A Streetcar Named Desire returns to the big screen, Brando biographer William J Mann takes us behind the scenes of this ground-breaking movie which made its star a heart-throb over night. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Federico Fellini, The Film Programme unearths a gem from its archive - the late director Anthony Minghella recounts how watching I Vitelloni felt like Fellini was burrowing into his head and capturing the time he spent as a young man in the Isle Of Wight.

With Francine Stock. Award winning cinematographer Seamus McGarvey talks about the film that is a continuing influence on his work, A Matter Of Life And Death, and about his friendship with the movie's legendary director of photography, Jack Cardiff, who became his mentor.

With Antonia Quirke Director Robert Eggers and Willem Dafoe discuss one of the most unusual Hollywood movies of this year or any other. The tale of two drunken lighthouse-keepers, the film is already infamous for its love scene between man and mermaid. Director Marielle Heller reveals why many British viewers have walked out of A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood, her real life story of chlldren's TV presenter Mr Rogers, mistakenly assuming that it will be the American equivalent of the Jimmy Savile scandal. When, in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

With Antonia Quirke. Todd Phillips explains how an impromptu pitch in the back of a limo led to the billion dollar blockbuster Joker. And he reveals how he dealt with the huge controversy about the film in the United States before the movie had even been released. Cinematographer Roger Deakins takes us behind the scenes of 1917 and reveals how he made the war movie look like one continuous shot. Neil Brand explains the reasons why Michael Nyman's score for Practical Magic was binned at the last minute and why the composer believes it's one of his best pieces of music for film.

With Antonia Quirke. Chemical engineer Robert Paul was an unlikely film pioneer. But after a chance encounter in his chemist's shop, he went on to invent revolutionary movie cameras and projectors, as well as direct Britain's first fiction film, and a war movie filmed on Muswell Hill golf course. And now he has an exhibition in his honour. Antonia visits the National Museum Of Science And Media in Bradford and has a whirlwind tour in the company of curators Toni Booth and Ian Christie. Uncut Gems is a thriller set in the secretive world of New York's Diamond District. Directors Josh and Benny Safdie reveal how they used family connections to get unparalleled access to this closed community. In part one of her interview with legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins, Antonia finds out how he managed to make World War I drama 1917 seem as if it had been filmed in one continuous two hour shot.

With Antonia Quirke. Actor/director Taika Waititi talks about his World War II drama Jojo Rabbit and what it was like to direct a film dressed as Adolf Hitler. In the finale of Pitch Battle, Lizzie Francke of the BFI and development consultant Rowan Woods decide which of the final three pitches is their absolute favourite. The battle is between a memoir of the Beat generation, a time slip love story, and a science fiction thriller in which Britain is waterlogged and populated by mutant dogs.

With Francine Stock. In another edition of Moving Image, writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce reveals the huge impact that the film Local Hero had on his family and his life. And receives a surprise phone call from someone who was intimately involved in the production.

With Antonia Quirke. Florence Pugh reveals why her characterisation of Amy in Little Women is so different from the numerous adaptations that have gone before, and why it's particularly ironic that a film about women not being recognised in American society was not recognised by the Golden Globe awards. Christmas has come early for Tim Robey, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Clare Binns as they swap presents around a virtual tree, including some of the best DVDs of the year. They also hear from Pablo Helman, the technical wizard who de-aged Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in The Irishman.

With Antonia Quirke Two directors look back at their crazy year. Mark Jenkin’s Bait has been described as a modern masterpiece. Shot in 16mm black and white on a hand-cranked camera, this tale of a Cornish fishing village has been an unlikely box office hit, and still played in cinemas in this country two months after its release. Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman, on the other hand, began life with a starry premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and was made not long after Fletcher was brought into complete filming on Bohemian Rhapsody, which won the best drama at the Golden Globes in January.

With Antonia Quirke Alma Har'el reveals how she came to direct Honey Boy, which was written by Shia LaBeouf while he was in rehab. And why she persuaded the actor to play his own father. The Two Popes director Fernando Meirelles reveals why he put more jokes into the screenplay about the famous meeting between Pope Francis and Pope Benedict, how he came to build the largest Sistine Chapel in the world on a film set and why he's one of the few film-makers in the world who's also a farmer. Christmas has come early as Matthew Sweet reviews 1952 festive curio The Holly And The Ivy

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Tim Robey and Caitlin Benedict present a start-up guide to Ken Loach

With Francine Stock "In screenwriting terms, it's a disaster. And yet, as a film, it's a piece of magic." Oscar winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy on why Terrence Malick's Days Of Heaven breaks all the rules of cinema and is still a masterpiece.

With Antonia Quirke The creators of Frozen tell Antonia about how they dealt with the pressure of following up one of the biggest hits of recent years. Writer Chris Buck and writer/director/chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios Jennifer Lee explain why they put their characters through a psychological test and what the unexpected results showed. Mati Diop, the award winning director of Atlantics, talks about the lost generation of Senegalese men who tried to cross the ocean in small boats to find work in Europe and why their deaths haunt the living and the loved ones they left behind Anna Smith takes another look at Stanley Kubrick's final movie Eyes Wide Shut and its infamous orgy scene in the light of the Time's Up movement.

With Antonia Quirke Emma Thompson has written 6 films in which she also stars. Last Christmas is the latest. She explains why she sometimes has to bite her tongue when actors deliver her lines in ways that she hadn't quite imagined. Neil Brand reveals how the ground-breaking score to cult classic Forbidden Planet was a last minute replacement and why the original composer decided to destroy his rejected score. "Apocalypse Now meets Pygmalion". Matthew Sweet pitches a long forgotten science fiction novel to film industry experts Lizzie Francke, Rowan Woods and Clare Binns.

With Antonia Quirke. Werner Herzog talks about meeting Mikhail Gorbachev and reflects on the cinema of awe, his grudge with Gunter Grass, and drunken slugs. Writer Paul Laverty discusses the research he did into the gig economy for Sorry We Missed You and what horrified him the most. Script supervisor Angela Allen divulges some secrets from the set of John Huston's Moby Dick.

With Francine Stock. Producer Rebecca O'Brien, who has collaborated with Ken Loach on 19 films, discusses the movie that inspired her to join the industry - The Conversation. While watching Francis Ford Coppola's conspiracy thriller in 1974, the thought never entered Rebecca's mind that "a young woman could have anything to do with making a film." She reveals how she went on to become the producer of two Palme D'Or winners at the Cannes Film Festival.

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey tell Caitlin Benedict all about Rosalind Russell

With Antonia Quirke By The Grace Of God director Francois Ozon reveals how he had to make the film under a different name so that the Catholic Church wouldn't know that he was secretly making an expose of historical child abuse by French priests. Writer Ray Connolly talks about his friendship with The Beatles and how it informed his two movies about the music business, That'll Be The Day and Stardust. And how he got into a fist fight with Keith Moon. Neil Brand reveals how Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells was the third choice for the soundtrack of The Exorcist, and the reasons why director William Friedkin dismissed his first two composers.

With Antonia Quirke As Singin' In The Rain returns to cinemas, Antonia goes behind the scenes of this famous musical with Gene Kelly's widow Patricia Ward Kelly and hears from fans Sir Richard Eyre, Pamela Hutchinson and Neil Brand.

Antonia Quirke and Caitlin Benedict go behind the scenes of this year's London Film Festival, and discover how an award at a festival can change a director's life, and why the festival team had to e-mail critics asking them to refrain from posting their reviews before the films had even finished.

With Antonia Quirke Editor Walter Murch takes Antonia on a journey to the heart of Apocalypse Now Linda Grant pitches a memoir about the Beat Generation as a a suitable case for the movie treatment. Industry insiders Clare Binns, Lizzie Francke and Rowan Woods deliver their verdict in another edition of Pitch Battle

With Francine Stock Asif Kapadia talks about the film that influenced Amy, Diego Maradona and The Warrior. He explains how a lightbulb went on above his head when he first saw the Vietnamese gangster movie, Cyclo, and how his life was never the same again. Francine also talks to Cyclo's director Tran Anh Hung about one of the movie's key scenes, when a helicopter falls off the back of a lorry.

Where does a film novice start with an art cinema giant like Andrei Tarkovsky? Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey are here to help Caitlin Benedict discover his work.

On the anniversary of his birthday, Kenneth More is remembered by his wife Angela Douglas and Nick Pourgourides, the founder of the official site dedicated to the movies of the actor who was the highest paid star in Britain in the late 50s. Writer/director Shola Amoo discusses his semi-autobiographical drama The Last Tree and how he realised his dream of filming in Nigeria. Dominic Guard, the child star of The Go-Between talks about the connection between the film and his later career as a psychotherapist

With Antonia Quirke John Schlesinger's partner Michael Childers takes us behind the scenes of Midnight Cowboy and reveals how he persuaded Andy Warhol to take part and the shocking reason why the artist was not in the finished film. Julian Fellowes talks about his big screen adaptation of Downton Abbey and why all his scripts have to meet his wife's approval before they are sent off. Betty Balfour was one of the biggest stars of British cinema in the 1920, thanks largely to a series of films starring a character called Squibs. Pamela Hutchinson reveals the sad facts of what happened to Betty, as one of her most popular movies, Love, Life And Laughter has been restored and returned to the big screen.

With Antonia Quirke What exactly does a stills photographer do on a film set ? Keith Bernstein, whose CV includes American Sniper and Argo, reveals the secrets of his trade. Director Edward Watts reveals how he worked with film-maker Waad Al-Khateab to shape the 500 hours of footage she had shot during the siege of Aleppo into a 100 minute documentary called For Sama, that's won awards across the world. Neil Brand reveals the original score for Love Story, and why Francis Lai was brought on board after Burt Bacharach and then Jimmy Webb had been sacked.

With Francine Stock Mark Jenkin talks about the influence of Derek Jarman's home-made movie The Garden on his DIY film Bait, which is released this week.

With Raifa Rafiq Raifa Rafiq, of the Mostly Lit podcast, hosts three summer specials called Where To Begin With... In the third edition, she enlists the help of critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey to find out where she should begin with the films of Pedro Almodovar, whose autobiographical drama Pain And Glory is released this month.

With Raifa Rafiq. In a series of three summer specials, Raifa Rafiq, from the Mostly Lit podcast, hosts a new series called Where To Begin With... In part two, she enlists the help of critics Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh to find out where she should begin with the films of Tilda Swinton, who is about to star with her daughter Honor in The Souvenir, released in cinemas later this month. They discuss Tilda Swinton's collaborations with Derek Jarman and Luca Guadagnino, her Oscar winning role in Michael Clayton, and her gender-switching performance in Sally Potter's Orlando, based on Virginia Woolf's novel. Producer: Timothy Prosser Presenter: Raifa Rafiq

Raifa Rafiq, of the Mostly Lit podcast, hosts three summer specials called Where To Begin With... In the first edition, she enlists the help of critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey to find out where she should begin with the films of Quentin Tarantino.

With Antonia Quirke Do children’s movies offer a crash course in film genres, does Rango provide an entrée into westerns, for instance ? Neil Brand believes they do, but Larushka Ivan-Zadeh is more sceptical about the educational value of films that are written mostly by middle-aged men. Novelist Dreda Say Mitchell enters the fray in Pitch Battle. She makes the case for The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly as a book that's worthy of the movie treatment. Industry insiders Rowan Woods, Lizzie Francke and Clare Binns decide whether they would give this project the green light. Journalist Carl Anka traces the effect of Kidulthood on British culture 12 years after it was made.

With Francine Stock. Moira Buffini, the writer of Byzantium and the latest Jane Eyre adaptation, talks about the film that has been a major influence on her career - Tarkovsky's Stalker, the science fiction movie which foreshadowed the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Moira and Francine hear from Nick Rush-Cooper, who worked as a tourist guide in the abandoned and dangerously polluted city. And from Danny Leigh of the BFI, who explains how Stalker was responsible for the death of its director and many of the crew.

With Antonia Quirke Touki Bouki, a low budget movie from Senegal made in 1973, had a new lease of life when Beyoncé and Jay-Z paid homage to it in a famous publicity still. Gaylene Gould explains what happened and why it made it such a huge impact. Actor and coach Denis Lawson reveals how he helped his nephew Ewan McGregor to learn the rules of screen acting with a pair of socks. On the 25th anniversary of its release, Antonia visits the beach where Il Postino was filmed and hears from a local hotelier who tells her about the making of the film from the locals' point of view.

With Antonia Quirke. Shark expert Gareth Fraser explains how his life was changed by watching Jaws at a very tender age. Director Jim Jarmusch presents his guide to zombie movies and explains why his latest film The Dead Don't Die owes a debt of gratitude to George A Romero's Night Of The Living Dead and Dawn Of The Dead. Neil Brand reveals why Alfred Hitchcock sacked Pink Panther composer Henry Mancini from his thriller Frenzy and replaced him with a composer best known for his war movies.

With Antonia Quirke. Cinematographer Tony Richmond talks about Don't Look Now and reveals the truth behind one of cinema's most famous sex scenes: did Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland really make love on camera, or did they fake it ? Literary journalist Alex Clark enters the fray in Pitch Battle, as she pitches a movie version of Potterism, a satire about a powerful media tycoon and his family, written in 1920. Listening to the pitch are a fearsome squad of industry insiders - Lizzie Francke of the BFI, Picturehouse's Clare Binns and development consultant Rowan Woods, who deliver their verdict in no uncertain terms.

With Francine Stock. Danny Boyle talks about The Beatles' documentary Let It Be, which was the inspiration for his new film Yesterday. Danny discusses The Beatles, plagiarism, nostalgia, litigation and why he once pitched a movie as Trainspotting Meets Amelie.

Antonia Quirke and Caitlin Benedict visit the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Lapland, where the sun shines for 24 hours in summer and films are shown every hour of the day. There they speak to Iranian exiles Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Marzieh Meshkini, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, French auteur Arnaud Desplechin and Mark Jenkin from Cornwall. Along the way, they meet the people who make the festival possible, the volunteers, and find out why all the directors are expected to get into a sauna and go skinny dipping.

With Antonia Quirke Writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks about his Scrabble-based drama Sometimes, Always, Never and reveals why the film took 12 years to go from script to screen. Neil Brand continues his series on famous film scores that were last minute replacements with the story of Oliver Stone's Platoon and Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings. Voice coach Penny Dyer reveals what lessons she gave Helen Mirren to talk like the Queen, and helps Antonia rediscover her Manchester accent.

With Antonia Quirke Asif Kapadia, the director of Amy and Senna, discusses his latest documentary, Diego Maradona, and reveals why he's never wanted to touch anyone more than he wanted to touch the footballer's legendary left foot. Sir Christopher Frayling talks us through the soundtrack of Once Upon A Time In The West and how Ennio Morricone was influenced by a symphony of metal ladders. In the latest edition of Pitch Battle, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw pitches a novel called Swordspoint to a panel of movie insiders, Lizzie Francke, Rowan Woods and Clare Binns. They decide whether Ellen Kushner's book is a suitable case for the movie treatment.

Visual effects artist Paul Franklin on 1979's Alien, and its influence on his Oscar winning work on Inception and Interstellar. Francine Stock also hears from Alien's producer Ivor Powell, editor Terry Rawlings, who died in April 2019, and the film's director Ridley Scott.

With Antonia Quirke. Actor turned director Olivia Wilde talks about her debut feature a high school comedy Booksmart, and reveals why she asked her two leads to live together before they started filming. The Film Programme follows husband and wife team Geoff and Sarah Bird as they set up their first film festival, and take over the town of Skipton, showing movies on a barge, in the castle and down the pub. Film buyer Clare Binns and movie critic Tim Robey report from this year's Cannes Film Festival.

With Antonia Quirke. Director Brian Welsh discusses Beats, his acclaimed drama set in the 90s rave scene in Glasgow. He explains how to film a rave. You just hold a party and invite one thousand extras. Novelist Jonathan Coe enters the fray of Pitch Battle as he pitches an adaptation of Henry Fielding's Amelia. But what will the panel of Lizzie Francke, Rowan Woods and Clare Binns think of "Tom Jones for the Me Too generation" ? Choreographer and movement coach Scarlett Mackmin talks about her work with Rosamund Pike which involved taping her shoulders down for A Private War and reveals which Hollywood star was reluctant to strut his stuff in a Hollywood movie.

With Antonia Quirke. Mads Mikkelsen reveals why his training as a ballet dancer and gymnast helped him to play a plane crash survivor in Arctic, which was shot in the frozen wastes of Iceland during the winter. Claire Denis discusses her controversial science fiction drama. High Life, which has left some audience members reeling in the aisles. Writer Anna Cale reveals the moment she recognised herself in a movie and the impact it had on her love life.

With Antonia Quirke. Writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz talks about Colette, the true story of the author who had to use her husband's name to publish her novels. And she reveals the difference between writing for the screen and for the stage, and why she really doesn't like handing in a movie script not knowing how it will turn out. Berlin in the 1920s was one of the most socially progressive pockets of the 20th century, and the movies were just as out there. NB presenter Caitlin Benedict uncovers the secrets of gender and sexuality in Weimar cinema with Pamela Hutchinson and Morgan M Page. Neil Brand recounts the tale of the original score for Apocalypse Now, composed by David Shire, who was, at the time, Francis Ford Coppola's brother-in-law.

With Francine Stock. Maria Djurkovic, the award winning production designer of The Hours, Billy Elliot and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, reveals the film that's been a major influence on her career, Time Of The Gypsies. She is joined by her creative partner Tatiana Macdonald, whose favourite film also happens to be Emir Kusturica's Balkan odyssey about the adventures of a Romany child. Damian Le Bas, author of The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain, reveals what he and his friends and family think of the film. Jonathan Romney offers a beginner's guide to the controversial Serbian director.

Antonia Quirke reunites three cast members of Barbra Streisand's cult classic Yentl - Kerry Shale, Danny Brainin and Gary Brown. And in a radio exclusive, they sing the song that was cut from the final version. Super-fan Liza Ward explains why she has seen Yentl between 50 to 100 times and how she can remember every line of dialogue. Styx is an ethical thriller, in which a single-handed yachtswoman come across a sinking ship full of refugees, but is told by the coastguard not to intervene. Director Wolfgang Fischer reveals the moral dimensions of his drama and discusses the difficulties of filming on the high seas. Acting coach Martin Ledwith reveals the secrets of his job and why it doesn't involve telling actors how to act.

With Antonia Quirke. Writer Paul Laverty explains why he followed up I, Daniel Blake with a bio-pic about Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta. Yuli is directed by his partner Iciar Bollain, and this is their fourth collaboration as writer and director. They explain how they first met on the set of Ken Loach's Land And Freedom. Gordon Stainforth, the music editor of The Shining, reveals some little known facts about its famous score and why Stanley Kubrick was not the control freak that he's often been made out to be. Neil Brand reveals the differences between the music on the soundtrack and the original score composed by Wendy Carlos.

Jessie Buckley talks about Wild Rose, the story of a Country And Western singer from Glasgow, in which she stars and sings and writes her own songs. She tells Antonia Quirke what was it was like to reach the final of talent show I’d Do Anything in 2008, and why she gave up a career on the West End stage to go back to drama school. Author and screenwriter Ronan Bennett reveals the moment he saw himself reflected on screen, in the prison drama The Jericho Mile. Writer Iain Sinclair pitches a 1960's London novel as a suitable case for the movie treatment. Industry insiders Clare Binns, Rowan Woods and Lizzie Francke pass judgement on the pitch. Antonia reflects on her recent encounter with the legendary director Agnes Varda, whose death was announced last week

BAFTA winning actor, writer and director Jessica Hynes tells Francine Stock about Satyajit Ray's The World Of Apu; the third part of the Indian filmmaker's Apu Trilogy, released in 1959, and her Moving Imagine pick.

With Antonia Quirke Ralph Fiennes and producer Gaby Tana discuss The White Crow, their drama about Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West. Ralph explains why so much of the film is in Russian and why he believes that if Schindler's List was made now it would not feature British actors doing German accents. Patricia Clarkson discusses her role as a cop in philosophical crime drama Out Of Blue and why people still come up to her and say "brush my hair". Writer and broadcaster Carl Anka tells us why Bugs Bunny is really black.

A film and poetry special with Robin Robertson and Hannah Sullivan. And in a radio exclusive, Sheila Atim and Toby Jones perform Bob Dylan’s Brownsville Girl.

With Antonia Quirke. Indie darlings Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck reveal why they decided to make a blockbuster movie, Captain Marvel. In the latest instalment of his series on movie scores that were last minute replacements, Neil Brand takes us behind the scenes of Chinatown. In a new series of Pitch Battle, The Film Programme asks writers to nominate a novel that should be adapted for screen but hasn't yet received the movie treatment. Poet Bridget Minamore is the first contender and her pitch is heard by film industry insiders Clare Binns of Picturehouse, development consultant Rowan Woods and Lizzie Francke of the BFI

Director Deborah Haywood chooses Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and tells Francine how she came to first see it and love it. Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald and "best baddie ever" Robert Carlyle join the conversation to reveal how Irvine Welsh's book became the iconic film. Main image: Rob Baker Ashton

Antonia Quirke and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh embark on a pilgrimage to Dungeness to pay their respects to film-maker Derek Jarman on the 25th anniversary of his death. Along the way, they hear from colleagues of the artist and activist, like actor and director Dexter Fletcher, costume designer Sandy Powell and composer Simon Fisher Turner.

With Antonia Quirke. Rosamund Pike reveals the lengths she went to in order to play the legendary war reporter Marie Colvin in A Private War. Oscar winning director Barry Jenkins discusses If Beale Street Could Talk, his follow-up to Moonlight and explains what the two films have in common. Neil Brand recounts the fight over war movie Battle Of Britain, when Sir William Walton's score was replaced at the last minute. And how he only found out when he read it in a newspaper. On the podcast, historian Ian Christie tells us about Robert Paul, the film pioneer who made Muswell Hill the centre of the movie universe for a brief moment.

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey review Barbara Stanwyck's Mad Miss Manton

With Antonia Quirke Richard 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.

With Antonia Quirke. Award-winning cinematographer Seamus McGarvey takes us behind the scenes of The Greatest Showman, The Hours and 50 Shades Of Grey

With Francine Stock In 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.

A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.

With 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.

A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.

With Antonia Quirke Writer Jeff Pope on what happened to Laurel and Hardy when they toured provincial theatres in the UK in the 1950s Comedian 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.

A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.

With 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.

A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.

With 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.

A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.

With Antonia Quirke Critics 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.

A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.

With Antonia Quirke In 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.

A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.

With Antonia Quirke Musician 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.

A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.

With 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.

A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.

With Antonia Quirke. Novelist Naomi Alderman and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz discuss the film adaptation of Alderman's debut novel Disobedience, a lesbian love story set in the orthodox Jewish community of Hendon. And Naomi reveals why she became an extra in her own movie. The Star And Shadow cinema in Newcastle was a converted furniture showroom rebuilt entirely by volunteers who had little or no experience of bricklaying, drilling or grouting.The building took years to complete and was 15 months behind schedule, but is finally open. Antonia, who helped to drill some of the concrete floor, returns to the site to show one of her favourite movies to a local film club called Losing The Plot.

A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.

With Antonia Quirke Luca Guadagnino reveals his plans to turn Call Me By Your Name into a long-running saga that will span decades, and how he was inspired to re-make Suspiria even before he’d seen Dario Argento’s original in 1977. Neil Brand shows us how Alan Silvestri's score for Back To The Future changed the game for adventure movies. As 9 To 5 returns to cinemas and Working Girl celebrates its 30th anniversary, Gaylene Gould and Anna Smith chart the movie stereotypes of working women.

With Antonia Quirke. Mike Leigh's Peterloo documents the massacre in St Peter's Field, Manchester in 1819 when the British cavalry charged at peaceful protesters with sabres drawn. Production designer Suzie Davies reveals why they couldn't film in the actual location, or indeed in Manchester, but somewhere highly unlikely. Poet Bridget Minamore discusses what it was finally like to watch a movie and see herself reflected in the screen. Paleoclimatologist Kate Hendry tells Antonia why Denis Quaid gets her job all wrong in the climate change drama The Day After Tomorrow.

With Antonia Quirke. Utoya director Erik Poppe talks about his one-shot re-enactment of the right-wing terrorist attack in Norway in 2011, and reveals why he had three survivors by his side at all times during filming. As Some Like It Hot returns to cinemas, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey discuss the best last lines in cinema history. Or at least try to, because nobody's perfect.

Melody Bridges and Caitlin Benedict on the problematic fave that is the movie musical.

With Francine Stock. In the second edition of her new series, Moving Image, Francine Stock talks to director Carol Morley about the film that has influenced her the most - Jane Campion's debut Sweetie. Writer Ellen Cheshire provides backstory on the iconic director... and they are joined by a mystery guest.

With Antonia Quirke. Halloween comes early as composer Neil Brand reveals how John Carpenter's score for his 1978 horror classic changed the sound of horror in the movies. Poet Don Paterson waxes lyrical about Jean Cocteau's Orphee and reveals why poets rarely make good film-makers. Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone discusses his latest drama set in the Italian underworld, Dogman, which won the award for best actor at this year's Cannes Film Festival and best dog at the Palme Dog awards, which is also held annually in the French resort.

With Antonia Quirke Rupert Everett approaches the final chapter on his passion project about Oscar Wilde as The Happy Prince is released for home entertainment. He reflects on a journey that has lasted years and reveals why we should listen to the birdsong on the soundtrack and why it has such personal significance for him. La La Land director Damien Chazelle on why he decided to make a film about the moon landing and how he tried to make it as authentic as humanly possible. He also reflects on the evening last year when his musical was mistakenly given the Oscar for best picture. Historian Kate Williams takes up arms in Pitch Battle as she nominates a historical figure that deserves the movie treatment - a female Irish pirate who stood up to Elizabeth I.

Antonia Quirke talks to Bradley Cooper about his re-make of A Star Is Born, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. He reveals how the first ten minutes of the film came to him in a dream Susie Boyt, author of My Judy Garland Life, and Professor Richard Dyer take us through the other three versions of A Star Is Born, and reveal the title of the movie that started it all. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher takes a critical look at the phenomena known as "women in refrigerators".

Caitlin Benedict and Melody Bridges debate the hot issue of the day: should The King and I be thrown into the bin of history?

In the first of the new Moving Image series, Francine Stock talks to a filmmaker about a movie that continues to inspire them. This month, director Paul King reveals the influence of Powell and Pressburger's The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp on his two Paddington adaptations. Legendary editor and Michael Powell's widow, Thelma Schoonmaker reveals the influence of Colonel Blimp on Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. Historian Ian Christie supplies the backstory to the film that Churchill tried to scupper.

With Antonia Quirke. Glenn Close reveals that she would like to see a re-make of Fatal Attraction in which her character Alex is more misunderstood than monster. Agnes Varda looks back at the faces and places that have fascinated her over a 60 year career as one of France's leading film-makers. Her co-director on Faces, Places, the artist known as JR, talks about their friendship that bridges a 55 year age gap and reveals why he has a crush on her.

Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh plug the gap in their knowledge of monster movies by finally catching up on the North Korean epic Pulgasari, which was made by a married couple who were kidnapped from South Korea on the orders of Kim Jong-Il.

Antonia Quirke visits Redcar, where they are re-creating the famous five minute, one-shot scene from Atonement of British soldiers evacuating Dunkirk , but without the budget of a blockbuster movie. There she talks to extras who were in the original and to to director Richard DeDomenici who specialises in thrifty versions of famous movies and scenes. Seamus McGarvey, the cinematographer of the 2007 drama, explains how they got that famous shot. Antonia talks to real life cowboy and rodeo champion Brady Jandreau about The Rider, a fictionalised account of his return to the sport after a serious head injury.

With Antonia Quirke. Desiree Akhavan discusses her new film about gay conversion therapy, The Miseducation Of Cameron Post, and her misgivings about lesbian drama Blue Is The Warmest Colour.

With Antonia Quirke. Oscar winner Pawel Pawlikowski talks about his award-winning tale of amour fou in communist Poland, Cold War. Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn on designing the sound of John Krasinski's A Quiet Place, a thriller in which a family must remain silent to avoid giant predators. As it is re-released to mark its 30th anniversary, Terence Davies discusses his acclaimed Distant Voices, Still Lives.

Antonia Quirke presents a special edition of The Film Programme with Spike Lee. They discuss his latest award-winning film, BlacKkKlansman, based on the improbably true story of an African-American cop who infiltrated the Klu Klux Klan. They talk about racism, the power of the moving image and the gift left for him by his late friend Prince. Gaylene Gould gives us a beginner's guide to Spike Lee.

With Antonia Quirke. Sir Richard Eyre discusses his re-union with novelist Ian McEwan with the release of The Children Act, three decades after they collaborated on The Ploughman's Lunch. Marc Forster discusses Christopher Robin, his take on what happened to Winnie The Pooh's friend after he left Hundred Acre Wood and got a job in the city Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Rosemary Fletcher discuss the cross-over between children's and grown-up's movies.

With Antonia Quirke. Antonia talks to Heathers director Michael Lehmann, as the dark high school comedy is back in cinemas for its 30th anniversary. Catherine Bray and Angie Errigo trace its influence, from Mean Girls to The Craft. Kevin Brownlow talks about the film he began as a 17 year old and finished 8 years later. It Happened Here, which imagined what would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain, was shot on Sundays with a cast of non-professional actors and passers-by, and was funded by the meagre wages from his lowly office job.

Platonic love story or patriarchal nightmare? Melody Bridges and Caitlin Benedict debate.

James Wilby remembers starring in Maurice, a story of the forbidden love between two men amid the stifling conformity of Edwardian England. As James Ivory's film adaption of EM Forster's novel returns to cinemas this summer Wilby looks back on filming alongside Hugh Grant and how the film was overlooked in Britain in in 1987. Rosamund Pike and director Patrick Kennedy talk about the art of phoning it in. From their short film, The Human Voice, which consists entirely of Rosamund on the phone for 18 minutes to some of cinema's must iconic on the phone scenes. Presenter: Antonia Quirke Producer: Kate Bullivant.

Daniel Kokotajlo explains how his upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness informed his debut film Apostasy. The drama stars Siobhan Finneran as a dedicated Jehovah's Witness, whose two teenage daughters begin to struggle to reconcile their beliefs with the secular world around them. Editors Emma E Hickox and Rebecca Lloyd discuss how they first got into the cutting room and how diplomacy is a key skill when editing a film. Jason Stalman, the lead animator on Wes Anderson's stop-motion film, Isle of Dogs, talks through the artistry and challenges behind creating Chief, Rex, Nutmeg and the other canine characters in the film. He also reveals how watching old acting performances from Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton informed the way the dogs were animated. Presenter: Francine Stock Producer: Kate Bullivant.

Lauren Greenfield exposes Generation Wealth, the consumer culture of excess, pornography, and cosmetic surgery for pets, and tells Francine Stock why she trained the lens on herself as part of her documentary. Director Leslie Harris explains why she never made another film after her award-winning, ground-breaking debut Just Another Girl On The I.R.T. 26 years ago. And why producers are reluctant to finance movies with an African-American woman as the lead. Composer Neil Brand reveals why the score for Spirited Away was a game-changer for children's animation.

Ethan Hawke tells Francine Stock about his role as a tormented priest in Paul Schrader's First Reformed, and why it's still rare to see a priest take the lead role in a Hollywood movie Directors Beeban Kidron and Hope Dickson Leach discuss the problems of combining child care and film-making, and Beeban reveals why George Lucas thought she was a man. Perfume expert and film critic Dariush Alavi looks at Apocalypse Now and tells us what napalm really smells like (clue: it doesn't smell like victory.).

Oscar winning director Kevin Macdonald turns his lens on Whitney Houston for his latest documentary, Whitney, only twelve months after fellow Brit Nick Broomfield did the same with Whitney: Can I Be Me. Macdonald tells Francine Stock why his documentary needed to be made. Cinematographer Tom Townend takes us behind the scenes of Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here and explains why we should keep an eye out for the dead crows. Gavia Baker-Whitelaw ruminates on the history of straight actors playing gay men, as Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan are the latest stars to continue the enduring tradition in the comedy Ideal Home, playing a couple whose lives are disrupted by the arrival of a small child. Director Marco Bellocchio, whose career spans fifty years documenting the crises in Italian politics, explains why it's very difficult to make political films anymore.

Melody Bridges & Caitlin Benedict talk about the problematic fave that is West Side Story

Francine Stock enters The Bookshop with Bill Nighy and follows the trail of a father and daughter who live rough in a national park in Oregon. They're the subject of Leave No Trace, directed by Debra Granik, who reveals the true story behind her award-winning feature film. Neil Brand reveals how composer John Williams made us believe that Superman could fly, just by changing key.

Francine Stock meets Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett to discuss Ocean's 8 and their plans to tackle gender inequality in the film industry. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher argues that all-female reboots smack of women-only train carriages, and that women should have their own stories, not cast-offs from male stars. Film producer Trudie Styler discusses her directorial debut Freak Show reveals why she went behind the camera for the first time in 25 years in the movie business.

Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey on the Argentinian New Wave.

Francine & Caitlin don headsets, download apps, and get immersed at Sheffield Doc/Fest

Francine Stock talks to Ari Aster, the director of the film dubbed the scariest of the year, Hereditary. He explains why Mike Leigh was the greatest influence on his horror movie. Francine and Caitlin Benedict visit the Sheffield Documentary Festival, where they encounter film-maker Mark Cousins, enter two containers marked Hate and Hope as part of an installation by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, experience what it's like to be a soldier under fire in Iraq in a virtual reality piece called Mind At War by Sutu, meet Michael Smith and Tom Stubbs, the makers of Dawn Of The Dark Fox, the first feature film by an autistic director, and unravel the mystery of Three Identical Strangers with director Tim Wardle.

Francine enters The World Unknown To You and speaks to the creators of VR work Belongings

Francine and her plucky sidekick Caitlin choose Hope or Hate at Sheffield Doc/Fest

Francine Stock visits the archive of Richard Attenborough in the University of Sussex, which contains over 700 boxes of letters, photos, film reviews and a Chelsea shirt signed by John Terry. As it opens to the public for the first time, Richard's son Michael Attenborough reveals the memories that the archive has evoked, like his visit to the set of Gandhi, while archivist Eleanor King takes Francine through some of the vast collection. Louise Brooks launched a thousand haircuts with her idiosyncratic take on the bob, but historian Pamela Hutchinson argues that she was more than just a style icon. Listener Julie Ma presents her three rules for the depiction of East Asian characters that she'd like film-makers to follow. On the podcast: Francine Stock presents the story of Ida Lupino, the actress from Herne Hill who became a Hollywood star and a ground-breaking director, the only female film-maker working in the industry for a long while in the 40s and 50s.

Cult director J.A. Bayona tells Francine Stock why he took on the dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and why it's really a haunted house movie. Composer Neil Brand takes us on a tour with Taxi Driver, Bernard Herrmann's game-changing score for Martin Scorsese's masterpiece. Anna Smith looks back at Big on its thirtieth anniversary and reveals how the Tom Hanks comedy relates to the weird trend for body-swap movies in the late 80s. In another edition of Pitch Battle, listener Gerald Corvin pitches a bio-pic centred around the world of bare knuckle boxing in the 18th century, once the most popular sport in England, despite being illegal On the podcast: the first edition of a new series, How Do You Solve a Problem Like... Grease, in which musical fans Caitlin Benedict and Melody Bridges ponder the universal question - can you love a musical that's politically incorrect, specially when you know all the songs and can quote all the lyrics ?

With Francine Stock. Nora Twomey, director of The Breadwinner, explains how an animation about life under the Taliban in Afghanistan was produced by Angelina Jolie and made in Kilkenny Olivia Hetreed is president of the Writers Guild Of Great Britain that published a report this week which revealed that only 16% of screenwriters are female. She crunches the figures with Francine, and discusses the moment she woke up one day and wondered "where have all the women gone ?". She reveals why she has been stereotyped as a writer who specializes in costume dramas after penning the adaptation of Girl With The Pearl Earring, and why she would really love to write science fiction. Perfume expert and film writer Dariush Alavi detects the scent of film noir in his olfactory history of the movies and reveals what Barbara Stanwyck might be wearing in Double Indemnity to tempt Fred MacMurray. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller joined an illustrious club when they were removed from the production of the latest Star Wars spin-off, Solo. Five directors, for instance, left the helm of The Wizard Of Oz, with Victor Fleming taking the ultimate credit. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh takes us through some of the famous names who were handed their P45,and reveals the contents of the lesser-known Eastwood Rule, named after Clint Eastwood.

With Francine Stock. Saoirse Ronan discusses her role in On Chesil Beach, as a young bride whose wedding night goes disastrously wrong with unforeseen consequences, and explains why Ian McEwan didn't mind her ditching some of his dialogue, even though he wrote both the novel and the screenplay. Critic Tim Robey and film buyer Clare Binns report on the classics and calamities they've witnessed at the Cannes Film Festival this week. The ever-controversial A to Z of film-makers ends this week with Z, appropriately enough. And Francine has another odd couple to choose between - the director of Hollywood blockbusters and a sixth generation Chinese neo-realist known as the poet of globalisation.

With Francine Stock The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius discusses his bio-pic about Jean-Luc Godard, Redoubtable, and reveals whether it's meant to be tribute or insult. Matilda Lutz and Coralie Fargeat, the director and star of Revenge, discuss the ethics of their feminist horror film Film buyer Clare Binns and critic Tim Robey take their pick of the movies on offer at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Award winning British director Andrew Haigh reveals why travelled to the southern states of America for his horse racing drama Lean On Pete.

Francine Stock presents a new series in The Film Programme. This Woman's Work is a regular discussion strand with some of the most important women in the British film industry. This week she talks to two producers about their adventures in motion pictures: Elizabeth Karlsen and Serena Armitage. The Wound is a controversial South African drama about an initiation ceremony for young boys about to enter manhood. The director John Trengove and star Nakhane Toure explain why they think these rites of passage can actually be a good thing. Writer/director Michael Pearce reveals why his ambivalent feelings about his home of Jersey fuelled his thriller Beast, and why most of the fllm was shot in land-locked Surrey. Teacher Julian Bell takes us through the most irritating things that the movies get wrong about his job, and why they get no marks for accuracy.

Critics Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh plug the gap in their knowledge of Merchant Ivory, the team that brought us Room With a View and The Remains of The Day. Their choice is the film that brought together famous Hollywood husband and wife Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman as Mr and Mrs Bridge. But is it a gap worth filling?

With Antonia Quirke. Shirley Henderson reveals the meticulous research she conducted for her role as a woman in the advanced stages of Parkinson's Disease for her new film Never Steady, Never Still. Maxine Peake and Tony Pitts on why they found working men's clubs impossibly glamorous in the 70s and 80s. Midwives Kate Jackson and Christine Kelly reveal what the movies get wrong about their jobs. Director Justin Edgar writes three rules that other film-makers should follow when making dramas with disabled characters. And there is a podcast exclusive edition of Mind The Gap in which critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey fill the gap in their knowledge of Merchant-Ivory films.

With Antonia Quirke Antonia talks to Noel Cronin, the man behind cult channel Talking Pictures TV, which specialises in those old movies you used to catch on afternoon telly, often when you were ill from school. He explains how he runs a TV station from his home in the Hertfordshire countryside. As Clint Eastwood growls his way back into cinemas as The Man With No Name in A Fistful Of Dollars, poet Bridget Minamore and critic Tim Robey discuss the appeal of the Strong, Silent Type. Ex-submariner Justin Beattie plumbs the depths of movies about life under the ocean waves and separates fact from fiction in movies such as The Hunt For Red October and Das Boot.

The League Of Gentleman star picks a hidden gem, The Amazing Mr Blunden, which he saw in school in 1974, preceded by a government information film. Originally broadcast 21/08/09

With Francine Stock. Carol director Todd Haynes discusses his adaptation of children's novel Wonderstruck and how he cast his lead actor from the deaf community. Director Robin Campillo reveals the autobiographical elements of his award-winning film about AIDS activists in the 90s, 120 Beats Per Minute, and how he had to come to terms with death at a very young age. Niellah Arboine offers three rules for putting black characters on screen that film-makers should follow. Director Sky Neal and producer Elhum Shakerifar take us behind the scenes of their documentary, Even When I Fall, about Nepal's first circus which has been set up by survivors of child trafficking.

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With Francine Stock Steven Spielberg on Virtual Reality and his latest film Ready Player One Dan Tucker Curator Alternate Realities, Sheffield International Documentaries Festival considers the realities for VR, cinema and film directors. Actor/writer/director Julie Delpy explains why she's never lost an argument with her husband, and how that informed the famous fight in Before Midnight. And playing the French teacher Carine in the comedy-drama The Bachelors. The Scents of Cinema: critic, blogger and perfume expert Dariush Alavi considers the top-notes in the 2006 screen adaptation of Patrick Susskind's murderous tale, Perfume.

Ava DuVernay talks to Francine Stock about her new pre-teen, sci-fi fantasy film A Wrinkle In Time based on the award winning novel by Madeleine L'Engle. There's another episode of Pitch Battle and the search for a hidden figure of history who might be a suitable candidate for a bio-pic. Greg Jenner Horrible Histories writer and public historian makes the case for the celebrated Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean. In this week's A to Z of film-makers Y is for Edward Yang and Yuen Woo-Ping. Tim Robey of The Telegraph and Scott Jordan Harris, Roger Ebert's UK correspondent discuss the work of these two iconic film makers.

With Francine Stock. Here are five words you probably never thought you'd read in the same sentence - Joaquin Phoenix is Jesus Christ. Director Garth Davis explains why he cast the idiosyncratic actor in his biblical epic, Mary Magdalene. Archaeologist Paul Duncan McGarrity excavates the history of cinematic diggers, bonekickers, and tomb raiders, and sees how they measure up to real life Palme D'Or winner Ruben Ostlund takes us around The Square, his satire on contemporary society involving an art curator, a PR campaign and a grown man impersonating an ape. In this week's A to Z of film-makers, X is for Xavier Dolan as critics Catherine Bray and Briony Hanson discuss the work of the Quebecois 28 year old wunderkind who's been making movies since he was 19.

With Francine Stock Writer/director Paul King and writer Simon Farnaby reveal why Hugh Grant's character in Paddington 2, a pompous washed-up actor, was originally called Hugh Grant in the first draft of the script. Award winning director Lynne Ramsay discusses You Were Never Really Here and why her star Joaquin Phoenix barely understood a word she said when she offered him the role of a hit-man called Joe. Director Alexandra Dean discusses her documentary Bombshell about actor Hedy Lamarr's unlikely other career as an inventor of technology that preceded Wi-Fi and GPS.

With Francine Stock Director Sebastian Lelio discusses his ground-breaking drama A Fantastic Woman, with transgender star Daniela Vega in the lead, that could win Chile its first ever Oscar. The director of the award winning love story Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino, explains why it's his version of Dirty Dancing. Production designer Sarah Greenwood is in the enviable position of competing against herself for the Oscar for best production design, for Darkest Hour and Beauty And The Beast.

With Francine Stock Award winning film-maker Clio Barnard discusses her latest drama Dark River, based on scientific research conducted at the Wellcome Institute. Critics Gavia Baker-Whitelaw and Briony Hanson go toe-to-toe to get their chosen director into the Film Programme's A to Z. This week it's the Wachowskis versus Wong Kar-Wai. As an alternative option, Pamela Hutchinson makes the case for film pioneer Lois Weber. Composer Neil Brand reveals how Ennio Morricone's score for Cinema Paradiso changed the sound of romantic pictures Rosemary Fletcher re-watches Kill Bill in the light of Uma Thurman's recent complaints about its director Quentin Tarantino's behaviour on set.

With Francine Stock Alison Janney discusses her award winning role as Tonya Harding's mother in real-life ice-skating drama I, Tonya, and reveals why she's happy that she never met the real Mrs Harding. Sally Potter talks about her latest film The Party, as it's released for home entertainment, and explains why she thinks there are so few female film-makers in this country and what can be done about the situation. Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh present a beginner's guide to Greta Gerwig, as the actor's directorial debut Lady Bird is released in cinemas. In another edition of Pitch Battle, historian Tracy Borman makes the case for a bio-pic of Anne Of Denmark, the woman behind the Gunpowder Plot.

With Francine Stock Guillermo del Toro on his Oscar nominated fantasy The Shape Of Water and why it's a parable for our troubled times. The director of Russian family drama Loveless, Andrey Zvyaginstev, reveals what his film has to say about the conflict in Ukraine. Could the director of Basic Instinct really be one of the greatest film-makers of all time. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh makes the case for Paul Verhoeven, while Simran Hans champions Luchino Visconti for inclusion in The Film Programme's A to Z.

With Francine Stock Director Paul Thomas Anderson discusses Phantom Thread, Daniel Day Lewis' farewell to the film industry. There's another episode of Pitch Battle, in which historians nominate a suitable candidate for the movie treatment, a historical figure who has not yet been the subject of bio-pic. This week Helen Antrobus champions Ellen Wilkinson, the five foot "mighty atom" who led the Jarrow March. Anna Smith explains why she's spent the last twenty five years watching Groundhog Day over and over again. Perfume expert Dariush Alavi examines one of the few films to have been named after a scent, Black Narcissus, and explains what the movie smells like to him.

With Francine Stock. Actor/director Julie Delpy explains why she thinks there are still only a few female directors and why, in her experience, some money men believe that women are too emotional to be in charge of a film production. Florence Pugh discusses the parts she's been offered since her break-through role in Lady Macbeth and why many scripts begin with a description of a female character's appearance rather than her intelligence. Composer Neil Brand reveals why Elmer Bernstein's score for The Magnificent Seven changed the sound of the western Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Gavia Baker-Whitelaw go toe-to-toe to get their director into The Film Programme's A to Z of Film-makers.

Alexander Payne gives Francine Stock the low-down on Downsizing.

With Francine Stock. Playwright and writer/director Martin McDonagh talks about his award-winning drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and why he never knows which direction his plot is taking when he's writing and is as surprised by the twists and turns as the audience. The heist thriller Baby Driver is choreographed to the songs that its hero is listening to on his headphones, from the coffee machine that's in sync with Harlem Shuffle to the shoot-out that plays out to the strains of Hocus Pocus by Dutch prog rock band Focus. Sound designer Julian Slater tell us how he did it. As two Churchill bio-pics are released within six months of each other, The Film Programme challenges historians and history buffs to offer better historical candidates for the movie treatment. Comedy writer Jack Bernhardt kicks off the Pitch Battle series with Headless, the tale of Lord Thomas Fairfax, a brilliant general and terrible politician, and his part in Charles I's downfall.

With Francine Stock. The Darkest Hour is the second bio-pic about Winston Churchill in 12 months. Director Joe Wright discusses our continuing fascination with Britain's most famous prime minister and reveals why he cast Gary Oldman in the lead role and why some people doubted his sanity when they heard the news. Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike is in studio to discuss her role in gritty western Hostiles. Sandra Hebron and Nadia Denton slug it out to get their chosen director into The Film Programme's A to Z of film-makers.

Francine Stock talks to West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin about his directorial debut Molly's Game. Based on the true story of a woman who ran underground poker games for the rich and famous, Sorkin reveals why he didn't name the Hollywood actors who were regular punters. Composer Neil Brand tickles the ivories and shows how Ron Goodwin's theme for 633 Squadron changed the sound of the war movie. Briony Hanson and Scott Jordan Harris slug it out to get their directors in the A to Z of film-makers. This week it's Kelly Reichardt versus Satyajit Ray.

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh is joined by Clare Binns and Tim Robey as they look back at the best films of 2017 and look forward to things to come from 2018.

Inside Science presenter Adam Rutherford joins Francine Stock to assess the latest instalment in the Star Wars saga, while critic Gavia Baker-Whitelaw takes us through the various fan theories about what is going to happen in The Last Jedi, and who is going to die. Director Daniel Rezende discusses his Brazilian drama Bingo: The King Of Mornings, based on a real-life clown and TV sensation who lead a disastrous double life as children's entertainer and drug addict. Perfume expert Dariush Alavi presents another edition of his series The Scent Of Cinema, and this week he turns his attention to arch sensualist and serial killer Hannibal Lecter in Silence Of The Lambs Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey give us an exclusive preview of their new podcast series Mind The Gap, in which they try to fill the embarrassing gaps in their film knowledge.

With Francine Stock. Artist Ai Weiwei reveals why he decided to make a feature length documentary, Human Flow, about refugee crises around the world and about his own life in exile. The Oscar winning writer of The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal discusses the ethics of depicting police brutality in his latest docu-drama Detroit, which shows three police officers killing and torturing suspects during the 1968 riots. Catherine Bray and Nadia Denton slug it out to get their directors into the The A to Z of film-makers. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher considers why there's only ever one woman in an action movie, and her task is almost always thankless.

Francine Stock meets Michael Haneke, award winning director of Funny Games, The White Ribbon, Amour and his latest, Happy End. He tells her why our modern obsession with screens should not replace real life. Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey present a beginnner's guide to the films of Michael Haneke. Perfume expert Dariush Alavi presents the latest in his series The Scent Of Cinema with an olfactory analysis of Martin Scorsese's florid costume drama The Age Of Innocence.

With Francine Stock. Slumdog Millionaire and The Full Monty writer Simon Beaufoy tells Francine Stock about The Battle Of The Sexes and why it wasn't love all between tennis players Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, when he challenged her in 1973 to prove that a woman could play as well as a man. Beaufoy reveals why he would make the film much harder hitting now in the light of the revelations of sexual harassment in the film industry and shares his experiences at the hands of Harvey Weinstein. Neil Brand explains how Alien changed the sound of science fiction in his new series, Game Changers. Sandra Hebron and Briony Hanson slug it out to get their chosen directors, Yasujiro Ozu and Francois Ozon, for a place in The Film Programme's A to Z of film-makers.

With Francine Stock. Peter Turner explains why his book Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, about his relationship with Gloria Grahame, took 30 years to make it to the screen, and how Elizabeth Taylor and Madonna were once mooted to play the lead. To complement the release of Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, the British Film Institute is showing a season of Gloria Grahame's best bad girl roles, from The Big Heat to Human Desire. Film historian Pamela Hutchinson picks the most fatale of all her femmes. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher takes stock of the mothers, girlfriends and sidekicks that cinema has assigned to fifty percent of the population. In this week's edition of Rosemary Versus Mankind, she goes into bat for the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, whose only mission in life seems to be soothe and save the sensitive male lead. Directors Christina Clusiau and Saul Schwarz discuss Trophy, their award-winning documentary about hunters who pay tens of thousands of dollars to kill wildlife in Africa.

Can you smell a movie? Francine Stock meets perfume expert and blogger Dariush Alavi who believes he can. Documentary maker Alex Gibney explains how he approached his new film No Stone Unturned, which attempts to solve a murder at the heart of The Troubles. As Paddington returns in a new adventure about a pop-up book, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh leafs through the history of the magical book in children's movies. Sean Baker, the filmmaker known for Tangerine, the movie shot entirely on a phone, tells Francine about his new film The Florida Project, the strange real world of Florida motels, and casting his unknown lead after seeing her posts on social media.

Antonia Quirke presents a special edition on the thriller. She hears some tricks of the trade from Ronan Bennett, writer of Face, Public Enemies and Gunpowder, who reveals why he thinks thrillers should really be called "tensers". Award-winning editor Walter Murch takes us through a key scene in the classic conspiracy thriller The Conversation and explains how to build paranoia in the audience by embedding subsonic frequencies in the soundtrack. Composer Rachel Portman explains how music can achieve the same effect with the application of low strings and alto saxophone. Alexandre O. Philippe reveals the secrets of the shower scene in Psycho in his new documentary 78/52, including the identity of the painting that covers Norman Bates' peep-hole. Woman In Black director James Watkins reveals how he took screen grabs of fifty of the greatest supernatural thrillers in movie history and dissected their key moments shot by shot in order to learn how to chill the audience to the marrow.

With Francine Stock What do The Mask, Thor and The Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent have in common? And what has this all got to do with Richard Wagner? Norse mythology expert Eleanor Barraclough explains all. Author and director Mark Cousins explains the ways in which cinema has changed the ways we look at the world and why many of us see our lives through the eyes of Hitchcock. The controversial A to Z of film-makers continues with the letter N. Anna Smith takes on Scott Jordan Harris as Christopher Nolan goes toe to toe with cult Soviet animator Yuri Norstein. Writer Laura Snapes explains why certain musicians are used for their cultural cache as for their songs when it comes to movie soundtracks, and why the results can be unexpected, as the director of The Graduate discovered when he hired Simon and Garfunkel.

Francine Stock talks to Rungano Nyoni, the Welsh/Zambian director of I Am Not a Witch, about the surreal adventures of a young girl accused of witchcraft. Francine discusses newly discovered movies from Africa, including a silent drama from 1915, which form a season called Africa's Lost Classics, curated by Lizelle Bisschoff, who explains why we rarely get to see films from that continent. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher tries to work out why so many brilliant female characters end up playing the side-kick to the mediocre male lead. Dina is an award-winning documentary about a couple on the autism spectrum who try to make a new life for themselves after she survived a violent attack. Director Dan Sickles explains how he crafted a 100 minute documentary out of 550 hours of material.

In a special edition recorded at the BFI London Film Festival, Francine Stock talks to Ian McEwan about his screen work - the films he's adapted, the movies made from his novels, the Hollywood thrillers he's penned, and the ones that got away. The author of Atonement and On Chesil Beach reveals why he prefers to leave film-makers to do what they want with his novels and why the worst thing is to become the bad conscience of a film set, drifting around, saying "that's not what I meant". And why as an author you're treated as a god, but as a screenwriter you're treated like the cleaning lady. Image: Getty Images.

Francine Stock asks director Denis Villeneuve why he took on the sequel to the much loved classic Blade Runner. He reveals exactly what Ridley Scott said to him before he started filming. "Get a life!" Writer Paul Rose replies to the critics who slated Pudsey The Dog - The Movie and made it one of the worst reviewed films in recent history. The Snowman director Tomas Alfredson tells Francine about the key difference between Swedes and Norwegians, and about the piece of music he listened to on repeat during the two years of production. Caitlin Benedict and Gavia Baker-Whitelaw visit the Nine Worlds convention where delegates dress up as their favourite movie characters while discussing academic subjects such as Queer Coding In Disney.

Francine Stock talks to director Jennifer Brea, who turned the camera on herself as she began to fight a disease that the medical profession does not always recognise - ME. Actress Edina Ronay kicks off a new series I Was In The Worst Movie Ever Made, making the case for Prehistoric Women, in which she starred in a fur bikini as a member of a lost tribe who sacrifice men to their white rhino god. Antonia Quirke finds out what happened when Vivien Leigh's wig from A Streetcar Named Desire went under the hammer this week. Critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and writer Rosemary Fletcher slug it out to get their chosen director into The A to Z of film-makers.

With Francine Stock. Director Bertrand Tavernier takes Francine Stock on a journey through French cinema, and explains why it's good to meet your heroes, even if you don't like working with them. Elliot Grove saw his first movie at the age of sixteen, banned from going to the cinema by his Amish parents, and he was hooked from that moment. He now runs one of the biggest film festivals in Europe, Raindance, which celebrate is 25th anniversary this week. And it's all thanks to Lassie Come Home. Lady Macbeth is one of the success stories of British cinema this year, and the search is on to find the next big thing to come from the I-Features scheme, which is run like a competition. Francine talks to two of the successful candidates from the latest round, Eva Riley and Alex Usborne, and asks them how they are going to spend their £350,000 budget. Have you ever met somebody who has the exactly same recurring dream as you ? That's the premise of On Body And Soul, an award-winning romantic drama set in an abattoir. Its director Ildiko Enyedi discusses dream dates with Francine.

Francine Stock talks to the makers of The Work, a documentary about a group therapy session between convicts in Folsom Prison that takes unexpected twists and turns. The A to Z of film-makers continues as Mike Leigh takes on Jerry Lewis, championed by critics Anna Smith and Jonathan Romney. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher takes on the ultimate romantic comedy cliché in her series Rosemary Versus The Rom-Com Main Image: Folsom Prison Yard, from The Work. Credit: Joe Wigdahl.

With Antonia Quirke Antonia raids the store-room of foley artist Sue Harding at Twickenham film studios, and tries to make sense of the assorted snow shoes, filing cabinets and car parts that make the squeaks, creaks and bangs on screen. Box office takings fell by 10% this summer in a bonfire of the vanities as many star vehicles failed to launch. So, is this the end of the star system as we know it ? With all the answers is casting director Des Hamilton and box-office analyst Charles Gant. Vivien Leigh's iconic wig from A Streetcar Named Desire is up for auction this month, but how did the wig survive after six decades and who will buy it and what would they do with it ? All of these questions (and more) will be answered by Frances Christie from Sothebys and Keith Lodwick from the V and A.

God's Own Country tells the story of a romance between a Yorkshire sheep farmer and a Romanian migrant worker. Its director Francis Lee explains how he attempted to authentically conjure the rural setting of his own upbringing. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher examines the decoy love interest in her series Rosemary Versus The Rom-Com. Two Film Programme listeners tell tales of cinemas in unusual places. And have we solved the mystery surrounding what Buster Keaton performed on his 1951 UK tour? Our investigation (or obsession) continues.

With Antonia Quirke. Will Poulter on the intense experience of playing a racist police officer in Kathryn Bigelow's new film Detroit. Indian filmmaker Shubhashish Bhutiani tells us about Hotel Salvation, the story of a son accompanying his elderly father to the holy city of Varanasi to die. And Best Visual Effects Oscar-winner Andrew Whitehurst rewatches Terminator 2: Judgement Day for us to see how the effects stand the test of time.

With Antonia Quirke Stanley Tucci talks about his latest film as writer/director, Final Portrait, the result of a life-long obsession with the artist Giacometti, which was inspired by his artist father. Woman in Black director James Watkins waxes lyrical about the work of Jean-Pierre Melville, the French film-maker who was so obsessed with American culture that he changed his name in honour of the author of Moby Dick. Listener Paul Kleiman talks about his mother Shirley Finn, who kept a record of almost every day of her adult life, including the years she spent in the British film industry as a "script girl".

With Antonia Quirke. Lambert Wilson, the star of a new bio-pic of Jacques Cousteau, The Odyssey, reveals why he could not lose enough weight to play the scrawny explorer, and why he ended up dreaming of bread. Diving expert and author Tim Ecott explains how, as well as inventing the aqua-lung that allowed divers to plumb the depths, Cousteau developed camera technology to show the world the underwater wonders he was witnessing. As part of the BBC's Gay Britannia season, Radio 4 is running a series on Queer Icons. What's surprising is that so many queer icons were household names and national treasures before male homosexuality was partially decriminalised 50 years ago. The Film Programme takes a peek inside British cinema's own celluloid closet with the help of Briony Hanson, Matthew Sweet, Richard Dyer and Gavia Baker-Whitelaw.

Antonia Quirke talks to Mark Gill, the director of a new bio-pic about Morrissey, England Is Mine, and considers the singer's influence on the movie tastes of a generation, introducing thousands of fans to A Taste Of Honey and many other British realist classics. Andrew Collins turns sleuth and picks out the film quotes in The Smiths' lyrics. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher considers the ways that innocuous-seeming romantic comedies can endorse behaviour that borders on the criminal, in her series Rosemary Versus Rom-Com Director Luc Besson tells Antonia about Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets, his adaptation of a graphic novel he read when he was ten years old and explains why he believes that American science fiction is imperialist.

Antonia Quirke talks to director James Ivory about Howard's End, as it's about to be re-released in cinemas, and his working relationship with producer Ismail Merchant that spawned dozens of movies including A Room With A View, The Remains Of The Day and Maurice. Antonia learns the secret art and craft of ADR (or Automated Dialogue Replacement), as she joins a group of actors as they overdub crowd scenes in a costume drama. Pasquale Iannone discusses the extraordinary personal and professional relationship between Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti that lasted four decades.

With Francine Stock. The director of Inception, Christopher Nolan tells Francine Stock about his first war movie, Dunkirk, and why it's his most experimental film to date. Bryan Fogel explains how his film Icarus helped to expose the truth about Russia's involvement in doping in sports. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher wonders why her gay best friends have never measured up to Rupert Everett in My Best Friend's Wedding, in her series Rosemary Versus The Rom-Com.

With Francine Stock. Warren Beatty tells Francine Stock about the making of Bonnie And Clyde in the year of its 50th anniversary, and why he thought Bob Dylan would make a better Clyde Barrow than him. Hope Dickson Leach explains why she set her family drama The Levelling on the Somerset Levels just after the floods of 2014. How does Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled compare with the 1971 original starring Clint Eastwood ? Larushka Ivan-Zadeh delivers her verdict. Documentary-maker Matthew Heineman discusses City Of Ghosts about a group of journalists who are fighting a war of information against Islamic State in Raqqa, at a personal cost to their families.

With Francine Stock. The president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, and ex-Sony head, Amy Pascal, tell Francine why three actors have played Spider-Man in the last 13 years, and why this new one, called Homecoming, is different. Amy director Asif Kapadia recalls the making of his debut feature, The Warrior, as it's re-released in cinemas. He tells Francine about what it was like filming in the Himalayas in contrasting weather conditions - from working in six feet snow drifts one week to baking heat that melted the camera equipment the next. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher explains why the obligatory make-over scene in romantic comedies needs its own make-over. The Film Programme's controversial A to Z of film-makers arrives at K this week, as critics Pamela Hutchinson and Joe Stringer slug it out to get their choice of director into the movie alphabet.

Antonia Quirke visits the house that Richard Burton bought for Elizabeth Taylor in a fishing village in Mexico, that's now a deluxe hotel. When the lovers conducted their affair out in the open in Puerto Vallarta, the paparazzi soon followed, and eventually the the small town was transformed into a tourist mecca. Director Ceyda Torun explains how she invented new technology to follow a herd of cats through the streets of Istanbul for her documentary Kedi. Antonia visits St Leonards, where King Harold's consort Edith Swan Neck is memorialised with a delapidated public sculpture. There she meets film-maker Andrew Kotting, who is trying to restore Edith's memory with a new documentary Edith Walks, in which he and five friends hike 108 miles from Waltham Abbey to the South East coast as an act of pilgrimage.

With Francine Stock. As The Graduate celebrates its 50th anniversary, Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh have one word for us. Just one word. Plastics. Korean director Bong Joon Ho explains why he teamed up with Welsh journalist Jon Ronson to make a vegetarian epic about a race of super-pigs that will save the planet. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh returns to slug it out with fellow critic Simran Hans for the honour of getting their director in the A to Z of film-makers.

With Francine Stock. Nick Broomfield reveals why he decided to make a documentary about Whitney Houston and why her family refused to help him. Francine visits the Sheffield Documentary Festival, where she gets intimate with virtual reality, discusses the ethics of deceiving your subjects and learns about the ways to pitch your movie - with the help of film-makers Jane Gauntlett, Mark Grieco, Mette Carla Albrechtsen and Saeed Taji Farouky Historian Alex on Tunzelmann has made her name spotting historical inaccuracies with her book Reel Histories. But now she has jumped ships and written her first screenplay, Churchill. So what does Alex Von Tunzelmann the historian make of the work of Alex Von Tunzelmann the writer ?

With Francine Stock Roger Michell, the writer/director of My Cousin Rachel, discusses the work of Daphne Du Maurier on film, from Rebecca to The Birds to Don't Look Now.

Antonia Quirke talks to director Patty Jenkins about warrior princess Wonder Woman and why it took her so long to arrive on the big screen. Clive James confesses to his fifty year love affair with actor Steve McQueen. Director John Landis waxes lyrical about Elmer Bernstein, composer of classic themes The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven.

With Francine Stock Francine talks to director David Michod about War Machine, his big budget satire on the U.S. military starring Brad Pitt, which is having its premiere on-line. He tells Francine why he really doesn't mind that it's only playing in a handful of cinemas. The debate about big screen versus small screen raged this year at the Cannes film festival when the logo of an on-line film and TV company was booed at a premiere. Film buyer Clare Binns and critic Tim Robey tell Francine if they joined in the booing. Rungano Nyoni was born in Zambia and raised in Wales. Her debut feature, I Am Not A Witch, premiered at Cannes, and she reveals what it was like to get the red carpet treatment. Heavy drinking, existential malaise and deadpan humour characterise the films of director Aki Kaurismaki. Critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh tells us five things we should know about the Finnish auteur.

With Francine Stock. The Oscar winning composer of La La Land, Justin Hurwitz, reveals why he wrote 1,900 pieces of music for the film and how he narrowed them down to just a handful. Critic Tim Robey and film buyer Clare Binns discuss the movies and the controversies at this year's Cannes film festival. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher reveals the various ways that her love life has not matched up to expectations raised by watching romantic comedies for the last couple of decades. Why, for instance, her "meet cutes" haven't always been so cute. And haven't always included meeting. To mark the 60th anniversary of the foreign language Oscar, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh unpicks the byzantine rules behind the most contentious of Academy Awards.

With Francine Stock. Ridley Scott tells Francine why his new Alien franchise will be as big as Star Wars Director Francois Ozon explains how Brexit helped to get his latest drama Frantz made As the Film Programme's divisive A To Z of film-makers reaches the letter H, Briony Hanson reveals why John "Breakfast Club" Hughes means more to her than Alfred Hitchcock; while Sophie Monks-Kaufman picks an avant-garde animator over the master of suspense.

With Francine Stock. Jessica Chastain, the star of Miss Sloane, tells Francine why it's about time that we saw more women being ambitious, complicated and unlikeable on screen. Matthew Sweet discusses the career of a screen icon who was briefly bigger than James Bond - Norman Wisdom. The A to Z of film-makers continues with the letter G. This week it's French experimentalist Jean-Luc Godard versus English visionary Jonathan Glazer.

With Francine Stock Writer/director David Leland revisits Worthing, the setting of his classic drama Wish You Were Here, which immortalised the phrase "up your bum". William Oldroyd discusses his acclaimed low budget drama Lady Macbeth and why it plays with the conventions of how female characters behave in costume dramas. Heal The Living director Kattell Quillevere explains how a change in the medical definition of death has had an emotional impact on bereaved families, which is often overlooked.

With Francine Stock. Warren Beatty talks about his latest directorial outing, Rules Don't Apply, which he made 18 years after he directed his last movie. And reveals what he thinks now about the mix-up at the Oscars. Their Finest producer Stephen Woolley and Fiona Kelly from The Imperial War Museum take us through the little known history of women's roles in World War II pictures, as a season he's curated at the British Film Institute begins. Mohamed Diab reveals why his controversial film about Egyptian politics, Clash, was only shown in his home country thanks to the intervention of Tom Hanks.

Sarah Waters tells Francine Stock what she thinks of the Korean adaptation of her novel Fingersmith Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey unlock some of the mysteries of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive Writer Shawn Levy reveals some of the real-life stories about the paparazzi that inspired La Dolce Vita, including an infamous striptease at a high society party that made headlines across the western world.

With Francine Stock. Julia Ducournau discusses her French cannibal movie Raw, which reportedly had audience members passing out in the aisles at a screening in the Toronto Film Festival. The life of Pablo Neruda - communist, womaniser and poet - is explored in a surreal detective story simply called Neruda. The film's director Pablo Larrain explains why there's never been a poet quite like the former Chilean politician, who was possibly murdered in his bed. In a week when two bio-pics about poets are released, Ian McMillan presents Daffodils 2, his poetic response to the more annoying cliches of poets in movies. The Film Programme's A to Z Of Directors arrives at F this week. Critics Catherine Bray and Sophie Monks Kaufman try to persuade Francine to the very different pleasures of David Fincher and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Linguist Jessica Coon advised on last year's Arrival. What conversations did she have with its star Amy Adams? We continue our A to Z of film with the letter E. This week it's Clint Eastwood versus Nora Ephron. Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu tells us why he's critiquing the corruption of his home country in Graduation. And we speak to Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton who spent three years filming a group of teenage girls in New York for their documentary All This Panic.

Writer Paul Laverty talks about his film The Olive Tree and the political impact of his Ken Loach collaboration I, Daniel Blake. Director Kleber Mendonça Filho tells us what happened after the cast and crew of his film Aquarius used the red carpet at Cannes to protest against the Brazilian government. Is cinema too left-wing? And does it have any political impact anyway? Toby Young, Maitland McDonagh and Will Massa discuss. And we reveal the results of our poll - will it be Claire Denis or Ava DuVernay?

With Francine Stock. Olivier Assayas reveals the secrets of Kristen Stewart's screen presence in Personal Shopper, and the connection between phone technology and spiritualism. This year's winner of the foreign language Oscar, Asghar Farhadi, who boycotted the Academy Awards ceremony in protest against Donald Trump's travel ban, tells Francine that the interests of the USA cannot be preserved by the humiliation of other states. Beauty And The Beast features the first gay character in a Disney movie. Critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh wonders if a company once known for its gender stereotypes and traditional family values is becoming a bastion of liberalism. Critics Jonathan Romney and Corrina Antrobus slug it out to get their chosen director into The Film Programme's A to Z of Film - this week it's Claire Denis versus Ava DuVernay.

With Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock.

With Francine Stock The controversial director of Basic Instinct and Robocop, Paul Verhoeven, tells Francine Stock why Isabelle Huppert agreed to star in his latest contentious movie, Elle, after he had been turned down by several Hollywood actresses. Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh recommend a few films for anyone wishing to have their own Isabelle Huppert festival this weekend. Director Kelly Reichardt explains why her films are light on plot and dialogue and often end in the middle of a scene.

With Francine Stock. Stephen Woolley, producer of The Crying Game, reveals why the film almost never got made and the lengths he went to keep the movie's famous twist a secret. Critics Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh talk about twists that work and twists that don't, without giving away the twist. Sandra Hebron and Ceyda Uzun slug it out to get their chosen director into The A To Z Of Film. This week it's James Cameron versus Jane Campion in the battle of the weepies - Titanic versus The Piano.

With Antonia Quirke. Director and agent provocateur John Waters reveals why his straight-laced parents paid for one of the most outrageous movies in American film history, Multiple Maniacs. First there was crowd funding and now there's crowd building. Antonia visits Newcastle's The Star And Shadow, which is being built by volunteers from the local community, who make up for in enthusiasm what they lack in experience. Could you watch a whole movie where feet are the stars ? Andy Robinson has just made a film with no faces or voices or anything above the ankle. He discusses the challenges of keeping his camera and his feet on the ground.

With Antonia Quirke Annette Bening reveals why she's rarely seen without a cigarette even though she gave up smoking long ago. Antonia meets Sylvette Baudrot, the only woman in film history to have worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanksi and Laurel and Hardy Foley artist Sue Harding demonstrates the tricks of her trade with the help of a cabbage, a melon and a couple of coconuts.

With Francine Stock. Ang Lee discusses the future of film and why cinema will become elitist. And why that's a good thing. Jeff Nichols, the director of Loving, on his real-life drama about an inter-racial couple who were arrested in Virginia for the crime of getting married. The A to Z of Film continues as two critics slug it out to get their chosen director into The Film Programme's alphabet of cinema.

With Francine Stock Danny Boyle revisits Trainspotting for its sequel T2 and reveals why he's been watching the original over his daughters' shoulders Rebecca Hall reveals how she got under the skin of a newsreader who shot herself live on air, for her real-life drama Christine. Film director Shola Amoo reports from the Sundance Festival as the British film industry tries to make inroads in the American market.

With Francine Stock Oscar winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker takes Francine behind the scenes of one of the great set-pieces in Martin Scorsese's classic gangster picture Goodfellas. And reveals why the director once considered burning all copies of the movie. The Film Programme begins a new series about cinema history that hopefully will change cinema history - The A to Z of Film. Two critics slug it out to get their chosen film-maker into the programme's alphabet of movie directors. This week, critic Naima Khan and Jonathan Romney face off as Andrea Arnold takes on Michelangelo Antonioni. Critics Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh consider how Natalie Portman's perfomance as Jackie Kennedy compares with other portrayals of the First Lady from actors as diverse as Katie Holmes, Joanne Whalley and ex Charlies Angel Jaclyn Smith.

With Francine Stock Francine takes a trip to La La Land, the musical which has just swept the board at the Golden Gobes, with critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey. Another awards contender Manchester By The Sea is released this week, and Francine talks to its writer/director Kenneth Lonergan, who explains why he thinks Hollywood scripts are getting worse and have to explain everything to audiences "as if they're idiots". Comedian Lucy Porter discusses her love for Colleen Moore, the highest paid actress in Hollywood in 1927, whose lasting legacy is a fourteen foot dolls house she carefully designed, which is now preserved in a museum.

With Francine Stock. Francine meets Alejandro Jodorowsky, the cult director, mime artist and graphic artist, who was discovered by John Lennon and who once attempted to make a version of Dune in which Salvador Dali was paid one million dollars a minute to play a hyper-realistic robot. Animator Jason Stalman takes us behind the scenes of The Corpse Bride and Fantastic Mr Fox and reveals why he sometimes wants to strangle the puppets he works with. As the awards seasons begins in earnest with The Golden Globes on Sunday, industry experts Clare Binns, Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh run the rule over the front-runners.

Francine Stock talks to Andrew Garfield, the star of Martin Scorsese's Silence.

Francine Stock and guests discuss the best films of 2016.

Francine Stock talks to Gareth Edwards, the director of the first Star Wars spin-off, Rogue One, who reveals what makes his film so different from the seven other episodes in the franchise. Adam Rutherford tries to explain how Rogue One fits into the ever-expanding Star Wars universe and why some works have been deemed "non-canonical". Few directors can be genuinely described as unique. Rama Burshtein has that honour, being the first and only female film-maker who is part of the Orthodox Jewish community. Her latest work, Through The Wall, is a rom-com about an Israeli woman who arranges her own wedding, despite the fact that she has no groom, in the belief that God will provide.

With Francine Stock. Francine visits the setting and locations of The Proud Valley starring Paul Robeson, actor, activist, singer, linguist, lawyer and honorary Welshman. Historian Phil Carradice explains why Robeson became a folk hero in the Rhondda Valley and about the miners' campaign to get his passport returned when he was blacklisted by the United States government and banned from leaving the country. The Proud Valley is being shown across South Wales and is the opening film at The Phoenix in Ton Pentre, a community cinema that closed its doors last year. There, Francine meets volunteer projectionist Mike Chapman, who has traced the history of the venue to its early days when it was a music hall, starring such turns as Ned Edwards and "His Two Little Queenies, the smallest artistes on the variety stage" as they were billed. Otto Bell, the director of The Eagle Huntress reveals why he spent his life savings to make a documentary about a 13 year old Mongolian girl who tried to become the first female eagle hunter in 12 generations of her Kazakh family. The director of Life, Animated, Roger Ross Williams, takes us behind the scenes of his documentary about an American family who used the language of Disney animations to communicate with their son, who was diagnosed with regressive autism at the age of three.

Francine Stock revisits the manicured lawns and gothic horror of Blue Velvet as David Lynch's surreal masterpiece celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. She is accompanied on her journey to the heart of suburban darkness by critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey.

Francine Stock visits Campbeltown on the west coast of Scotland where the community have come together to save their art deco cinema, The Picture House, one of the most architecturally important in Europe, from terminal decline. The Uckfield Picture House celebrates its centenary this month and for over fifty years it's been owned by one family. Kevin Markwick has been with the cinema since he was babe in arms and talks about his life in pictures.

Producer, writer, professor and former studio boss James Schamus tells Francine Stock why he took the plunge and directed his first film, Inidgnation, after three decades in the business. In an exclusive interview, award-winning writer/director Carol Morley reveals what her next project will be, even before a word is written or a scene is filmed.

Historian Kevin Brownlow tells Francine Stock about his 50 year quest to restore Abel Gance's silent masterpiece Napoleon to its five and half hour glory, and why the search for missing scenes still continues even though the film is about to be released on DVD for the very first time. Composer Carl Davis takes us through his score, which borrows freely from the work of Beethoven, who dedicated his 3rd Symphony to Napoleon, only to regret it later.

With Francine Stock Fashion designer and movie director Tom Ford discusses his film-within-a-film Nocturnal Animals, and explains why he doesn't like to mix his two professions. As The Light Between Oceans has audiences weeping in the aisles, director Derek Cianfrance talks tear-jerkers and tragedy. Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey reveal the films that have made them blub like babies.

With Francine Stock. Jacqueline Bisset looks back at Day For Night, Francois Truffaut's Oscar-winning movie about movie-making. She reveals why she refuses "to whinge" about the roles offered to older women. Critics Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh enter the strange world of the film within a film, from Singin' In The Rain to Hail Caesar. FanGirl Quest, aka Tiia Ohman and Satu Walden, explain why they have travelled the globe from their native Finland to seek out famous locations and practice something they call "scene framing".

With Francine Stock. Actor and producer David Oyelowo outlines his plans to revolutionize the British film industry and to make films that are genuinely diverse and reflective of the United Kingdom. Oyelowo argues that industry orthodoxies about what audiences want are "lies". And he explains why his son assumed that he would be playing the best friend, and not the male lead, in his new film The Queen Of Katwe. Francine visits Mouth That Roars, an organisation based in Hackney which trains teenagers in film production, many of whom are from communities that are under-represented in British Cinema. Denise Rose explains how her company is trying to redress the balance. The result of the BFI poll to find the best loved performance by a black star is announced exclusively on the programme.

With Francine Stock. British director Andrea Arnold discusses her own trip across the United States that inspired her road movie American Honey, and reveals how she discovered her star, Sasha Lane, on a beach in Miami. Critics Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh get their motors running and head out on the highway as they chart the progress of the American road movie. Producer Rebecca O'Brien discusses her collaboration with Ken Loach that has spanned a quarter of a century and is marked by a new, typically hard-hitting and award-winning drama I, Daniel Blake.

With Francine Stock. The Film Programme has teamed up with the BFI on a poll to decide the best performance by a black actor of all time. Among the nominees is Earl Cameron in Pool Of London, the first British movie to star a Caribbean actor. Francine hears from Earl about a career that has spanned over six decades and includes a Bond pic. Neil Brand reveals how modern technology helps him score a silent version of Robin Hood from 1922. Four translators discuss the subtle art of sub-titling.

Francine Stock enters Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with Tim Burton. The director reveals why he loves Blackpool so much and why its pleasure beach reflects his state of mind. Director Babak Anvari reveals how much his horror movie, Under The Shadow, set in the Iran-Iraq war, is autobiographical. The director of When Marnie Was There discusses the popularity of British children's literature in Japan. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey takes us through the history of peculiar children in cinema.

With Francine Stock A soundtrack special with David Arnold's notes on Independence Day, which has more saluting than any other movie, according to the composer. Adrian Utley of Portishead and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp discuss their new score for Carl Dreyer's silent masterpiece The Passion Of Joan Of Arc. Neil Brand reveals how John Williams put the magic into Harry Potter.

Colin Firth and Francine Stock indulge in some Bridget Jones's Baby talk, and the actor admits that he is partly to blame for the out-dated stereotype of the reticent Englishman. Ralph Fiennes explains why he spent two months learning Russian for his role in Two Women. Francine follows the continuing adventures of Alastair Till and Suzie Sinclair who left the Big Smoke for the sea air of Cornwall, and built their own cinema, without any previous knowledge of the film business. The Newlyn Filmhouse has been open for six months, so is it still a dream factory or waking nightmare ?

With Francine Stock. The spirit of Ray Harryhausen is invoked in a new stop-motion animation Kubo And The Two Strings, which boasts the largest stop-motion puppet in animation history, standing 16 feet tall. The director Travis Knight explains why the film took five years to make. Scottish director David Mackenzie reveals how he came to make an all-American crime thriller set deep in the heart of Texas, Hell Or High Water. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey follow the trail of the film's antecedents. Screenwriter Paul Mayersberg explains why the film studio pulled out of The Man Who Fell To Earth when they discovered David Bowie wasn't going to sing on the soundtrack.

With Antonia Quirke. Antonia meets London Voices, the choir that supply the voices to the soundtracks of blockbusters such as The Lord Of The Rings, Spectre and Iron Man 2. Poet Don Paterson concludes his series on great movie speeches with James Stewart drunkenly telling Katherine Hepburn that she has "fires banked down inside" in The Philadelphia Story. Andy Mitchell nominates his father Andrew as an unsung hero of British cinema - he was in charge of Elstree Studios in the 1980s when six of the top ten grossing moves of all time were made in Borehamwood.

With Antonia Quirke. Antonia meets two groups who are trying to save their local cinemas in Deptford and Homerton and hears from a local trust in Aberfeldy who successfully saved theirs and are still going strong after four years. Poet Don Paterson continues his series on great movie speeches with Jack Nicholson bawling "you can't handle the truth!" in A Few Good Men.

With Antonia Quirke. Antonia is joined by 18 year old vlogger and Into Film journalist, Ceyda Uzun, on her first press interview junket: an interview with the writer of Swallows And Amazons, Andrea Gibb. Poet Don Paterson continues his series on great speeches in movie history with Rutger Hauer's philosophical monologue in Blade Runner. "Like tears in the rain". As thriller 'The Shallows' continues to do well at the US Box office, director James Watkins discusses how the point of view of the camera is crucial to dramatic suspense.

With Antonia Quirke. Award-winning poet Don Paterson continues his series about great speeches in cinema history with the ever quotable Casablanca. Don't forget - we'll always have Paris. Stig Bjorkman, the director of a new documentary about the star of Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, talks about the controversy that dogged her career. While literary salons are all the rage, the cinematic equivalent is relatively rare. Antonia visits a monthly meeting of the Moving Image Makers Collective in Selkirk on the Scottish Borders, where short films are shown and critiqued. Will it end in tears? The Film Programme are looking for the unsung heroes of British cinema. Janet Rogers nominates her dad, the cinematographer Ted Lloyd, who worked with Hitchock on The 39 Steps. And Janet explains how she ended up starring a few adverts.

With Antonia Quirke. To mark its 30th anniversary release, the director of Sid & Nancy, Alex Cox reveals his regrets about his Sid Vicious bio-pic. And why he almost cast Daniel Day-Lewis as the punk icon. In a new series, award winning poet Don Paterson talks us through some of the great speeches in cinema history, beginning with one of the most quoted of all time - Marlon Brando declaring he coulda been a contender in On The Waterfront. Don also reveals the secrets of "lecturer's stress". Antonia discovers a cinema in the depths of the Mexican jungle, where plants grow through the floor and guests turn up in their pyjamas to enjoy a slap-up meal with their movies. Do you have an unsung hero of British cinema in your family ? If so, The Film Programme want to hear from you. This week, Robin Hayter nominates his dad, the actor James Hayter, who notched up over one hundred screen credits, from Blood On Satan's Claw to Pickwick Papers.

With Francine Stock. Jason Bourne director Paul Greengrass gives Francine a personal masterclass on how to make a contemporary thriller and reveals the reasons why he would never want to direct a James Bond movie.

With Francine Stock. Director Andrew Stanton and producer Lindsey Collins reveal why they took the plunge with the sequel to the 2003 hit Finding Nemo. They reveal how to cast a fish for a movie, what they look for in a sub-aquatic species and how to make an octopus more aesthetically pleasing. Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey go head-to-head in the quest to find the best space opera - Aliens versus Starship Troopers. Let battle commence.

With Francine Stock. The Comedians Cinema Club present their unique take on Ghostbusters. Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of the award-winning and controversial documentary about Indonesian death squads , The Act Of Killing, reveals why he refuses to demonise mass murderers, and why he went undercover as an alien abductee for an expose of American militia. Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh go head to head in the referendum that really matters - Watership Down or The Lion King: which is the better animated classic ?

With Francine Stock Rebecca Miller, the writer/director of Maggie's Plan, discusses the ways in which academia is like the mafia. Josh Kriegman discusses his fly-on-the-wall documentary about the attempted come-back of disgraced politician Anthony Weiner, which goes horribly wrong. Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey offer some alternatives to the sequels, prequels, re-makes and re-boots that dominate our cinemas over summer.

Francine Stock talks to James Spinney and Peter Middleton, the makers of a ground-breaking documentary, Notes On Blindness, that's also showing in Virtual Reality. Composer Neil Brand on the chord that defined film noir, which made its first appearance in Double Indemnity. In a season of sequels, prequels, remakes and re-boots, critics Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh are on hand to help us watch better movies this summer.

With Francine Stock. Nell Dunn talks about her screenplay for Ken Loach's ground-breaking drama Poor Cow, which is back in cinemas only weeks after Loach won the Palme D'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival Francine hears from the makers of two documentaries about the different ways that smart technology is killing us. The director of Death By Design, Sue Williams, reveals the damage that the production and destruction of phones and laptops is doing to the planet. Patrick Shen and Poppy Szkiler discuss In Pursuit Of Silence, which demonstrates how our addiction to technology contributes to the noise and stress of our daily lives, which can have fatal consequences. The director of Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, talks about the impact that filming in war zones and recording victims' harrowing testimonies has had on her personal life.

With Francine StockToby Jones reflects on his new role, a king who becomes obsessed by a flea, in the historical drama Tale Of Tales.When David Bowie announced the retirement of Ziggy Stardust to a stunned audience in 1973, D.A. Pennebaker was there to catch that historic moment on his camera. As he was when Jimi Hendrix set alight to his guitar at the Monterey festival and Germaine Greer verbally jousted with Norman Mailer at a town hall debate. Pennebaker and his partner Chris Hegedus discuss their five decades of film and history making.Francine talks to the winner of the first awards for Virtual Reality at this year's Sheffield Documentary Festival.Dominique Nasta reveals why film-going was compulsory in communist Romania and a few other things you might not have known about cinema in the Eastern Bloc.

With Francine Stock.Film-maker Mark Cousins and composer David Holmes discuss their documentary I Am Belfast and reveal why they rarely went to the cinema at the height of The Troubles.How virtual reality puts us in the shoes of someone with epilepsy, a migrant living in the so-called Calais Jungle, and an Irishman caught up in the Easter Rising in 1916. These are three of the films nominated for the first VR awards at this week's Sheffield Documentary Festival.The Amazon makes up almost half of Columbia and yet very much is known about the jungle in the rest of the country. Film-maker Ciro Guerra has tried to put that right with his drama Embrace Of The Serpent, and he tells Francine how he taught indigenous people to act and why his leading man is one of the last people in the world to speak his particular language.

With Francine Stock.Francine asks Shane Black, the creator of the Lethal Weapon series, why buddy movies tend to be about men and whether The Nice Guys will ever be The Nice Gals.Director Louise Osmond and producer Rebecca O'Brien talk about their seemingly irreverent documentary on Ken Loach - Versus, and reveal how the radical director once stood as a Conservative candidate, albeit at a school election.Two independent cinema owners, Alistair Till and Kevin Markwick, tell us how they plan to survive a summer of sport. And why they are both praying for rain.

With Francine Stock.The director of Love And Friendship, Whit Stillman reveals why, of all Jane Austen's novels, he decided to adapt her unfinished novella Lady Susan. And why he's written a novel of his own screenplay.The co-creator of Ali G and The Flight Of The Conchords TV series, James Bobin discusses the difficult of adapting Alice Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's well known but little read sequel.Composer Neil Brand tells us the score about another classic opening scene - how Roy Budd's jazz soundtrack gave Michael Caine the edge in Get Carter.

With Francine Stock.Tom Hanks talks about A Hologram For The King, why America is still great, and Hollywood's relationship with China. He reveals the advice he was given about what you need to have a hit film in the People's Republic.Director Pablo Larrain discusses The Club, his controversial drama set in a safe house for disgraced priests in Chile and the reaction of the Catholic church to the film.Film reviewer Tim Robey and film buyer Clare Binns assess the hits and misses of this year's Cannes festival, including Ken Loach's first movie since he announced his retirement two years ago.

With Francine StockDirector Antonia Bird, one of the few female directors to carve out a career in the British film industry, is remembered by friends and colleagues Ronan Bennett, Mark Cousins and Kate Hardie.The only female director to be nominated for a feature film in this year's Oscars, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, discusses Mustang, her controversial drama about the treatment of young girls in rural Turkey.Critic Tim Robey and film buyer Clare Binns reveal what they're looking forward to in this year's Cannes film festival.

With Francine StockDirector Stephen Frears and writer Nicholas Martin discuss Florence Foster Jenkins, their bio-pic of the New York socialite and would-be singer whose voice made grown men weep, mostly with laughter.Actor Angela Pleasence talks about the making of Symptoms, her psychological thriller that was nominated for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974 and disappeared from view a year later, only to re-emerge in 2014.From Johnny Guitar to Jane Got A Gun, The Film Programme presents a short history of women in westerns, with our guides Rosalynn Try-Hane and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh.

With Francine StockLaszlo Nemes discusses Son Of Saul, his Oscar winning film about life and death in a Nazi concentration camp.Sir Christopher Frayling takes us behind the scenes of The Sound Barrier, David Lean's celebration of British engineering and innovation that was somewhat economical with the facts.1916 was the year that the pictures got big, but with Snow White, Sherlock Holmes and special effects blockbusters taking over cinemas, what has really changed 100 years later. Historians Matthew Sweet and Kevin Brownlow explain.

Francine Stock visits the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham and tries out Blind Cinema, where she is blindfolded as a small child whispers in her ear, describing the action on the screen.The director of the record-breaking Woman In Black, James Watkins explains why the release of his new film, Bastille Day, a violent thriller set in Paris, was delayed after the terrorist attacks in the French capital.

With Francine Stock."I wanna be like you, I wanna talk like you, be like you too" could easily be the refrain sung by Hollywood producers intent on flooding the market with re-boots, remakes, sequels and prequels. As The Jungle Book is the latest to get a computer-generated makeover, Francine talks to the King Of The Swingers, director Jon Favreau. Many of us who live in the city dream about moving to the country when they retire. Many cinephiles dream about moving to the country and setting up a cinema. Alastair Till and Suzie Sinclair have done just that. They sold their business in London and built a cinema in Newlyn in Cornwall, without any previous experience of the film industry. Francine pays them a visit to see how they're getting on.Director Agnieszka Holland recalls her life in exile after she defected to the West from her home country, Poland, in 1981, and what happened when the communist authorities stopped her contacting her daughter.

With Francine StockDirector Jacques Audiard reveals why he cast a former Tamil Tiger to star in his drama Dheepan, which won the prestigious Palme D'Or at last year's Cannes festival.Composer Neil Brand unravels the mysteries of the score to one of the greatest openings in cinema history, Citizen Kane.Location scout Philip Lobban explains how a key scene in a recent James Bond film was set in Surrey and Scotland simultaneously, with the help of some digital trickery.Couple In a Hole director Tom Geens on his debut movie, which took five years to get financed and was abandoned after two days when his lead actor broke his leg, and why this turned out to be a happy accident.

With Antonia Quirke.Ex-Arab Strap front man Aidan Moffat talks about his controversial attempts to re-write traditional Scottish folk songs, as documented in the new film Where You're Meant To BeTerence Davies, the director of Distant Voices, Still Lives, talks about his love for Doris Day as a sing-a-long version of Calamity Jane is about to released in cinemasSebastian Schipper describes how exactly he made Victoria, a heist movie that sprawls across Berlin and was shot in just one take.

With Antonia QuirkeBen Affleck discusses the parallels between Bruce Wayne and Donald Trump in his super-hero movie Batman V Superman.Antonia visits one of the few remaining video shops in this country, 20th Century Flicks in Bristol, which has an eleven seater cinema where you can watch one of their 19,000 films.Alan Clarke, the controversial director of Scum, The Firm and Rita, Sue and Bob Too, is remembered by writer David Leland and actor Phil Davis who explains why he is a cult hero of British cinema and television.Director Pablo Larrain discusses his award-winning drama The Club about a safe-house for disgraced priests, where neighbours are unaware of their crimes, until one of their victims turns up.

With Antonia Quirke.Director Ben Wheatley discusses his adaptation of J.G. Ballard's dystopian satire High-Rise and why he's literally terrified of the 70s. Producer Jeremy Thomas explains why it's taken him 40 years to get the novel to the screen.Special effects pioneer Roy Pace explains how he made the world turn backwards in Superman using a globe he bought in Woolworths.Antonia attends the Into Film awards ceremony for young film-makers and hears from judge Michael Sheen.

With Antonia Quirke.Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson discuss their stop-motion comedy Anomalisa, how they made a love scene with puppets and why it took 6 months.Cinematographer Billy Williams recalls the tensions behind the scenes of the notorious naked wrestling bout between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women In Love.Director Robert Eggers reveals the difficulties of working with a goat on his supernatural horror The Witch, and why ravens are better actors.

The Coen Brothers talk to Antonia Quirke about Hail Caesar, a parody of Hollywood in the early 50s and explain why they believe there were Reds under the beds in the film industry at the time.

With Antonia Quirke.Clare Binns and Tim Robey assess the runners and riders in this year's Academy AwardsAntonia talks to Nikolene, an Inuit in Greenland, about why her local video shop is still popular, especially in Winter, and hears from Simon Brzeskwinski, whose decision to close his video shop, Video City, in Notting Hill led to very public displays of grief.

The Film Programme this week explores the work of American animator and film maker John Lasseter.Presenter Francine Stock talks to John about his moving making techniques and films including Toy Story, Frozen and his latest release Zootropolis.John also shares his experiences of working for both Pixar Animations and for Disney.Presenter: Francine Stock Producer: Anna Bailey Editor: Jereome Weatherald.

With Francine Stock.Film-maker Sarah Gavron talks about Suffragette and the marked reactions to the film since it was released in cinemas.Director Mark Jenkin shows Francine how to develop film in instant coffee.Debut director Stephen Fingleton discusses the unexpected challenges of making his low budget feature, The Survivalist, a post-apocalyptic drama set almost entirely in a small hut.

With Francine Stock.Toby Jones reveals why he was in two minds about playing Captain Mainwaring in the new film version of Dad's Army.Director Grímur Hákonarson tells Francine why casting the sheep was as important as casting the actors in his Icelandic drama RamsAdam Rutherford assesses Matt Damon's portrayal of a botanist in The Martian.

With Francine Stock.Anna Karina talks about her life and work with Jean-Luc Godard - why he asked her to take her clothes off in their first meeting and how he would disappear for weeks after apparently popping out to the shop around the corner.Stanley Tucci discusses his role in Spotlight, an Oscar nominated drama about the expose of a cover-up by the Catholic Church in Boston, and why he decided not to meet the man he was playing.Sound designer Eugene Gearty explains how he got inside the head of Brian Wilson for the Beach Boys bio-pic Love & Mercy.

With Francine StockAnchorman writer/director Adam McKay discusses The Big Short, his Oscar nominated tragi-comedy about the financial crisis that hit the global markets in the mid 2000s.Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien reveals why he cut out the plot from his martial arts epic, The Assassin, recently voted by British critics as the best film of last year.Ben Hopkins talks about his political satire Lost In Karastan in which an unemployed film-maker is hired by a dictator to make an epic extolling the virtues of his country.

With Francine StockThe Oscar winning director of Birdman, Alejandro Inarritu discusses his western The Revenant, which tested his actors, including Leonardo Di Caprio, to their limits and was reportedly described as a living hell by members of the crew.Director Lenny Abrahamson describes just how he made Room, a movie mainly set in a 11 x 11 foot cell.Critic Catherine Bray assesses the runners and riders in this year's Oscars race.

With Francine Stock.Eddie Redmayne reveals the research he undertook for The Danish Girl, a new drama about transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, and what he observed about women's body language.Celia Johnson's daughter Lucy Fleming talks about her coda to Brief Encounter, written exclusively for The Film Programme. Borgen writer Tobias Lindholm discusses A War, his new thriller about Danish troops serving in Afghanistan, and why that conflict has defined his generation in Denmark.

Francine Stock hosts a discussion about the roles of women in the film industry and whether anything is getting better in terms of jobs, pay and opportunities. Joining her are producer Elizabeth Karlsen, director Carol Morley and writer/actor Justine Waddell.Director David O. Russell talks Joy.

Francine Stock presents a festive edition with the best films of the year, as chosen by critic Tim Robey, film buyer and programmer Clare Binns and critic and producer Catherine Bray.

Francine Stock asks listeners: Do you remember the first time with Star Wars ?She hears from people who have seen the first film over 20 times, who could recite every line of dialogue, and were inspired to become pilots, designers and IT boffins thanks to Star Wars. And from an extra whose hair can be briefly viewed in his role as a X-Wing pilot and a listener whose father played the oboe on the famous soundtrack. Francine is joined in studio by scientist and presenter Adam Rutherford who has felt the Force on more than one occasion, and still has the toys to prove it.

With Francine Stock.Andy Serkis, best known as Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings, and producer Jonathan Cavendish, discuss their new version of The Jungle Book which was made at The Imaginarium Studios, the centre they set up for performance capture technology.Bobby Henrey reveals what it's like to be a child star at the age of nine, why he quit the business at ten, and why he didn't tell anyone about his brief encounter with fame until several decades later. Sir Christopher Frayling uncovers the work of designer Harry Lange, responsible for the futuristic look of 2001: A Space Odyssey, who drew upon his experience at NASA to create the film's spaceships that are still cutting-edge technology.

With Francine StockTerence Davies talks about Sunset Song, which has been 18 years in the makingVirtual reality guru Chris Milk discusses the future of making feature films in the new medium.Mike Kelt reveals how to make it rain in the movies.Documentary-maker Mark Burman explains why he transcribed the script of Star Wars at the age of 13, after watching it 21 times.

With Francine Stock.Director Todd Haynes discusses Carol, his Patricia Highsmith adaptation starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as clandestine lovers in 1950s New York.Writer/directors Jonathan Glazer and Clio Barnard discuss the fusion of science and cinema and the Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Fellowship with the new fellow, whose identity was revealed in a ceremony on Wednesday evening.Marlon Brando recorded hundreds of hours of audio tape of his innermost thoughts, which make up a new documentary, Listen To Me Marlon. Director Stevan Riley, his co-writer Peter Ettedgui and critic Antonia Quirke discuss what the film reveals about his mercurial character.

With Francine StockJames Bond producer Barbara Broccoli explains why she's just produced a film called Radiator, about a middle-aged man caring for his two elderly parents that was made for less than one percent of the budget of Spectre, and why not all films should be made for teenage boys.Bridge Of Spies scribe Matt Charman reveals why he took off his clothes to pitch his Cold War spy thriller to Steven Spielberg on the phone.A rare showing of a 13 hour French movie that was totally improvised, Out 1, is playing soon in a West End cinema. Francine is granted a private screening and reports back from her marathon viewing session - was it all worth it and more importantly, will she ever recover the feeling in her legs ?And there's an opportunity for listeners to write their own coda to Brief Encounter - what Alec did next...

With Francine StockThe West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin discusses his biopic about Apple founder Steve Jobs and why the relationship between the character and the real person is the difference between a building and a drawing of that building.Director Sean Baker reveals how he made a feature film, Tangerine, with two smart phones, and why he'd still prefer people to watch it on a big screen.Documentary-maker Saeed Taji Farouky talks about his experiences of being embedded with the Afghan National Army in one of the most dangerous regions in the world.And a sound editor responds to bird-watchers' complaints about birdsong being used in the wrong movie locations.Image: Michael Fassbender portraying Steve Jobs. Image credit: Universal Pictures.

With Francine Stock Bradley Cooper reveals his plans to write, direct and star in a personal project and why he'd rather be bad in a great movie rather than great in a bad movie.Nick Hornby discusses his adaptation of Colm Toibin's novel Brooklyn and why he wanted to turn it into an old fashioned weepie that would break people's hearts.As the world's largest youth film festival, Into Film, begins, we hear from a 14 year old debutant who's just made a short movie in 5 days.

To mark the 70th anniversary of Brief Encounter, Francine Stock asks why it still makes grown men and women weep despite the restrained passions, clipped accents and various parodies. She enlists the help of fans Moira Buffini, Matthew Sweet, Thomas Dixon, Neil Brand and Antonia Quirke.

With Francine Stock.Director George Miller reveals the influence of Buster Keaton on his post-apocalyptic epic Mad Max:Fury Road.The maker of Cartel Land, an eye-opening documentary about the Mexican drug wars, Matthew Heineman, tells Francine what it was like to visit a secret meth lab and to be caught in the middle of a shoot-out.Composer Neil Brand dissects the opening of Jaws, and explains why a few notes can instil fear in us all.Debbie McWilliams is one of the women who gives James Bond his licence to kill. She's been the casting director for all the 007 movies since For Your Eyes Only and let us in on a few secrets, for your ears only.

With Francine StockWe can see Tom Hiddleston in three movies over the next few months; he explains why his films are like London buses.Actor Ben Foster mounts a defence of Lance Armstrong, the disgraced cyclist he plays in Stephen Frears' new drama The Program.Yorgos Lanthimos discusses the reasons that his characters are transformed into animals if they don't find a a mate in his satire The Lobster.Chris Milk reveals the future of virtual reality and why it will supersede the medium of cinema.Cary Fukunaga discusses the use of child actors to play child soldiers in his harrowing war movie Beasts Of No NationProducer Catherine Bray remembers the time when she thought her hair might actually be space worms, after watching a horror movie at the tender age of ten.

With Francine Stock.The director of The Walk and Back To The Future, Robert Zemeckis explains the rules of employing 3D in film, and why it shouldn't just be used for effect.Foley artist Barnaby Smyth demonstrates how he followed in the footsteps of Emmeline Pankhurst and co for the sound effects to Suffragette, which required him to wear specially adapted high heels.Joe Wright, the director of Pan explains why Nirvana's Smell Like Teen Spirit makes an unlikely appearance in his new adaptation of J.M. Barrie's classic children's tale.Denis Villeneuve reveals the pressure of making the sequel to Blade Runner.

With Francine Stock.Director Justin Kurzel tells Francine why he believes that Macbeth is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.Greensman is not the latest super-hero but the name of the person who dresses a set with trees and shrubbery to make the indoors look like the outdoors. Richard Payne of Living Props reveals a few trade secrets.Cinematographer Robbie Ryan explains why the selfie is making better actors of us all.Matthew Sweet and Bryony Dixon of the BFI take us behind the scenes of a British film studio in 1928, just as new sound technology was about to change everything.

With Francine StockThe director of Hairspray and Pink Flamingos, John Waters, discusses whether shock value still has any currency.Sound editor Walter Murch reveals how he created the sounds of the future in 1971's THX1138Michelangelo Antonioni's romantic drama L'Eclisse has one of the most iconoclastic endings in world cinema, critic Pasquale Iannone explains why.

With Francine Stock.A new drama Everest depicts what happened to a group of mountaineers on Everest when a storm struck in 1996. Film-maker and climber David Breashears was on the mountain at the time and discusses the practicalities and the problems of recreating the fatal expedition with director Baltasar Kormakur.Alfred Hitchcock loved the Albert Hall so much that he filmed there three times, including a boxing movie The Ring, inspired by his frequent visits to see fights in the auditorium. Francine follows in the footsteps of James Stewart and Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much, which the director made not once, but twice.Critic Tim Robey and film buyer Clare Binns run a critical eye over the offerings at the Toronto Film Festival.

With Francine Stock.Controversial director Abel Ferrara takes on the life and death of controversial director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was murdered 40 years ago, sparking rumours of political assassination.Jerry Rothwell discusses his documentary about the early years of Greenpeace featuring never before seen footage of early confrontations with whaling boats.Neil Brand explains how film music for robots has evolved from avant-garde electronica to show tunes from Hello Dolly.Set decorator Liz Griffiths explains how she found the tools to kill zombies in Shaun Of The Dead in her dad's shed.

With Francine Stock.Liv Ullmann discusses Miss Julie, Ingmar Bergman and Sex And The City, and why she turned down the opportunity to play George Clooney's love interest.Brian Helgeland reveals why he decided to cast Tom Hardy to play both Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, in his new bio-pic Legend.Model maker Jose Granell on what it's like to see your best work blown to smithereens and how he built his own miniature submarine from a manual.

With Antonia QuirkeFour members of the Angulo family, the subject of award-winning documentary The Wolfpack, reveal what it was like to be locked up in an apartment by their father and why they turned to movies as a form of escape.As the Directed By Women global festival begins, Catherine Bray and Angie Errigo consider whether it really matters if there are so few female film-makers.David McLeod fills in some of the details of Buster Keaton's long forgotten tour of British theatres in 1951The Film Programme takes a spin with stunt driver Jim Dowdall.

Antonia Quirke hears from listeners who found 15 seconds of fame in the movies, like John Chapman whose hair can be seen in two scenes in Star Wars. Hanja Kochansky rubbed shoulders with Richard Burton in Cleopatra, while Diane Poole was picked from her school playground to take the plum part of Hayley Mills' sister in Whistle Down The Wind. Antonia visits Downham village to meet Diane and her best friend Pam Dyson, who played Pam in the movie. There's the tale of the badly behaved extra and the resident of Notting Hill who was greeted one morning by the sight of Rhys Ifans in his grey underpants on his neighbour's doorstep.

With Antonia QuirkeGreta Gerwig, writer and star of Mistress America, talks about what it's like to write with her romantic partner Noah Baumbach and her life as a teenage fencer and dancer.Judd Apatow discusses his bad taste comedy Trainwreck and why Hollywood has a problem with potty-mouthed, sexually unfettered womenAs someone whose ideal cinematic experience is watching a movie in an empty auditorium on a Tuesday afternoon, Antonia has never understood the appeal of the outdoor screening. So to find out just what all the fuss is about, she braves an open air showing of Withnail And I with critic Tim Robey.

With Antonia QuirkeRadiohead's Jonny Greenwood discusses his score for There Will Be Blood, which he will be performing live in August. He also tells Antonia why he wouldn't like to score a Bond movie or any other blockbuster.Antonia starts the search for people who saw Buster Keaton's tour of British theatres and music halls in 1951, and consults historian Kevin Brownlow.Writer Nat Segnit discusses the changing voice of Al Pacino. Hoo ha !Prop makers FBFX reveals the tricks of their trade, making armour, space suits and creature costumes for the film industry.

With Francine Stock.Fifty years after winning his first award for his film work, Sir Tom Courtenay talks about his latest role, in 45 Years, for which he won the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival. The actor talks about his relationship and rivalry with Albert Finney and how he persuaded Omar Sharif to become a life-long fan of Hull City FC.

With Francine StockThe Full Monty and Trainspotting star Robert Carlyle discusses the challenges of directing himself in The Legend Of Barney Thomson and reveals which part of the job made him want to stick a fork in his eye.Up director and producer Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera delve into the mind of a 11 year old for their latest animation, Inside Out, and discuss the research they conducted into human emotions, and the surprising conclusions they came to.Joseph Losey, the director of The Servant and Modesty Blaise, is remembered by his wife Patricia who tells Francine what it was like on board Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor's super-yacht. 'Mes Annees Avec Joseph Losey' by Patricia Losey is available now, in French.

With Francine StockMichael Douglas discusses his first super-hero movie, Ant-Man, and explains why he's become the go-to guy for lengthy monologuesDirector Morgan Matthews explains why he turned his documentary about a maths Olympiad, Beautiful Young Minds, into a feature film, X + Y.Martin Asbury lets light in on the magic of the storyboard artist.

With Francine Stock.Director Justin Simien discusses his controversial comedy Dear White People and Priscilla Igwe of the New Black Film Collective discusses the difficulties of releasing the film in this country.The Film Programme visits Amazing Animals, who train animals and insects, from wolves to flies, for the movies.Listener Jan Johnson reveals how she was promoted from cabbage seller to Julie Christie's double on the set of Far From The Madding Crowd, and why it changed her life.Corrina Antrobus of The Bechdel Test Fest picks her three DVDs of the month.

With Francine Stock.Back To The Future composer Alan Silvestri reveals why he's added 15 minutes of music to the original score for a new screening of Back To The Future.The producer and editor of Amy, James Gay-Rees and Chris King, discuss the skill and ethics of editing a documentary about the life of singer Amy Winehouse, and respond to criticism about the film from her father Mitch.Antonia Quirke visits the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition about Audrey Hepburn to see if it has changed her mind about an actress that she's always considered over-rated.The job of Colourist is relatively new but increasingly important in the film industry, and Adam Glasman explains the tricks of his trade.Listener Alan Wilding reveals his 15 seconds of movie fame - he was Brigitte Bardot's double.

With Francine Stock.Lisa Simone discusses a new and intimate documentary about her mother Nina SimonePeter Bogdanovich talks about his old friend Orson Welles and reveals why he is finishing a film that Welles began four decades ago.Director Alex Gibney discusses his controversial documentary about Scientology, Going ClearCritic Scott Jordan Harris picks his DVDs of the month.

With Francine Stock.Live Live Cinema perform The Little Shop Of Horrors in studio. The four band members play various instruments and all the characters as well as performing the sound effects and lip-synching to the dialogue on screen. They show Francine how it's done.Virtual Reality could well be the future of documentaries, according to film-makers Richard Nockles and Gabo Arora. Francine dons a headset and takes a virtual tour of London by crane.The road to the Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech began at the Toronto Film Festival, which is becoming increasingly important for British film-makers with their eyes on the prize. Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling are in London this week from Toronto to watch 65 films all vying to get into the festival. Only 8 will make it. They take Francine through the decision-making process.

Director of the National Theatre Rufus Norris talks about the film adaptation of 'London Road'Francine Stock visits the Sheffield Documentary Festival to talk to Oscar nominated film maker Joshua Oppenheimer about his latest work 'The Look of Silence'. Fellow documentary maker John Akomfrah discusses the psyche of non fiction film making.Director John Boorman on 'Queen and Country' and how movie making has changed.Presenter Francine Stock. Producer Ruth Sanderson.

With Antonia Quirke.The Film Programme gathers listeners' memories of the day that a film crew rolled into town or took over their street. Antonia Quirke hears from Mr Turner production designer Suzie Davies who transformed a land-locked house in Hertfordshire into the painter's Thames-side residence, by the simple expedient of digging up the garden and filling it with enough water to make it look like a river. And talks to the home's owner, Gloria Thompson, about what it was like to see your manicured lawn dug up.Antonia also visits Lyme Regis, famously used in The French Lieutenant's Woman and Persuasion, and hears from a shop-keeper who kept the Victorian facade built by an art director twenty years after the crew had left the town. The final stop of the tour is Carnforth Station, the prime location of Brief Encounter, which welcomes thousands of visitors every year to their recreation of the famous refreshment room where Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard first met.

With Francine Stock.Director Brad Bird discusses Tomorrowland, in which George Clooney searches for a mythical city of the future created by the finest minds of their generation.Director Ana Lily Amirpour discusses her Iranian vampire spaghetti western, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.Abderrahmane Sissako talks about the political context of his drama Timbuktu, in which an African town is taken over by a jihadist group.Tim Robey and Clare Binns report from the Cannes Film Festival.

With Francine Stock.As Mad Max hits the road again, Kim Newman trawls through his favourite post-apocalyptic cliches.Director Olivier Assayas discusses his drama Clouds Of Sils Maria, which he wrote for his friend Juliette Binoche, and reveals why he also cast Twilight star Kristen Stewart.Critic Tim Robey and film buyer Clare Binns look forward to this year's Cannes festival.Larushka Ivan-Zadeh makes her pick of this month's DVDs.

With Francine StockPeter Firth talks about bringing Spooks to the big screen and a film career that's included Equus and Roman Polanski's Tess and tells Francine why his mother was proud of his nude scenes in the stage production of Equus.Neil Brand explains why a famous Italian opera provided the unlikely soundtrack for the boxing movie Raging BullDirector Celine Sciamma explains why she auditioned over 300 non-professional actresses to play the lead in her hard-hitting Parisian tale of gang life, GirlhoodGlen Cathard and Peter Hanson reveal some secrets of ADR (automated dialogue replacement) and why most movies are re-dubbed after shooting.

With Francine StockFesten director Thomas Vinterberg discusses his latest adaptation of Far From The Madding Crowd and why he hasn't seen all of John Schlesinger's 1967 version with Terence Stamp and Julie Christie.Cinematographer Christopher Doyle reveals some tricks of his trade and tells Francine what's the colour of love.Director Krzysztof Zanussi talks about what it was like working under state censorship in communist-era Poland.Critic Sophie Monks-Kaufman makes her pick of the best DVDs of the month.

With Francine Stock.Avengers' director Joss Whedon discusses the challenges of writing a film with not one, not two, but eight super-heroes.Swedish auteur Roy Andersson on A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence and why the Swedes are really glum.As part of the BBC's Get Creative campaign, Francine tries her hand at making sound effects with household objects, ably assisted by Foley artist Barnaby Smyth.In the week that The Falling is released, Kier-La Janisse and Sandra Hebron consider the depiction of mass hysteria in cinema history, from The Devils to Picnic At Hanging Rock.

With Francine Stock.Flight Of The Conchords' Jemaine Clement discusses his vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows and reveals why they used their IT engineer called Stu to play an IT engineer called Stu.Jan Vokes is the star of a new documentary Dark Horse about the staff and members of a working men's club in the South Wales valleys who clubbed together to buy a race horse. She tells Francine about her new-found fame, and what it's like to see her face plastered on billboards opposite the supermarket where she works.The producer of The Inbetweeners Movie, Christopher Young, reveals why he pumped the profits from the record-breaking comedy into a delicate Portuguese art-movie, The Invisible Life.Antonia Quirke enters the murky world of Cry Of The City, a forgotten film noir from 1948 that's about to be re-released and re-assessed.

With Francine Stock.Ryan Gosling discusses his directorial debut Lost River, which was met with a mixture of cheers and jeers at its Cannes premiere.The head of BBC Films, Christine Langan, looks back at its 25 years history, including such hits as Billy Elliot, Philomena, and Fish Tank, and laments the lack of original stories that land on her desk.One of Britain's few winners at this year's Oscars, hair and make-up artist Frances Hannon, talks about her award-winning moustaches and wigs for The Grand Budapest Hotel.Ruben Ostlund, the director of Force Majeure, a black comedy about a family holiday from hell, reveals why he would like his film to help increase the divorce rate.

With Francine Stock.Kenneth Branagh discusses his live-action version of Cinderella and why he made the stepmother less wicked and more sympathetic, and why test audiences didn't always agree with his decision.While We're Young director Noah Baumbach discusses mid-life crises, Ben Stiller and the enduring influence of Woody Allen.Blind is a new movie from Norway which imagines the internal life of its blind protagonist. Director Eskil Vogt talks about the challenges of filming the imagination of a character who is losing their ability to visualise the outside world.Wild Tales, an anthology of revenge tales, was the most popular film in its native Argentina last year, and director Damian Szifron considers the appeal of righteous anger.

With Francine Stock.The men who brought Paddington to the big screen, producer David Heyman and director Paul King, reveal why it took seven years to turn the bear from darkest Peru into a movie star.Thelma Schoonmaker, the Oscar winning editor of Raging Bull and The Wolf Of Wall Street, talks about the restoration of The Tales Of Hoffmann, written and directed by her late husband Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.Xavier Dolan has made five films in five years, the latest of which, Mommy, won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and he's only 25. The Canadian wunderkind tells Francine that he's feeling very tired, and that his next movie will have to wait, for a few months.

With Francine Stock.Terence Stamp reveals why he fell out with director John Schlesinger on the set of Far From The Madding Crowd.Film-makers Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts tell Francine why they have set up their own film club, A Nos Amours, due to the demise of repertory cinema in this country.Clive Bell and Tomoko Komura perform the Japanese art of silent film narration called Benshi.Critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh picks her DVDs of the month.

With Francine Stock.Neill Blomkamp, the creator of science fiction satire Chappie, tell us why we should learn to stop worrying and love Artificial Intelligence.Neil Brand reveals why the spaghetti western would not have been the same without Ennio Morricone's memorable scores.BAFTA winner Daisy Jacobs discusses her short film The Bigger Picture which combines animation, stop-motion, papier mache pigs and her mum's kitchen table.As Life Of Riley, the final film from auteur Alain Resnais, is released in cinemas, critic Jonathan Romney considers the last works of other great directors.

With Antonia Quirke.Stephanie Beacham reveals why Marlon Brando wore y-fronts and wellington boots during their love scenes for The Nightcomers, a little-seen prequel to Henry James' Turn Of The Screw.Catch Me Daddy director Daniel Wolfe discusses the reasons that he made a modern-day western set in Yorkshire about the controversial subject of honour killings.Actor Harry MacQueen has made his directorial debut, Hinterland, with just £10,000 that he received from an inheritance. He explains how he did it. Industry insider Charles Gant considers whether micro-budget movies are the future for the British film industry.White God is the latest movie to picture what happens when animals attack, whether it's dogs, birds, bees, sharks, piranhas or ten feet chicken. Andrew Collins imagines what would occur if they all launched an offensive on the same day.

Antonia Quirke talks to three Oscar nominees as they head off to the Academy Awards for the first time.Anthony McCarten, the writer and producer of The Theory Of Everything, is up for two awards - best adapted screenplay and best film. He reveals why he's turned down an invitation to Madonna's after-party.Production designer Suzie Davies is nominated for her work on Mr Turner, and confesses to behaving like a star-struck fan at the nominees lunch, and has the photographs to prove it.Mat Kirkby, who got the nod for best short film, admits that he wouldn't have made it to the ceremony if it wasn't for the generosity of a Radio 4 listener.Critic Tim Robey assesses the chances of British success at this Sunday's ceremony.Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images

Antonia Quirke presents a valentine to the cinema in a special edition about love in the movies. She talks to Terence Stamp, once described as the most beautiful man in the world, about what it was like to be loved from afar by millions of strangers. And she hears from Sir Richard Eyre who explains why he believes romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story is a perfect movie, and from award-winning documentary maker Kim Longinotto about Love Is All, her evocative compilation of love scenes from over a hundred years of British film history. Sharing the love are critics Jason Solomons and Angie Errigo, who reveal if they ever fell in love with someone because they reminded them of a movie star.

With Francine Stock.Selma recounts the life of Martin Luther King for the first time on the big screen. Its director Ava DuVernay tells Francine what she thinks of the controversy in the United States about the film's portrayal of President Lyndon B Johnson, which some critics say is unfair and unbalanced.Actor Eddie Marsan talks about the research he undertook for Still Life, in which he plays a funeral officer who has to track down the relatives of people who have died alone. And he reveals why he's refused every offer to play an East End gangster.February is the month of S + M in the cinema, with 50 Shades Of Grey and The Duke Of Burgundy being released within weeks of each other. The Film Programme takes a strict look at the subject with director Peter Strickland.

With Francine Stock.Director Paul Thomas Anderson discusses the challenges of writing Inherent Vice, the first ever movie adaptation of a novel by reclusive writer Thomas Pynchon.Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry talks about the dangers of filming in the favelas of Rio for his caper movie Trash. And reveals why he ripped up the script and let his child actors improvise and decide their own ending.Listeners sing word-perfect renditions of the Odeon Film Club song and ABC Minors anthem, five decades since they last sang them. They recall a paradise free from parental control, where you could to go to the toilet as often as you liked.Francine consults neuroscientist professor Jeffrey Zacks about the reasons she cries helplessly when she watches the final moments of Louis Malle's war memoir Au Revoir Les Enfants.

With Francine Stock.Novelist Alex Garland discusses his directorial debut Ex Machina and tells Francine why he thinks Professor Stephen Hawking is wrong to worry that the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.Liz Fraser is known as one of the Carry On girls, even though she only appeared in four of the series. As her film debut, I'm All Right Jack, is released on DVD, she spills the beans on stereotyping, Peter Sellers, and the unions.Director J.C. Chandor reveals why he set his crime drama A Most Violent Year in 1981, statistically the most violent 12 months in the history of New York city.

With Francine Stock.Arsenal fan Nick Hornby reveals what appealed to him about Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild, about her 1000 mile hike through mid America, and why he was never tempted to try the walk himself.Jazz drumming is the unlikely subject for a movie, but Whiplash has won numerous awards in festivals across the world. Its director Damien Chazelle and star J.K. Simmons discuss the film's theme of how music teaching can turn into bullying.

With Francine Stock.Into The Woods stars James Corden and Emily Blunt discusses what it was like to sing on screen for the first time.Director Bennett Miller reveals the reasons he cast Steve Carrell against type as a multi-millionaire who sponsored an American Olympic wrestling team with tragic consequences.As a retrospective of Eric Rohmer's career continues at the BFI Southbank, Boyhood director Richard Linklater and critic Antonia Quirke consider the quiet genius of films like The Green Ray and Claire's Knee.

With Francine Stock.Batman star Michael Keaton discusses the similarities between his career and that of his character in Birdman, an actor making a come-back after finding fame playing a winged super-hero.Director James Marsh reveals what Stephen Hawking really thought of his bio-pic The Theory Of Everything.Enemy, in which Jake Gyllenhaal plays a man haunted by his doppelganger, is the second movie released in the last 12 months about doubles. The other, The Double, was based on a story by Dostoevsky and directed by Richard Ayoade, who explains the technical difficulties of getting an actor to talk to himself.

With Francine Stock.Angelina Jolie reveals why she's planning to give up acting to concentrate on directing, and describes the moment she discovered that her neighbour Louis Zamperini was an Olympic athlete and ex-prisoner of war, and what it was like showing him her film about his life, Unbroken, just before he died.Actor Pal Sverre Hagen, known as Norwegian's Ryan Gosling, reveals what it was like to recreate Thor Heyerdahl's epic voyage across the Pacific for the film Kon-Tiki, while Thor Heyerdahl Jr reveals what he thinks is wrong with the account of his father's famous adventure.Composer Danny Elfman and director Kevin Macdonald share their memories of their first visit to the cinema.

With Francine StockComposer Danny Elfman talks about his long collaboration with director Tim Burton that's included Batman and Alice In Wonderland.Nick Hornby recites all of the lyrics to the ABC's Minors Song, the theme tune to a kids club that showed cartoons and the work of the Children's Film Foundation.Sound designer Ben Burtt reveals just how many elements went into the making of E.T.'s voice, including a few animals, a professor, and his wife snoring in bed.Three Film Programme experts buy each other the perfect Christmas present - a DVD of what they consider the best film of the year: Under The Skin, The Grand Budapest Hotel and 20,000 Days On EarthThe Night At The Museum trilogy, about an Egyptian curse that brings relics to life, concludes in the British museum. It's an appropriate location, because the British Museum is itself the subject of an ancient Egyptian curse, as Professor Roger Luckhurst explains.

With Francine Stock.Director Kevin Macdonald on Jude Law's Scottish accent in his submarine drama Black Sea. And how geo-politics caught up with a film that's partly set in Crimea.Jason Reitman discusses the moral panic about social media in his ensemble piece Men, Women And Children. And reveals his 70 year old mother's texting habits.FX maestro Ben Burtt reveals the identity of the language that the Ewoks speak in the Star Wars saga.Neil Brand shows us the part that music played in dramatising the final showdown between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in Return Of The Jedi.

As 2001: A Space Odyssey is re-released in cinemas, Francine Stock presents a special edition on Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece. 'My God, it's Full of Stars' were the last words of Dave Bowman before he journeyed through the Stargate, according to writer Arthur C. Clarke but it's an apt description for this edition of The Film Programme. Francine journeys through time and space to uncover the mysteries of this 1968 classic. Searching for the mind of H.A.L. and lost alien worlds among the delights of the Stanley Kubrick Archive at London's University of the Arts. Joining Francine on her voyage of discovery are 2001 chronicler Piers Bizony, former urbane spaceman Keir Dullea and the woman who built the moon! Other voices include production designer Harry Lange, make-up genius Stuart Freeborn, editor Ray Lovejoy, all now so much stardust, as well as those of lead ape 'Moonwatcher' (Dan Richter) & Stargate deviser Douglas Trumbull. Open the Pod Bay Doors HAL!Producer Mark Burman.

Francine Stock talks to Julianne Moore about her role in the new HUNGER GAMES movie, MOCKINGJAY Part 1. The Director Randall Wright shares his experience of working with and making a film documentary about David Hockney and continuing The Story Of The Sound Effect series, Randy Thom talks about the importance of alien sound in CONTACT. And with news of an extended Franchise Francine talks to Chris Miller and Phil Lord, the directors of THE LEGO MOVIE, about the success of their film, the trick of appealing to both young and old audiences and their childhood triumphs as master builders of spaceships made from plastic bricks.

Francine Stock talks to Tommy Lee Jones about his new film The Homesman, a gritty take on the Western in which the harshness of frontier life and the impact it had on women are central to the story. She also discovers why set designer Maria Djurkovic is such a valued member of the teams in the many projects she undertakes, including this week's release The Imitation Game. There's the latest in the series of Sci-Fi Sound FX secrets, in this programme the heavy breathing that has made Darth Vader one of the most memorable villains in cinema history and Steve James, director of the Documentary Life Itself, explains why his subject, the film critic Roger Ebert was worth the cinematic treatment.

Francine Stock hears from director Christopher Nolan about the tension between eco-conservatism and interplanetary pioneer spirit in his new space Blockbuster INTERSTELLAR. There's also the second part of a series featuring the sound effects experts - this time Randy Thom who added more than a little of himself to the spells and wand-craft of the Harry Potter series, and on the 30th anniversary of its release, Lord Puttnam talks about the enduring impact of THE KILLING FIELDS, particularly in Cambodia.

British director Mike Leigh discusses his latest film Mr Turner. With a career spanning over 40 years, he tells The Film Programme why he has wanted to make a film about the artist for over 20 years, and why actor Timothy Spall was the only man for the job. In the run up to the London Korean Film Festival, Film critic Anton Bitel discusses Korean 1960 classic 'The Housemaid'. Seen as utterly shocking by cinema goers at the time, it has been rediscovered and its restoration has attracted a new audience. Francine Stock presents a new series running throughout The Film Programme for the next two months- The Story Of The Sound Effect. To mark the BFI's season Days Of Fear And Wonder, the programme will hear from the people who created some of the most famous sound effects in the history of science fiction cinema. This week, Gary Rydstrom on Jurassic Park. Continuing The Cinema Memory series, Girlhood director Celine Sciamma recalls the first film to make her cry - E.T.

Director of The Babadook, Jennifer Kent explains how she used the psychological to create horror, and the talks about the challenges in casting kids. Film critic Kim Newman takes a look at children in horror films, from The Innocents to The Exorcist. British actor Riz Ahmed discusses his new role in Nightcrawler and discusses the role that instant internet news plays in todays media and our responsibility as consumers of it. Francine Stock presents a new series running throughout The Film Programme for the next two months- The Story Of The Sound Effect. To mark the BFI's season Days Of Fear And Wonder, the programme will hear from the people who created some of the most famous sound effects in the history of science fiction cinema. This week, Ben Burtt on the lightsaber.

With Francine Stock. Fashion designer turned film producer Agnes B. discusses her directorial debut My Name Is Hmmm... and reveals her life-long affair with cinema.The head of DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg, considers the future of animated films and looks back at a career he describes as a rollercoaster.Animal Farm was the first animated film made by the British film industry in 1954. But what nobody realised at the time, least of all the producers Halas and Batchelor, was that the film was financed by the CIA as part of the Cold War effort. Frances Stonor Saunders and Professor Tony Shaw reveal the intrigue and deception behind the production.Medical adviser Carlton Jarvis describes how he helps actors play doctors and nurses.

With Francine Stock.Olivier Award winning playwright Gregory Burke discusses his feature film debut '71, about a young soldier who finds himself lost in Belfast during the height of the Troubles.Peter Strickland, the acclaimed director of revenge drama Katalin Varga, reveals what happened when Bjork asked him to film a concert on her Biophilia tour, and what it all has to do with crystals, microbes and BBC Inside Science presenter Adam Rutherford.Pianist Neil Brand demonstrates the seduction techniques of Hollywood composers and reveals why it never pays to be too obvious.

With Francine Stock.Director David Fincher reveals how he adapted the best-selling thriller Gone Girl for the big screen and why he's not worried that seven million readers already know the plot's infamous twist.Lux Aeterna composer Clint Mansell discusses the pleasure and pain of writing for Hollywood and what he really thinks about having his music replaced by somebody else's score.Poet George Szirtes reviews the poetic realism of Le Jour Se Leve, written by Jacques Prevert and considered one of the masterpieces that inspired 40s film noir, with its heady mix of romanticism, cynicism and fatalism.With 248 films in 12 days, the choice of movies in the BFI London Film Festival may seem slightly daunting, so its director Clare Stewart discusses the LFF programme.

With Francine Stock.British actress Olivia Williams discusses her experiences of Hollywood and why the Tinsel Town satire Maps To The Stars is all too real.An investigation into why Italian cinema was so coy about the mafia until fairly recently.Polish director reveals why he returned to his homeland for his post-war drama Ida and how a black-and-white movie in a foreign language about a novice nun turned out to be his biggest hit.Location manager Sue Quinn explains how she managed to get a military helicopter to land in Trafalgar Square at the personal request of Tom Cruise.

With Francine Stock.Nick Cave discusses a documentary about his life and work called 20,000 Days On Earth, which mixes fact with fiction, as film-makers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard placed the singer in a series of staged encounters and let the cameras roll. Cave explains why he wasn't entirely happy with some of the things they asked him to do.Novelist Jonathan Coe discusses the Claudette Colbert comedy Midnight, written by one of his film heroes, Billy WilderThe Riot Club director Lone Scherfig reveals what she thinks of the British class system as depicted in her adaptation of Laura Wade's play Posh, which displays the drunken antics of a secret society at Oxford University, not unlike The Bullingdon Club which boasted David Cameron as one of its members.Presenter.... Francine Stock.

With Francine Stock.The producer of Pride, David Livingstone, discusses the film's evolution from script to screen and reveals what he thinks about his comedy being touted as the next Full Monty.A Most Wanted Man director Anton Corbijn talks about working with Philip Seymour Hoffman in his last starring role before his untimely death earlier this year.Is being a writer on a film a thankless task ? Jeremy Brock, whose credits include the adaptation of The Last King Of Scotland, reveals the plight of the lowly scribe.Clare Binns and Tim Robey discuss the highlights of this year's Toronto Film Festival and assess Oscar hopefuls like the Stephen Hawking bio-pic The Theory Of Everything.

With Francine Stock.Nicole Kidman discusses the research she carried out for her latest thriller, Before I Go To Sleep, in which she plays a woman who wakes up every morning with no memories.Novelist Iain Sinclair waxes darkly about Fritz Lang's masterpiece M, which introduced Peter Lorre to an unsuspecting public.Going to a conventional cinema seems so last century, as films are now being shown in boats, forts, boxing rings and, for one weekend only, Bletchley Park. The Film Programme takes a whistle-stop tour of the more unusual venues where we can watch a movie this month.Film critic Tim Robey and cinema programmer Clare Binns tell Francine which of the three hundred films playing at the Toronto Film Festival they are looking forward to.

With Francine Stock.Francine unlocks The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari as the horror classic is re-released in cinema. Holding the keys are novelist Kim Newman, psychiatrist Peter Byrne and production designer Maria Djurkovic.Another chance to hear Richard Attenborough's interview with Francine, in which he discusses his philosophy of film and explains why cinema needs to be compassionate and political as well as entertaining.Singer Gruff Rhys discusses his documentary American Interior about his quest for a tribe of Welsh speaking Native Americans and his distant relative, the 18th century explorer John Evans, who tried to find them and ended up mapping the heartlands of the United States in the process.Director Ivan Sen on his thriller Mystery Road about an Aborginal detective who stands alone against corruption in the Australian Outback.

With Francine Stock.Luc Besson discusses the neuro-science behind his latest thriller, Lucy, in which Scarlett Johansson's brain capacity increases to dangerous levels.The Dardenne Brothers discuss their latest award winning drama Two Days, One Night, with Marion Cotillard.Palaeontologist Jack Horner explains how he tried to make Jurassic Park as scientifically accurate as possible.Catherine Bray reviews a box-set of the films of Kelly Reichardt, whose movies defy conventions such as conclusive endings and coherent dialogue.

With Francine StockActress Robin Wright reveals which director told her that there would be no need for actors in 20 years time, thanks to digital technology which can scan their every expression.Director David Michod answers his critics who said there was no plot in his revenge drama The Rover.With several Oscars for Gravity, 2014 seemed like a good year for the visual effects industry in this country, but in fact, many British companies are facing a crisis, as The Film Programme explains.We hear from a listener who inadvertently stopped the staff of a cinema enjoying the day off to celebrate a royal wedding.

With Francine Stock.John Slattery, aka Roger Sterling in Mad Men, discusses his directorial debut, God's Pocket, one of the last films to star Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died earlier this year.Lilting director Hong Khaou reveals the personal story behind his new drama about a gay man who tries to form a bond with the mother of his late partner, even though she cannot speak English and suspects that she would not have approved of their relationship.Neil Brand tells us how to score your dragon and how music captures the experience of flight in the animated blockbuster How To Train Your Dragon 2.One of the most frustrating experiences about watching a film is trying to find a cinema that shows it - Francine asks one of the most powerful people in the cinema industry, Clare Binns Of Picturehouse Cinemas, why the choice is so limited for so many cinema-goers.Francine hears from listeners' experiences of being alone in a cinema, including the woman who didn't go to the toilet in case the management shut the film down.

With Matthew Sweet.Sherlock co-creator and League Of Gentlemen founder Mark Gatiss reveals his favourite screen detectives in the last instalment of his series.Richard Ayoade of The IT Crowd discusses his dystopian adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Double and reveals the words of advice he got from fellow director David Cronenberg.Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris discuss the perils of working with mechanical effects, such as a cloud car that floats above Parisian rooftops, in Michel Gondry's fantasy Mood Indigo.As Guardians Of The Galaxy hits cinemas this weekend, The Film Programme presents a guide to the space opera, a genre that does science fiction on a grand scale with evil emperors, cute robots and talking furry creatures. Naomi Alderman, Adam Smith and Helen McCarthy prepare for lift-off.Antonia Quirke revisits a beloved childhood favourite, the film adaptation of Swallows And Amazons, to find out if her memory has been playing tricks on her.Matthew talks to one of the "Keating 12", the dozen or so people who paid money to witness Ronan Keating's movie debut in Goddess, which only took £129 at the British box office.

With Matthew Sweet.Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss reveals the identity of one of his favourite screen detectives in another instalment of his series.Hercules labours again in the form of ex-wrestler Dwayne Johnson, the latest in the long line of body builders who have played the son of Zeus. Christopher Frayling and Natalie Haynes trace the mythology from Italian cinema of the 50s and 60s, where he starred in twenty sword and sandal epics, including Hercules And The Moon Men and Hercules And The Amazon WomenDirector Richard Lester reveals which of The Beatles was his favourite actor as A Hard Day's Night is released on DVD to celebrate its 50th anniversary.Antonia Quirke considers why driving and cinema were made for each other.

With Matthew Sweet.Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss lines up another of his favourite screen detectives.St Etienne's Bob Stanley picks his favourite London soundtrack.Penny Eyles and Angela Allen reveal some of the script supervisors' trade secrets, from working on classics like The African Queen, Kes and Women In Love.Antonia Quirke tells us why she thinks that Some Like It Hot is the perfect movie.As Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes hits cinemas across the country, Matthew Sweet presents a brief history of the prequel, and reveals what it all has to do with Charlton Heston.

With Francine Stock.Richard Linklater discusses the reasons he made a film over 12 years. Boyhood charts the progress of a young boy from six to eighteen and Linklater reveals why his young actors never saw the movie until it was completed and why he hasn't come to terms with the project finally being over.

With Matthew Sweet.In a new series on The Film Programme, Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss reveals his favourite movie detectives, starting with Alastair Sim's lugubrious Inspector Cockrill.Peter Fonda remembers his Easy Rider co-star Dennis Hopper and recalls their legal dispute about the authorship of the counter-culture classic.How has the World Cup affected cinema attendances ? Clare Binns of the Picturehouse chain and independent cinema owner Kevin Markwick reveal their figures.Antonia Quirke argues that social media has killed the movie star and blames James Franco's underpants.

Francine Stock talks to director Diego Quemada-Díez about his immigration odyssey The Golden Dream and the influence of his mentor Ken Loach. Neil Brand tinkles the ivories and discusses where Jersey Boys fits in to biopic musicals. Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie is out this week and the Film Programme takes a look at the successes and perils of the sitcom movie. Director Peter Berg on Afghanistan war film, Lone Survivor. Film Critic Andrew Pulver takes a look at the life of Eli Wallach, the star of The Good the Bad and the Ugly and the Magnificent Seven, who has died aged 98. Presenter Francine Stock. Producer Ruth Sanderson.

With Francine Stock.Toby Jones discusses what it was like working with young refugees whose life stories form the plot of Leave To Remain, and reveals some tantalising details about his role as Captain Mainwaring in the forthcoming film adaptation of Dad's Army.French star Fanny Ardant plays a sixtysomething woman who embarks on an affair with a man twenty years her junior in Bright Days Ahead. She tells Francine why she doesn't approve of the term 'cougar' and why we shouldn't worry about getting older.Spring In A Small Town is considered one of the best Chinese films ever made. Released in 1948, a year before the Communists took power, the film was banned and its director Fei Mu fled to Hong Kong, where he died a couple of years later. In the week that it opens in British cinemas, The Film Programme discovers how the Shanghai film industry rivalled Hollywood before the Communist revolution.Dale Dye is an ex-Marine and military adviser on war movies like Saving Private Ryan and Platoon. He reveals why and how he puts actor through their paces in boot camp.

With Francine Stock.Amma Asante, the director of Belle, discusses the real life story of a mixed-race young woman who was brought up as an aristocrat by her uncle in 18th century London.Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris talk about Chinese Puzzle, the final instalment of a trilogy that's spanned 12 years and has proved a phenomenon in France, appealing in particular to the so-called Erasmus Generation.Of Horses and Men director Benedikt Erlingsson talks about Iceland's love of the horse and why it's regarded as a mythical beast that's beloved of actorsMiss Violence is the latest off-beat drama in the so-called Weird Wave of Greek Cinema, a claustrophobic chamber piece about a controlling father and acquiescent family. Director Alexandros Avranas reveals what this has all got to do with the financial crisis in Europe.

With Francine StockKevin Spacey talks about his documentary NOW: In The Wings On A World Stage about the making of his theatrical production of Richard III, which reunited the actor with director Sam Mendes for the first time since their Oscar winner American BeautyFruitvale Station, the true story of the fatal shooting of an African-American man by a police officer, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Director Ryan Coogler reveals the difficulties of making a film about such a sensitive and controversial subject.The film industry is not well known for being eco-friendly. Single use sets, huge crews and jet-set promotional tours all create huge environmental impacts. But that's all about to change, and the programme explores the various ways that the industry is going greenAs Grace Of Monaco is released in cinemas, Alex Von Tunzelmann presents a short of history of the movie star bio-pic from The Charlie Chaplin Story to My Week With Marilyn.

With Antonia Quirke.Ken Loach talks about his latest political drama Jimmy's Hall, set after the partition of Ireland when pragmatism and idealism clashed, often violently.Emmanuelle Seigner describes working with husband Roman Polanski on Venus In Fur about the sado-masochistic relationship between an actress and a director. She explains why the film is definitely not autobiographical.Robert Altman's classic state-of-the-nation address, Nashville, is released on DVD for the first time, almost 40 years since it was released in cinemas. The film's star Keith Carradine reveals why actors never knew when they were actually on camera and Woman In Black director James Watkins discusses the movie's influence on his career.

With Antonia QuirkeActor/director John Turturro explains why his barber helped him secure Woody Allen's involvement on his new comedy Fading Gigolo and why Allen was his biggest critic.Composer Neil Brand on how music conjures up the creature in monster movies like Godzilla.Film buyer and exhibitor Clare Binns and critic Tim Robey discuss how the Cannes Film Festival has been for them, so far.What exactly does a scientific adviser do on a comic strip adaptation like Thor ? A theoretical physicist reveals all.

With Francine Stock.Viggo Mortensen discusses film noir and Greek mythology and the part they have to play in his new thriller The Two Faces Of January.Producer Rebecca O'Brien has walked down the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival with director Ken Loach on ten separate occasions. She takes us behind the scenes at the festival, as she prepares to jet off to the South Of France with Loach's new drama Jimmy's Hall.Clare Binns is going to Cannes for a very different reason, to buy films for Picturehouse Cinemas, and reveals how business gets done at the festival; while critic Tim Robey is getting in training to watch 7 movies a day for over a week.Director Jia Zhangke tells Francine why his new blood-soaked epic A Touch Of Sin is not being shown in his home country of China, and why the film could not have been made without the Chinese version of Twitter, Weibo.Two historical advisers let us in on some trade secrets about what an adviser actually does on a film set.

With Francine Stock.Frank is the story of a singer who never takes off his over-sized papier mache head, on-stage or off. The director Lenny Abrahamson reveals why the film is only partly based on singer Frank Sidebottom, who also wore an over-sized papier mache head and had his own television programme in the 1990s.Stacie Passon, the director of Concussion, discusses her new drama about a suburban mother who becomes a call girl for other affluent women, and shares her reservations about the celebrated gay film Blue Is The Warmest Colour.As his last film, The Wind Rises, is released in British cinemas, The Film Programme presents a guide to the world of master Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.The Film Programme finds out how The Creepy Guys got on in the awards ceremony for Sci Fi London's 48 Hour Film Challenge.

With Francine Stock.Stanley Kubrick's wife Christiane reveals how they met and fell in love on the set of World War I drama Paths Of Glory, and why he was misunderstood by the British press.The star and director of Blue Ruin, Macon Blair and Jeremy Saulnier, discuss their award-winning revenge thriller, and how the director had to dip into his own pocket, and his wife's, to get the film made.Walerian Borowczyk is best known as the director of La Bete, a surreal fantasy that was banned in cinemas across the country in the late 70s. Before that, he was regarded as one of the greatest film-makers of his generation, and a new season at the BFI hopes to restore his reputation.Anthony Chen, the director of Ilo Ilo, discusses his award-winning autobiographical tale about growing up in Singapore during the financial crash of the late 90s, and why Singapore audiences don't like art-house movies.

Actress Mia Wasikowska talks about acting with camels in Tracks, the true story of Robyn Davidson who walked 1700 miles across the Australian desert.Director Joanna Hogg discusses her latest dissection of middle-class alienation in Exhibition about two artists who have to leave their dream home, a modernist house in West London.Composer Neil Brand unpicks Clint Mansell's score for Noah and discovers the "God chord".The Film Programme follows two teams competing in Sci-Fi London's 48 hour film challenge, in which they have to make a short movie in only two days.

With Antonia Quirke.Film and theatre director Sir Richard Eyre reveals how he fell in love with James Dean at first sight.Steven Knight discusses his new thriller, Locke, which is set entirely in a car driving down the M6.Philip Hoare, author of the award-winning Leviathan, reflects upon the representation of the whale in cinema, from Free Willy to Moby Dick,via Orca The Killer WhaleSound editor Richard Hymns talks about the challenges of making a film without any dialogue in All Is Lost, starring Robert Redford as a yachtsman who is marooned at sea.Presenter: Antonia Quirke Producer: Stephen Hughes.

With Francine Stock.Why of all the planets in our solar system does Mars hold the most fascination for film-makers ? As The Last Days On Mars is released, Sir Christopher Frayling, Professor Roger Luckhurst and novelist Naomi Alderman discuss the reasons for our obsession with the red planet and reveal why it all began with a simple mistranslation.A man walks into a confessional and informs the priest that he's going to kill him in seven days time. This is the premise for the new thriller from director John Michael McDonagh who tells Francine why he thinks there's not enough discussion about faith in modern cinema.Playwright Biyi Bandele discusses the problems he had making his adaptation of the best-seller Half Of A Yellow Sun in Nigeria.Lukas Moodysson, the director of We Are The Best, a Swedish coming-of-age drama about a young punk band in the 80s, reveals why he thought it was almost immoral to cast children in a movie.

With Francine Stock.Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky discusses his controversial blockbuster about Noah, which has been loudly condemned by some religious groups in the United States.Documentary film-maker Mark Cousins considers the history of kids in film and why he thinks children and cinema are made for each other.In the year that Film 4 won the Oscar for Best Film with Twelve Years A Slave, the news that its controller Tessa Ross has decided to leave the job stunned the British film industry last week. Director Roger Michell, Charles Gant and Briony Hanson reflect upon her legacy and the impact that her departure will have on the business.Kristin Scott-Thomas reveals how she got her big break and talks about the film that made her a star.

Francine Stock talks to director Sally Potter as Bradford Film Festival shows a retrospective of her work which include Orlando, Rage and The Tango Lesson. BAFTA winning Production Designer Eve Stewart shares the tricks of the trade in her latest project The Muppets Most Wanted. Although Eve has previously worked on the Kings Speech, the Damned United and Les Miserables, she tells how the lure of Miss Piggy and Kermit was too much to resist. Finnish documentary maker Petri Luukkainen talks to the The Film Programme about the experience of putting all his possessions in storage for his film My Stuff. Iranian born writer and critic Fahri Bradley gives her verdict on Asghar Farhadi's latest offering, The Past.

Francine Stock talks to the Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn about British prison drama Starred Up which co-stars Jack O'Connell. He explains how he finds virtue in the most unlikely characters, from Pope in Animal Kingdom to Russell in Killing Them Softly.The musician and composer Mica Levi on her first film sound track working with Jonathan Glazer on sci fi Under the Skin, with Scarlett Johansson. We visit her in the studio where she dissects the alien soundscape she created for the film.Producer Jeremy Thomas looks back on his career, the subject of a season at the BFI in London, Made In Britain. He has worked with directors from David Cronenberg to Wim Wenders and Bernardo Bertolucci. He recalls his earliest memories as a child hanging out in Pinewood studios and looks forward to the industry's future.As the conflict in Syria continues, two film makers reflect on their contrasting responses to the situation - Charif Kiwan of the Abounaddara collective which makes films of a few minutes duration focussing on real lives and avoiding the gory blood on the streets approach of the news channels and Orwa Nyrabia, producer of The Return to Homs, a documentary following young men who become radicalised by the destruction of their neighbourhood.

Francine Stock talks to writer and director Jonathan Glazer about Under the Skin, an unsettling sci fi film starring Scarlett Johansson. His previous work includes Birth and Sexy Beast. He explores the challenges of seeing the world through alien eyes.Spinal Tap, the rock mock doc, is 30 years old and Scott Jordan Harris and Sophie Monks Kaufman debate whether it still works for a new generation.The South By South West Festival, or SXSW, is underway in Austin Texas, covering film, music and interactive. Henry Barnes from The Guardian brings us his highlights from the festival including The Possibilities Are Endless, a documentary about the musician Edwyn Collins and his recovery from a stroke. And Pasquale Iannone of Edinburgh University takes us on a tour of Rome on film from Fellini to Sorrentino.

Francine Stock talks to Tilda Swinton about the much-anticipated film by Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel and why romance is particularly special to those aged under nine or over 90.And inspired by Anderson's take on hotel life, film historian Ian Christie and critic, Kate Muir look at these citadels of glamour, alienation, opportunity and even horror.The director Ted Kotcheff looks back at his 'lost' Oz psychological thriller Wake In Fright from 1971, now re-released, while critic Alice Tynan discusses why Australian cinema-goers at the time found its uncompromising portrayal of life in the outback hard to stomach.And why the craft of stunt artists demands a lot of bruises, but no recognition in the mainstream awards like the Oscars.

Francine Stock talks to actor Stellan Skarsgard about his role in the latest film by Lars von Trier - Nymphomaniac. Playing in two parts, it runs to around four hours and includes challenging explicit material. Skarsgard appears alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg as a man who rescues her from an alleyway after a beating. He explains why he enjoys working with the controversial director.Composer Alexandre Desplat discusses his score for Philomena which has been nominated for an Oscar. His work includes The Monuments Men, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Argo and Moonrise Kingdom. He describes the art of responding to the dynamics of a film script, without overwhelming it.The Unforgiven both starring and directed by Clint Eastwood won four Oscars in 1993. Now the tale of assassins employed by wronged women in the Wild West has been remade by director Sang-il Lee with Ken Watanabe in the lead role. Sir Christopher Frayling and Alexander Jacoby discuss the cross fertilisation of the Western and Japanese Samurai film across the decades.Plus James W. Griffiths on his BAFTA-winning short Room 8 and how the rigours of working to a pre-ordained script helped to drive his film. He shared the award with Sophie Venner.

Francine Stock talks to John Ridley, the Oscar nominated screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave about the journey from first historic hand account to the big screen also and the portrayal of race in mainstream cinema today. Critic Jonathan Romney critiques the work of director Jim Jarmusch whose latest movie 'Only Lovers Left Alive' hits theatres this week. Award winning production designer Maria Djurkovic and film historian Kim Newman discuss the enduring appeal of the French musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Dialect coaches Andrew Jack and Julia Wilson-Dickson let the Film Programme in on the tricks of their trade.

Francine Stock brings a round up of the winners of this year's EE British Academy Film Awards with analysis from critics Robbie Collin and Catherine Bray.Plus the director Spike Jonze on his new sci fi romance, Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and the voice of Scarlett Johansson. Phoenix plays a gentle, lonely divorcee who falls in love with his computer operating system. Jonze explains why he was attracted to setting the film in the near future.And the producer, writer and long-term collaborator with George Clooney, Grant Heslov on their latest project The Monuments Men. It follows a team of mainly American art experts who trek across Europe in the middle of the Second World War attempting to rescue art treasures from the Nazis. The cast includes Clooney along with Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Jean Dujardin and Cate Blanchett.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Francine Stock talks to writer and director Spike Jonze, whose work includes Where the Wild Things Are and Being John Malkovich, about his new film Her, a futuristic love story. Joaquin Phoenix plays a gentle, lonely man who falls in love with a computer operating system brought to life by the voice of Scarlett Johansson.Plus Grant Heslov a producer and long-time collaborator with George Clooney on the WW2 epic, The Monuments Men. It tells the story of the men who crossed Europe under fire to rescue works of art threatened by destruction and looting by the Nazis. It stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett and John Goodman.Industry analyst Charles Gant unpicks the surprise hits and misses of films in international markets - why South Koreans loved Brit rom-com About Time while China feted monster robot action film Pacific Rim which disappointed in the UK and USA markets.And British rising star and BAFTA nominee George MacKay on his career so far - from child actor in Peter Pan to How I Live Now, Sunshine on Leith and For Those In Peril.

Matthew Sweet talks to screenwriter Abi Morgan about The Invisible Woman, the tale of Charles Dickens' love affair with Nelly Ternan, starring Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones. Abi's previous work includes The Iron Lady and Shame, as well as telelvision series The Hour. She describes the joy of working with the material of Claire Tomalin's biography and her mixed feelings about the great Victorian man of letters.Jared Leto returns to cinema screens for the first time in six years with Dallas Buyers Club, a film already prominent in the 2014 awards season. Leto plays a trans gender woman and has been nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actor for the role. He explains what attracted him to the part and how he prepared for the transformation.Gary Oldman, whose recent appearances include The Dark Knight Rises and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, discusses the remake of the 1987 part-man part-machine thriller RoboCop. Set in 2028 Detroit, it explores the perils of the corporate world controlling policing. He also talks frankly about how little control actors have over their careers and Hollywood's current obsession with remakes.And critic David Thomson remembers actor Philip Seymour Hoffman who has died aged 46. He was best known for films like Capote, Magnolia and The Talented Mr Ripley.

Francine Stock talks to the director Scott Cooper about his film Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker and Woody Harrelson. Cooper explains why his own family history is so pertinent to this story of brothers struggling to find their role as men amidst the dying steel mills of Pennsylvania, and his fascination with modern masculinity.Plus Alex Gibney on his Lance Armstrong documentary, The Armstrong Lie and how he fell under the spell of the disgraced but charismatic cyclist. What started as a comeback story in 2009 turned into something very different as the doping scandal gathered pace.Charlie Bloye, Chief Executive of Film Export UK, the trade body that represents around 30 independent film sales companies, makes a case for more support for getting British indie films seen abroad. And Ginette Vincendeau of King's College London explores the magic of Jeanne Moreau in Lift to the Scaffold, the 1958 Louis Malle film which made her a full-blown star. She explains why the noirish thriller has come to be seen as a significant precursor of the French New Wave, which broke with film making conventions.

Francine Stock talks to Meryl Streep about her role as vicious matriarch in August: Osage County, based on a widely-praised play by Tracy Letts. Streep has picked up a record 18th Oscar nomination for the part, starring alongside Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor and Juliette Lewis. The plot follows a family gathering to bury the head of the family after his suicide. Meryl describes how she revels in the freedom of playing a character without limits and discusses her next project Into the Woods, which has been filming in Richmond Park, London.The National Trust provides a surprisingly diverse range of film locations from elf cottages to Russian love nests. Film Unit Manager Harvey Edgington shows us around, including Ham House which has featured in Anna Karenina and A Little Chaos.Plus Oscar Isaac on playing a failing folk musician in the latest offering from the Coen Brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis. He explains why it was so important to play the music live himself and why it's never fun working with cats..The critic Catherine Bray picks up on the highlights of the Sundance Festival which aims to promote the best of independent film making. She praises Frank, starring Michael Fassbender, The Trip to Italy the new outing from Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan as well as Skeleton Twins, starring Kristen Wiig.

As Martin Scorsese's latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street, picks up five Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, Francine Stock talks to actor Jonah Hill, nominated for Best Supporting Actor. He describes how improvisation played an important part in the film which is based on the memoir of trader and convicted fraudster Jordan Belfort. We also hear from editor and long-time Scorsese collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker about the alchemy of the cutting room.The composer Neil Brand explores the use of found, or pre-existing, music in film scores from Saving Mr Banks to Inside Llewyn Davis, Raising Arizona and Black Swan. He explores how the often well-known music can be re-invented and manipulated to work on audiences in sometimes surprising ways.Plus The Night of the Hunter, first released in 1955, directed by British actor Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, is back on limited re-release. Nick James from Sight and Sound and broadcaster Michael Carlson discuss why it has had such an influence on film makers and inspired a genre of brooding southern Gothic.

With 12 Years a Slave already tipped as one of the leading films in the awards season, Francine Stock talks to British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor about his role as a kidnapped free man who finds himself working on a plantation. Directed by Steve McQueen, whose previous work includes Hunger and Shame, the film has received 10 BAFTA nominations including Best Actor for Ejiofor.We explore the controversy surrounding what makes a film British, as the BAFTA nominations are announced. Eyebrows were raised about the space adventure Gravity made by an American studio with an American cast, making it into the Best British Film shortlist while 12 Years A Slave, with a British director and leading actors, failed to classify as British. Ben Roberts head of the BFI Film Fund explains the mysterious world of what makes a film British and the sinister-sounding criteria of the Cultural Test.We join the director Ken Loach in the cutting room in London's Soho as he and his editor Jonathan Morris and assistant Paul Clegg put together his latest film Jimmy's Hall, set in 1930s Ireland and due for release this year. This film is expected to be one of the last to be physically cut on film as the industry moves almost entirely into digital systems. Ken outlines why he feels there's a certain rhythm and camaraderie to this traditional way of editing.Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce discusses The Railway Man, starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. Based on the memoir of Eric Lomax, it tells the tale of a man who survived building the railway in Burma as a prisoner of war during the Second World War and years later, sets out to find his torturer. Lomax didn't live to see the film released and Cottrell Boyce explains why this project is very close to his heart.

Francine Stock talks to Idris Elba about playing Mandela in a new film Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom directed by Justin Chadwick. Elba has recently appeared in Thor: The Dark World, Pacific Rim and BBC TV detective series Luther.Analyst Charles Gant and independent cinema owner Kevin Markwick look back at the box office highs and lows of 2013 before turning their attention to the most anticipated films of 2014 and the awards season.Daniel Bruhl tell all about his big filmic break.And the award-winning film club in Newcastle, County Down in Northern Ireland.Producer: Ruth Sanderson.

Francine Stock explores the spirit of the teenager on film through the decades with Kim Newman, Pamela Hutchinson, Hadley Freeman and Charlie Lyne. From Andy Hardy to The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen, the programme charts the rise of the teenager from pre-war in-betweeners to fully fledged rebels. The director Matt Wolf discusses his documentary Teenage which takes a look at adolescence in the first half of the 20th century. There's debate about the conservatism of teen film guru, the director John Hughes whose work includes The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Weird Science. And we unpick why 1995 marked the beginning of a ten year boom in teen flicks, from Clueless to Mean Girls.

Francine Stock talks to Ben Stiller about The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Based on a short story by James Thurber, he both stars as Walter and directs. Walter daydreams his way through life, while yearning for his co-worker, played by Kirsten Wiig. Stiller describes what attracted him to this tale and why his 2001 comedy Zoolander remains close to his heart. American Hustle, a grifters story set in the 1970s, has already been nominated for awards including the Golden Globes. It's directed by David O Russell, whose last outing Silver Linings Playbook picked up an Oscar for Jennifer Lawrence who also appears in American Hustle. Russell explains why he finds the 1970s an era of innocence.Steve Mortimore is the man you need to call should you require an aircraft carrier to film on at a few weeks notice.. As a location manager, he has worked on World War Z starring Brad Pitt and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy among others. The Film Programme went along to his latest set in Sussex where he's working in a railway tunnel on The Secret Service, a comic book adaptation directed by Matthew Vaughn.And the director who has been dragging Robert Redford underwater. JC Chandor's All Is Lost stars Redford as a man lost at sea as he battles to survive. He gives an insight into the actor's dedication to authenticity and doing his own stunts as much as possible, though he's now in his 70s.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Francine Stock talks to legendary film producer and co founder of Miramax films Harvey Weinstein, about his life in films, including his most recent release Mandela. Plus a pick of the best Christmas gifts from the film world with Catherine Bray and Jason Solomons. As we enter the "award season" critic Tim Robey discusses the Golden Globe nominations. And Alfonso Cuaron discusses his 3D wonder Gravity, still pulling them into the box office.Producer: Hilary Dunn.

Francine Stock talks to Daniel Radcliffe and Dane Dehaan about Kill Your Darlings in which Radcliffe plays beat poet Allen Ginsberg.Plus Sideways director Alexander Payne on his new film Nebraska starring Bruce Dern. Shot in black and white, it charts a father and son's road journey across the mid West to claim a non-existent sweep stake prize.And James Fox on A Long Way From Home, a portrayal of a marriage under strain after a couple retires to the south of France.Plus a look at the best of British film making as we examine the nominations for the British Independent Film Awards.Producer: Hilary Dunn.

Francine Stock talks to Emma Thompson about Saving Mr Banks, in which she plays the author PL Travers. After prolonged artistic wrangles and a painful grappling with childhood memories, she eventually gives Walt Disney, played by Tom Hanks, the rights to her creation, Mary Poppins. Crowd-sourced films are explored with producer Jack Arbuthnott, who worked on Life in A Day and has now produced Christmas in a Day, a montage of video sent in by the public and directed by Kevin Macdonald. Excerpts have been released on TV as part of a leading supermarket's Christmas advertising campaign with the full version unveiled online on 29th November. Plus documentary makers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel on Leviathan, an unconventional portrait of deep sea fishing in the North Atlantic. And a look at Stephen King horror tale and iconic film Carrie, originally directed by Brian de Palma in 1976 and now re-made by Kimberly Peirce and starring Chloe Grace Moretz. Author Neil Mitchell compares the two and explains why the original endures.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Francine Stock talks to Stanley Tucci, camp compere of the deadly Hunger Games, on the constant reinvention of the character actor. Based on the young adult novels of Suzanne Collins, part two of the Hunger Games series, Catching Fire, is released this month and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Woody Harrelson.Abdellatif Kechiche, the director of Blue is the Warmest Colour, explains why he wants to break free from the conventions of cinema, whether it's content, form or duration. Winner of this year's Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is an explicit and affecting tale of two young women and their tempestuous relationship. He also answers complaints that he was an excessively demanding director for both cast and crew.Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer discuss The Family, a story of a mob family in hiding and their increasingly farcical - and murderous - attempts to fit into their new lives incognito.Plus 47 Ronin, the Japanese legend of the masterless samurai, retold in an American produced film with Keanu Reeves released this Christmas. Alexander Jacoby of Oxford Brookes University explores its reincarnations across the generations.Producer: Elaine Lester.

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Forty five years after the release of genre-defining Night of the Living Dead, Francine Stock talks to the director George A Romero about inventing the undead zombie and where he might unearth horror in contemporary society. Plus why he doesn't rate Stanley Kubrick as a horror director.As Gravity is released on the big screen, with an even bigger budget, we look at the trend for Scottish sci fi in short films with young directors Jamie Stone and Mark Buchanan. They discuss the magic of space and how to do it on a shoe string.The writer and director James Toback, known for Fingers and Bugsy among others, takes his camera on the trail for the big bucks. With actor and friend Alec Baldwin in tow, they mingle at the Cannes Film Festival, lobbying for the cash to make their proposed film Last Tango in Tikrit. Follow their efforts, often hilarious, in the resulting documentary Seduced and Abandoned. James Toback explains just how flexible you have to be before the financiers show you the money...And Ealing studio gems, and not the well-known comedies.. Melanie Williams, from the University of East Anglia, on the overlooked films from the famous studios including Young Man's Fancy and The Feminine Touch. They're now available on DVD as part of the Ealing Studios Rarities series.

Francine Stock talks to director Stephen Frears about Philomena. Starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, it's based on the true story of an unmarried Irish woman who was forced to give up her child for adoption by the Catholic church.The screenwriter Joe Eszterhas shares his Hollywood big break, beginning a career that led to scripts such as Basic Instinct, Flashdance and Jagged Edge.Cutie and The Boxer is a documentary about two Japanese artists living in New York and the rivalries and collaborations of their work and marriage. Director Zachary Heinzerling describes how he spent five years visiting the couple, observing the tensions creative and otherwise between them and pondering how much his camera was influencing the action.But what about the films that have never been made? The masterpieces that didn't quite make it.. In his book The Greatest Movies You'll Never See, Simon Braund describes among others, the film Salvador Dali wanted to make for the Marx Brothers with giraffes in gas masks and dwarves in butterfly nets, and Charlie Chaplin's biopic of Napoleon.Producer: Elaine LesterPresenter Francine Stock.

As British director Clio Barnard enjoys warm reviews of her film The Selfish Giant, about two young boys who collect scrap metal, she describes casting her two lead teenage performances. And Francine Stock talks to Ken Loach, an acknowledged influence on Barnard, about how to get the best performances from young people.Composer Neil Brand is back at the piano, exploring the world of vampires from Nosferatu to Dracula and Buffy and explains why he thinks the blood sucker is actually just looking for love. Scott Jordan Harris discusses why he thinks Halloween directed by John Carpenter is well worth a second look as it's released on Blu Ray 35 years on.And documentary maker Kevin Schreck describes his new film Persistence of Vision about the best animation film never made - the 30 year odyssey by pioneering artist Richard Williams.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Director Paul Greengrass talks to Francine Stock about his latest ship-hijacking movie 'Captain Phillips' and how his family's own history on the high seas informed his film making. Actress Robin Wright talks about being immortalized by motion capture and how she felt seeing herself in cartoon form in 'The Congress'. David Gordon Green discusses his surreal comedy 'Prince Avalanche' - the story of two quirky men painting road markings in the middle of nowhere. And master of Japanese cinema Hirokazu Koreeda shares the secret to getting such brilliant performances out of children in his films.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Le Week-End, the latest offering from director Roger Michell, stars Lindsay Duncan and Jim Broadbent embarking on a tempestuous marital mini-break. Francine Stock talks to screenwriter Hanif Kureishi about writing for his generation and why cinema needs to grow up.And as hacktivist Julian Assange remains in the Ecuadorian embassy, fearing extradition, the story of the Wikileaks publication of US military documents is explored in The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Bruhl. It's partly based on a book co-authored by investigative journalist David Leigh. He was part of the Guardian newspaper team who published the leaked documents in partnership with Wikileaks. He takes a wry look at the film's version of events. Plus Tim Robey of The Telegraph gives his verdict and considers crusading journalists on film.And as the BFI London Film Festival opens, director Clare Stewart explains how the festival hopes to bring the stars and the films to audiences beyond the capital. Plus BFI archivist Clyde Jeavons on newly discovered and beautifully restored releases, curated in the Treasures programme.

The Film Programme takes on a Scottish theme and looks at how one country can produce such different styles of film. James McAvoy talks about his latest role in the Edinburgh police corruption tale, Filth, based on Irvine Welsh's novel and reflects on how such a relatively small country should think about and run its film industry. Dexter Fletcher discusses his musical movie based on songs of The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith, which is an adaptation of the stage show pioneered by Dundee Rep. Meanwhile dark tales of love and loss from a Scottish fishing village in For Those in Peril - director Paul Wright tells Francine Stock how his own grief informed his narrative. And Scottish director Kevin Macdonald discusses his film How I Live Now, starring Saoirse Ronan and set in England during World War III. His previous films include The Last King of Scotland and Touching The Void.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Cate Blanchett talks to Francine Stock about her well-received performance as banker's wife and socialite in Blue Jasmine. Directed by Woody Allen, it tells the story of a corrupt financier, played by Alec Baldwin, and his wife who fall from high society when he is arrested for fraud.The Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve, who made Incendies and Polytechnique, is back with a new film, Prisoners, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman. The plot follows two families whose daughters mysteriously disappear and explores how grief and desperation can corrupt.As biopics dominate the award season releases, the director Margarethe von Trotta discusses her new film about the German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt. It focuses on the period around 1961 when Arendt caused great controversy in her essays about the trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel. The trial inspired her famous phrase "the banality of evil".Plus director Michael Roemer looks back at his ground-breaking film Nothing But A Man, released in 1964 and now restored by the Library of Congress and re-released by the BFI. It follows a young black man as he tries to shake off his alcoholic father and find a decent life for himself in the segregated South. Michael Roemer explains why it was difficult to find black audiences and how even today, many people presume he must be black himself to have made this film.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Francine Stock talks to Downfall director Oliver Birschbiegel about his controversial new film Diana, which dramatises the last two years of Princess Diana's life including her relationship with a heart surgeon. Naomi Watts takes the title role.Tony Gilroy who penned the Bourne films and Hossein Amini, whose credits include The Wings of the Dove and Jude, discuss the art of screenwriting and adaptations, as BAFTA and the BFI open their Screenwriters lecture series.The director Sean Ellis discusses his new thriller Metro Manila, set in the Philippines, which follows a rural family on their increasingly fraught journey to survive in the city. His film, inspired by a holiday in Manila where he witnessed an argument between two armed guards, has now been picked up to be remade around the world.And film historian Melanie Williams marks the centenary of Trevor Howard's birth with a look back at his career including lesser known works like Outcast of the Islands from 1953 as well as classics such as Brief Encounter.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Francine Stock explores the hits and misses from this year's Toronto International Film Festival with Tim Robey of the Daily Telegraph and Claire Binns, director of Programming and Acquisitions at the Picturehouse Group. They discuss their tips for the critical hits in the months ahead including 12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County and Under The Skin.Frost/Nixon director Ron Howard and writer Peter Morgan are back together, this time for Rush, the story of Formula One rivals Niki Lauda and James Hunt. They explain why they were so intrigued by the men's relationship. Rush is a British independent film and its producer Andrew Eaton looks at how the world of film funding is changing.Plus actor Phil Davis on Borrowed Time, a micro budget film about a pensioner's friendship with a teenage burglar. He describes how working with Mike Leigh on films such as Vera Drake has proved so inspirational for his technique.

Richard Curtis, the writer-director of Love Actually, is back with About Time, a time travel rom-com about life, love and avoiding regrets. Francine Stock talks to Richard, along with Bill Nighy who plays a time-travelling father passing on his gift to his son.As the autumn film festival season gets underway, Cameron Bailey, artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival, brings us the highlights among the world premieres and gives his tips for the awards season.Director Paolo Sorrentino discusses the dangers of beauty and distraction, themes of his new film The Great Beauty, which portrays Rome through the eyes of an ageing writer, mourning his youth.And composer Neil Brand gives us a preview of his new BBC Four series, Sound of Cinema, which explores film scores and found music as used in films by the great directors, from Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino.

Francine Stock talks to Shane Carruth about his new, complex film Upstream Colour which explores the theme of interconnectedness involving an organism that mutates via various hosts from a nematode worm to a vivid orchid. The director Shane Carruth was already known for an earlier experimental film, Primer, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance back in 2004.Whilst Shane Carruth did NOT go to film school, but learnt his craft by doing, the Director of the National Film and Television School Nik Powell, and film maker Asif Kapadia - director of features including The Warrior and Far North and the documentary Senna - discuss how film schools prepare aspiring film makers for a career in the film industry. Thousands of students go to more than 1200 film schools each year around the world and CILECT, which represents the top 160 schools across 90 countries, has judged the UK's National Film and Television School as the winning school across three award categories; fiction, animation and documentary.This announcement comes just a few days before the BFI names the film schools, universities and independent cinemas that will be partners for its new training schemes for aspiring young filmmakers. So how do film students best learn their craft: and is funding allocated fairly across the diverse film education institutions within the UK?As the Venice film festival opens this week, Times film critic Kate Muir discusses the film which opened the festival - Gravity starring George Cluney and Sandra Bullock - and provides a round up of the best British films being screened.And nearly half a century since Patricia Highsmith's novel, The Talented Mr Ripley, was adapted for the screen by French film maker Rene Clement - called Plein Soleil and starring Alain Delon - Sandra Hebron discusses how the representation of the psychopath has changed over time, referencing Anthony Mingella's 1999 version starring Matt Damon and Jude Law.Producer: Hilary Dunn.

Hollywood heavyweight talks to Francine Stock about his new sci-fi film Elysium and laments that 'grown up' movies are no longer properly funded or made for the over 35's.Physics professor James Kakalios is an unlikely star but consults big budget superhero adventures on the science of being superhuman. He explains how his love of comic books led him down this unlikely path.With the biopic of 70's porn star Linda Lovelace released this week, Julian Petley and Anna Smith discuss the pitfalls of trying to bring the story of porn to a mainstream audience.Author and film buff Scott Jordan Harris discusses the importance of iconic objects on the big screen and how they have seeped in to every moviegoer's consciousness.Producer: Ruth Sanderson.

With the autumn film festival circuit about to get underway, Robbie Collin talks to Notting Hill director Roger Michell about who really benefits from the peripatetic circus. And why this director said 'non' to Cannes. And the critic Jason Solomons gives the reviewer's perspective of the scene, from the thrill of the first glimpse of a masterpiece to fisticuffs at dawn.Marina Warner and Nick Bradshaw explore the work of the influential German animator Lotte Reiniger as The Adventures of Prince Achmed, once thought destroyed in World War II, is restored and released. The 1920s groundbreaking shadow film, handcut and manipulated, draws on the Arabian Nights for its tale of exotic lands, kidnapped princesses and flying horses.Terri Hooley the Belfast DJ and record label entrepreneur gives his reaction to Good Vibrations, a film based on his life during the 1970s punk scene. As the man who gave The Undertones their first big break, he reflects on why it was important that this story was told by local screenwriters and cast.And with summer blockbusters squeezing out more modest releases at the multiplexes, Jason Solomons picks out the best DVD and Blu Ray releases for the films you may have missed on the big screen.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Robbie Collin talks to Johnny Depp about The Lone Ranger and why he wanted his Tonto to be more than just a sidekick to the cowboy. And as the less than flattering reviews come in, Depp hits back saying the critics had doomed the film before it ever hit the big screen.Radio host Alan Partridge returns with Alpha Papa in which the Norwich DJ becomes a hostage negotiator. Co writer Armando Iannucci explains why they waited so long to take Alan to the cinema.As the British Film Institute looks back at the career of Indian film maker Satyajit Ray, the biographer Andrew Robinson and the director Sangeeta Datta explore his work, in particular the Apu Trilogy and The Big City which is re-released later this month.The Irish documentary maker Pat Collins has made his first fictional feature, Silence, in which a sound recordist travels around Donegal trying to record a landscape free of man-made noise. He debates our relationship with sound and silence in life and in the cinema.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Robbie Collin talks to the director Nicolas Winding Refn about his new film Only God Forgives, a violent revenge thriller set in Bangkok, starring Ryan Gosling and Kristen Scott Thomas. As a follow up to the very successful Drive, this film has split the critics with many appalled by the on screen violence. He explains what made him choose such a controversial project just as his career is crossing out of the arthouse and into the mainstream. Bridesmaids director Paul Feig discusses his new cop buddy comedy The Heat, with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as an unlikely police partnership. He explains why he remains wedded to comedy and wants to see more roles for older women in Hollywood.. As haunted house horror flick The Conjuring beats off the blockbusters like Pacific Rim and The Lone Ranger at the US box offices, film journalists Catherine Bray and Rob Mitchell discuss the economics of the horror film. And Jonathan Holiff explores the life and secrets of his father Saul Holiff, manager of Johnny Cash. Based on a stash of audio tapes he found in storage, he explores the relationship between the two men. The result is an intriguing documentary, My Father and the Man In Black.Producer Elaine Lester.

Matthew Sweet talks to the writer and star of Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig. Directed by Noah Baumbach it tells the story of a friendship between two women as their lives begin to take different paths. Greta ponders why female friendship isn't often seen as worthy of the big screen treatment. As the hot weather continues, how are cinema takings holding up? Number cruncher Charles Gant and independent cinema owner Kevin Markwick chew over the trends, hits, misses and surprises at the box office so far this year and look ahead to what the rest of 2013 has in store. The writer and comedian Mark Gatiss is back with the last of his cinema spin offs from 1970s sitcoms. This week it's Porridge, an altogether subtler affair, he argues, than the previously discussed movies of On The Buses and Are You Being Served. The silent epic The Birth of a Nation was released in 1915 and has been controversial ever since, particularly for its depiction of race. It portrays the Civil War and has been described as a recruitment tool for the Ku Klux Klan. As the film is re-released, Professor Richard Dyer of King's College London and critic Karen Krizanovich discuss the influence of the film and how the Klan has been represented on the big screen since.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Matthew Sweet talks dangerous nostalgia with Edgar Wright, director of the comedy The World's End. Starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the plot follows the group of friends as they return to their home town to complete a pub crawl from their youth. Their mission is thrown off course by aliens. Edgar Wright reveals an autobiographical bent to the tale. The Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer has written scores for countless films from The Lion King to Driving Miss Daisy to Gladiator. He describes the moment he got his big break, composing the music for Rain Man. Felicity Jones and director Drake Doremus are back with a new film Breathe In, about an English exchange student whose arrival in upstate New York throws the perfect lives of her host family into chaos. The pair previously made Like Crazy together and explain their love of improvisation and risk-taking with performance. Mark Gatiss is also dabbling in nostalgia. As part of his series on 70s sitcom cinema spin offs, he looks back at Holiday On The Buses, a distinctly uncomfortable watch. And on the Film Programme website, White Elephant. Newly released on dvd, this film explores the lives of priests working in the slums of Buenos Aires. The director Pablo Trapero describes working in these areas as a teenager and how this inspired his latest film. Its release proved timely as the new Pope had also worked in the slums and granted the film crew permission to approach the priests there when making this feature.Producer: Elaine Lester.

The Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro tells Matthew Sweet about the joyful creative experience of making his summer blockbuster Pacific Rim, a film about sea monsters and super robots. After his Oscar-winning animation Pan's Labyrinth, he explains the attraction of CGI and big budgets. As Alex Gibney's new documentary Wikileaks: We Sell Secrets is released, the film maker Roger Graef compares how the genre works on the big and small screen. Can contemporary films on events still very much unfolding really work at the movies? And a beautiful silent film in black and white reworks Snow White. Blancanieves sets the fairytale in 1920s Seville. The director Pablo Berger and film historian Ian Christie discuss the rise of the new silent genre. Mark Gatiss continues his series of cinema spin offs from British TV of the 70s with Are You Being Served? The sales team go on holiday to Costa Plonka...Producer: Elaine Lester.

Sightseers director Ben Wheatley talks to Matthew Sweet about his new civil war film, A Field in England which is the first UK film to be available in the cinema, on DVD and Blu Ray, on television and download simultaneously. He describes his fascination with periods of revolution and the European sense of history. Sofia Coppola explores celebrity emulation that leads to house-breaking in her film The Bling Ring and explains why the designer gear these teenagers steal holds no attraction for her. Almost 40 years after the release of Werner Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, it's back, showing at the British Film Institute and selected cinemas nationwide. It's based on the story of a youth found in 1828 in a German town, barely able to speak or walk having been kept in a cellar since birth. Critics Mike Catto and Leslie Felperin, whose son has autism, look at how this film plays now and assess the figure of the idiot savant and other outsiders in modern cinema. And the writer and comedian Mark Gatiss discusses the big screen films spawned by classic TV shows from the 1960s and 70s. He begins with Steptoe and Son and its dark, bleak, movie incarnation. Next week, he tackles Are You Being Served?Producer: Elaine Lester.

Director Evan Goldberg talks to Francine Stock about This Is The End, an apocalypse comedy with a diverse range of celebrities playing versions of themselves including James Franco, Rihanna and Jonah Hill as well as co director Seth Rogen. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer explains how he came to make The Act of Killing, a documentary in which Indonesian gangsters re-enact the massacres of the 1960s. He follows their progress as they make movies about their crimes, heavily influenced by Hollywood films, even musicals. Plus further discussion of the ethics of documentary making with Sarah Polley who describes turning the camera on her family secrets. Her film follows her search for her biological father. And as David Cronenberg's 1979 classic The Brood is released on Blu Ray and DVD, critic Kim Newman and biologist Adam Rutherford explore how the contemporary scientific advances informed this psychotherapy horror film. Producer: Elaine Lester.

Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and the director Richard Linklater reunite after almost a decade for Before Midnight, the third part of the Jessie and Celine story. In Before Sunrise, they meet on a train and spend all night together exploring Vienna. In Before Sunset, they meet again in Paris and wonder if they can re kindle their initial spark. Before Midnight explores their relationship as they hit their 40s. They talk to Francine Stock about their extraordinary collaboration. As Brad Pitt's troubled project World War Z finally hits the big screen, the film critic Nigel Floyd assesses whether it can escape its torturous genesis to make a decent zombie-style film about a world-wide epidemic. Or has Pitt's production company over-reached itself? Renowned Iranian film maker Abbas Kiarostami is back with another 'international' film, set this time in Japan. Like Someone in Love explores the life of a young university student who goes on paid dates while fending off a jealous fiance. Fari Bradley discusses its take on sex and morality. And director Stephen Brown on how he persuaded the writer John Banville to give him the rights of the Booker Prize winning book The Sea.

Francine Stock talks to Zack Snyder, director of the latest Superman film, Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner. A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.Hans Zimmer - whose credits include the Batman trilogy - provides Man of Steel's musical score, but how has superhero music evolved over the decades? Film composer Neil Brand tracks the evolution of the superhero soundtrack from the 'positive' Superman of John Williams, to the 'dark' Man of Steel of Hans Zimmer, by way of Poledorous's Robocop and Kamen's X-Men.Moo Man is a low budget British documentary following a year in the life of maverick dairy farmer Steve Hook - and the first British film to be kickstarter funded. If they reach their target, film making duo Andy Heathcote and Heike Bachelier will be able to secure Moo Man the marketing budget it needs to reach a wider audience.Austrian film director Ulrich Seidl's films appeal to a particular kind of indie, European art cinema fan base. Critics Sandra Hebron and Ryan Gilbey discuss his latest offering, the Paradise trilogy, about three women in one family who take three very different vacations; from searching for love, and more, on a Kenyan beach, to working as a Catholic missionary to going on a diet camp for teenagers.

Francine Stock talks to Michael Douglas about his role as Liberace in Steven Soderbergh's bio-pic Behind the Candelabra, chronicling the flamboyant entertainer's 5 year relationship with Scott Thorson. The film features a starry cast, including Matt Damon as Scott Thorson and Rob Lowe as the infamous plastic surgeon Dr Startz.Audrey Tautou talks about her eponymous role in François Mauriac's legendary 1927 novel of French provincial life, Therese Desqueyroux, in French film director Claude Miller's final film. But how does a writer face the challenge of adapting a much loved novel for the screen? Byzantium screen writer Moira Buffini, who adapted Jane Eyre for the cinema in 2011, and Deborah Moggach, who adapted Pride and Prejudice in 2005, discuss whether the resulting film reveals much more about current society's values than the age in which the work was originally written.Shane Meadow's new documentary "Stone Roses: Made Of Stone" is about the iconic Manchester band of the late 80's and 90's. Meadows had unprecedented access to the band for a year after their reunion in October 2011. Film critic Dave Calhoun discusses Made of Stone's contribution to the way in which British films have explored particularly British music.Producer: Hilary Dunn

Matthew Sweet talks to the director Neil Jordan about his new vampire film, Byzantium starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan. He describes how he relished the chance to meddle with vampire stereotypes and rituals. And 50 years after Dr Who appeared on TV, we look at the Dr Who films that took to the big screen in Technicolor. We hear from its stars Bernard Cribbins and Roberta Tovey and from Dr Who writer and comedian Mark Gatiss. Plus trailers - too much information? Tasters or spoilers? We trawl through some of the worst offenders with critic Andrew Pulver and The Creative Partnership trailer-maker Dave Coultas. And as the Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda wins the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival with Like Father, Like Son, Peter Bradshaw looks at his last film, I Wish, a tale of two young brothers separated by family breakdown who pin their hopes on the magic of high speed trains. Producer: Elaine Lester.

Cannes Special 2013 with Geoff Andrew and Robbie Collin.

Francine Stock on the hits, misses and surprises of the Cannes Film Festival with Geoff Andrew of the BFI and Robbie Collin, film critic at the Daily Telegraph. Plus the British hope at Cannes, director Clio Barnard on her film The Selfish Giant, a contemporary urban fable following two young boys who collect scrap on a horse and cart. And Stephen Frears discusses his latest project Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight which is also screening in Cannes and charts the boxer's battle against conscription. Plus Olivier Assayas on nostalgia and radical politics in Something In The Air, set in France in the early 1970s. Producer: Elaine Lester.

Francine Stock on the latest from the Cannes Film Festival, including The Great Gatsby premiere with critics Catherine Bray and Jonathan Romney. Baz Luhrmann's latest spectacular has attracted mixed reviews in the US where it's just been released - so how did it go down with the Cannes crowd? Beware of Mr Baker is an usually revealing music documentary on the life and career of the tempestuous Cream drummer Ginger Baker. The director Jay Bulger describes the lies he had to tell to get Ginger to talk to him and why the drummer broke his nose with a walking stick. And the composer Neil Brand guides us through spy films from The 39 Steps to the Ipcress Files and JFK and explains how their scores give a clue to the secrets of their plots. Producer: Elaine Lester.

Riz Ahmed discusses his latest role in The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Directed by Mira Nair, it's based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Mohsin Hamid. Ahmed plays Changez, a young man from Pakistan who makes his fortune in the US as a successful financier, only to find he becomes an outsider after 9/11. The writer and director Jeff Nichols explains how he brought his labour of love, Mud, to the big screen. A Mississippi tale with echoes of Mark Twain, it stars Matthew McConaughey and tells the story of a fugitive man living on an island and his friendship with two young boys. And Star Trek is back with the latest installment, Into Darkness, directed by JJ Abrams. Writers, producers and long-term collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci explore how they hoped to bring new life - and wit - to the beloved franchise that is Star Trek. Film maker Sarah Gavron explains how a holiday in Greenland became her latest documentary.

The Spanish director Pedro Almodovar talks to Francine Stock about his raunchy new comedy I'm So Excited in which a plane with a technical fault circles the skies, hoping to find an airport to land in. According to Almodovar, it's a metaphor for the political and financial difficulties facing Spain. 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 how he deals with questions over how a white director can make a convincing film about a predominantly black scene. The actor Tom Courtenay, seen most recently in Quartet, looks back at Billy Liar, 50 years on. Directed by John Schlesinger, and co-starring Julie Christie, the film portrays Billy, a dreamer working in an undertakers and planning escape. 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. Producer: Elaine Lester.

Steve Coogan's discusses his latest role as the Soho entrepreneur, Paul Raymond, in The Look of Love, directed by Michael Winterbottom. He tells Francine Stock why he's attracted to characters who prove initially hard to like. Bernie, directed by Richard Linklater, is also based on a real person and tells the story of a Texan man accused of murdering an elderly woman. Using documentary-style interviews within the feature film, it's a sympathetic portrayal by Jack Black. He explains why he was attracted to the role and his nervousness about the reaction of the real Bernie, currently serving his sentence in prison. So how can biopics be both honest and innovative about their subjects? Film critic Hannah McGill discusses those that work and those that fail to engage. 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. Producer: Elaine Lester.

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. She asks Dave Calhoun, Film Editor of Time Out and Oli Harbottle of Dogwoof films if these films with a mission bring in the audiences.The director Susanne Bier explains why she wanted to reinvent the rom com formula with her new film, Love is All You Need, starring Pierce Brosnan. And we hear from the actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz about his new film Rebellion, based on real events in New Caledonia in 1988 when French soldiers controversially suppressed an uprising by Kanak separatists. Kassovitz, who made the critically-acclaimed La Haine, explains why Rebellion was a labour of love which caused heated reaction when released in France.Producer: Elaine Lester.

The director Derek Cianfrance, best known for Blue Valentine, talks to Francine Stock about his new film The Place Beyond the Pines, starring Ryan Gosling, and why becoming a father himself made this a very personal project. The critic Karen Krizanovich explores male melodrama on the big screen and we hear from producer Lisa Bryer on why BAFTA is bringing short films to the cinema. Are audiences ready for an evening of back to back shorts? The documentary maker Dror Moreh explains how he managed to get former Israeli secret service chiefs to talk on film about their misgivings about security policy over the last few decades in his new project, The Gatekeepers. And there's analysis from Charles Gant and independent cinema owner Kevin Markwick on the big hits and misses of the year so far and what we've got to look forward to in the coming months. Producer: Elaine Lester.

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. It explores what happens to a group of teenage girls who break away from the drudgery of studies for that North American ritual, Spring Break. Elhum Shakerifar talks about her role as director of the UK's Women's film festival, Birds Eye View, which this year is celebrating female Arab filmmakers, including Palestine, Egypt Algeria, Lebanon and Syria. She discusses the challenges that Haifaa Al Mansour had in filming Wadjda on location in Saudi Arabia; she had to direct some sequences from a van via walkie talkie due to prohibitions on women in public spaces. Wadjda is a moving film about a ten year old girl whose goal in life is to buy a bicycle. Neil Brand discusses film composer Alex North's ground breaking score to the 1952 film Viva Zapata. Directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn the film told the story of revolutionary Mexican Emiliano Zapata. The score by Alex North so impressed the man who would go on to write some of the best known screen themes of the 60s and 70s - Lalo Schifrin, composer of the Dirty Harry scores amongst others, and for tv, The Man from UNCLE, Mission Impossible and many more.And two founding films of the French New Wave, both released within a month of each other in 1959: Le Beau Serge and Les Cousins, directed by Claude Chabrol. We discusses the profound impact these two films had at the time, and the ways in which they heralded one of the most exciting movements in the history of cinema. Producer: Hilary Dunn.

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. It's a psychological crime drama, a glossier 21 st century take on a theme he's visited before in his work - a trio of characters locked in a hell of their own making. In this free ranging interview Boyle discusses films from Shallow Grave to Oscar winning box office hit Slumdog Millionaire to the triumph of his staging of the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.Danny Boyle talks about his respect for actors and the ancient art of performance, acknowledging that the director's role is a relatively recent innovation. He also discusses the important role of sound in the evolution of cinema, how making movies for a 20 million dollar budget gives him directorial freedom and why he still has faith in the power of the big screen to attract audiences despite the vast changes heralded by the digital revolution.Danny Boyle's films include Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Millions, The Beach, Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours.Producer: Hilary Dunn.

On the Film Programme this week Francine Stock talks to the director Craig Zobel about his disturbing new movie, Compliance. Based on real life events in the US, it portrays a prank call from a supposed police officer to a fast food restaurant. HIs instructions lead to violence perpetrated against a young employee. Zobel explains his fascination with people's responses to authority. The French director Francois Ozon, known for 8 Women and Swimming Pool is back with a new comedy, In The House, which portrays a curious relationship between a student and his literature teacher. The film raises questions about when voyeurism spills into active participation and blurs the lines between fact and fiction. There's debate too on whether narrative really matters in film-making with Mexican director Carlos Reygadas who discusses his film Post Tenebras Lux, a film which has split the critics despite a Best Director accolade at Cannes last year. If you don't get it the first time, you should watch it again, he insists. His previous films include Battle in Heaven and Silent Light. We also re-visit Point Blank, a cult crime film starring Lee Marvin and first released in 1967. Director John Boorman describes the making of the film including his wrangles with the studio, who at one point called in a psychiatrist. Boorman is currently the subject of a British Film Institute season which opens on 25 March. Producer Elaine Lester.

Francine Stock discusses the challenges of making a second film after a successful debut with award winning director of Shifty, Eran Creevy, and Telegraph film critic Tim Robey. Eran Creevy's second film after Shifty - a low budget film set on a council estate similar to where he himself grew up - is Welcome To The Punch, a glossy thriller set in a 21st century financial centre of glass and steel, starring James McAvoy and David Morrisey. Also out this week is Lee Daniel's The Paperboy starring Nicole Kidman and John Cusack. Paperboy is Lee Daniels' follow up film after the hugely successful Precious about an obese teenager in Harlem. As a director's reputation may depend on the follow-up film, what are the pressures and what are the pitfalls? Scottish director Scott Graham talks about Shell, his debut film set on a lonely fuel station road in the Scottish Highlands. Shell is the nickname of a 17 year old living with her father after her mother abandoned them both years earlier, and provides a moving account of a complex close relationship set against the backdrop of a landscape which is paradoxically panoramic yet also claustrophobic. Producer Rebecca O'Brien and editor Jonathan Morris discuss the challenges of putting together archive in Ken Loach's new archive documentary The Spirit of '45, an evocative portrait of a moment of British political history, the end of war and the creation of the Welfare State. The film combines archive from the time with fresh interviews from people who remember it. What are the particular constraints in accessing archive which has to be assembled digitally, compared to Ken Loach's preferred way of working on celluloid? And continuing our occasional series in which people in the industry talk about how they got started, Col Needham reveals how the internet movie website IMDb, which he founded and is now the CEO of, came into being. Producer: Hilary Dunn.

The director Steven Soderbergh, who made Oceans Eleven to Thirteen, Traffic and Che talks to Francine Stock about his new film Side Effects, a thriller exploring the apparent effects of taking anti depressants. The actor Tim Roth on Broken, a British film dealing with adolescence and everyday violence, which marks a memorable debut for theatre director Rufus Norris. And with the re-release of The Princess Bride, Frank Cottrell Boyce explains why he thinks it's one of the best screen plays ever written and the columnist Hadley Freeman on why it's not a film just for the girls. Also the Oscar-winning producer Andrew Ruhemann on his big break - the day Steven Spielberg came to call. Producer: Elaine Lester.

Francine Stock talks to Mark Wahlberg about his latest role as an ex-cop in the thriller Broken City which also stars Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Richard Gere discusses charm and corruption which both feature heavily in Arbitrage, a film about high finance, greed and adultery. Neil Bennett from Digital Arts magazine explains why there's a crisis in the visual effects industry despite films like Life of Pi, which rely on such skills, topping the Oscars list.There's discussion of the Italian film Caesar Must Die, with Shakespeare's Julius Caesar played by real-life prisoners. And Alison Abbate, producer of Frankenweenie, on her passion for stop-motion animation. Producer: Elaine Lester.

Matthew Sweet talks to Tom Tykwer, one of the directors of the much-anticipated film Cloud Atlas. The actress Olga Kurylenko discusses her role in the latest offering from director Terrence Malick, To The Wonder. And the composer Neil Brand is at the piano to delve into the scores of children's films from classics like Mary Poppins to more recent films like Happy Feet and Frankenweenie. Producer: Elaine Lester.

The director Judd Apatow talks to Francine Stock about his new comedy This Is 40. Known for films such as Bridesmaids, Knocked Up and Anchorman, he describes the joys - and challenges - of directing his wife and children in his latest film. Oscar-nominee and supervising sound editor on Bond-movie Skyfall, Karen Baker Landers lays bare some of the techniques of her profession, including intriguing insights into how the sound can affect a film's rating. The documentary maker Alex Gibney explores child abuse in the Catholic Church in his new work Mea Maxima Culpa. And the Australian director Cate Shortland discusses Lore, her film inspired by the book The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert and why she decided to make the film in German, despite not speaking the language fluently herself. Producer Elaine Lester.

Francine Stock is joined by critics Robbie Collin and Catherine Bray to discuss the BAFTA Awards - the winners, shocks, surprises and reaction from the ceremony. Sir Alan Parker, known for films such as Bugsy Malone, Fame and The Commitments looks back at his career as he receives a BAFTA Fellowship. And we go on set with Eve Stewart, production designer of Les Miserables.Producer: Elaine Lester.

The director Sir Alan Parker celebrates becoming a BAFTA Academy Fellow and looks back at his career with Francine Stock. He discusses his most well-known films including Bugsy Malone, The Commitments and Evita and speaks frankly of his concerns for the future of British film. Helen Mirren gives an insight into the little-known influence of Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife, whom she plays in Hitchcock. The Oscar-nominated production designer Eve Stewart describes how she brought C19th Paris to the big screen in Les Miserables and gives a sneak preview of her latest project - muppet nuptials. And critic Sandra Hebron on some of this week's international releases; the German film Barbara out on DVD and the cinema release of the film No, set in Chile and starring Gael Garcia Bernal.

Director Roger Michell talks to Francine Stock about his latest film Hyde Park on Hudson based on the extraordinary meeting between King George VI and President Roosevelt in New York State in 1939. BAFTA and Oscar nominee Jacqueline Durran discusses designing costumes for Anna Karenina, explaining why she brought a 1950s twist to 19th Century Russia. We hear from the critic Jane Graham in Glasgow on why The Wee Man, inspired by the real life criminal career of Paul Ferris, is doing do so well at the box office in Scotland, despite unfavourable reviews. And what's thought to be Richard Burton's first credited film role, The Last Days of Dolwyn, comes out on DVD for the first time, more than 60 years after it was made. The director Marc Evans, who made Trauma and My Little Eye, explores the mythology of the lost Welsh village.Producer: Elaine Lester.

One of the world's most successful and influential directors, Steven Spielberg talks about his latest film, Lincoln, which is dominating the Oscar lists with 12 nominations. In a special extended interview, he talks to Francine Stock about his long courtship of Daniel Day-Lewis to play the leading role, the detailed historical research behind the production and the reaction of President Obama to the film. Also on the programme, there's discussion of how Lincoln has been represented on the big screen, from DW Griffith's controversial Birth of a Nation in 1915 to John Ford's Young Mr Lincoln in 1939 and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in 2012. Professor Ian Christie of Birkbeck University and the critic Karen Krisanovich debate the subject who has become something of a touchstone for American directors.

The director Quentin Tarantino talks to Francine Stock about his controversial new film Django Unchained. It tells the story of a freed slave who attempts to rescue his wife from a plantation, told in the style of a Western. The film has received five Oscar nominations including best original screenplay and best film. And there's controversy too surrounding the latest work of the director Kathryn Bigelow. She discusses her new film Zero Dark Thirty which claims to be based on first hand accounts of the search for and killing of Osama Bin Laden. Also on the programme, the actor John Hawkes describes how he prepared for his role in The Sessions in which he plays a man suffering from polio who wishes to lose his virginity. The film is inspired by the real life story of Mark O'Brien. There's news too of the movie breaking records in China. Lost in Thailand has now become the highest grossing Chinese film in history. We find out why with critic Arthur Jones in Shanghai.Producer: Elaine Lester.

Francine Stock talks to Les Miserables director Tom Hooper, who broke with tradition by recording his actors singing live on set. Hooper began his career on Eastenders and went on to win an Oscar for The Kings Speech, but this is his first musical.Tim Robey reports on the Oscar nominations.Producer Alison Owen and screenwriter Stephen Fingleton discuss the new Hollywood Blacklist, a list of the hottest unproduced film scripts.And composer Neil Brand talks about his new score for Anthony Asquith's 1928 silent film classic, Underground, which is re-released this week.

In a special edition of the programme, Francine Stock looks at a growing number of films aimed at an older audience, known within the industry as the 'grey pound'.Billy Connolly and Tom Courtenay discuss their retirement home comedy, Quartet, the directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman.Francine visits the set of Roger Michell's latest, Le Weekend, starring Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a retired couple trying to rekindle the romance of their honeymoon.Analyst Charles Gant reveals the films that made the industry sit up and notice the older cinemagoer, while president of Momentum pictures, Xavier Marchand, discusses his company's future plans for this audience.Plus, Dame Helen Mirren, one of the most bankable British stars of the last 30 years.Producer: Craig Smith.

In a special edition, Francine Stock and guests discuss difficult books adapted for the big screen. Deepa Mehta talks Midnight's Children, Ang Lee reveals the challenges of making Life of Pi, and Walter Salles discusses On the Road. Meanwhile, Sir Christopher Frayling, critic Tim Robey, and screenwriter Tony Grisoni look back over the years at cinema's attempts at realising 'unfilmable' books.Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock meets with Ang Lee to discuss Life of Pi, the hugely anticipated big screen adaptation of Yan Martel's novel. Ewan McGregor reveals his reluctance to take on the part of a father searching for his family in the aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami in The Impossible, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Critic Nigel Floyd picks out his favourite films showing on television over Christmas.And Peter Jackson talks about his involvement with West of Memphis, a documentary focusing on the case of three teenagers arrested for the murders of three 8 year old children. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock talks to Sir Peter Jackson about his new film The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey, the first in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien, which was published 75 years ago this year. Sir Ian McKellan reprises his role as Gandalf from The Lord of The Rings trilogy, and the film also stars Andy Serkis as Gollum, Christopher Lee as Saruman and Cate Blanchett as Galadriel.Critic Alice Tynan on Hobbit mania: with commemorative stamps and coins, and Air New Zealand inflight safety video featuring air crew dressed as Hobbit characters, will it outstrip that provoked by The Lord of the Rings trilogy when the New Zealand government appointed a new Minister especially for the film?As the Golden Globes nominations are released, critic Tim Robey and Clare Binns, Director of Programming and Acquisitions at Picture House, look back at the films of 2012.And film journalist Chris Laverty provides a master class in how to read the subtle clues in costume design which make cult film Cabin in The Woods such a subversive take on the horror film genre - as Laverty says "a jacket is never just a jacket, it is always there for a reason."Producers: Timothy Prosser and Hilary Dunn.

Francine Stock meets with director Martin McDonagh and actor Sam Rockwell to discuss their new film, Seven Psychopaths.Neil Brand deconstructs the distinctive score for Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai Western - Yojimbo.We sample a fine Bordeaux, the French film Tu Sera Mon Fils (You Will be My Son), a dynastic drama set in a vineyard, starring Niels Arestrup.As Britain's largest independent cinema chain, Picturehouse, joins forces with Cineworld, what does this mean for cinemagoers? Clare Binns, director of programming at Picturehouse, explains all. Mother and son team, Charlotte Rampling and Barnaby Southcombe, discuss their London neo-noir film, I, Anna. Producer Craig Smith.

This week Francine meets with Ralph Fiennes who, fresh from Skyfall, is now rattling his leg-irons as Magwitch in Mike Newell's Great Expectations. Critic Ben Walters casts an eye over several films dealing with gay and transgender issues from Laurence Anyways and Keep the Lights On to the documentary, Call Me Kuchu, which paints a harsh picture of life as a homosexual in Uganda. Then two go psycho in a motorhome in Ben Wheatley's Sightseers. Comedy duo Alice Lowe and Steve Oram on their horror flick about caravanning and rage.And sticking with the outlandish, graphic novelist Alan Moore discusses his Northampton-style noir which he hopes will form a new model for filmmaking. Producer: Craig Smith.

Colin Firth on his new film Gambit, and why he never expected to play posh people. The man behind Festen, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, discusses his timely drama The Hunt, about a nursery teacher accused of wrongdoing. Cinema owner Kevin Markwick tracks the origins of advertising on the big screen, unearthing ads from as far back as the 1890s. And critic Peter Bradshaw on the power of The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic from 1928. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock and guests look at Michael Haneke's latest, Amour, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva who face the end together in their Paris apartment. Is Haneke the greatest living European filmmaker? Dr Catherine Wheatley and critic Jonathan Romney consider. Bradley Cooper discusses his dance around disruptive personality disorders in the romcom Silver Linings Playbook.Fashion journalist Chris Laverty pulls apart Ben Affleck's garb in Argo. And from 1970, there's romance - with more than a dash of satirical comedy - across the racial divide in a New York suburb on the verge of gentrification in Hal Ashby's The Landlord. We talk to its star, Beau Bridges. Producer: Craig Smith.

Ben Affleck on directing and starring in his Iranian hostage thriller, Argo. Director Sally El Hossaini on her award-winning debut, My Brother The Devil, set in the crime-ridden estates of Hackney. And director Paul Thomas Anderson talks about The Master, his enigmatic film that's generating so much debate.Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock meets with French director Jacques Audiard to discuss his award-winning film Rust and Bone, an ominous story on the sunlit Cote d'Azur. Irish charmer Chris O'Dowd, on playing the impromptu manager of an Australian girl group, The Sapphires, touring war-torn Vietnam. Neil Brand is behind the piano to deconstruct Jonny Greenwood's score to one of the most anticipated films of the year, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. And historian Ian Christie looks at the Ealing films with a dark heart. Producer: Craig Smith.

Daniel Craig on being James Bond, working with Sam Mendez and Her Majesty the Queen. Actor Martin Compston discusses his new film Sister, set in the seedy underbelly of the Swiss ski slopes. Is Stanley's Kubrick's film The Shining just a horror film? Or is it about the Holocaust, the moon landing, or the massacre of Native Americans? A new documentary, Room 237, claims it's about all three - and more. We hear from its director, Rodney Ascher. Plus Sir Christopher Frayling and critic Adam Smith discuss the pros and cons of film theory. Producer: Craig Smith.

Apocalypse looms in the waterlogged deep south of America - director Benh Zeitlin talks Beasts of the Southern Wild. Cinema owner Kevin Markwick gives a potted history of the ad reel. Filmmaker Sally Potter discusses her latest, Ginger and Rosa, a teenage drama set at the start of the Cold War. And critic Scott Jordan Harris reveals his film of the year - a three hour epic - Woody Allen: A Documentary, directed by Robert B. Weide. Producer: Craig Smith.

Veteran actor Martin Landau discusses his role as the wise - if sinister - science teacher in Tim Burton's retro-fable Frankenweenie. Author Michael Morpurgo reflects on the two very different screen treatments of his books, War Horse and Private Peaceful. We reveal the winner of the first Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize, intended to encourage more and better scripts about science.Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the team behind Little Miss Sunshine, discuss their new film Ruby Sparks, about a novelist whose fictional creation comes to life. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock discusses the long-awaited screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road with the film's director, Walter Salles. Author and film historian, David Thomson, outlines his fears for the future of cinema. Clare Stewart, new director of the BFI London Film Festival, on her vision for this year's festival. Critic and journalist Karen Krizanovich on Sam Fuller's Park Row from 1952, a feisty flick chronicling the early days of the New York newspaper industry. Producer: Craig Smith.

This week Francine Stock meets with Kylie Minogue to discuss her transformation in to a French New Wave starlet in Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Joseph Gordon Levitt describes his preparation for playing the young Bruce Willis in Looper, a film that travels forward (and back) sampling previous sci-fi thrillers. Tahar Rahim, star of A Prophet and Free Men, discusses Arab stereotyping on the big screen. And, Neil Brand is behind the piano to look at the trick of referencing and recycling classic scores in contemporary film. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock discusses prototype vibrators with Jonathan Pryce, star of Hysteria. Critic Adam Smith reassesses Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes A Woman Under The Influence. Oliver Stone's Savages sees Benicio del Toro in a familiar role as the bad-ass Mexican; he discusses Hispanic stereotypes.And an oddity from North Korea - Comrade Kim Goes Flying - the first ever UK/Belgian/North Korean co-production. Producer: Craig Smith.

In a programme specially recorded at Toronto International Film Festival, Francine Stock reports back on the best, the most expensive, the most moving and the maddest of the nearly 300 films on show. She speaks to Roger Michell about his latest film, Hyde Park on Hudson, set in 1939 as the first British monarch to visit the US (Sam West as King George VI) arrives at the president's upstate New York country house (Bill Murray as FDR). Jack Kerouac's iconic novel On The Road finally makes it to the screen, and director Walter Salles explains how he set about filming it. Artistic director Cameron Bailey outlines the scale and scope of the Toronto festival, and the highlights are discussed and debated by Clare Binns and Tim Robey. And Francine catches up with Terence Stamp, soon to be seen in a new film alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Song for Marion. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock talks to Joe Wright about "Anna Karenina" - adapted for the screen by Tom Stoppard and starring Keira Knightly, Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.Sandra Hebron discusses the numerous screen adaptations of Tolstoy's epic novel, including Clarence Brown's 1935 version starring Greta Garbo and Frederic March, and the Alexander Korda picture produced in 1948 with Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson and Kieron Moore.John Hillcoat and Nick Cave discuss Lawless. Lawless is directed by John Hillcoat (his previous works include The Road and The Proposition) and Nick Cave adapted the screenplay from Matt Bondurant's book "The Wettest Country In The World", a fictional account of the exploits of his paternal grandfather. Nick Cave also composed the music with Warren Ellis.Portugese film director Miguel Gomes discusses his third feature film, "Tabu", a film which probes Portugal's colonial past through the medium of cinema - with reference to Murnau's 1931 film Tabu, A Story of the South Seas.Producer: Hilary Dunn.

Matthew Sweet meets with actor Toby Jones to discuss the weird word of the Berberian Sound studio, director Peter Strickland's love letter to Italian horror films of the 1970s. How do you make money from a British film? Producers Lisa Marie Russo and Matthew Justice discuss. Plus, Mark Gatiss rounds off his selection of favourite biopics with Gods and Monsters, starring Ian Mckellan as director James Whale. Producer: Craig Smith.

Matthew Sweet meets with director James Marsh to discuss his IRA drama Shadow Dancer, starring Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough. Northern Ireland correspondent for the Independent newspaper David Mckittrick looks at the portrayal of the IRA on film. Mark Gatiss continues his selection of biopics - this week, Carey Grant as Cole Porter in Night and Day. Director Bart Layton on his compelling drama-doc The Imposter, which tells the story of a Frenchman who convinces a Texan family he is their son who has been missing for several years. Producer: Craig Smith.

Matthew Sweet meets with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger to talk action heroes, male masculinity, and 19th century poetry. Star of The Birds and Marnie, Tippi Hedren, discusses her troubled relationship with Alfred Hitchcock.And Mark Gatiss selects another of his favourite biopics - Stephen Frear's Prick Up Your Ears, a study of playwright Joe Orton and his doomed relationship with his lover, Kenneth Halliwell. Producer: Craig Smith.

Matthew Sweet meets with Jeremy Renner to discuss his role as the lead in The Bourne Legacy. We take a trip back in time with Austin Vince from The Adventure Travel Film Festival. Academic Melanie Williams champions an early kitchen sink drama from 1957, Woman in a Dressing Gown. And Mark Gatiss is back for the summer to pick 4 of his favourite biopics - first up, Lewis Gilbert's Carve Her Name With Pride, starring Virginia Mckenna. Producer: Craig Smith.

Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the film career of Ivor Novello, one of the most popular British entertainers of the 20th century. With contributions from actor Simon Callow, composer Neil Brand, academic Lawrence Napper, and former criminal Frankie Fraser. Producer: Craig Smith.

New figures show that UK cinema ticket sales increased again last year, by 61% in the past decade. What have we been watching in 2012? Francine Stock discusses with industry analyst Charles Gant and cinema owner/manger Kevin Markwick. Plus your favourite films. Industrial devastation becomes a thing of beauty in Antonioni's Red Desert from 1964. Director Mike Hodges, who made Get Carter, appreciates Antonioni's striking use of colour. And the search for Sugarman, a new documentary about a mysterious singer-songwriter from the 1970s who unwittingly wrote an anthem for the anti-apartheid movement. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock talks to Christopher Nolan about The Dark Knight Rises.Nigel Havers recalls Chariots of Fire, while film composer Neil Brand deconstructs that famous Vangelis score. Writer Iain Sinclair and artist Andrew Kotting discuss their pedalo odyssey, Swandown. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock talks to Steven Soderbergh about his latest film, Magic Mike, starring Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey, as male strippers in Miami. He also discusses the reasons why he's quitting the film business.Three generations of film critics - Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian, blogger Charlie Lyne, and student Hattie Soper - discuss the changing nature of their work. The film Margaret, starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo, received rave reviews upon its release last year, but only played at one cinema in central London. As it's released on DVD, the director Kenneth Lonnergan talks about the difficulties in making the film, and why it received such a limited run. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock meets with Welsh actor Rhys Ifans, who explains why he's adopted an English accent for his role as the villain in The Amazing Spiderman. As the Wellcome Trust and the BFI launch a scheme to encourage more scripts set in the world of biology and medicine, critic Tim Robey and script editor Katy Leys discuss the scientist in film. Director Bobcat Goldthwait on what's eating America in his new film, God Bless America. Actor Willem Dafoe discusses his role in The Hunter, as a mercenary searching for the Tasmanian Tiger.Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock talks to veteran director William Friedkin about his new film, Killer Joe, starring Matthew McConaughey as a Texan cop and assassin for hire.Critics Robbie Collin and Jamie Dunn report from Britain's oldest film festival in Edinburgh.Journalist Anthony Baxter explains why he remortgaged his house to make a documentary about Donald Trump's golf course on the east coast of Scotland. The independent director behind such films as Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, and Palindromes, Todd Solondz, discusses his latest, Dark Horse. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock meets with actor, screenwriter and puppeteer, Jason Segel to discuss his new film The Five Year Engagement and the box-office success, The Muppets. Critic Scott Jordan Harris dissects Carol Reed's IRA drama from 1947, Odd Man Out, starring James Mason. Director Nadine Labaki on her new film, Where Do We Go Now?, which puts the religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon under the microscope. Veteran British director Stephen Frears talks about his gambling comedy, Lay the favourite, starring Bruce Willis and Rebecca Hall. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock meets with David Cronenberg to discuss his latest Cosmopolis, starring Robert Pattinson. The man behind Chariots of Fire, director Hugh Hudson, on his ill-fated film from 1985 - Revolution, starring Al Pacino. Director Regan Hall and dramatist Roy Williams on Fast Girls, a film about four girls vying for medal glory on the running track. Producer: Craig Smith.

Simon Pegg talks to Matthew Sweet about his latest comedy, A Fantastic Fear of Everything. Producer Stephen Woolley and Catherine Bray of FilmFour join them to celebrate British humour in film - how much does what makes us laugh define who we are as a nation? And why do American audiences still look to British performers to provide them with some element they can't quite manage to grow at home?From Chaplin to Carry On, from Monty Phython to Sacha Baron Cohen - we look at the fine comic tradition that Simon Pegg embodies.Producer: David Braithwaite.

Francine Stock meets with Charlize Theron to discuss her role in two films out this week - Prometheus and Snow White and the Huntsman. It's been one of the most hyped films of the year, but does Ridley Scott's Prometheus deliver? Critic Tim Robey is here with his verdict. Neil Brand is behind the piano to study the use of music in films based on fairy tales. Tom Lawes, owner of the Electric Cinema in Birmingham, has made a documentary called The Last Projectionist. He discusses the dying trade of the 35mm projectionist. Producer Craig Smith.

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. In this updated repeat of Thursday's programme, we hear about the winners of the much coveted prizes.Producer: Craig Smith.

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. Presented by Francine Stock. Produced by Craig Smith.

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, starring Gael Garcia Bernal. 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. Producer: Craig Smith.

Fifty years on, Sir Tom Courtenay in conversation with presenter Francine Stock looks back at his first film role in Tony Richardson's 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. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock meets with Tom Hiddleston to discuss his role in The Avengers Assemble. Directors Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley discuss their much praised micro-budget film Black Pond, starring Chris Langham. Janet McTeer reveals who she modelled herself on for the role of a man in Albert Nobbs. Critic Scott Jordan Harris reports from Ebertfest in Illinois. Producer: Craig Smith.

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.

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.

Francine Stock meets with filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino to discuss This Must Be The Place, starring Sean Penn as a jaded rock star on a hunt for the Nazi who persecuted his father.Morten Tyldum discusses his much praised Norwegian thriller, Headhunters.As Headhunters is set to be given the Hollywood treatment, critics Tim Robey and Catherine Bray discuss the complex business of remakes.And Four Weddings and a Funeral director Mike Newell professes his love for Jean Renoir's classic POW drama, La Grande Illusion.Producer: Craig Smith.

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.

Francine Stock meets with Jennifer Lawrence to discuss her lead role in The Hunger Games. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne discuss their new film, The 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. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock meets with Mark Wahlberg to discuss his new film, Contraband, his love of European thrillers, and why his criminal record has helped his acting career.Polish director Agnieszka Holland discusses her new film, In Darkness, a real-life tale of a group of Jews who hid from the Nazis in the sewers of Lvov, in Poland.And a celebration of the late director Ken Russell, as Kim Newman reviews a new cut of The Devils, and from behind the piano Neil Brand deconstructs Russell's use of music in his films from Gustav Mahler to The Who.Producer: Craig Smith.

Actor John Cusack on playing Edgar Allan Poe, and his concerns for free speech in America. Juliet Stevenson discusses the difficulties of working with Peter Greenaway on his film from 1988, Drowning by Numbers. Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod are better known as the co-founders of the theatre company, Cheek by Jowl. This week sees the release of their debut film, Bel Ami, starring Robert Pattison as the amoral cad from the famous novel by Guy de Maupassant. Riz Ahmed is a British actor noted for his roles in The Road to Guantanamo and Four Lions. He's now starring in Trishna, an adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, directed by Michael Winterbottom. He discusses working with the director and why the film is set in India. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock meets with Minnie Driver and director Marc Evans to discuss their high school musical Hunky Dory, a love letter to 1970's Wales. Austrian Markus Schleinzer discusses his debut Michael, where a paedophile imprisons a young boy in his cellar. Pasquale Iannone explains why The Conformist from 1970 is director Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece and a blue print for the American New Wave. And as the Oscar stardust settles, box office analyst Charles Gant reveals what we've actually been watching on the big screen. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock talks to Woody Harrelson, who plays a violent racist cop in his new film Rampart. It's been hailed by many as one of the performances of the year. So why no Oscar nod? He explains all. Also out this week is Black Gold, a vast sweeping epic which tells the story of the discovery of oil in the Arab states at the turn of the 20th century. Staring Mark Strong and Antonio Banderas, the film is conspicuous in featuring no Arab actors in the lead roles. One of the producers behind the film Ali Jaafar, discusses the challenges of making a movie set in the Arab world. Director Stephen Frears explains why Otto Preminger's Laura, starring Gene Tierney, is one of his favourites from the film noir genre. And ahead of the Academy Awards this weekend Francine speaks to producer Sue Goffe and director Grant Orchard about their Oscar-nominated short, A Morning Stroll. Producer: Craig Smith.

In this week's programme Matthew Sweet grapples with two men who've played the Devil, Max von Sydow and Ciaran Hinds. Von Sydow doesn't sport any horns for his latest Oscar nominated appearance in Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close but Ciaran Hinds gamely plays a comic demon in Ghost Rider II - quite a contrast with his role in the Woman in Black which is also in cinemas at the moment. There's a cameo from the cult British director, Norman J Warren, whose feature debut, Her Private Hell is being released on DVD for the first time and the composer, Neil Brand, joins Matthew to explain how atonal music and Hammer horror discovered that they were made for each other - a marriage made in hell, as it were.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Francine Stock talks to David Cronenberg about his new film A Dangerous Method, a study of the birth of psychoanalysis and the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. This is not the first time the Austrian neurologist has been portrayed on film. Sandra Hebron, film academic and trainee psychotherapist, delves in to Freud's celluloid past. Director James Watkins discusses working with Daniel Radcliffe in his new film, The Woman in Black. And co-creator of the Flight of the Conchords, James Bobin, on reinventing The Muppets.

Francine Stock and Alexander Payne discuss his Oscar-nominated film The Descendants, starring George Clooney as a Hawaiian land owner with family troubles. Journalist Jane Graham reports from Glasgow, the UK city proving to be a hit with Hollywood filmmakers. Director Sean Durkin on his debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, a cult film in more ways than one. And as BAFTA honour John Hurt, the actor reflects on over 50 years in cinema. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock talks to three Oscar-nominated directors - Martin Scorsese, Michel Hazanavicius and Woody Allen. Uggie, the Jack Russell from The Artist, has been snubbed by the Academy despite an online campaign to have him receive a best actor nod. But should animals receive Academy Awards? Susan Orlean, author of a new biography of Rin Tin Tin, believes so. She explains why. Director Volker Schlöndorff discusses his Oscar winning film from 1979, The Tim Drum, an adaptation of Gunter Grass's celebrated novel of the same name. And former cast member of Radio 4's The Archers Felicity Jones discusses her new film, Like Crazy. Producer: Craig Smith.

In this week's Film Programme Francine Stock talks to Ralph Fiennes about his directorial debut, Coriolanus, and the juggling needed to act and direct in the same picture. She also examines the lure of the short film with Terry Gilliam and Ewan Bailey. Ewan is taking his beautiful and harrowing film, DeafBlind to the Slamdance festival this week --it was selected from thousands of entries for the prestigious showcase -- and Terry's stylish and sinister account of a foreign holiday -- The Wholly Family -- premieres on line next week...a first for him and an adventure which he's embraced with open arms. To bring the programme to a resounding close the critic Maria Delgado explains why the Spanish prison drama, Cell 211, which is released this week on DVD, deserves to cement the reputations of its leading actor, Luis Tosar and its director, Daniel Monzon.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Francine Stock weighs up the week's two big releases -- Steven Spielberg's War Horse and Steve McQueen's Shame. Spielberg is already being tipped for an Oscar and McQueen has been gathering plaudits from all over the world for his film which features Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender in a study of sex addiction. Producer: Zahid Warley.

The Film Programme strays into the territory of Greek tragedy this week embracing the family, family politics and politics itself. Francine Stock talks to Olivia Colman about playing opposite Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady, Phyllida Lloyd's film about Margaret Thatcher; she discusses teenage pregnancy,lost daughters and redemption with Rodrigo Garcia the director of Mother and Child which stars Annette Bening and Naomi Watts; and she joins the critic Jonathan Romney to assess the celebrated Chilean film, Post Mortem which is released this month on DVD. Then, in a final flourish she invites the historian Jeffrey Richards, to reflect on the strange impact which an Atlantic crossing can have on a film''s title.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Francine Stock is joined by historian Ian Christie and film composer Neil Brand to explore the enduring appeal of the silent era. Tipped for Oscar success and opening this week in the UK, The Artist is a film with almost no dialogue and which chronicles the transition from silent to talkies. We hear from its director Michel Hazanavicius.As a child actor Diana Serra Carey appeared in hundreds of shorts and features between 1920 and 1924 as 'Baby Peggy'. Now 93 she looks back as one of the last surviving stars of the era. Producer: Craig Smith.

December is a time for looking forward as well as a time for looking back and this week Francine Stock is doing a bit of both. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a glimpse of our immediate celluloid future opening as it does on Boxing Day so Francine has been talking to one of the film's stars, Daniel Craig. Stieg Larsson's story was, he says, a nice change from Bond and it gave him the chance to work with one of his heroes, the director, David Fincher. Shift focus slightly and we find ourselves gazing deep into 2012. Charles Gant of Heat magazine and the independent cinema owner, Kevin Markwick discuss the films we'll be queuing up to see next year as well as the ones that have tickled our fancy over the past twelve months. Then there are the cinematic moments which have made an indelible mark on the imagination of our listeners in 2011 -- everything from Melancholia to Troll Hunter! The programme finishes with a tribute to one of the great originals of British cinema, Ken Russell, who died last month at the age of 84. Producer: Zahid Warley.

Francine Stock talks to two of the brightest stars in British cinema, the actor, Eddie Marsan and the director, Carol Morley. Carol's documentary, Dreams of a Life, is being hailed as one of the most accomplished and disturbing films of the year. Its a story of casual neglect -- no harm intended more a case of someone just slipping off the radar -- but it ends in death. A young woman's body is discovered in a North London flat ...there are three years worth of bills on the floor and the television is still playing....all the ingredients for a film noir...or a modern morality tale. Dreams of a Life inhabits the same recognisably contemporary world as Paddy Considine's award winning, Tyrannosaur -- just one of the films featuring Eddie Marsan this year. He's also in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Junkhearts and next year he'll appear in Spielberg's Warhorse and, as a dwarf, in Snow White and The Huntsman. As Francine discovered he believes in mixing and matching and revels in the variety.Francine hears from the critics too -- Andrew Collins gives his verdict on the nominations for this year's Golden Globes and Jonathan Romney and Hannah McGill pick the year's best foreign language films and look forward to 2012.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Truth - as they say - is stranger than fiction. Mike Cahill's science fiction morality tale, Another Earth, came out this week just days after it emerged that scientists had found Kepler 22b - a planet which, it seems, may share many of the attributes of our own bluey green globe. Francine Stock has been talking to Mike about coincidence, the genesis of his film and, of course, the multiverse. She's also taken a trip to the parallel world of American politics with Nick Broomfield to discuss his new documentary, Sarah Palin - You Betcha! and delved into the murky realm of Ben Wheatley's hit horror film, Kill List. And to dispel any notion of idleness she put herself through the initiation ceremony for Secret Cinema.... a new and playful way of screening films which draws you in through carefully calculated mystery and makes you an actor as much as a spectator.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Martin Scorsese talks to Francine Stock about the future of cinema, his passion for its history and the way he has used 3D to bring them both to life in his new film Hugo.

Conflict is this week's theme. It begins with the clash between Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier during the filming of The Prince and The Showgirl - a story which lies at the heart of Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn starring Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams; it continues with the friction caused when belief bumps into psychoanalytic dogma in Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope; it encompasses the struggle between invading Nazis and Welsh farmers in Resistance - a counterfactual film made by Owen Sheers and Amit Gupta; and it concludes with Michael Shannon's fight with his personal demons in Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols' follow up to Shotgun Stories. Francine Stock lends an ear to all the factions and questions their assertions in this week's Film Programme.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Two of British cinema's true originals feature in this week's programme - Terence Davies and Andrew Kotting. Terence Davies has directed a version of Rattigan's heartbreaking drama, The Deep Blue Sea, with Rachel Weisz in the lead role and Andrew Kotting is releasing This Our Still Life, which documents his relationship with his daughter Eden, the paintings they make together and the life they lead in an idyllic but spartan farmhouse in the Pyrenees. Francine Stock will also be entering the terrifying world of Snowtown - the latest in a run of gripping films from Australia. This one is a portrait of the country's most notorious serial killer, John Bunting, played with chilly conviction by Daniel Henshall. Neil Brand is also in the studio and rounds things off con brio with his examination of how the human voice is used in film soundtracks. Producer: Zahid Warley Presenter: FRANCINE STOCK.

The Film Programme this week features ill -fated romance, outer space and excessive drinking. So something for everyone! Francine Stock talks to Withnail's creator, Bruce Robinson about his return to directing with The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp; Errol Morris will be discussing his new documentary --Tabloid -- about Joyce McKinney the former beauty queen known to some readers and newspaper editors in the Seventies as the woman at the centre of the sex in chains scandal;and Fish Tank's director Andrea Arnold explains her involvement with Wuthering Heights. Then to round it all off the critic Nigel Floyd revisits the cult science fiction film, Silent Running which gave Bruce Dern his first lead role as a kind of cosmic gardener.Producer: Zahid Warley. Presenter FRANCINE STOCK.

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 integrity is matched by his diffidence. Miranda July offers a few tips on how to navigate the charming but quirky world of The Future where cats speak and time stands still; and John Landis - the director of An American Werewolf in London and Michael Jackson's Thriller video -- explains why he's always been fascinated by monsters in the movies. The critic, Andrew Collins, will also be popping in to evaluate the nominations for this year's British Independent Film Awards - and what they say about the health of our film industry.Producer: Zahid Warley.

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 hoping to go all the way to the White House - at any cost. The man behind the film Beau Willimon discusses the grubby game of getting elected. Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo explains why his film Miss Bala is a desperate plea to the Mexican authorities to rid his country of organised crime. Analogue film made by the old photochemical process is fast becoming a thing of the past. It's been announced that a trio of leading film camera manufacturers - Arri, Panavision and Aaton - have made their last. Paul J Franklin - the man responsible for the onscreen wizardry of Christopher Nolan's Batman films - laments its demise. Producer: Craig Smith.

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 French Connection and Carnal Knowledge. Filmmakers James Watkins and Marc Evans explain how they have been influenced by films from that era. Director Jerry Schatzberg discusses his film from 1971, The Panic in Needle Park, starring Al Pacino in his first major film role. Contributions also from critic Joe Queenan, professor Ed Guerrero, Cybill Shepherd and director William Friedkin.

Presenter Francine Stock talks to Tilda Swinton about her role as the mother spurned in the film adaptation of We Need To Talk About Kevin, directed by Lynne Ramsay. What happens when a group of Swedish journalists comes face to face with the Black Power movement? Director Göran Olsson explains all. Julia Leigh discusses her erotically charged debut Sleeping Beauty. 2011 is fast becoming a record-breaking year for British cinema but we reveal why this week is not a good week to be releasing your much slaved-over masterpiece. Producer: Craig Smith.

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 Smith.

Francine Stock talks to Lars von Trier about his new film Melancholia starring Kirsten Dunst as depressed bride Justine and Charlotte Gainsbourg as her sister Claire, responding in their different ways to their imminent annihilation - a rogue planet is hurtling towards earth and there is nothing they can do to stop it. John Madden reveals the details of his new spy thriller The Debt starring Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds. The film is set in Israel in the 1990s with extensive flashback to Berlin in the 60s when the protagonists, a trio of Mossad agents, were tasked with finding an influential Nazi doctor who had slipped back into civilian life after the war. It's a fictional film but its plot is no more fantastic than some of the real life scenarios which it resembles. Ali Samadi Ahadi discusses his film documenting the protests in Iran in 2009, The Green Wave. Against expectations elections held in that year reinforced the power of the ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Protestors under the banner 'Where is my Vote?' gathered in the streets, wearing green to signify Islam but also hope and the campaign of the opposition candidate Mir Housain-Mousavi. The response of the authorities to the demonstrations was violent and whilst the full extent of injury and death among the protestors is not known fragmented accounts made their way out via the internet - blogs, social media and amateur video posts. The Green Wave shapes some of this material into a polemical account of the backlash to the Green movement and its ambitions: And Francine also looks at digital projection and why it's leaving some cinema goers in the dark. Regular contributor, cinema owner Kevin Marwick of the Picture House in Uckfield, explains why some cinemas appear to be delivering a projection murky beyond any moody intention of the art director. Producer - Craig Smith.

If you fancy a change of gear or need your batteries charging The Film Programme is the place for you. 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. He falls for the wife of a criminal played by Carey Mulligan and soon falls foul of the local gangsters. Its a turbo-charged ride and shares the fascination with violence evident in Refn's earlier work. Drive's 21st century sheen is more than matched by the vision of Humphrey Jennings...the man Lindsay Anderson described as the only poet of British cinema. A collection of films from the beginning of his career is being released on DVD for the first time this month and Francine Stock is joined by Jennings' biographer, Kevin Jackson, to assess them and their place in his achievement. There's also an interview with Andrew Rossi who went undercover to produce Page One, a documentary about the New York Times and Neil Brand is on hand to diagnose some of your least favourite film scores -- the ones you feel miss the mark by a million miles.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Who can forget James Dean in Rebel without a Cause or Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in the thriller, In a Lonely Place. Come to that who can forget the man who directed them both - Nicholas Ray? Ray was one of the Hollywood greats and was hero- worshipped by the French New Wave but he ended his career away from the limelight at a college in upstate New York where he made a multi-screen experimental feature with his students - We Can't Go Home Again. This has now been restored and is on release for the first time. Francine Stock discusses the film and its split screen experiments with Mike Figgis, director of Time Code and asks Ray's widow, Susan about her documentary examining the evolution and legacy of her husband's last project. Francine will also be talking to Celine Sciamma, the writer and director of Tomboy - an exciting new film from France which vibrates with childhood's sense of self invention and features two dazzling central performances, one by a six year old girl - and to round things off Frank Cottrell Boyce, the man behind 24 Hour Party People and Millions, shares his thoughts on the art of screenwriting as well as some of the movie scenes he loves. Producer: Zahid Warley.

Spy fever is about to grip the nation so if you want to steal a march on your rivals listen to the Film Programme with Francine Stock. She'll be talking to Gary Oldman about playing George Smiley in Tinker,Tailor, Soldier, Spy - the John le Carre novel that thrilled audiences when it was adapted for television in 1979 with Sir Alec Guinness in the starring role. The director of the brand new cinema version,Tomas Alfredson, will also be in the studio. He made his name with the brilliant vampire feature, Let the Right One In and he'll be explaining what drew him to the project and how the idea of damp tweed acted as the inspiration for the film's period aesthetic. For an assessment of where the film sits in Britain's venerable tradition of espionage movies, Francine will then be turning to the film historian, Ian Christie. She'll also be examining the health of the industry with two insiders - the cinema owner, Kevin Markwick and the analyst, Michael Gubbins and as West Side Story celebrates its 50th anniversary she'll be hearing how Marni Nixon gave Natalie Wood the voice we all remember so well.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Pack your bags..Francine Stock is wearing her travelling shoes. First stop is the North of England to meet Moira Buffini's new Jane Eyre. Then its off to the Continent with Martin Scorsese for a guided tour of the commanding heights of Italian cinema - among them Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini and Antonioni. On the way back we'll be stopping off in the Greece of Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg -- a brilliant, playful feature about sex, grief and the passing of the old order inspired by the wild life documentaries of Sir David Attenborough. To finish we're back in Blighty with artist Gillian Wearing's powerful and disturbing film, Self Made - an exploration of identity as well as a kind of exorcism.That's all in this week's Film Programme with Francine Stock.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Leading ladies hog the limelight in this week's Film Programme with Matthew Sweet. Anne Hathaway talks about mastering a Yorkshire accent for her role as Emma in the celluloid version of David Nicholls' much loved book, One Day and Elena Anaya discusses the challenges of acting for Pedro Almodovar in his disturbing new feature, The Skin I Live In... a sort of cross between Frankenstein and Jane Eyre if you can imagine that! There's also the concluding part of Mark Gatiss' world of horror series. This week he's in India for the extraordinary Bollywood film, Mahal. And then last, but certainly by no means least - there's Jonathan Balcon - whose father Michael was the driving force behind Ealing Studios. Jonathan paints a picture of his father and reflects on the ethos which inspired films such as Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Lavender Hill Mob, two of the Ealing classics that have been re-released on DVD this summer. Producer: Zahid Warley.

The Film Programme this week is all about odd but exhilirating couples. Harrison Ford talks about his new film, Cowboys & Aliens and resists attempts to suggest he has anything in common with John Wayne; the writer and comedian Mark Gatiss shares his guilty pleasure in Coffin Joe - the star of an extraordinary Brazilian horror which glories in the title Tonight I Will Possess Your Corpse; and the film historian Jeffrey Richards and the critic Karen Krizanovich vie with each other to come up with the weirdest pairings in film titles from the past. To round things off Matthew also hears how Britain's blonde bombshell, Vera Day, sent Marilyn Monroe into a spin when she appeared on the set of Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl.Producer: Zahid Warley.

In the Film Programme this week Matthew Sweet talks to James Marsh about Project Nim, the director's first feature since the Oscar- winning Man on Wire. It's the story of a chimpanzee taken from his mother as a baby and brought up in a human family as part of an experiment to see if he could acquire and use language. With the release of Rise of the Planet of the Apes as well this week the philosopher and cinephile, Raymond Tallis reflects on cinema's fascination with the links between apes and humans and weighs up the motives behind those involved in experiments such as Project Nim. Further afield the young French director, Romain Gavras, discusses his debut, Our Day will Come, as well as volunteering observations on rioting, nihilism and the dead hand of the New Wave on France's film culture. To round things off Mark Gatiss mounts a broomstick and whizzes off to the Russian steppes which is the latest staging post in his brief history of foreign horror. Producer: Zahid Warley.

Matthew Sweet ranges from Iraq to India and from Baghdad to Buddha in this week's Film Programme. He talks to Dominic Cooper about playing both Saddam Hussein's psychopathic son, Uday and Latif Yahia, the man forced to impersonate him in Lee Tamahori's feature, The Devil's Double. Then, having set up camp in the Middle East, Matthew investigates the background to an extraordinary film commissioned by Saddam about the end of British colonial influence in the region. With the help of two members of the cast, Marc Sinden and Nicholas Young he re-lives the experience of shooting The Great Question while the Iran-Iraq war was still in progress. His excursion to the Subcontinent is prompted by the revival of one of the landmarks of silent cinema, Light of Asia, a life of Buddha which is being showing again in a brand new print and with a brand new score. And then there's part three of Mark Gatiss' guide to foreign horror. This week he's dodging about among the chimney pots of Paris to celebrate Franju's Nuits Rouges.Producer: Zahid Warley.

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 Dom, her father and childhood in Ireland. She's joined by the designer, Wayne Hemingway, who shares his enthusiasm for the vintage film, Jazz on a Summer's Day and by Mark Gatiss who reveals the extraordinary story of the Spanish Dracula in the second instalment of his series about foreign horror. Producer: Zahid Warley.

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 Seth Gordon's new film, Horrible Bosses; and Rita Hayworth torments herself and Glenn Ford in the luminescent, Gilda -- King Vidor's classic film noir which has just been re-released. All are subject to scrutiny -- Matthew discusses the part autobiography plays in Beginners with the director; probes Jennifer Aniston on the need for boundaries in comedy; and muses on the femme fatale with the novelist,Linda Grant, who is passionate about Rita Hayworth. There's also the first of six trips into the weird and wonderful world of horror with the comedian and actor, Mark Gatiss. This week he takes Matthew Down Under to a terrifying nursing home where one of its residents, Patrick, casts his deadly spell. Producer: Zahid Warley.

As the Hogwarts Express prepares to chug off into the sunset Francine Stock reflects on the legacy of Harry Potter. There's an interview with David Yates, who directed the last four films in the series and you can hear some of the distinguished British actors who've given the films much of their savour. Francine will also be talking to Aidan Gillen about his role in Treacle Jnr - the new film by the much lauded independent director, Jamie Thraves who remortgaged his home to fund the feature. And Jane Asher shares her thoughts about starring in Skolimowski's cult classic, Deep End. We'll also be hearing about Martin Scorsese's programme of films for the Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall, plans to screen The Great Dictator at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the Lexi Cinema's Nomad project which among other things will bring Fitzcarraldo to the Serpentine this summer. Producer: Zahid Warley.

Terrence Malick is one of the most thrilling and charismatic directors working in America. He's not prolific and his films - like some wine -- only seem to be released in good years. This is one of those vintage years. His new feature,The Tree of Life, is in cinemas this week and Francine Stock talks to one of its stars, Jessica Chastain, about working with Malick. Francine will also be assessing David Schwimmer's new film Trust and Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier. Even though the stories they tell are separated by five hundred years both focus on the enduring sexual allure of teenage girls and both act as cautionary tales. To round things off the keyboard wizard,Neil Brand, is on hand to explain how music helps to conjure the ghostly and the unseen into cinematic life.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Francine Stock meets with Tom Hanks to discuss his new comedy Larry Crowne, and reveals why smoking marijuana and watching pornography doesn't necessarily make a character irredeemable. Asghar Farhadi's A Separation was the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear award at the Berlin film festival earlier in the year. As it gets its UK release, critic Karen Zarindast discusses this tale of a troubled marriage. Director Bob Rafelson looks back at his celebrated feature from 1970, Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson. They were the first country to send a man into space but did Russia also win the cinematic space-race? Film historian Ian Christie discusses a glut of Russian-made films inspired by the cosmos. Producer: Craig Smith.

Comedian Kristen Wiig on Bridesmaids, her rom-com from the female point of view. Co-written by Wiig, Bridesmaids is produced by Judd Apatow, king of the buddy comedies. Andrew Collins assesses his influence.Director Denis Villeneuve discusses his Oscar-nominated film Incendies, about a pair of twins who travel to the Middle East to shed light on their family's complicated past. Viva Riva director Djo Munga reveals his struggle to make the Congo's first gangster film, where there are no studios and very few professional actors or trained technicians. This month marks the centenary of Bernard Herrmann's birth. One of the giants of film music composition his scores include Citizen Kane, Psycho and Taxi Driver. Friend and fellow composer Laurie Johnson remembers. Producer: Craig Smith.

Topping the bill in this week's Film Programme are Kevin Macdonald and Brendan Gleeson. Macdonald discusses his extraordinary documentary, Life in a Day, which he quarried from more than eighty thousand clips submitted via the internet and Gleeson offers insights into Gerry Boyle, the quirky Connemara cop he plays in John McDonagh's The Guard. Francine Stock also talks to the critic, Jane Graham, about Edinburgh's International Film Festival which opened this week and invites the film historian Pasquale Iannone to reflect on Paolo Sorrentino, one of Italy's modern masters.Producer: Zahid Warley.

The Film Programme this week is all about seeing double - from acting partnerships to technological innovation. Francine Stock will be investigating Francois Ozon's new film, Potiche, which stars Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu - you could say the Bogart and Bacall of contemporary French cinema - and there's also a revaluation of one of the lost gems of the Eighties, Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way which features Jeff Bridges and Lisa Eichhorn. For those fascinated by the mechanics of cinema the acclaimed cameraman, Seamus McGarvey, is joined by the BFI's Bryony Dixon to consider how doubling the frame rate at which films are shot -as Peter Jackson intends to do with The Hobbit - might affect the clarity and poetry of the images we see on our screens. And Steve James, the director of Hoop Dreams, talks about his latest film - The Interrupters, a vivid account of a courageous project aimed at tackling street violence in Chicago.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Documentaries are in vogue. From Man on Wire to the films of Michael Moore they've captured our hearts and our minds. In this week's edition of The Film Programme Francine Stock examines the very latest and very best of the current 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, Donor Unknown. The BBC's Storyville editor, Nick Fraser, will be paying tribute to two acknowledged masters, the Maysles Brothers, whose work includes the iconic, Gimme Shelter and the beautiful and affecting portrait of down-at-heel American aristocracy, Grey Gardens. And to round things off Charlie Phillips, one of the organisers of the Sheffield Documentary Festival, and the director Emily James discuss crowd funding - a business model that's revolutionising the genre Producer Zahid Warley.

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 Quattro Volte; and shares in the author and critic Kim Newman's enthusiasm for a comedy thriller featuring Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum and Vincent Price. There's also a master class in the kind of music that makes an action sequence really fizz from Neil Brand. Producer: Zahid Warley.

Francine Stock has her travelling shoes on for The Film Programme this week. There's a trip to Cannes to hear what's soon going to be showing in an art house near you; there's a journey back in time to assess Karel Reisz' Isadora starring Vanessa Redgrave; and Francine nips down to the Antarctic to savour Herbert Ponting's Twenties classic, The Great White Silence which has just been released in a dazzling new print with a brand new score composed by Simon Fisher Turner. And last but not least - as the cliché would have it - the independent cinema owner, Kevin Markwick and the former editor of Screen International, Michael Gubbins take the temperature of the film industry in what's been a tricky year. Producer: Zahid Warley.

From multiplex to art house - Francine Stock talks to the man behind the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Jerry Bruckheimer and probes him on the reasons for their perennial appeal. There are interviews too with three of the directors behind this weekend's film releases - Emilio Estevez speaks about his movie The Way, staring his father Martin Sheen; Chad's Mahamat-Saleh Haroun explains why he's thrilled to follow his success with A Screaming Man at last year's Cannes festival with a place on this year's judging panel; and Joe Cornish comes into the studio to talk about his new British film Attack the Block. Producer: Zahid Warley.

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 Neil Brand reflects on cinema's ironic use of music. There's also a look back to two cult films released in 1968 - Bob Rafelson's Head and the even rarer Joanna, directed by Mike Sarne, which has just been released on DVD.Producer: Zahid Warley.

Ray Winstone and Christian Carion talk to Francine Stock about their new films. There's a preview of the London Australian Film Festival which opens soon at the Barbican and Lucien Castaing-Taylor explains the fascination of sheep and the motives behind the beautiful and unsentimental documentary he and Ilisa Barbash have made about the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous mountains for summer pasture. Producer: Zahid Warley.

The Film Programme covers all the tenses this week - past, present and future. 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.To look back she's joined by the writer, Paul Mayersberg and the historian, Pasquale Iannone. Paul will be discussing the genesis of Nicholas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth while, on the eve of a big Bertolucci season on London's Southbank, Pasquale considers the importance of his second feature, Before the Revolution. Last but not least, the critic Tony Rayns, examines China's attitude to foreign films and what the future might hold for directors trying to get a toehold in its huge marketProducer - Zahid Warley.

This week in The Film Programme Francine Stock travels north of Hadrian's Wall in search of lost Romans and backwards in time to ponder the mysterious and beautiful Palaeolithic paintings found on the walls of a cave in southern France. Her companion for the foray into the land of the Picts is Kevin MacDonald who has directed a film version of Rosemary Sutcliff's classic book, The Eagle of the Ninth; and for the trip to the caves she's joined by the veteran German director, Werner Herzog. His documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams is shot in 3D and has been hailed as his best film to date....quite a claim for a man with Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, Wrath of God in his back catalogue. There's also an interview with Brian Cox about two of his favourite films and the sound designer, Matt Wand, offers us a glimpse into the world of the Foley artist - the people who not only make Marilyn's heels go clickety clack and Clint's horses go cloppity clop but invite us to dream.Producer - Zahid Warley.

Richard Ayoade - who found fame as a computer geek in The IT Crowd - has directed his first film, Submarine, based on a novel by Joe Dunthorne. They join Francine Stock to discuss the comedy of adolescence and the influence of French director Eric Rohmer. 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 Bogarde as a Mexican bandit in this 1961 curio. Ken Loach talks about his latest - Route Irish - a Liverpudlian thriller exploring the consequences suffered by private contractors in Iraq.

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 documentaries about the initial trilogy. Lesley Manville dissects her performance in Mike Leigh's Another Year, now out on DVD.Director Anh Hung Tran discusses his adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. Staff Benda Bilili are a collection of disabled musicians who have been propelled from the streets of Kinshasa to international acclaim thanks to a new documentary. Its co-director Renaurd Barret explains all. Producer: Craig Smith.

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 an overlooked British success at last Sunday's Oscars - his winning short animation The Lost Thing. Francine visits The Junior Film Club in Lewes, Sussex to report on an inventive initiative to engage children in film. Director Marc Evans talks about his road movie Patagonia, starring the singer Duffy in her first film role. Producer Craig Smith.

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 Aronofsky, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams, Helena Bonham Carter and Mike Leigh. Film critic Adam Smith will explain why he won't be glued to the television late in to Sunday night. Australian director David Michod discusses his accomplished first feature Animal Kingdom, a family crime drama set in Melbourne, and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance film festival last year. Producer: Craig Smith.

Francine Stock meets Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to discuss Paul. A homage to the sci-fi films of their childhood, the film sees the pair embark on a road trip across America where they meet a real life alien. 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 political situation of his home country. Liverpudlian Geoff Woodbridge is a big fan of horror films. He's just watched one a day for the last year. He explains why and picks out a couple of favourites. Producer: Craig Smith.

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 Knightley discusses her role in the adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go.Author Jonathan Coe looks at the career of Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi, seen as one of the first 'feminist' directors.Director David O. Russell talks family politics in real-life boxing tale The Fighter.

Francine Stock meets with Dame Helen Mirren who stars in Rowan Joffe's adaptation of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, set in the 1960s era of mods and rockers. Director 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 considers two films from the 1960s - Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment and A Blonde in Love - both from Czech-born directors, Karel Reisz and Milos Forman. John Cameron Mitchell - director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus - talks about his latest, Rabbit Hole, starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as a couple coming to terms with the loss of a child. Producer: Craig Smith.

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 Tarkovksy to Sylvester Stallone: Andrei Konchalovsky discusses state censorship, Stalin and Hollywood blockbusters.Lord David Puttnam, Asif Kapadia and Antonia Quirke reveal their final film diaries.

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 cinematic happening. But of course, what she needs most is a director who's willing to show their film and take part in the event. Will Ken Loach, the new patron of the British Federation Of Film Societies, be her knight in shining armour ?

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 the cinema) and on what format - DVD or download. Francine will try to find out if the digital revolution has finally arrived or is it just a media myth, and to discern what we are watching, whether its new releases or old favourites. Plus, Francine will be publishing a record of her own viewing habits via Twitter during the season.Francine talks to award contenders Darren Aronofsky and Ryan Gosling, director of Black Swan and star of Blue Valentine respectively. Plus, actor/director Peter Mullan discusses NEDS, which stands for Non-Educated Delinquents.

Francine Stock talks to Helena Bonham Carter about playing the Queen Mother in The King's Speech and why she was like "marshmallow made with a welding machine".In anticipation of Radio 4's film season, the Film Programme is asking its listeners to keep a diary of their film-viewing during the month of January to get a snap-shot of how we watch movies in the 21st centuryActor Diego Luna discusses his directorial debut Abel, which broke box-office records in his native MexicoNeil Brand begins a new series in which he demonstrates the unusual ways that film music can paint pictures in our heads.

Francine Stock talks to Oscar winning scribe Simon Beaufoy, writer of The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire, about 127 Hours, his second collaboration with film director Danny Boyle. Based on the real life story of Aron Ralston, the mountaineer who cut off his own arm in order to save his life in a mountaineering accident, Simon Beaufoy talks about the challenge of dramatising a narrative in which the ending is already widely known. Critic Jonathan Romney profiles Joann Sfar's bio pic Gainsbourg which explores the life of French singer song writer Serge Gainsbourg and is released on dvd this week. He is joined by critic Maria Delgado to discuss what to watch out for in World Cinema in 2011.

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 ZuckerbergTamara Drewe scribe Moira Buffini and independent cinema owner Kevin Markwick discuss the year in filmColin Shindler reveals the most successful film of 1960, the year of La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura, Psycho, Peeping Tom and Saturday Night And Sunday Morning.

Francine Stock talks to Peter Weir, the director of Witness and The Truman Show, about his new drama, The Way BackThe directors of Catfish, one of the big hits of the Sundance Film Festival, discuss their documentary about an on-line romance that takes a turn for the surreal.Nikki Bedi meets the members of a community who saved their cinema from closure in Prestatyn and learns the secrets of their successWriter Andrew Collins considers the influence of video games on modern movies and asks if they really have taken cinema to the next level.Producer Stephen Hughes.

The creators of Airplane, Jerry and David Zucker, discuss the comedy's 30 year legacy and its star Leslie NielsenEx-Bond villain Matthieu Amalric reveals some of 007's secretsThe Film Programme continues its series on the quiet revolution in community cinemas, talking to local film heroes and taking an audio 'snapshot' of some of the most lively and memorable places to watch film around the country.

Award winning composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett discusses his career in films, from Murder On The Orient Express to Far From The Madding CrowdFrancine Stock meets Gareth Edwards, the director of a new science fiction movie called Monsters, who created the special effects on his laptop in his bedroom.Nikki Bedi meets the member of Chorley Community Cinema who dons fancy dress for each screening, a trend that's catching on around the countryChilean drama, The Maid, is reviewed and given marks out of a hundred by some members of The Abergavenny Film Society.

Oscar winning British producer Graham King discusses his adventures in Hollywood and his working relationship with Martin Scorsese.The writer of Of Gods And Men discusses the real-life drama behind his film about the conflict between North African monks and Islamist terroristsNikki Bedi's tour of Britain's community cinemas continues at The Star And Shadow in Newcastle, which is staffed entirely by volunteersColin Shindler reveals what British critics thought of Elvis's 1960 effort G.I. Blues and why they wanted to return to sender.

Francine Stock talks to director Anton Corbijn about his new film, The American, starring George Clooney as a hired gun who comes out of hiding for one last job. The second in our series of reports about the digital revolution and the rise of community cinemas across the country. This week, Nikki Bedi travels to Aberfeldy in Scotland, to meet the people behind the Heartland film society. Director Fernando Trueba and designer Javier Mariscal discuss Chico and Rita, a musical celebration of Cuba during the late '40s and early '50s. This week marks the centenary of the Mexican Revolution. Christopher Frayling give us a quick guide to the revolt on film from Viva Villa! to The Professionals. Producer: Craig Smith.

In an extended interview, Francine Stock talks to Mike Leigh about his latest drama, Another YearActress Phyllida Law remembers the work of her husband Eric Thompson and the Magic Roundabout spin-off movie, Dougal And The Blue Cat, which is released on DVD for the very first timeDirector Matt Reeves discusses his reasons for making an American version of the critically acclaimed Swedish vampire film Let The Right One In.

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 Buffini, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Beaufoy reveal the secrets of a good endingOlivier Assayas, the director of Carlos, discusses geo-politics, international terrorism and the reason why his five and a half hour epic is not eligible for an Oscar.

Francine Stock hosts part two of her 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 screenArchivist and director Kevin Brownlow discusses his honorary Oscar which he will receive next monthNigel Floyd on the award-winning Possession with Sam Neill and Isabelle AdjaniColin Shindler turns back the clock and reveals what critics really thought of Saturday Night And Sunday Morning.

The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy, 24 Hour Party People and Welcome To Sarajevo scribe Frank Cottrell Boyce, and Tamara Drewe adapter Moira Buffini reveal some secrets of screenwriting.Neil Brand joins Francine Stock to play and discuss the work of composer Max Steiner, famous for Casablanca and Gone With The WindMatthew Sweet pays tribute to Barry Evans, the likely lad of British cinema and television in the 1970sKim Newman ventures into The Night Of The Demon, the classic horror movie finally being released on DVD this week.

Francine Stock talks to Oliver Stone about his return to Wall Street for his credit-crunch sequel, Money Never Sleeps.Rhys Ifans reveals why he was worried about ruining the life of his friend Howard Marks by starring in a film of his lifeTim Hetherington, the director of Restrepo, discusses his fly-on-the-wall documentary about American soldiers in AfghanistanCritic Pasquale Iannone surveys two new films about Italian politics, past and present.

Francine Stock talks to Murray Melvin, the star of A Taste Of Honey, who reveals the real reason why he never picked up his Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1962Documentary maker Mark Cousins talks about The First Movie, in which he gave movie cameras to children from a war-torn village in Kurdistan so they could make their screen debutsDirector Rodrigo Cortes reveals how he managed to make a whole movie set in a coffin.

Francine Stock talks to Ben Affleck about his new feature The Town, which he has written, directed and starred in. He reveals why he rang other actor/directors like Sean Penn and Warren Beatty for advice.Francine launches our search for community cinemas and film societies around the country, and visits two of the oldest cinemas in the country - The Phoenix in East Finchley and The Duke Of York's in Brighton which both celebrated their 100th anniversary this week.Colin Shindler reports from September 1960 and reveals what was showing at the local Gaumonts 50 years ago.

Francine Stock talks to Stephen Woolley, producer of The Crying Game and Mona Lisa on the set of his latest drama, Made In Dagenham, which was inspired by an edition of the Radio 4 programme The Reunion.Director Debra Granik takes us on a virtual tour of the Ozark Mountains in the American heartland, the setting for her new film, Winter's Bone.And there's news of an unofficial national sport that once swept the nation - Spot Sam Kydd, a popular game featuring one of Britain's best loved character actors.

Stephen Frears talks to Francine Stock about his rural comedy Tamara Drewe, which has been described as the dark side of The Archers.Composer, writer and silent film accompanist Neil Brand presents his unique audio description of the found footage of Metropolis. 25 minutes of Fritz Lang's masterpiece were missing presumed lost, until a full print turned up in Argentina in 2008. Two years later, the restored version is finally being released, and Neil tells us if the new scenes improve a film that's already regarded as a classic of science fictionActor John C Reilly discusses his career playing the perpetual loser in modern American cinema.

Francine Stock discusses the work of legendary Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami with William Shimell, the opera singer who makes his feature film debut in Certified CopyIn an exclusive interview, Martin Scorsese's long-time collaborator, Thelma Schoonmaker reveals some of her editing secrets on Shutter Island and gives us an insight into their next movie, a children's film called Hugo Cabaret, which is being shot in 3-D.Claire Denis and Pierre Rissient discuss the influence of Jean Luc Godard's Breathless, 50 years after the ground-breaking work was released onto an unsuspecting public.