The weekly cinema night profiles Barry Levinson, one of Hollywood's hottest talents, director of The Natural (being shownat 10.10pm), Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam and Bugsy, on the eve of the release of his new film Toys, which stars Robin Williams. Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Redford and Williams talk about the man and his work, and Levinson himself assesses his career.
Plus, ideas on how to make a film in New York for less than the cost of lunch in LA.
Presented by Howard Schuman. Series producer Saskia Baron
Series editor Paul Kerr A Barraclough Carey production for BBCtv
10.10pm The Natural
Moving Pictures presents Barry Levinson's sporting drama starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close
Roy Hobbs has always had a quality and talent that set him apart. The night his father died, lightning split a tree on the family farm and from it young Roy made a baseball bat invested with great power. But life is to hold many strange surprises for Roy, for whom the word "natural" has many meanings. Stereo Subtitled
SEE FILMS pages 39-46
12.20am Heat and Sunlight
Tonight's second Moving Pictures presentation is an independent American film which chronicles the final hours of a passionate and erotic affair between 40-year-old photographer Mel Hurley and his dancer girlfriend Carmen.
Director Rob Nilsson
SEE FILMS pages 39-46