We're all at sea in this week's Film Weekly podcast as Jason Solomons welcomes Martin Strel from the banks of the Thames, as he promotes his eco-campaigning film Big River Man while creating a puddle onstage at the BFI Southbank.
Xan Brooks reports from the opening day of the Venice film festival, picking his way through the scaffolding currently swaddling the Lido, and looking forward to the latest Cormac McCarthy adaptation, The Road.
And we meet the star of (500) Days of Summer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who discusses his progress from sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun through films such as Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, high school noir Brick and the Iraq war drama Stop-Loss.
Plus we review the best of this week's new releases, including eagerly-anticipated aliens on Earth drama District 9, and Bustin' Down the Door, another documentary that fills us in on how important surfing is to human existence.
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