Francine Stock and star guests on the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. Friday 4.30pm - 5pm
This week
Friday 1st December 2006
Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg on animated comedy Flushed Away; Peter Bogdanovich remembers Marlene Dietrich; and the director of Shortbus on sex and New York.
On The Film Programme this week:
Flushed Away Francine Stock talks to Jeffrey Katzenberg, the studio executive behind animated films including Shrek, Madagascar and now Flushed Away - a tale of an upper-class mouse who finds himself transported to a murky netherworld in the sewers of London. It's the third collaboration between Katzenberg's firm Dreamworks and Aardman Animations - and the Bristol company's first fully computer-animated film. Jeffrey Katzenberg explains why he didn't tamper with the film's British humour, and why he doesn’t care for focus groups.
Flushed Away (U) is out now.
Marlene Dietrich The director Peter Bogdanovich joins Francine to discuss one of the twentieth century's biggest film stars, Marlene Dietrich. As sixteen of her films are issued on DVD - many of them for the first time - he remembers his encounters with this legendary figure of the silver screen.
The Marlene Dietrich DVD Box Set is out now.
Shortbus John Cameron Mitchell attracted critical praise for the musical comedy Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which he wrote and directed and in which he also starred. His latest film Shortbus centres on a salon in New York and follows some of its customers on adventures romantic and sexual. John Cameron Mitchell explains why it was essential to make his film so sexually explicit.
Shortbus (18) is out now.
101 Films To Avoid Francine talks to the author of a new book which perhaps uniquely advises film lovers which films not to see. Alan Smithee explains why he believes modern film criticism has more to do with the Emperor's new clothes than with honest enjoyment.
101 Movies to Avoid: The Most Overrated Films of All Time is out now, published by Cyan Books.
