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29 September 2004
Presented by Kirsty Lang
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SKY CAPTAIN
Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow star in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow - a rip-roaring adventure set in a futuristic 1930s. The characters travel the world - but the whole film was shot in the studio, with computer animation providing the sets. Nigel Andrews, film critic of the Financial Times, joins Kirsty to discuss whether the movie soars or nosedives.
Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow is released this Friday, certificate PG
Sky Captain's official site
LEONARDO DA VINCI
With the publication of two new studies of the great Renaissance polymath, Kirsty asks the books' authors what more there is to be revealed about one of the most keenly studied lives in human history.
Leonardo by Martin Kemp is published by Oxford University Press is out now, and Leonardo Da Vinci: Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl is published by Penguin on 7 October
FREI OTTO
The veteran architect Frei Otto has been creating innovative, energetic buildings for decades. With the announcement that Otto has been awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal, Giles Worsley, architecture critic of the Daily Telegraph joins Kirsty to discuss his work and its impact.
BRITISH ISLES - A NATURAL HISTORY
The BBC Natural History Unit is following the epic David Attenborough series Living Planet and The Life of Mammals with a lavishly-made eight-part natural history of the British Isles, presented by an expert on this country's clay and soil - Alan Titchmarsh. To assess the success of his shift from gardening to geology, Kirsty is joined by Emily Bell of the Guardian.
British Isles: A Natural History continues on BBC1 on Wednesday nights at 9pm
British Isles: A Natural History
SILENT SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare scholars often point out that when his work was originally staged, people talked about going to 'hear a play' - an idea that survives in the word 'audience'. So it would seem oddly pointless to adapt Shakespeare for the silent cinema.
Yet early cinema goers lapped up short, wordless films based on his work. With the release of some of these on DVD, plus a new play about the pitfalls of transforming one his complex texts into a ten minute silent movie, Front Row finds out how the greatest poetic dramatist ever works in dumb show.
The BFI's DVD Silent Shakespeare, with a specially-commissioned score by Laura Rossi, is released on 25 October
Forkbeard Fantasy's Shooting Shakespeare, with original soundtrack by Dominick Scherrer, is on a nationwide tour including London, until 12 December. More information from Forkbeard Fantasy
Judith Buchanan's book, Shakespeare on Film, is published next month by Pearson
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