Francine Stock and star guests on the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. Friday 4.30pm - 5pm
This week
25 April 2008
John Hurt talks about Indiana Jones, Alien and his new film The Oxford Murders, a heady mix of maths, philosophy and murder; plus the Iraq war on screen
In The Film Programme This Week:
John Hurt The star of Elephant Man, Alien and The Naked Civil Servant discusses his career and his new movie which centres around Wittgenstein and homicide.
The Oxford Murders is in cinemas, cert 15
Jim Jarmusch Collection Nigel Floyd reviews the early work of one of the godfathers of American independent cinema
The Jim Jarmusch Box Set Volume 1 is released on DVD on May 12
Cinema And The Iraq War Kimberly Pierce's new film, Stop-Loss, is the latest in a long line of movies about the conflict in Iraq, including Paul Haggis' In The Valley Of Elah and Grace Is Gone starring John Cusack. The Film Programme talks to Pierce, Haggis and Cusack about their motives for making these controversial pictures.
