Francine Stock听and star guests on the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. Friday 4.30pm - 5pm
This week
Friday听17th November 2006
Francine Stock meets the new James Bond; French screen icon Isabelle Huppert; and the film that tells you 37 things to do with a dead sheep
On The Film Programme this week:
Casino Royale
Francine Stock talks to the new 007, Daniel Craig. In Casino Royale he becomes the sixth man to play James Bond, a young secret agent who has only just been granted a license to kill. He talks about the challenge of creating the character from scratch, and explains why he wanted this Bond to bleed.
Casino Royale (12A) is out now.
37 Things To Do With a Dead Sheep
The director Ben Hopkins joins Francine to discuss his documentary about the Pamir Kyrgyz, a Central Asian tribe who undertook an astonishing migration to Turkey after being expelled from their homelands by the Soviets. He talks about combining comedy and ethnography, and the bewildering variety of dairy products that can come from a sheep.
37 Things to Do With a Dead Sheep is at the ICA in London.
Billy Wilder
Andrew Collins looks at the work of one of Hollywood's most celebrated directors, Billy Wilder, as a new box set of his films comes out on DVD. The Billy Wilder DVD box set - containing Double Indemnity, The Major and the Minor,
A Foreign Affair and The Lost Weekend - is out on November 27th.
Isabelle Huppert
The French actress Isabelle Huppert is one of France's most notable cinema talents.
She talks to Francine about her new film Gabrielle, as a retrospective of her work comes to the National Film Theatre.
Gabrielle (15) is out now, and the NFT's Isabelle Huppert retrospective continues until the end of the month.
