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Asif Kapadia

Asif Kapadia talks about Cyclo, the film that influenced Amy, Diego Maradona and The Warrior.

With Francine Stock

Asif Kapadia talks about the film that influenced Amy, Diego Maradona and The Warrior. He explains how a lightbulb went on above his head when he first saw the Vietnamese gangster movie, Cyclo, and how his life was never the same again. Francine also talks to Cyclo's director Tran Anh Hung about one of the movie's key scenes, when a helicopter falls off the back of a lorry.

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28 minutes

Last on

Sun 29 Sep 2019 23:00

Broadcasts

  • Thu 26 Sep 2019 16:00
  • Sun 29 Sep 2019 23:00

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