This British classic was screened with a Q&A with David Wood. David co-starred as one of the three rebel schoolboys in a public school, alongside Malcolm McDowell (Mick) and Richard Warwick (Wallace), and they led the revolution against authority – which was regarded by many as a metaphor for the social and political situation in the UK.
Join us for this podcast to hear David sharing behind the scenes stories and other anecdotes.
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We chatted to Italian director Mario Martone about his latest feature film, Nostalgia, which stars one of Italy’s most famous working actors, Pierfrancesco Favino, sporting an eerily accurate Arabic accent. We delve together into the film’s esoteric and spiritual dimensions, its gorgeous and loving portrait of Naples and its depictions of the city’s element of criminality.
Curator, artist and Brighton-resident John Marchant joined us here at the Garden Cinema for a discussion following our screening of Laura Poitras’s All The Beauty And The Bloodshed. The film tells the story of photographer Nan Goldin’s tireless campaign to expose the crimes of the Sackler family and the part they played in the opioid crisis in the US and to kick the Sacklers out of the art spaces they gave money to to whitewash their actions.
John tells us about her artistic process, her resilience, their work together and what the campaigning achieved.
We gathered here at the cinema after our screening of The Shining, as part of our Jack Nicholson season, with Professor Roger Luckhurst who wrote The Shining: BFI Film Classics. Roger shares with us gossip and tales from behind the scenes, tells us about the film’s negative reception at the time and the differences with the novel and gives us some context to understand its place as part of the horror repertoire.
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We are joined by writer/director/actress Nana Mensah. Mensah’s first feature film, the award-winning Queen Of Glory, will be screening at the Garden Cinema on 26 November.
The film follows the trials and tribulations of Sarah Obeng, the brilliant child of Ghanaian immigrants, who is quitting her Ivy League PhD program to follow her married lover to Ohio. When her mother dies suddenly, she bequeaths her daughter a Christian bookstore in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx where Sarah was raised.
We were also joined by Lily Parrott, co-director of the Migration Film Festival. We chatted about Nana’s forays into filmmaking, her start as an actress, and its selection as part of the festival.
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“Over 12 half-hour episodes, we’re seeing a man have a nervous breakdown”.
This week, we talk to journalist Darren Richman about some of his favourite genres and filmmakers.
We discuss the pessimism of Film Noir and the optimism of Mike Leigh, the nature of comedy from Faulty Towers to the Coen Brothers and debate whether or not there is such a thing as “dark comedy” and the depiction of love and compassion in Hollywood films.
You can follow Darren on Twitter @darrenrichman.
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This week, we speak to Angela Allen who has worked on the film sets of many celebrated films, including The Third Man, The African Queen and The Dirty Dozen, for nearly six decades, overseeing continuity, supervising scripts and advising directors.
Angela shares with us anecdotes and personal stories from her time on and off the set. This podcast episode is slightly longer than usual, so we’ve included a discussion breakdown:
2.04 How to know if a film will be good.
2.45 Angela on the editing process and working with Carol Reed (The Third Man)
7.30 The current fashion for “overcoverage” and working with John Huston
10.25 Zeffirelli vs Huston and filming Elizabeth Taylor
13.58 The auteur theory from France
15.47 Different directors, same scripts
18.25 “We’d have sixteen pages on the fact that Jennifer Jones’s toilet paper had to be pink”, meeting David O’Selznick
21.10 Working with Korda and Spiegel, “the most intelligent producer but a bit of a crook, too”
26.40 Working with Orson Wells and stories from The Third Man
35.36 Arthur Miller & Marilyn Monroe (The Misfits)
39.55 “Paula Strasberg made her as impossible as she was”
43.23 “Do you feel sorry for [Marilyn]? No I don’t”
44.32 Angela on writing a book
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We discuss the pleasure and power of the cinema experience and which films are better on the silver screen with MUBI’s podcast host, journalist Rico Cagliano.
We talk to Rico about the MUBI podcast seasons, cinemas he’s researched and visited and share anecdotes about films that should be watched on a big screen, such as Lawrence Of Arabia and Wings Of Desire.
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