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The Film Programme: 08/12/2011

08/12/2011

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

Nick Broomfield, Ben Wheatley and Mike Cahill talk to Francine Stock about their new films

Directors abound this week. Nick Broomfield discusses his documentary on Sarah Palin, Ben Wheatley sketches the motives behind Kill List, and Mike Cahill explains Another Earth.

Truth - as they say - is stranger than fiction. Mike Cahill's science fiction morality tale, Another Earth, came out this week just days after it emerged that scientists had found Kepler 22b - a planet which, it seems, may share many of the attributes of our own bluey green globe. Francine Stock has been talking to Mike about coincidence, the genesis of his film and, of course, the multiverse. She's also taken a trip to the parallel world of American politics with Nick Broomfield to discuss his new documentary, Sarah Palin - You Betcha! and delved into the murky realm of Ben Wheatley's hit horror film, Kill List. And to dispel any notion of idleness she put herself through the initiation ceremony for Secret Cinema.... a new and playful way of screening films which draws you in through carefully calculated mystery and makes you an actor as much as a spectator.

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