Tonight, the film show talks to director Gillian Armstrong and screenwriter Robin Swicord, the female driving force behind the new screen version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood, Little Women, starring Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder. And with the release of Nell, which stars Jodie Foster as a wild woman of the woods, the programme talks to director Michael Apted about the cinematic forerunners of the "wild child" movie - among them Francois Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage, Werner Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Hugh Hudson's Greystoke: the Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
Plus a visit to Tunisia to unveil the first generation of North African women film-makers, as Moufida Tlatli's The Silence of the Palace opens in Britain. And Paul Schrader, screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo, explains why he reckons Hollywood heroes ain't what they used to be. Schrader's film Light Sleeper can be seen at 11.00pm. With Howard Schuman.
Series director Michael Martin; Series editor Paul Kerr