George Lucas on Star Wars, David Thomson on Cary Grant and a new Spanish comedy.
Star Wars
The latest Star Wars film Revenge of the Sith concludes the six film epic that began in 1977 by filling in the middle. It explains how Anakin Skywalker, father of Luke and Leia, abandons the Jedi Knights and transforms into Darth Vader. Francine Stock talks to the mastermind of the project George Lucas and Scottish actor Ian McDermid who plays Chancellor Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith..
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, certificate 12A, is in cinemas now.
Cary Grant
Critic David Thomson celebrates the complex and contradictory charm of Hollywood legend Cary Grant. He was born Archibald Leach in Bristol in 1904, at 13 he skipped school, joined an acrobatic troupe and made his way to the US. In his early thirties he shed the name Leach and went on to star in more than seventy films.
The Cary Grant Collection, a DVD box set including the films An Affair to Remember, Kiss Them for Me, Born to be Bad and People will Talk is released on 6 June 2005.
The Philadelphia Story will be released on a special edition DVD on 20 June 2005.
Only Human
Francine Stock talks to Dominic Harari and Teresa de Pelegri, the husband and wife directing team behind the new Spanish comedy Only Human. The film is about Leni, a Jewish girl, who takes fiancé Rafi home to meet her family for the first time. What she can't reveal at first to her soldier grandfather, orthodox brother, belly-dancing sister and anxious mother is that he is Palestinian.
Only Human, certificate 15, is in selected London cinemas now and will be shown around Britain from 3 June 2005.
