Season 1
Episodes
1. Sean Connery
1997-05-10
With a career spanning nearly 40 years, Scottish actor Sean Connery is one of the world's most popular movie stars. In this programme, while watching clips from his films, he relates anecdotesto Mark Cousins about his life in cinema. Films discussed include Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and The Hill. Director Mark Cousins Executive producer May Miller
2. Steve Martin
1998-02-21
No overview available.
3. Terence Stamp
1998-02-28
Maverick actor Terence Stamp talks to Mark Cousins about his life, loves and the decisions that have shaped his career. Clips from Billy Budd and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert are interspersed with Stamp's candid comments.
4. Martin Scorsese
1998-04-04
Martin Scorsese, acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living directors, talks to Mark Cousins in an interview that coincides with the release of Кундун (1997), exploring the life of the Dalai Lama. In his New York production office, Scorsese discusses the experiences of working with actors such as Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli and Harvey Keitel, and how his style has evolved over the last three decades. Scorsese also analyses clips from Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas and New York, New York, and what he considers his best film, Italo-American (1974), a documentary with his parents as subjects.
5. Paul Schrader
1998-04-25
About screenwriter/filmmaker/producer Paul Schrader who entered Hollywood with the script of "Taxi Driver".
6. Jack Lemmon
1998-08-15
Jack Lemmon talks to Mark Cousins about his diverse and enduring career in cinema in a conversation punctuated by clips from his films, including The Apartment (1960) and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).
7. Brian De Palma
1998-11-08
No overview available.
8. Jonathan Demme
1999-02-27
No overview available.
9. Jane Russell
1999-05-15
Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was an American film actress and one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s.
10. Bernardo Bertolucci
1999-09-18
Bernardo Bertolucci's career reached a peak of notoriety with Last Tango in Paris (1972) in 1972, but atmospheric early work such as Spider's Strategy (1970) and The Conformist (1970) had already earmarked him as a major talent. Here, in the company of Mark Cousins, he discusses the frank sexuality in his work and influences informing it, and his hatred of his native Italy. The programme includes clips from Bertolucci's films and from those of his many admirers.
11. David Lynch
1999-11-28
Mark Cousins meets US director David Lynch, the creator of such idiosyncratic and groundbreaking screen landmarks as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks
12. James Coburn
2000-03-11
No overview available.
13. Roman Polanski
2000-05-27
No overview available.
14. Woody Allen
2000-06-10
Mark Cousins Interviews Woody Allen about his life and work.
15. Rod Steiger
2000-07-15
No overview available.
16. Lauren Bacall
2000-08-05
In a rare interview, Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall speaks to Mark Cousins about her career, her marriage to Humphrey Bogart and her friendships with Katharine Hepburn and Rock Hudson.
17. Janet Leigh
2000-12-16
No overview available.
18. Kirk Douglas
2000-12-28
No overview available.
19. Tom Hanks
2001-01-21
No overview available.
20. Donald Sutherland
2001-03-22
With roles in Военно-полевой госпиталь M*A*S*H. (1970), Klute (1971), Donald Sutherland made his name in some of the outstanding films of the seventies. He has remained one of Hollywood's most versatile actors, and in this programme he talks with Mark Cousins about his life and work.
21. Jeff Bridges
2001-08-08
No overview available.
22. Dennis Hopper
2001-08-20
No overview available.
23. Jeanne Moreau
2001-12-01
Considered by Orson Welles to be the greatest actress in the world, Jeanne Moreau was the muse of French cinema in the 1960s. Here she reveals the stories behind the making of Jules and Jim (1962), and explores sexual and intellectual freedom in her career and private life.
24. John Sayles
2001-12-08
No overview available.