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The latest releases, the hottest stars and the leading directors, plus news and insights

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The Film Programme: David Byrne

David Byrne

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, David Byrne

David Byrne discusses the film version of his Broadway musical American Utopia, which was directed by Spike Lee. With Antonia Quirke.

With Antonia Quirke

David Byrne discusses the film version of his Broadway musical American Utopia which was directed by Spike Lee. And he reveals why he's a changed man since his last concert movie Stop Making Sense.

Bait director Mark Jenkin is about to return to the film he had to abandon in March because of lockdown, Enys Men. But, thanks to social distancing rules, the film is very different from the one he had originally planned, with no crowd scenes, for instance, and a tighter budget. That's quite difficult for a horror movie with a cast of 200.

Andrew Kotting, the director of Gallivant and The Whalebone Box, has to leave the studio he has worked in for the last 15 years, packing up his paintings, his books, his work shed and his straw bear costume. He says goodbye to his studio in a plaintive series of audio diaries.

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