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Oscar-winning Andrea Riseborough on TO LESLIE & Mary Nighy on ALICE, DARLING
In this week’s episode of the MK3D show, actress Andrea Riseborough joins Mark to talk about her starring role in TO LESLIE, for which she won an Oscar. She plays a West Texas single mother who wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak.
Mark also welcomes Mark Nighy, to talk about her directorial debut ALICE, DARLING, the tense psychological thriller from a screenplay by Alanna Francis. The film stars Anna Kendrick, Kaniehtiio Horn, Charlie Carrick and Wunmi Mosaku.
Mark also flags up the Girls On Film Award nominees for this year.
TO LESLIE and ALICE, DARLING are available to watch on streaming platforms.
This episode of Kermode On Film is the first half of the MK3D show recorded live at the BFI Southbank on 23 January 2023. This is the first half of that show.
Thank you for listening!
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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.
Cover photo by Julie Edwards.
This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.
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Films mentioned in this programme:
To Leslie
Alice, Darling
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
The Banshees of Inisherin
Devotion
I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Women Talking
Tár
Living
Mr Malcolm's List
After Yang
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Quiet Girl
The Wonder
The Power of the Dog
Nezou
Mother and Son
Nanny
The Woman King
Elvis
Panic in Needle Park
Possessor
Shivers
Death of Stalin
Mathilda
The Ruling Class
Miss Marple
Venus
The Fabelmans
ET
After Love
Exotica
Read My Lips
A Prophet
The Assistant
Girlhood
Petite Maman
The Limehouse Golem
Twilight
People mentioned in this episode:
Kate Winslet
Amy Adams
Jane Fonda
Jennifer Aniston
Edward Norton
Helen Hunt
Chanda Dancy
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Aska Matsumiya
Amelia Warner
Autumn Durald Arkapaw ASC
Hélène Louvart AFC
Kate McCullough ISC
Polly Morgan ASC BSC
Ari Wegner ASC
Rina Yang BSC
Mandy Walker AM ASC ACS
Brandon Cronenberg
David Cronenberg
Peter O’Toole
Alistair Sim
Arthur Lowe
Margaret Rutherford
Caligula
Roger Michel
Steven Spielberg
Anna Kendrick
Atom Egoyan
Sophia Coppola
Bill Nighy
Jaques Audiard
Celine Sciamma
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