Arena (1975)

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1978
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Cinema: The Force is With Us?
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Star Wars - the biggest and fastest money-maker in the history of the movies - has opened in Britain at last. What on earth - or in heaven - has caused the phenomenal success of this .. show full overview
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Art & Design: George Melly in the Journey
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Jazz singer, writer and self-confessed surrealist George Melly takes a day trip through rooms, streets, a strange cafe, with brief and curious encounters on the way. Among them, the last .. show full overview
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Art & Design: Henry Moore Meets Leonardo
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Our greatest living sculptor confronts the superb anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, and talks about them in relation to his own life-long study of the human body.
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Cinema: Howard Hawks
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Howard Hawks' career spanned the history of Hollywood. As well as designing and racing sports cars, motorbikes and aeroplanes he wrote, directed and produced every kind of Hollywood .. show full overview
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Theatre: The Cherry Orchard
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With the advent of two major new productions of The Cherry Orchard, at the National Theatre and Riverside Studios, Arena: Theatre addresses itself to the recurring debate about Chekhov the 'comic' dramatist.
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Cinema: Conrad on Screen
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A British film 'The Duellists', starring Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel and Albert Finney, won the Special Jury Award at Cannes last year and opened in London last week. It is a finely .. show full overview
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Art & Design: Carrington/Robert Motherwell/Michael McKinnon
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Arena looks at three new exhibitions: the letters and paintings of the tragic artist Carrington; works by Robert Motherwell, a giant of contemporary art; and Michael MicKinnon's explorations of the new landscapes of space-age technology.
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Cinema: Claude Renoir
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The man who in 1936 shot Jean Renoir's 'Partie de Campagne', the lyrical masterpiece of petit-bourgeois life in the 90s, nowadays finds himself tackling the somewhat different territory .. show full overview
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Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here...
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This month Arena: Theatre looks at the hard facts (and the familiar cliches) behind a new British Musical revival—a bitter-sweet story, with song and dance—as told by ex-'trouper' Glyn .. show full overview
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Cinema: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - with UFOs - was shot last year in Hollywood on a strictly closed set. No TV cameras were allowed in to see what Steven Spielberg, the young .. show full overview
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Art & Design: The Man Behind the Bricks
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A film about the controversial American artist Carl Andre, whose brick 'sculpture' caused a storm of protest when first exhibited at the Tate Gallery two years ago. Prior to a major .. show full overview
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Art & Design: Madame Stravinsky
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Vera Stravinsky—designer, painter, and widow of the great Russian composer—talks to Ronald Harwood about her remarkable life.
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Cinema: Dancing Years
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Shirley MacLaine starring with Mikhail Baryshnikov makes a powerful return to the screen in The Turning Point as an ex-dancer. In Monte Carlo at the World Premiere, she talks about her life on screen and off.
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Cinema: Roseland
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James Ivory 's new film follows the fortunes of the lonely at New York's famous old-time dance hall.
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Theatre: Taking Our Time
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For the last ten years The Red Ladder Company have played in pubs, clubs and community halls, mostly to audiences who have never set foot inside a theatre. 'Taking Our Time' is their .. show full overview
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Art & Design: Way Out West (1) - Rainbow Hughes
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First of two films about highly-individual artists from the West Country. Patrick Hughes runs a home for retired rainbows in the port of St Ives. It's the latest project in a lifetime's work spent exploring visual puns, paradoxes and jokes.
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Art & Design: Way Out West (2) - Coming Up for Air
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Second of two films about highly-individual artists from the West Country. John Abbott left the Royal College of Art and a hectic life in London six years ago. He now lives on his own in .. show full overview
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Theatre: Arnold Wesker
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Arnold Wesker's celebrated 'Roots' trilogy is being revived at the Shaw Theatre, London. It provides a unique chance to reassess a work many regard as an undoubted modern classic. Wesker .. show full overview
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Theatre: Tenjosajiki - Children of the Gods
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Arena goes to Amsterdam to film the spectacular Japanese theatre company, Tenjosajiki, prior to their first visit to England. Renowned for their fantasy plays based on ceremonial and .. show full overview
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Television: When is a Play Not a Play?
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This special edition of Arena examines the current controversy over the boundaries between drama, and documentary and looks at the problems which face programme makers who use the conventions of fiction to represent 'the facts'.
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Theatre: John Byrne
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Byrne is a Scottish writer with a highly-original comic talent. Arena visits him in Scotland and enters the world of 'The Slab Boys' - his latest play set in a carpet factory in Glasgow and based on his own experiences.
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Rock: The Tubes on Tour
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A special edition featuring the most sensational rock band of the 70s. The Tubes parody the excesses of the 20th-century dream with a dazzling, mind-blowing mixture of rock music, theatre and dance.
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Cinema: François Truffaut
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Gavin Millar talks to the French director. From his first film, 'The Four Hundred Blows'—which looks affectionately at the making of a young delinquent—to 'Small Change', made a couple of years ago, his films have often had children at their centre.
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Cinema: Bill Douglas
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Gavin Millar talks to Bill Douglas, whose recently completed trilogy about a poor Scottish childhood - 'My Childhood', 'My Ain Folk', 'My Way Home' - is regarded by many as the most important contribution to the British cinema for years.
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Theatre: Vanessa Redgrave
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In recent years her skills as an actress have been somewhat overshadowed by the publicity surrounding her political activities. Now, after an absence of five years, Vanessa Redgrave .. show full overview
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Cinema: Hooray for Hollywood?
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Gavin Millar talks to Christopher Isherwood, Neil Simon, and David Puttnam about their lives and careers in Los Angeles.
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Cinema: The Thirty-Nine Steps
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A preview of another adaptation of John Buchan's classic novel, including a look back at two earlier times it was filmed—by Hitchcock in 1935, and by Ralph Thomas in 1960.
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Cinema: A Report from Bombay
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This year's London Film Festival contained five entries from India—a reminder that the UK hardly sees any of the output of the biggest film industry in the world. Gavin Millar reports .. show full overview

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