In this edition, Film Weekly twirls from discussing Jim Jarmusch films with John Hurt to stomping with the monsters in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are and does a dance of joy for the newly restored The Red Shoes.
First up, Jason Solomons talks to the great British actor John Hurt about his ability to make a cameo count and the pleasure of working with Jim Jarmusch on his new film, the highbrow hitman thriller The Limits of Control. The actor, who was conferred a BFI fellowship at the London film festival this year, shares how his collaboration with Jarmusch started on Dead Man and why he enjoys working with first-time directors.
Xan Brooks then joins Jason to review the week's key releases: they disagree on Spike Jonze's airy adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are and Jim Jarmusch's zen-like The Limits of Control, but are united in lauding the re-issue of Powell and Pressburger's cinematic gem The Red Shoes, one of the great British films of the last century.
And finally, as the digitally cleaned up version of the 1948 classic pirouettes into cinemas this week, Michael Brook, curator of the BFI's Screen Online, joins Jason to discuss Martin Scorsese's debt to The Red Shoes and his close relationship with Michael Powell which led to his World Cinema Foundation undertaking the restoration of the masterwork.
