In this edition, Film Weekly visits the London film festival, now in full swing. Jason Solomons and Xan Brooks compare notes and discuss the three films that have starred George Clooney (Fantastic Mr Fox, Up in the Air and The Men Who Stare at Goats) before revealing their favourites so far – Jason highly recommends Jim Jarmusch's latest, The Limits of Control, as well as a brace of films starring two cherished British actors: Clive Owen in The Boys Are Back and Colin Firth in A Single Man.
Still with LFF, Jason meets British film-makers Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas, who will premiere their "animated" documentary, American: The Bill Hicks Story, at the festival on 23 October. The duo reveal their technique of turning still photographs of the comic in performance into moving images (it takes a day to produce five seconds of footage) and discuss their debt to Hicks's family and friends in the making of the film.
Jason also meets Jérôme Laperrousaz, director of Made in Jamaica, a documentary about the legacy of reggae, dub and dancehall that examines how and why the songs that express the contradictions and struggle of life in the Caribbean island have travelled around the world. Unsurprisingly, it has a brilliant soundtrack, with tracks from such legends as Toots and the Maytals, Bunny Wailer, Sly and Robbie, Gregory Isaacs, Third World and Bounty Killer. Listen to find out how you can win one of three copies.
And finally, the week's key releases are reviewed: the surprising meeting of the minds of Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson in Fantastic Mr Fox, the harrowing tale of African child soldiers in Johnny Mad Dog, and the cheap-as-chips zombie flick Colin.
