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Front Row: Jodie Foster, Molly's Game, Christmas film round-up, Hamilton, Imtiaz Dharker

Jodie Foster, Molly's Game, Christmas film round-up, Hamilton, Imtiaz Dharker

21/12/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jodie Foster, Molly's Game, Christmas film round-up, Hamilton, Imtiaz Dharker

Jodie Foster on directing Black Mirror, The Hamilton phenomenon, Christmas film round-up.

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Jodie Foster on directing Black Mirror, The Hamilton phenomenon, Molly's Game reviewed and films to see this Christmas.

Jodie Foster was a child star who fulfilled that early promise with performances as an adult that won her two Oscars. She went on to direct - four feature films so far. Now she is turning to television, taking charge of an episode of Charlie Brooker's sci-fi series Black Mirror. She talks to John Wilson about this and, after a quarter of a century, the continuing power of The Silence of the Lambs.

Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game, starring Jessica Chastain, is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. Ellen E Jones reviews.

Critic Ellen E Jones gives us her run-down of what films to see at cinemas this Christmas

As the award-winning hip hop musical Hamilton transfers to London's West End from Broadway, critic Matt Wolf and music journalist Kevin Le Gendre discuss the hotly-anticipated musical phenomenon.

With Radio 4 marking winter today as part of its Four Seasons project, the poet Imtiaz Dharker reads her specially commissioned piece, Thaw.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Edwina Pitman.

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