Talk about English - Film 2 pt.3
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Callum: This is Talk about English live from London. I'm Callum Robertson.

Jackie: I'm Jackie Dalton

Callum: And also with us is guest Gareth Rees.

Jackie: Our current Talk about English topic is films and film lovers in London are in
for a treat at the end of October and beginning of November.

Callum: Yes, it's nearly time for the The Times BFI 50
th
London Film Festival.

Jackie: In the two weeks of the festival there will be showings of 181 Features and 131
short films alongside live events, masterclasses and screen talks.

Callum: There will be 4 World Premieres, 32 European and 123 UK premieres. The
film that opens the festival on 18
th
October is 'The Last King of Scotland'
which stars American actor Forest Whittaker as Idi Amin, the former leader of
Uganda.

Jackie: The film is based on events during the time of Amin's period in power as seen
through the eyes of his fictional personal doctor, Scotsman Nicolas Garrigan.

Here's a taster from The Last King of Scotland.

LAST KING TRAILOR

(PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR COPYRIGHT REASONS THE FILM TRAILERS ARE NOT
AVAILABLE IN THE DOWNLOAD VERSION OF THE PROGRAMME)

Callum: That was part of a trailer for the Film the Last King of Scotland which will be
opening the London Film Festival. Unfortunately you wouldn't have heard it

if you are listening to the download version of this programme. For rights
reasons I'm afraid we can't make these film clips part of the download.

Jackie: The Times 50
th
BFI London Film Festival is a truly international festival. It's
not really a festival to market big Hollywood movies.

Callum: Sandra Hebron is the artistic director of the festival. In an interview for the
World Service she talked about the international nature of the festival, which
countries does she mention?


SANDRA HEBRON
One of the best things the festival can do is to say that there is originality and creativity to be
found literally around the globe. I think one of the things that I would say about this year is
that we are still seeing really amazing work being produced from Latin America. I think
Argentina continues to be really strong, we have the new film by Pablo Trapero, we have
Adrian Caetano's new film, something like 7 or 8 really strong new films from Argentina.
Mexico too is emerging as very much one of the leading Latin American cinemas. I think that
east Asia continues to be very strong. We're very happy obviously to have Still Life, Jia
Zhangke's Venice winning film. But there are films from Japan, Korea. Actually two or three
films from the Philippines this year too which is a really a sort of new thing that we're seeing.
So a very kind of , very diverse spread of work from really a huge range of countries.

Jackie: She mentioned Argentina, Mexico, Japan, Korea and the Philippines.

Callum: One of the films she mentioned was the latest film by Argentinean director
Pablo Trapero, Born and Bred, a film about a happy family whose lives are
apparently shattered when they are involved in a car crash.

BORN AND BRED TRAILOR


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Jackie: That was the teaser trailer from Pablo Trapero's film Born and Bred.

Callum: Unlike other film festivals such as Cannes and Venice the London Film
Festival is not really a competition. There are no big prizes for best film and so
on. We asked Sandra Hebron artistic director of the festival whether that was
an advantage or disadvantage for the festival.

SANDRA HEBRON
I don't think it's a problem at all. I think quite the opposite. I think not being competitive
means that we can pull together a much stronger programme than we would be able to were
we competitive. Because what competitive festivals have ot do is they have to be driven by
finding World Premieres, whereas we have to be driven by finding the best films that we can
irrespective of whether or not they've screened elsewhere. That's a huge advantage and you
know means we can have a very high quality programme.

Jackie: Sandra sees the lack of competition to be an advantage for London. They don't
have to look for new films, just good films.

Callum: The Times BFI 50
th
London Film Festival runs from the 18
th
October to the 2
nd

November. Here's another trailer from one of the films being shown in the
festival. It's the US v John Lennon, a documentary about John Lennon's life in
the United States when he became an anti-war activist and how the US
government reacted to that.

US v JOHN LENNON TRAILOR
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AVAILABLE IN THE DOWNLOAD VERSION OF THE PROGRAMME)

Callum: Gareth, do you like the London Film Festival – will you be going along to
catch some movies or masterclasses?

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