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Sissy Spacek, star of Carrie, Badlands, Missing and The Coalminer's Daughter on why she ended up painting the set of her latest film In The Bedroom and her feelings about her Oscar nomination.
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A Quick Guide to Foreign Films
Andrew Collins has a terrible confession. For most of his adult life he avoided foreign language films, and he is not alone: most of us take the easy option and watch the latest blockbuster, knowing that it's bad for us. But Back Row can help us all kick the Hollywood habit.
Sex, rice and videotape in Japanese films: Antonia Quirke presents a beginners' guide to the work of Shohei Imamura, director of Warm Water Under A Red Bridge, the most bizarre film about love and sex this year.
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Back Row Recommends
MultiplexThe Royal TennenbaumsIn The Bedroom Gosford Park
Art-houseWarm Water Under A Red BridgeBehind The SunThe Experiment (from Friday)
Terrestrial TV
A Room For Romeo Brass, 1999
Directed by Shane Meadows
Starring: Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine
Saturday 16 March, 10:15pm, BBC2.
Cruelly ignored on its cinema release (possibly because of its central poster image of some ugly y-fronts), Nottingham wunderkind Shane Meadows' follow-up to Twenty Four Seven is another slice-of-life tale of ordinary housing estate kids.
VideoThe Eel, Shohei Imamura's award-winning film about a man's friendship with, yes, an eel
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