The Film Programme

Chris Menges, Local Hero

09.23.2021 - By BBC Radio 4Play

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With Antonia Quirke Oscar winning cinematographer and director Chris Menges takes us behind the scenes of Local Hero, The Mission and Kes, and reveals how he ended up in a Zanzibar prison with Michael Parkinson. Bait director Mark Jenkin records his last audio diary about the making of his horror movie, Enys Men, which was delayed by a year because of lockdown and was filmed during the pandemic. Listeners nominate their favourite final scenes and composer Neil Brand chooses his two favourite end pieces: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Cabaret. Sweetheart director Marley Morrison nominates her favourite final scene - the brief encounter in Andrew Haigh's debut Weekend. And thank you to all of you who nominated your favourite final scene. We didn't have time to mention them all on air, so here is the complete list: Algiers

Animal House

Being There

Be Kind, Rewind

Big Night

Billy Elliot

Bright Star

Capernaum

Casablanca

Chinatown

Cinderella

Cold War

Death In Venice

Empire Of The Sun

Ex Machina

400 Blows

Genevieve

Gloria

Goodbye Mr Chips

Ice Cold In Alex

James And The Giant Peach

Local Hero

Los Silensios

Michael Clayton

Midnight Run

Monsoon Wedding

Nostalgia

Of Gods And Men

O Lucky Man !

On The Waterfront

Orlando

Pan's Labyrinth

Pepe Le Moko

Rocks

Sideways

Some Like It Hot

Stalker

System Crasher

The Apartment

The Battle Of Algiers

The Deer Hunter

The Leopard

The Lives Of Others

The Long Good Friday

The Mermaid

The Mission

The Purple Rose Of Cairo

The Seventh Seal

The Silence Of The Lambs

The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3

The Third Man

The Usual Suspects

This Is Spinal Tap

Tunes Of Glory

Un Coeur En Hiver

Withnail And I

Witness

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