Outlook Mixtape: The Last Picture Show
From shaping the sound of Hollywood to filming for Saddam Hussein and a street cinema in lockdown — three unforgettable film stories from the Outlook archive.
The Outlook Mixtape is back with another flick through the archive for stories with cinema at their heart.
We hear from Walter Murch, the legendary sound designer whose work on The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now transformed how films sound. From whirring helicopters to bustling city streets, his experimental techniques reshaped cinematic storytelling and immersed audiences in entirely new ways. This was first broadcast in 2020.
British-Iraqi producer Lateif Jorephani recalls working on Clash of Loyalties, a troubled epic commissioned by Saddam Hussein in the early 1980s. Intended as a grand, Hollywood-style origin story of modern Iraq and starring Oliver Reed, the production took a dramatic turn when war broke out mid-shoot, leaving cast and crew stranded amid chaos. This was first broadcast in 2016.
During the Covid lockdown in Cork, Ireland, Scott Duggan turned his terraced street into an open-air cinema, projecting films onto a wall and bringing neighbours together when the world felt shut down. This was first broadcast in 2020.
Presenter: Asya Fouks
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