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The Movie Café: 07/04/2011

07/04/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Movie Café, 07/04/2011

Oscar-nominated director Carlos Saldanha discusses his new family adventure, Rio 3D.

Rio 3D Oscar-nominated director Carlos Saldanha - one of the creators of the hit 'Ice Age' series discusses 'RIO', a 3D comedy adventure about taking a walk on the wild side! With a fantastic voice cast that includes JESSE EISENBERG, ANNE HATHAWAY, JAMIE FOXX, and JEMAINE CLEMENT, it follows the story of Blu, a domesticated Macaw on his adventures amidst a colourful jungle, a beach paradise, a sprawling metropolis - and the celebration to end all celebrations, known as Carnaval!

Bridging The Gap We hear about how Five new documentary filmmakers, nurtured through Scottish Documentary Institute's annual Bridging the Gap scheme, have been selected to screen in competition at four of the world's leading documentary film festivals this spring. This includes Robert de Niro's Tribeca Film Festival, New York who have selected Jane McAllister's Caretaker for the Lord for competition from thousands of entries; Jane will be on hand alongside co-ordinator Finlay Pretsel to tell us all about

Essential Killing - we review the new film from Hollywood 'enfant terrible', Vincent Gallo film an extraordinary manhunt drama which has virtually no dialogue(!!?) 

Miral - 0ur DVD Pick of the Week. From the Academy Award nominated director JULIAN SCHNABEL (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), and starring BAFTA nominated actress FREIDA PINTO (Slumdog Millionaire) 'MIRAL' tells the story of a smart and spirited young Palestinian girl as she tries to find her way in a trouble Jerusalem in the 1980s. 

Forbidden Planet OST - The soundtrack to the Sci Fi classic 'Forbidden Planet' has been remastered and is about to be released by Glasgow based Poppy Disc records this month - a label run maverick producer Joe Foster who also ran the Rev-Ola label, co-ran Creation with Alan McGee and recorded Jesus & Mary Chain early stuff the sleevenotes are by John Cavanagh and both join us to explain all.

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