Francine Stock and star guests on the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. Friday 4.30pm - 5pm
This week
Friday 3rd November 2006
Eddie Marsan on his role in World Cup family comedy Sixty Six; Warren Mitchell remembers Richard Burton; and Kazakh reporter Borat on his first feature film.
On The Film Programme this week:
Sixty Six Francine Stock talks to actor Eddie Marsan - whose impressive career includes films with Scorcese and Michael Mann - and to Richard Weiland, the writer/director of this comedy drama. Based on Weiland's childhood, Sixty Six tells the story of a Jewish boy in North London who discovers that his Bar Mitzvah has been arranged for the same afternoon as the the 1966 World Cup Final.
Sixty Six (12A) is out now.
The Page Turner Adam Mars-Jones joins Francine to discuss a new French thriller about a pianist beset by stage fright. The world of classical music is notoriously difficult to depict accurately on screen - which films have succeeded?
The Page Turner (15) is out now.
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Richard Burton starred in this 1965 espionage thriller, widely seen as a grimy riposte to the escapism of the James Bond movies. Warren Mitchell - who had a tiny cameo in the film, and who was in the RAF with Richard Burton - reflects on a performance regarded by many as one of Burton's finest.
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is out now on DVD.
Borat Francine meets Kazakh reporter Borat, aka comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. In Borat: Cultural Learnings of USA For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the hapless reporter travels across America causing offence and embarrassment wherever he goes. Borat explains his influences and method.
