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The Movie Café: 02/08/2012

02/08/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Movie Café, 02/08/2012

Brave: Kelly McDonald, Robbie Coltrane and Kevin McKidd discuss Disney's latest film.

Edi Stark discusses the latest Disney Pixar film Brave with Kelly McDonald, Robbie Coltrane and Kevin McKidd.

Marilyn Monroe: Since Marilyn Monroe's premature death 50 years ago in August of 1962, the appetite for information about her has been insatiable: a powerful star and a childlike waif; a party girl with a spiritual side; a loyal friend and a narcissist; a ditzy blonde and an intellectual with a remarkably high IQ. Her real life was as dramatic as her film roles, involving childhood foster homes, multiple marriages, affairs, and her untimely death at the age of thirty-six, Film writers Kim Newman & Alison Kerr discuss her unique and enduring appeal 

Brave - Kelly McDonald Robbie Coltrane and Kevin McKidd discuss the, much anticipated, Scotland set, Disney/Pixar film, Brave.

Rural Cinema: We've often made the point that those of us live near a cinema or multiplex probably take a visit to flicks for granted. But some rural communities are tackling the absence of a local picture house head on. On Friday in Oban, 'The Phoenix' will re-open as a community venture. And in Thurso this week, a businessman from West Lothian has got the town's picture house up and running again. And you may remember last Autumn we reported how the community in Aberfeldy had embarked on an ambitious scheme to restore and reopen the Birks Cinema in the town. Our reporter Bob Dickson has been to Oban to try to find out what's behind this resurgence in Picture Palaces.

DVD Pick of The Week Revenge of the Electric car - a documentary which chronicles the greatest shift in technology in automobile history.

THE BOURNE LEGACY The Director behind the new BOURNE film, TONY GILROY, explains how he took the helm for the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office. The writer/director has expanded the BOURNE universe created by Robert Ludlum with an original story that introduces us to a new hero (JEREMY RENNER) whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films. 

Edgar Wallace, We revisit the often forgotten world the world of B-Movies or more properly 'second features' - specifically the wonderful thrillers of Edgar Wallace, one of the twentieth century's most successful crime novelists.

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