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Best Films of the Year, Danny Elfman on Tim Burton, ET, Nick Hornby, The Curse of the British Museum

With Francine Stock. Featuring composer Danny Elfman on Tim Burton, Nick Hornby's first cinema memory, the curse of the British Museum, the voice of ET, and DVD pick of the year.

With Francine Stock

Composer 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 Earth

The 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.

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Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterFrancine Stock
Interviewed GuestDanny Elfman
Interviewed GuestNick Hornby
Interviewed GuestBen Burtt
Interviewed GuestRoger Luckhurst

Broadcasts

  • Thu 11 Dec 201416:00
  • Sun 14 Dec 201423:00

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