Cate Blanchett, Antonio Pappano, Julia Holter
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Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg talk about their new movie Bridge of Spies and Spielberg also revisits Hook saying he wishes he’d made it as a musical. Singer-songwriter Julia Holter from the USA, writer of ‘exceptional pop built on avant-garde foundations’, talks about her new album. The Grandfather of Ethiopian Jazz, Mulatu Astatke, looks back and remembers how a love of music derailed his parents’ dream of his aeronautical engineering career. The Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett discusses sexuality on screen and her new lesbian romance movie Carol. Documentary director Kim Longinotto talks about her inspiring new film Dreamcatcher about an ex-prostitute working to help abused young women in Chicago. And James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli releases a new film, Radiator, costing less than 1% of Spectre and talks about the importance of new voices in cinema.
(Photo shows: Cate Blanchett (c) Neilson Barnard/Getty, Antonio Pappano (c) Gareth Cattermole/Getty, Julia Holter (c) Matthew Eisman/Getty)
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Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg talk about Bridge of Spies.
Duration: 11:29
Julia Holter
Los Angeles composer and songwriter Julia Holter joins Lauren with live music.
Duration: 07:33
Mulatu Astatke
The father of Ethiopian jazz - Mulatu Astatke
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Cate Blanchett
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Duration: 08:51
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Conductor and music director of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
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Kim Longinotto
British documentary film maker talks about Dreamcatcher: Surviving Chicago's Streets
Duration: 03:18
Radiator
James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli talks about her latest production, Radiator
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