In the weekly cinema review, Spike Lee (director of Mo'
Better Blues, shown at 10.05pm) talks about his controversial new movie Malcolm X, explaining some of its most exhilarating sequences and revealing its debts to Scorsese and Spielberg. The programme also goes to Peking to meet top directors Chen Kaige (whose Big Parade is being shown at
12.10am) and Zhang Yimou , and takes the temperature of Chinese cinema four years after the events of Tiananmen Square. Presented by Howard Schuman. Series producer Saskia Baron
Series editor Paul Kerr A Barraclough Carey production for BBCtv (Arena on Friday at 9.30pm features an interview with Zhang Yimou )