Francine Stock and star guests on the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. Friday 4.30pm - 5pm
This week
Friday 22 Sept 2006
Francine Stock talks to Clive Owen about his role in futuristic thriller "Children Of Men" adapted from PD James's best selling novel
On The Film Programme this week:
Children of Men Francine Stock talks to Clive Owen about his role as a disillusioned political activitist in "Children Of Men", a film adaptation of PD James's best selling novel, set 22 years in a future in which the human race can no longer breed. And the director, Mexican Alfonso Cuaron, whose previous credits include Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban about the challenge of recreating a disintergrating urban London set in the very near future.
'Children of Men' is out now certificate 15
Max Ophuls Francine is joined by writer and critic Adam Mars Jones to discuss the work of influential French film director Max Ophuls. Celebrated for his extraordinary camerawork, directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorcese and Todd Haynes claim him as an influence.
The Max Ophuls box set is available now
Damian Lewis Francine talks to actor Damian Lewis about his role in Keane, in which he plays a mentally unstable man walking the streets of New York in search of his 6 year old daughter whom he believes has been abducted.
'Keane' is out now on selected release certificate 15
Stephen Soderbergh Francine profiles the work of Steven Soderbergh, whose first film was the groundbreaking "Sex,Lies and Videotape", with Bryony Hanson from the Script Factory, including his latest film, Eros, a tryptich of films made with Antonioni and Wong Kar Wai 'Eros' is out now certificate 15
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On TV
Powell and Pressburger's A Matter Of Life And Death, Thursday 28th 1.35pm on C4 and Michael Mann's "The Last of the Mohicans" Sunday 24th at 9.00 on Film 4
