Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow discusses playing a mathematician, daughter of a more famous mathematician in 'Proof', directed by John Madden.
'Proof' is a harrowing story about academics - a mathematician father and daughter who are both devoted to each other and at odds. Anthony Hopkins plays the revered dad who suffers from a bipolar disorder, and Paltrow is his caring daughter, Catherine - a role she first played on the London stage in 2002.
'Proof' (12A) is in cinemas now.
The Savage Innocents
The controversy surrounding Nicholas Ray's 1959 Inuit epic. 'The Savage Innocents' follows one young man, Inuk - played by Anthony Quinn - across the ice and snow as he kills bear, walrus and fox, runs into white traders and Mounties (including a very young Peter O'Toole) and tries to raise a family.
Film historian Ian Christie discusses the film's morality and director Nicholas Ray's decision to make an English language film set amongst the Inuits of the frozen north.
'The Savage Innocents' (12) is available now on DVD.
Chinese Film
'Memoirs of a Geisha', the Hollywood spectacular set in Japan , has been banned in China . This is the lavish film in which Chinese actresses play Japanese women, casting which has drawn allegations of cultural insensitivity in the West and irritated the Chinese censors. So how many Western films actually make it through to Chinese cinemas?
The BBC's correspondent in Beijing , Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports on the Chinese film industry, why there's only one cinema per million people in China and how the Chinese still manage to watch their favourites.
'Memoirs of a Geisha' (12A) is in cinemas now.
'The White Countess' (PG) is released in cinemas on 31 March 2006.
'Shanghai on Screen' is running at cinemas across London until 15 March 2006 as part of the 'China in London' season.
Greta Garbo
Born in Stockholm in 1905, Garbo had a working screen career of barely twenty years yet her pale austere face remains one of the perennial standards, her presence still mesmerising, her solemn Swedish voice unnerving.
Critic Matt Wolf discusses the woman who said she never wanted to play a silly temptress.
'Garbo: The Signature Collection' (U) is released on 20 February 2006. It includes the films 'Anna Christie', 'Mata Hari', 'Queen Christina', 'Anna Karenina', 'Camille' and 'Ninotchka'. |
