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The Film Programme: 12/08/2011

12/08/2011

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, 12/08/2011

With special guests James Marsh, Romain Gavras and Mark Gatiss.

James Marsh talks about Project Nim; Mark Gatiss grapples with Russian horror; and Romain Gavras discusses, rioting, nihilism and the French New Wave. With Matthew Sweet.

In the Film Programme this week Matthew Sweet talks to James Marsh about Project Nim, the director's first feature since the Oscar- winning Man on Wire. It's the story of a chimpanzee taken from his mother as a baby and brought up in a human family as part of an experiment to see if he could acquire and use language. With the release of Rise of the Planet of the Apes as well this week the philosopher and cinephile, Raymond Tallis reflects on cinema's fascination with the links between apes and humans and weighs up the motives behind those involved in experiments such as Project Nim. Further afield the young French director, Romain Gavras, discusses his debut, Our Day will Come, as well as volunteering observations on rioting, nihilism and the dead hand of the New Wave on France's film culture. To round things off Mark Gatiss mounts a broomstick and whizzes off to the Russian steppes which is the latest staging post in his brief history of foreign horror. 

Producer: Zahid Warley.

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