All about film, on Radio 3
In-depth discussion, interviews and features on film and film music.
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Free Thinking – Asta Nielsen
Asta Nielsen, the Danish silent film star whose dark eyes and androgynous look propelled her career. She had her own Berlin studios before returning to Denmark after Nazism rose.
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Free Thinking: Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave
Matthew Sweet and guests explore Belmondo's central role in the revolutionary cinema of 1960s France and how he became one of the most celebrated screen actors of his generation.
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Free Thinking: Marlene Dietrich
Tracing the sensual and radical Marlene Dietrich from Europe to Hollywood. Le Gateau Chocolat, Pamela Hutchinson, Phuong Le and Lucy Bolton discuss with Matthew Sweet.
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Free Thinking: Cary Grant
What would you need to know about the Bristol-born film star to spend an evening in his company? Matthew Sweet talks to Pamela Hutchinson, Charlotte Crofts and Mark Glancy.
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Sound of Cinema
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
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Composer of the Week: Elmer Bernstein
Donald Macleod talks to composer Peter Bernstein about his father, the award-winning Hollywood film composer Elmer Bernstein.
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The Listening Service: John Williams
Tom Service has a close encounter with the film music of John Williams.
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Sound of Cinema: Marni Nixon
Matthew looks back on the career and recordings of soprano Marni Nixon, a 'ghost singer' who provided the vocals for several leading actresses often without audiences being aware.
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Free Thinking: Touki Bouki
The Journey of the Hyena mixes West African oral traditions with French New Wave and Soviet influences. Matthew Sweet and his guests look at a classic of African cinema.
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Free Thinking: Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee
A huge hit, making US$350m worldwide, Enter the Dragon mixed martial arts with a spy story and blaxploitation, inspiring manga, television shows, animation and comics.
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Landmark - Man with a Movie Camer
Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov.
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Free Thinking: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap
A masterpiece of Argentinian expressionist cinema, Rana Mitter and guests watch Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's early 60s film and discuss his partnership with his writer wife.
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Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
A bisexual artist who takes up with divorced job consultant played by Glenda Jackson, and a gay male Jewish doctor forms the plot of this drama written by Penelope Gilliatt.
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Free Thinking: Marnie
Matthew Sweet discusses memory and Marnie with guests, including Andrew Graham - son of Marnie author Winston.
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Free Thinking: Get Carter
Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges.
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Free Thinking: Rashomon
David Peace and Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.
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Mike Leigh
Mike Lee talks to Matthew Sweet about both his career and his approach to dramatising history in his new film Peterloo, which depicts the 1819 massacre at a rally in Manchester.
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Spike Lee
The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about black power and prejudice, the politics of blackface, and the Oscars.
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John Boorman
Director John Boorman talks to Matthew Sweet about his film Queen and Country and its place in a career that includes Deliverance and Excalibur as well as Hope and Glory.
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An Interview with John Waters
Samira Ahmed presents an interview with film director, writer and artist John Waters. He talks about subjects including his career, hitchhiking and Baltimore.
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Free Thinking – Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box
Lucy Porter, David Quantick and Neil Brand join Matthew Sweet to celebrate Laurel and Hardy and their sublime short, The Music Box.
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Free Thinking: Bette Davis
‘In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star': Matthew Sweet looks at the enduring career of Bette Davis.
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Free Thinking: Jacques Tati's Trafic
The last film to feature Tati's famous character of Monsieur Hulot, Trafic's exploration of mass car use now seems prescient. Matthew Sweet and guests reassess the film.
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Free Thinking: Mildred Pierce
Crime writers Denise Mina and Laura Lippman and academics Sarah Churchwell and Lizzie Mackarel discuss James M Cain's classic novel Mildred Pierce and its 1945 film adaptation.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Scientist Brian Cox and educationalist Christopher Frayling join actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood to discuss the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Tarkovsky's Stalker
Matthew Sweet discusses Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker and its resonances with the accident that struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine in 1986.
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Jaws: Sharks and Whales
Novelist Will Self, shark expert Gareth Fraser, academic Ian Hunter and artist Fiona Tan join Matthew Sweet to discuss sharks, whales and the impact of the book and film Jaws.
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Alien
Philip Dodd considers the enduring appeal of the film Alien.
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Seven Samurai
Professor Ian Christie, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and authors SF Said and Alexander Jacoby join Matthew Sweet to discuss Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai.
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Tokyo Story
Actor Richard Wilson, Professor Naoko Shimazu and film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh join Rana Mitter to look at this cinematic classic which was one of the 53 films made by Yasujiro Ozu before his death in 1963.
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The Innocents
Matthew Sweet and guests examine the British gothic horror classic The Innocents.
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Blackmail
Matthew Sweet examines Alfred Hitchcock's drama Blackmail, created to showcase Hitchcock's instinctive styles of soundscaping for film.
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Free Thinking: Billy Wilder
Author Jonathan Coe, Phuong Le, Melanie Williams and Paul Diamond, the son of Wilder's long time writing partner, discuss a career which included Sunset Boulevard and Some Like it Hot.
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Free Thinking: Dirk Bogarde
Actor Wendy Craig, who played Susan in The Servant, writer Mark Ravenhill, film critic Phuong Le and BFI curator Josephine Botting join Matthew Sweet to talk about Dirk Bogarde.
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Free Thinking: Landmark: Charlie Chaplin's City Lights
Lucy Porter, Paul McGann, Kevin Brownlow and David Robinson join Matthew Sweet on stage at the Watershed during Bristol's Slapstick Festival to discuss Chaplin's film City Lights.
