BBC2's weekly cinema night. Alex Cox reports from Dallas on the controversy surrounding Oliver Stone 's new film about the Kennedy assassination, JFK. Plus a profile of producer Arnon Milchan , the man behind JFK, Pretty Woman and Brazil, and a report from Moscow on the long unseen Soviet cinema of the 60s. With Howard Schuman.
Executive producer Daniel Wolf Series producer Paul Kerr
A Barraclough Carey production for BBCtv
9.55pm Brazil
I Moving Pictures I presents
Arnon Milchan 's fantasy starring Jonathan Pryce Robert De Niro
Sam Lowry is happy in his job at the Ministry of Information but then a mistake in the system turns his life into a nightmare.
Director Terry Gilliam
12.10am Beginning of an Unknown Era
The second Moving Pictures presentation is a first showing on network television for two graduation films by directors Larissa Shepitko and Andrei Smirnov , shelved by the authorities in 1967 and rediscovered 20 years later.
Angel
The tale of a train I comandeeredbya group of revolutionaries. In
Russian with English subtitles. Director Andrei Smirnov
The Homeland of Electricity
A young idealist helps to bring electricity to a backward village. In Russian with English subtitles.
Screenplay/Director Larissa Shepitko
● FILMS: pages 27-32