BBC2's weekly cinema night. A profile of macho maverick writer/director James Toback on the eve of the release of Bugsy, a gangster film starring Warren Beatty and Annette Bening , for which he wrote the screenplay. Plus a look at French cinema, which is taking a leaf out of Hollywood's book and releasing four films about their colonial past in Indo-China - including Jean-Jacques Annaud 's LAmantand
L 'Indochine, starring Catherine Deneuve.
With Howard Schuman.
Executive producer Daniel Wolf Series producer Paul Kerr
A Barraclough Carey production for BBCtv
10.05pm Exposed
Moving Pictures presents the first showing on network television of James Toback 's thriller. Starring Natassja Kinski Rudolf Nureyev
Elizabeth Carlson , determined to be a success, travels to New York City. She gets a job as a waitress, and is "discovered" by a fashion photographer. As she climbs the social ladder, she falls in love with a violinist but is drawn into a dangerous world.
11.40om The Big Bang
The second Moving Pictures presentation is the network premiere of the James Toback 's documentary, which he says is "a movie about creation and disintegration, God, life, love, sex, crime, death, madness - everything." Among the people interviewed are a film producer, a boxer, a gangster, a philosopher, a painter, a basketball star, and an Auschwitz survivor.
⢠FILMS: pages 33.38