On this week's edition, Stephen Frears, director of The Queen, The Grifters and Dangerous Liaisons, talks to Jason Solomons about subversion, money and power in the context of his new film, Chéri, starring Michelle Pfeiffer as an ageing courtesan. The conversation ranges widely, touching on Thatcherism v New Labour, working with powerful leading ladies, collaborating with Pfeiffer again and why the credit crunch is the best time to make revolutionary films.
Norwegian director Bent Hamer, surely one of the best names in cinema, talks about his new film O'Horten, which chronicles how a train driver's life is derailed by retirement.
Xan Brooks then joins Jason to review the triumphant return of Star Trek to our big screens and, on the other end of the budget spectrum, an almost-perfect Mexican love story, Blue Eyelids, the debut feature of director Ernesto Contreras.
