Gina McKee, Molly Parker and Shirley Henderson are sisters searching for connection and direction in Michael Winterbottom’s tapestry of urban melancholy, Wonderland (1999). Michael Nyman’s score and Sean Bobbit’s cinematography make it one of the most atmospheric and memorable films of its era. 

Filmmaker and curator Nia Childs joins to discuss the film. 

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Guest: Nia Childs

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Dirk Bogarde stars as Melville Farr, a barrister targeted by blackmailers, in noir thriller Victim (1961). Made at a time when it was illegal to be gay, Victim challenged the British film censors with an empathetic depiction of London’s gay community, and is the first film to use the word ‘homosexual’. 

John Airlie, Associate Lecturer in Film and Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, joins to discuss the film. 

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Guest: John Airlie

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In wartime England, three modern day pilgrims - a melancholy ‘land girl’, a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant - are waylaid in the English countryside where they have to solve a bizarre local mystery before going on to Canterbury to get the blessings they seek, in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Canterbury Tale (1944). 

Writer, journalist and podcaster Dan Kois joins to discuss the film. 

Host: Jack McInroy 

Guest: Dan Kois

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Two young lovers, reeling from recent breakups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London, in the award-winning romantic comedy, Rye Lane (2023). 

Corrina Antrobus, author of I Love Romcoms and I Am A Feminist, joins to discuss the film. 

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Guest: Corrina Antrobus

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Tom Hardy plays Britain’s most notorious prisoner in Nicolas Winding Refn’s English language breakthrough film, Bronson (2008). 

Joe Greenwood, host of 10TB Hard Drive podcast, joins to discuss the film, and Refn’s career. Listen to 10TB Hard Drive on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Acast. 

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Guest: Joe Greenwood

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When his wife admits to having fantasies about another man, Dr Bill Harford becomes obsessively jealous and finds himself on a psychosexual odyssey through an erotic underworld in Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick cast married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and recreated New York City on a Pinewood studios backlot in the longest shoot in film history. Eyes Wide Shut confounded many on its initial release, but over time has proven to be worthy of as much study and acclaim as any of Kubrick’s masterpieces. 

Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude, joins to discuss the film. Jonathan’s latest book, Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture, is available now from Ze Books. 

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Guest: Jonathan Lethem

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After the Oscar success of A Room With A View, Merchant-Ivory followed up with another E.M. Forster adaptation, Maurice (1987). Maurice Hall (James Wilby) comes to terms with his sexuality in repressed Edwardian England, embarking on affairs with the aristocratic Clive Durham (Hugh Grant making his feature debut) and working class gamekeeper Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves). Directed and co-written by James Ivory, who would go on to win an Oscar for Call Me By Your Name, this is a landmark film in the history of gay cinema. 

Director-producer Stephen Soucy joins to discuss the film, as well as his new documentary, Merchant Ivory, which will be in UK cinemas in December. Visit merchantivoryfilm.com for information and bonus content. 

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Guest: Stephen Soucy

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Ricky Tomlinson plays the first football manager from the lower leagues to get the England job in Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001). 

Lapsed football journalist Hugo Greenhalgh joins to discuss the film. 

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Guest: Hugo Greenhalgh 

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After the radio and television success of Hancock’s Half Hour, Tony Hancock made his big screen debut with The Rebel (1961), playing a bored office clerk who trades the City of London for the Paris art scene. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, directed by Robert Day. 

Director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast of London) joins to discuss the film. Michael will be on tour with his film, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes, in October and November. 

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Guest: Michael Cumming

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John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) is an epic retelling of the King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table myth with plenty of sex, violence and sumptuous visuals. 

Filmmaking duo David and Nathan Zellner, whose movies include Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) and Sasquatch Sunet (2024), join to discuss the film. 

Bonus chat with the Zellner brothers about directing Showtime’s The Curse, is on the Made in England YouTube channel: 

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