Jonathan Meades visits Portsmouth dockyard. For centuries the biggest military industrial complex in the world, the dockyard at "Pompey" is a source of both inspiration and paranoia for Meades.
With Zeinab Badawi.
Followed by Weather
Stars Ciive Owen , Charlotte
Rampling and Malcolm McDowell contribute to a behind-the-scenes look at director Mike Hodges 's movie /'// Sleep When I'm Dead. With its theme of revenge in the criminal underworld, it contains echoes of his 1971 classic Get Carter.
They're the unsung heroes of the film industry, sitting in darkened rooms labouring to get the structure and pace of a movie just right. The role of the film editor is celebrated by James Cameron, Jerry Bruckheimer, Sean Penn, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Craven, Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Jodie Foster, George Lucas, Anthony Minghella and Paul Verhoeven. The examples discussed include Cold Mountain, Jaws, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Basic Instinct, Bonnie and Clyde, Body Heat and Out of Sight. New.
Space adventure based on a true story.
In January 1961, the US succeeded in launching a capsule from Cape Canaveral. The race was on to put a manned craft into orbit. But who had "the right stuff" - and the technology - to do it first; Russia or America? Sam Shepard and Scott Glenn star in Philip Kaufman's drama.
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