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The Janice Forsyth Show: 20/02/2014

20/02/2014

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Siobhan Synnot discusses The Grand Budapest Hotel as the Glagow Film Festival opens.

Siobhan Synnot discusses Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, the opening film at the Glasgow Film Festival.

The Grand Budapest Hotel - As the GFF begins today, Siobhan Synnot, will discuss The Grand opening film Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' which will soon be on general release right around the country - she will also give us her informed roundup and recommendations!

Retro connoisseur, Alison Kerr will be discussing their big Retrospective - 'Hooray For Hollywood 1939' which includes many classics including the ageless The Wizard of Oz!

Music writer Fiona Shepherd talks about all the great music docs and films at the festival this year including 20 Feet from Stardom - a film about the backing singers who made the biggest names in rock sound great. One of the original 'Ikettes', and rumoured to the inspiration for the Rolling Stones Brown Sugar, Claudia Lennear will be on hand to explain. 

We'll have LIVE music from BOY & BEAR 

Film reviewers - Nigel Floyd and Siobhan Synott will also discuss Only Lovers Left Alive - idiosyncratic auteur, Jim Jarmusch's twisted take on the vampire genre, and Nymphomaniac Vols 1 and 2 from that other idiosyncratic auteur, Lars Von Trier.

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