Surrealism in cinema
Friday 9 February 2007 21:30-22:00 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet looks at the uses of surrealism in cinema, from the films of pioneers such as Juan Luis Bunuel to contemporary directors like Michel Gondry, whose The Science of Sleep is about to be released.
Wangari Maathai
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Wangari Maathai
Playlist
Matthew Sweet explores the dream world of cinema and discusses the different ways that directors conjure up mental states. From Dali's famous sequence in Hitchcock's Spellbound to Bunuel's Belle De Jour to this month's release The Science Of Sleep, film-makers have strived to put the unconscious on the big screen, but how successful have they been? Psychoanalyst Christopher Hauke and film historian Ian Christie assess the merits of cinema's dream machines.
Plus, there's an interview with Nobel peace prize winner Wangari Maathai, and with artist Marcus Coates, who commissioned singers to imitate bird song in his latest art work, Dawn Chorus.
'Unbowed' by Wangari Maathai is published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
'The Science of Sleep' and Los Olvidados' are both released on February 16th in selected cinemas, certificates 15 and 12A.
'Dawn Chorus' is at the Baltic in Gateshead from February 14th to March 18th.
