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|  | | | | | | | | Chris is Film Critic for the Daily Mail. He is author of The Critics’ Film Guide, and was Chairman of the British Film Critics’ Circle between 1994 and 1998.
Before he turned to writing and broadcasting full-time, 15 years ago, he produced and directed hundreds of TV programmes. He has written the book, music and lyrics for ten stage musicals, the most recent of which is Hard Times, which he directed, co-wrote and co-produced. |
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|  | | Claire Danes in Stage Beauty
On Back Row this week we talk to Stage Beauty star Claire Danes and the director behind comic-strip hero Hellboy. We also hear about one of the largest film sets ever built.
Hellboy
Hellboy is the latest film from Guillermo del Toro, the director of Mimic, The Devil's Backbone and Blade 2. Chris Tookey asks the director what attracted him to making a movie with a demon as its hero.
The Terminal
Steven Spielberg's new film is all about an airport terminal where Viktor Navorski, played by Tom Hanks, gets detained indefinitely after a civil war in his homeland leaves him stateless. The Terminal's Production Designer Alex McDowell and Graphics Designer François Audouy explain how they created one of the largest film sets ever built.
Claire Danes
Chris Tookey talks to Claire Danes, who began acting at 12, starred in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet at 16, took time out to go to Yale and has just returned to our screens in Terminator 3, The Hours and now Richard Eyre's theatrical love story Stage Beauty.
Hollywood Parenthood
In new film Raising Helen, Kate Hudson plays a young metropolitan woman who becomes mother to three children overnight. Comedian Mel Giedroyc reflects on the somewhat unrealistic way Hollywood depicts people who find themselves unexpectedly holding the baby.
Mel Giedroyc's book From Here to Maternity is available now (ISBN: 0091886864)
Please note that audio for this edition of Back Row will not be available on this website until after the programme's transmission on Radio 4 on Saturday 28 August 2004 at 5.30pm.
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