Kermode on Film

Kermode on Film is back for the first time since April 2022!This episode is the first half of an MK3D show recorded live at the BFI Southbank on 16 September 2024. In it, London Film Festival director Kristy Matheson joins Mark to share her highlights of the LFF 2024. She recommends some favourites: the opening film, Steve McQueen’s Blitz, the closing film Piece By Piece, studio feature Conclave, indie film Harvest, and this year’s unexpected gem, The Extraordinary Miss Flower.Next, Mark welcomes iconic actress Juliet Stevenson to discuss her role in Reawakening. She also reminisces about her one-take capture of an iconic scene with Alan Rickman in Truly Madly Deeply, and the magic of working with director Anthony Minghella.Writer-director James Watkins discusses his new film Speak No Evil. He talks about capturing the anxiety of politeness, and the importance of the communal experience of watching films with an audience.The second half of this September 2024 show will be uploaded in a week's time.---------------The opening title sequence of Kermode on Film uses quotes from:- Mary Poppins, directed by Robert Stevenson and distributed by Walt Disney Motion Pictures – quote featuring Julie Andrews.-Nope, written, directed and produced by Jordan Peele, and distributed by Universal Studios – quote featuring Keke Palmer.-Withnail & I, written and directed by Bruce Robinson, and distributed by HandMade Films – quote featuring Richard E Grant.-The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty and directed by William Friedkin, distributed by Warner Brothers – quote featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair.We love these films. We urge you to seek them out, and watch them, again and again. They are masterpieces!Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production.This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.© HLA Agency

Mark and Jack Howard in conversation for the last ever Kermode on Film (at least for now). Their chat covers Nicolas Cage, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Sam Raimi and a whole lot more.© HLA Agency

Mark is live from the BFI Southbank with the second half of his April MK3D show including interviews with actors Jason Isaacs and Johnny Flynn about their roles in the WW2 movie Operation Mincemeat and pop culture legend Don Letts on Rebel Dread - the documentary about his extraordinary life and career.© HLA Agency

Mark is live from the BFI Southbank with the first half of his April MK3D show including interviews with director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović about her Cannes prize-winning film Murina and actor Eddie Marsan on his new TV series The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe.© HLA Agency

The Batman Special. Mark and Jack Howard unpick the latest screen version of DC Comics character starring Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz and Paul Dano and directed by Matt Reeves.© HLA Agency

Mark is live from the BFI Southbank with the second half of his March MK3D show with guests actress Monica Dolan and West Side Story star Rachel Zegler.© HLA Agency

Mark is live from the BFI Southbank with the first half of his March MK3D show with guests film critic Anna Smith and director Harry Wootliff talking about her new film True Things.© HLA Agency

Design Awards special. Mark talks to some of the winners at the recent British Film Designers Guild awards.© HLA Agency

Spider-Man: No Way Home special. Mark and Jack Howard discuss and dissect the recent blockbuster mega-hit based on the Marvel character.© HLA Agency