Arena (1975)

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1977
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Cinema: Mel Brooks
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Gavin Millar talks to Mel Brooks just before the London release of 'Silent Movie'.
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Art & Design: Sam Smith - Genuine England
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An introduction to the magical world of wood-sculptor Sam Smith, plus a look at one of this month's major exhibitions.
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Cinema: The Front
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Gavin Miller talks to director Martin Ritt, writer Walter Bernstein, and actors Woody Allen and Zero Mostel about 'The Front'.
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Theatre: Spokesong
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Does a history of the bicycle sound a surprising way of looking at the changes in society since the turn of the century? It's Stewart Parker 's theme in his new musical play .. show full overview
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Theatre: At Home with Mole
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Richard Goolden first played the part of Mole in 'Toad of Toad Hall' in 1930. He now lives in mole-like surroundings in Chelsea, where a lifetime's enthusiasm for music-hall, French .. show full overview
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Cinema: News Round-up
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A fortnightly look at the big screen at home and abroad. News, views and interviews presented by Gavin Millar.
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Art & Design: Ralph Steadman
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Ralph Steadman illustrates a children's anti-war story, caricatures at his local pub, and speaks about his drawing techniques and his work, including Alice, and impressions of the Patty Hearst trial and the Watergate hearings.
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Cinema: Network/Alberto Cavalcanti
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Gavin Miller discusses 'Network' with director Sidney Lumet and Robert Kee; plus, Alberto Cavalcanti talks about his film career on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
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Theatre: The Cultural Common Market (2) - Peter Stein and The Schaubuhne
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Next week, Germany's best theatre company is coming to London for the first time. In the 50s and 60s it was obligatory for theatre fans and critics from all over Germany to make the .. show full overview
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Cinema: Pauline Kael on Costa-Gavras
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Gavin Millar talks to New Yorker critic Pauline Kael about Costa-Gavras' 'Z' and 'Section Speciale', along with her passion for the movies and how she wields her power.
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Art & Design: What is a Hologram?
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What is a Hologram? It looks real but has no substance... It's a ghost created by science... We investigate this futuristic phenomenon and its potential in the Arts.
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Art & Design: Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon
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Inspired by the landscape, the wildlife, and by his village neighbours, artist Kit Williams conjures up in his paintings a vivid folklore of his own. This magical world comes alive in a Gloucestershire valley, for this Arena film.
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Cinema: A Star is Born
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On the occasion of the release of the third film version of 'A Star is Born', James Mason talks about the curious business of stardom and how it has changed.
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Theatre: A Night Out
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Arena visits three theatres - the Mercury Theater in Colchester, the Humberside Theatre in Hull, and the Duke's Playhouse in Lancaster - to find out what they are doing, how they are doing it and why they think they should go on doing it.
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Cinema: Ealing Studios
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A look at Ealing Studios, including excerpts of many of their popular films.
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Art & Design: Family Pieces
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Philip Sutton is perhaps best known as a portrait painter; his principal subject is his family—his wife Heather, son, and three daughters. Tonight's film looks at the way he has recorded them, and at the way they have recorded him.
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Art & Design: Both Sides of the Line
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In April 1917, the poet Edward Thomas was killed by a shell in his dug-out at Arras, France; bBehind the German lines was a young artist, Helmut Weissenborn. Now 79 and living in .. show full overview
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Art & Design: The Divine and the Fantastic
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A look at a superb collection of Gothic art from Cologne.
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Cinema: Rome (1)
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In the first part of a two-part special edition from Rome, Gavin Millar interviews Bernardo Bertolucci, director of 'Last Tango in Paris' and '1900'; he also reports Fellini's new film, .. show full overview
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Theatre: The Prospect Before Us
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Prospect Theatre Company reopens the Old Vic. Includes rehearsal footage from 'St Joan', 'Hamlet', 'Antony and Cleopatra', and 'War Music', a new musical adaptation of 'The Iliad' by Christopher Logue.
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Cinema: Rome (2)
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In the second part of a two-part special edition from Rome, Gavin Millar talks to director Bernardo Bertolucci about '1900', his new five-and-a-half-hour film, as well as his earlier work.
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Art & Design: The Continuous Diary
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"11.20 am, 12 February 1974: a man in a new overcoat and an astrakhan hat, the weekend shopping in his arms, walking along the pavement barking loudly like a dog." Ten years ago, Ian .. show full overview
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Art & Design: Dine's Drawings
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Jim Dine, the American artist who first became famous in the New York pop-art scene of the early 60s, explains why he has recently felt the need to go back to drawing the human figure.
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Cinema: Erotic Cinema
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More and more cinemas are turning to sex as a last resort to stop dwindling audiences. Is there anything to be said for erotic cinema? Are all films about sex sexy films? Is there a good .. show full overview
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Cinema: Sophia Loren
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An interview with Sophia Loren on the occasion of the opening of 'The Cassandra Crossing'.
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Cinema: Cannes
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Mr Universe, the Crazy Horse Girls de Paris, Yum Yum Shaw, superstars with police escorts, topless bathing beauties—the Cannes Film Festival still sometimes seems more like a circus than .. show full overview
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Theatre: Playwrights of the 70s
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In the last ten years an astonishing number of new writers have emerged: Barrie Keeffe, John McGrath, David Hare, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton, Trevor Griffiths and Stephen Poliakoff .. show full overview
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Cinema: Edinburgh International Festival 1977
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Report from the 1977 Edinburgh International Festival—the experimental shows, Film Festival, Television Festival, and art galleries. Includes a new production of 'Carmen'.
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Cinema: John Frankenheimer
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Gavin Millar returns for a new season after a visit to Hollywood, which despite rumours of slump and panic is still the unquestioned capital of the cinema world. We talked to one of its .. show full overview
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Cinema: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's film 'New York, New York', starring Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli, is his most ambitious film to date. Not just a nostalgic homage to the Hollywood musical but a .. show full overview
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Art & Design: Achtung Minen! The Work of Ian Hamilton Finlay
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William Feaver introduces the latest work of this unique and controversial artist, known since the 60s as our foremost concrete poet.
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Cinema: Annie Hall
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Diane Keaton and Woody Allen talk about the filming of 'Annie Hall' and their long friendship.
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Theatre: Noel Coward in The Gorbals
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Second only to North Sea oil, the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre is Scotland's most staggering and unlikely success story. Despite its location on a devastated patch of Gorbals' ground, it .. show full overview
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Theatre: The Siege of Alie Street
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The tiny Half Moon Theatre in London's East End is fighting for its life. Its long campaign to acquire Wilton's Music Hall as a theatre and community centre is threatened by a bid from a .. show full overview
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Cinema: Greece
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The Colonels have gone - and Greek cinema is emerging again. Gavin Millar talks to Melina Mercouri in Athens where she is finishing her first film since her return from exile. He also .. show full overview
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Art & Design: Richard Seifert
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Richard Seifert created much of the new sky-line of London. His high-rise blocks—most notably Centre Point—have been the cause of controversy and scandal, while the architect himself has .. show full overview
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Art & Design: Cleveland Brown
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Cleveland Brown is a truly original naive painter from North London, whose subjects include the Spaghetti House Siege and the Queen's Jubilee.
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Art & Design: Patchwork Protest
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An exhibition of dazzling patchwork pictures made by the wives of political prisoners in Chile.
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Cinema: News Round-up
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A fortnightly look at the big screen at home and abroad. News, views and interviews presented by Gavin Millar.
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Theatre: Hands Off the Classics
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Messing around with the classics has a long and honoured history. Nevertheless a fascinating and vitriolic debate is now raging over the border line between interpretation and vandalism. .. show full overview
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Cinema: 21st London Film Festival (1)
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This week sees the opening of the 21st London Film Festival—the festival of festivals—with new films from 24 countries. Bertolucci, Angelopoulos, Herzog, James Ivory, Marguerite Duras .. show full overview
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Art & Design: The Family
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Michael Bennett introduces Uncle Cyril, and other members of his own family whom he has immortalised in an exhibition of photographs.
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Art & Design: Wrapping up the Reichstag
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The artist Christo has parcelled up buildings, coastlines, and human beings, hung an orange curtain across a Colorado gulf, and created a two-million-dollar nylon fence along 25 miles of .. show full overview
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Art & Design: The Wireless Show
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A look at some beautifully designed wireless sets, and a nostalgic reminder of the sounds they once transmitted.
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Cinema: 21st London Film Festival (2)
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This year's London Film Festival has been one of the biggest ever, with a wider spread of films—in scale, nationality, genre, and politics—than ever before. But one of the constant .. show full overview
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Theatre: Leonard Rossiter & Nola Rae
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Arena looks at two virtuoso solo performances: Leonard Rossiter is currently tackling his most demanding role, alone on stage for two hours as the mad 18th-century painter Benjamin .. show full overview
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Cinema: Peter Yates
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'The Deep' opens in London this week. Written by the man who wrote 'Jaws', Peter Benchley, it's been the biggest grosser in the USA this year—after Star Wars, of course. Although it .. show full overview

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