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The Film Programme: Director Scott Cooper; Alex Gibney; Lift to the Scaffold; British indie films abroad

Lone Survivor director Peter Berg; Alex Gibney on The Armstrong Lie

30/01/2014

Director Scott Cooper; Alex Gibney; Lift to the Scaffold; British indie films abroad

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, Director Scott Cooper; Alex Gibney; Lift to the Scaffold; British indie films abroad

Francine Stock talks to director Scott Cooper about Out of the Furnace and masculinity.

Francine Stock talks to director Scott Cooper about his film Out of the Furnace. Alex Gibney on his Lance Armstrong documentary. And Lift to the Scaffold starring Jeanne Moreau.

Francine Stock talks to the director Scott Cooper about his film Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker and Woody Harrelson. Cooper explains why his own family history is so pertinent to this story of brothers struggling to find their role as men amidst the dying steel mills of Pennsylvania, and his fascination with modern masculinity.

Plus Alex Gibney on his Lance Armstrong documentary, The Armstrong Lie and how he fell under the spell of the disgraced but charismatic cyclist. What started as a comeback story in 2009 turned into something very different as the doping scandal gathered pace.

Charlie Bloye, Chief Executive of Film Export UK, the trade body that represents around 30 independent film sales companies, makes a case for more support for getting British indie films seen abroad. 

And Ginette Vincendeau of King's College London explores the magic of Jeanne Moreau in Lift to the Scaffold, the 1958 Louis Malle film which made her a full-blown star. She explains why the noirish thriller has come to be seen as a significant precursor of the French New Wave, which broke with film making conventions.

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