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The Film Programme: 20/05/2011

20/05/2011

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, 20/05/2011

This week's cinema with Francine Stock - Cannes, Isadora and a restored 20s classic.

With Francine Stock. News from Cannes; a restored 20s classic set in Antarctica, Herbert Ponting's The Great White Silence; and a look at Isadora starring Vanessa Redgrave.

Francine Stock has her travelling shoes on for The Film Programme this week. There's a trip to Cannes to hear what's soon going to be showing in an art house near you; there's a journey back in time to assess Karel Reisz' Isadora starring Vanessa Redgrave; and Francine nips down to the Antarctic to savour Herbert Ponting's Twenties classic, The Great White Silence which has just been released in a dazzling new print with a brand new score composed by Simon Fisher Turner. And last but not least - as the cliché would have it - the independent cinema owner, Kevin Markwick and the former editor of Screen International, Michael Gubbins take the temperature of the film industry in what's been a tricky year.
Producer: Zahid Warley.

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