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- Barry Norman presents his personal review of the week's cinema releases. Broadcast News (1987) - this is set in the cut-throat world of TV news. The rivalry, loves and problems of a group of fiercely ambitious newsgatherers provide the focus for this film. It is heavily tipped for the honours at next week's Oscar ceremony, including Best ' Actor for William Hurt. Three Men and a Baby (1987) - Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson are carefree bachelors sharing a flat when a baby comes into their lives and creates havoc with their wayward lifestyle. Bette Davis is 80 this week. Film 88 looks back at the career of one of Hollywood's legends.
- Barry Norman presents his personal review of the week's cinema releases. Baby Boom (1987) - Diane Keaton plays a high-flying executive who finds herself landed with a young baby. How she copes with her charge, her job, her colleagues and her boyfriend are the subject of this comedy. Baby Boom is one of a clutch of films to emerge from Hollywood at the moment and Tom Brook reports on the reasons for this infant outbreak. Director BRUCE THOMPSON Producer JANE LUSH.
- The programme that keeps you in touch with the world of cinema. Commando (1985) - Arnold Schwarzenegger pairs up with Rae Dawn Chong in pursuit of a deadly Latin neo-dictator. Mr Love - a gardener has spent 28 years tending the gardens of Southport. The one thing missing from his life is love - and yet, 12 beautiful women appear at his funeral. Bette Davis - a few days before receiving a Life Achievement award in France, the legendary actress talked to Film 86 and reflected on her life and career.
- Charlie Brooker is joined by Danny Leigh and Ellen E. Jones to review X-Men blockbuster Logan (2017) starring Hugh Jackman, Paul Verhoeven's psycho sexual revenge thriller Elle (2016), starring Isabelle Huppert, and director Gurinder Chadha's period drama Viceroy's House (2017).
- Sharon Stone talks to Barry Norman about her role in Casino, Martin Scorsese's exploration of the seedy side of Las Vegas, which also stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Other films under scrutiny are Jane Austen 's Sense and Sensibility, starring and adapted by Emma Thompson ; and Trainspotting - the controversial follow-up film to Shallow Grave from director Danny Boyle.
- Ahead of the return of James Bond in the movie event of the year, host Jonathan Ross explores the world of 'Casino Royale'. He asks what's at stake as the world's most famous film franchise returns to its roots and attempts to reinvent itself once more, and meets many of the creative talents behind the film. Key Bond features such as the action sequences and the music are analysed, before Jonathan comes face to face with the new 007, Daniel Craig.
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- The films "Lucky Lady" and "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" are featured with interviews with the films stars.
- Gideon Bachman talks to Liza Minnelli for a behind the scenes look at the filming of "A Matter of Time" in Rome; movie posters; adult films.
- Welcome to L.A. (1976): Sissy Spacek, Keith Carradine and Sally Kellerman star in a Robert Altman production which opens London's new cinema, Screen on the Hill. Voyage of the Damned (1976): The story of 937 German Jewish refugees who sailed in May 1939 in a bid for freedom, features Faye Dunaway, Malcolm McDowell, Max Von Sydow and Orson Welles. Prey (1977): This location report shows how a group of film technicians banded together to make their own sci-fi horror movie.
- Barry Norman reviews the films Awakenings (1990), Blood Oath (1990), Lost Angels (1989), Fear (1990) and Highlander II: The Quickening (1991). Features a location report from the set of American Friends (1991) at New College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. American Friends (1991) is based on the life of Michael Palin's great grandfather and stars Michael Palin himself. The location report includes interviews with Michael Palin, the director Tristram Powell, the actor Alfred Molina, the co-producer Steve Abbott, and the other co-producer Patrick Cassavetti.
- Barry Norman reviews The Fan (1996) and Brassed Off (1996). Tom Brook interviews Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton about their new film The First Wives Club (1996). Features a location report from the set of Brassed Off (1996) at The Piece Hall, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, UK. The location report includes interviews with the director Mark Herman, along with the cast members Pete Postlethwaite, Stephen Tompkinson, Ewan McGregor, Tara Fitzgerald and Jim Carter.
- Jonathan Ross reviews Watchmen, the long-awaited adaptation of the best-selling graphic novel by Alan Moore, along with historical pageant The Young Victoria, indie drama Wendy and Lucy, and wartime thriller Flame & Citron. There is a report on the skills of the Foley artist and sound designer and a news item on the 15th Bradford International Film Festival. Ross also previews Hush, The Damned United and Is Anybody There?
- New films under review are Trading Places (1983), Jaws 3-D (1983), Krull (1983), and Brainstorm (1983). Barry also discusses the Universal Studios tour; Cary Grant's impending 80th birthday, which the BBC are celebrating with a season of his films; the new video releases of several Children's Film Foundation adventures. He also gives a preview of what to expect on our screens at the beginning of 1984.
- How long can super-stardom last? Richard Burton was 26 when he was hailed as the great actor of his generation. But, as he says, that was all BC - 'before Cleopatra' - and before Elizabeth Taylor. Earlier this year, in Italy, where Burton was filming The Voyage for Vittorio De Sica, he talked enigmatically to BARRY NORMAN.
- Barry Norman looks at the new films and reports on the American Film Theatre: this is a new way, already very successful in America of seeing major plays on film. Film 74 shows extracts from The Homecoming, directed by Peter Hall, and Butley, directed by Harold Pinter, and visits Joseph Losey and Topol on the set of Galileo.
- Barry Norman reviews The Internecine Project (1974) starring James Coburn, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) starring Clint Eastwood, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's prize-winning Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), and talks to Lillian Gish about D. W. Griffith , whose films will be shown in the late-night season at a new London cinema, The Gate.
- Barry Norman looks at two new films made by British directors: The Abdication directed by Anthony Harvey which stars Peter Finch and Liv Ullman and was made on location in Italy last year. Akenfield directed by Peter Hall which stars' the people of Suffolk' and opens this year's London Film Festival.
- Sir David Lean was 80 this week. He's one of Britain's most distinguished film directors. His credits include Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970) and, most recently, A Passage to India (1984). His films have accumulated countless awards and nominations. 'I like telling stories: it may be out of fashion at the moment in some circles, but it has been with us since we lived in caves.' Indeed David Puttnam called him 'the greatest storyteller on film'. Lean is renowned both for his attention to detail and the epic scale of his films. 'I like working for big screen and big cinemas, not tiny art houses.' Barry Norman interviews Sir David Lean about a life of film-making. It includes extracts from his films, and archive footage of him at work.
- In a rare television interview, Dirk Bogarde talks about his new film Daddy Nostalgia (1990) (Daddy Nostalgie). He has not made a film in England since 1966. He moved to the south of France in 1968 and was 'adopted' by Europe, where he again became a major star, working for such distinguished directors as Fassbinder, Tavernier and Visconti. He talks of his sex symbol days and his reasons for returning to Britain, where he has just completed his latest book.
- Jacky Gillott introduces the first of a new series previewing and reviewing films on release. Featuring, this week, films from the London Film Festival which opens tonight, and an interview with Jacques Tati, star and director of Traffic.
- Films reviewed this evening include: Nine Months (1995), an American comedy about fatherhood starring Hugh Grant and Tom Arnold; Clueless (1995), about a group of rich school children living it up in Beverly Hills; The Postman (1994), a romantic Italian comedy about a postman whose life is transformed when he delivers letters to a famous poet; and Canadian Bacon (1995), an American comedy starring John Candy and Alan Alda, directed by Michael Moore, creator and star of BBC2's TV Nation (1994). Plus, a report on the work of the Children's Film and Television Foundation.
- News, reviews, interviews from the cinema world. Bette Midler , filmed in concert, demonstrates her raunchy singing and comic abilities in Divine Madness. Burt Lancaster stars as a small-time hood in Atlantic City, French director Louis Malle 's romantic thriller set against the gambling background of this famous American resort. Producer David Puttnam, actors Dennis Christopher, Brad Davis and Ian Charleson talk on location at Liverpool about Chariots of Fire, this year's royal film, which is based on the true story of a group of athletes and their bid for Olympic glory in 1924.
- Barry Norman reviews the new films and looks at the Paramount Part 2 Season at the National Film Theatre.
- Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson discuss their roles in their new film Marley and Me, with behind the scenes footage of Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan and Kimberley Nixon on the set of their new film Cherrybomb.
- Tom Horn: Steve McQueen stars as Tom Horn, whose relentless pursuit to eliminate rustling earned him the reputation as one of the most fearless men who ever lived. Bad Timing: Nicholas Roeg directs Art Garfunkel and Theresa Russell in a story about a man's obsessive love for a woman and her inability to handle the emotion. Starting Over: Burt Reynolds finds that starting over after a marriage split between Candice Bergen and himself is not that easy despite his meeting with Jill Clayburgh.
- New York - a special report with news and interviews from the city which has once again become one of the film capitals of the world. Plus a look at some of the films currently on show there, including Stardust Memories, Woody Allen's ninth movie as writer-director-star; and Ordinary People, the story of a family in crisis, starring Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland, which marks the directorial debut of Robert Redford.
- Barry Norman presents his personal review of the week's cinema releases. Angel Heart (1987), written and directed by Alan Parker. Mickey Rourke plays a seedy private detective in a powerful thriller set in New York and New Orleans. Controversy surrounded the film when it was X-rated in America. Parker cut ten seconds to please the American censor. John Huston, the veteran film director, famous for such films as The African Queen and The Maltese Falcon died last month. From the set of Mr. North (1988), a film in which he was to have appeared, Film 87 spoke to his daughter, Anjelica Huston, Robert Mitchum and Lauren Bacall about both the film and John Huston himself.
- Shirley Valentine (1989) stars Pauline Collins as a frustrated housewife who takes a holiday and discovers a more meaningful life. Peter Greenaway is a director whose films always provoke heated discussion. His latest, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) seems set to continue the trend. And Old Gringo (1989) opens in New York this week. Tom Brook reports from the location and talks to Jane Fonda and Gregory Peck about the factual details surrounding the disappearance of an American journalist.
- Film reviews, plus 8 minute location report on "Madhouse" ( Doctor Death- working title) AIP/Amicus. Interviews with actors, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price, and Director Jim Clark.
- Dirk Bogarde, once Britain's top box office star, has gone into virtual retirement since he completed Death in Venice in 1970. He lives now in a converted farmhouse in the South of France. This summer he talked to Barry Norman about his career and his disenchantment with film acting.
- Barry Norman reviews the first new films of the New Year and talks to Rod Steiger about his attitudes to acting and about his new role as Mussolini: 'I don'know how good an actor I am but how do you do a man that was such a bad actor, at least in his public life? '.
- Barry Norman reviews some of the new films which have opened in recent weeks, including The Way We Were, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Also, a look at late night cinema shows.
- Zardoz, written, produced and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery, is a vision of the world in 2293. Barry Norman talks to John Boorman about his new film. Also, Richard Lester talks about The Three Musketeers, this year's choice for the Royal Film Performance.
- Barry Norman looks at the new films, including Blume in Love starring George Segal, Papillon starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, and Mean Streets.
- Barry Norman interviews director Jack Clayton about his film version of The Great Gatsby; Frederic Raphael discusses the problems of adapting novels to the screen; and Sidney Lumet talks about filming the true story of Serpico.
- Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather (1972) and winner of this year's Cannes Grand Prix for The Conversation (1974) talks about his films and his future. "I'm not going to work for money anymore." Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland introduce their new film S*P*Y*S (1974) and Barry Norman reviews the new releases.
- Barry Norman looks at films for holiday entertainment including Caravan to Vaccares, starring Charlotte Rampling. Also a visit to the Barnes Museum of Cinematography at St Ives.
- Includes an examination of Steve McQueen's enduring legend.
- The Tall Guy (1989) - television comedian Mel Smith makes his directorial debut with a comic love story starring Jeff Goldblum, Rowan Atkinson and Emma Thompson. Charlie Chaplin was born in London 100 years ago this week. In honour of the occasion the Museum of the Moving Image is mounting a special exhibition and there are screenings of his masterpiece City Lights (1931), accompanied by a full orchestra playing the score written by Chaplin himself. Film 89 joins the celebration of a cinema genius.
- The Dream Team (1989) stars Michael (Batman) Keaton and Christopher (Back to the Future) Lloyd as residents of a psychiatric hospital who become separated from their therapist en route to a baseball game. Lost in New York, they find themselves framed for murder. Oliver & Company (1988) is the 27th full-length cartoon from the Walt Disney Studios. This Christmas offering is a re-working of the classic Dickens tale. Plus, subtitling - a Film 89 report into the process of adding subtitles to foreign language films and the difficulties encountered.
- Reviews of Morning Glory, Black Swan, Neds and Get Low.
- Disney give Rapunzel a make over in Tangled 3D, and Clint Eastwood returns to the director's chair for Hereafter, written by Peter Morgan and starring Matt Damon. Also reviews of Biutiful and Barney's Version. There is also a look at the Oscar nominations and an interview with Aaron Sorkin.
- There are reviews of Rowan Joffe's remake of Brighton Rock, plus The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams, Sanctum 3D, and Nicole Kidman's new film Rabbit Hole. Also a look at the making of Silence of the Lambs, on it's 20th anniversary. Nick Frost answers questions in the Film 2011 Questionnaire.
- There are reviews of the Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit, Simon Pegg & Nick Frost in Paul, and Keira Knightley & Carey Mulligan in Never Let Me Go. There is a look this year's awards season and Sharlto Copley answers the Film 2011 Questionaire.
- Reviews of No Strings Attached, documentary Inside Job, Howl, and Confessions. There is also a chat with Harry Potter producer David Heyman and a look at on and off screen love affairs.
- There are reviews of The Rite, Animal Kingdom, and West is West. Plus there is a look at this years Oscar ceremony and the main nominations.
- Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star in Sci-Fi thriller The Adjustment Bureau. Also reviews of Archipelago, The Tempest with Helen Mirren as Prospera, and Ironclad. Plus a chat with Joe Cornish about his movie Attack the Block.
- There are reviews of Battle Los Angeles, Fair Game with Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, the Farrelly Brothers new film Hall Pass, Ben Affleck in The Company Men, and Norwegian Wood. Plus there is a look at the subculture of the 'Midnight Movie'.
- To coincide with a season of Woody Allen films at the National Film Theatre, this Film 78 special, introduced by Barry Norman, presents an interview with the writer-actor-director Woody Allen, whose film Annie Hall won this year's major Oscars. Woody Allen talks, wittily and candidly, not only about his work in the cinema, but on subjects ranging from philosophy to phobias, from psychiatrists to sex. Allen: I've been going to an analyst for about 22 years now.' 'How's it going?' 'Slowly.' Plus extracts from his most successful films.
- In the last of the current run there are reviews of Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Ken Loach's Route Irish, and Submarine. Plus a look at this year's summer movies.