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Kermode on Film

Gorgeous George Mackay on FEMME & RAGING BULL, Plus hello Jason Isaacs! on ARCHIE & THE BIG CHILL

Season 2, Ep. 218
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This episode features gorgeous George Mackay, who talks about his award-winning role in FEMME, and Jason Isaacs, who discusses playing Cary Grant in ARCHIE.


This episode of the Kermode on Film podcast is Part 2 of the 86th edition of the MK3D show, recorded live at the BFI Southbank on Monday 18 December 2023.

Last week’s podcast features Part 1 of that show, in which Mark talks to Sir Ian McKellen about playing HAMLET, and to star Mia McKenna-Bruce and director Molly Manning Walker about their feature HOW TO HAVE SEX.



Thanks for listening, and remember to keep watching the skies!



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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.


© Copyright HLA Agency



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Films mentioned in this edition:

For Those In Peril

The Way We Live Now

Sunshine on Leith

Titanic

The Beast

The Act of Killing

The End

Raging Bull

Peter Pan

How To Have Sex

Pretty Woman

Mass

The Salt Path

The Godfather

The Big Chill

Dragonheart

Friends with Money


TV Series mentioned in this show:

Thirty Something


Plays mentioned in this show:

Arturo Ui

Hamlet

Angels In America

Uncle Vanya

Three Sisters



People mentioned:

Bertrand Bonello

Joshua Oppenheimer

Gaspard Ulliel

Lea Seydoux

Tilda Swinton

Michael Fassbender

Robert DeNiro

Joe Pesci

Cary Grant

Archibald Leach

Colonel Kurtz

PJ Hogan

Dyan Cannon

Mia McKenna-Bruce

Molly Manning Walker

Al Pacino

Gillian Anderson

Robert Duvall

James Brando

James Caan

Jude Law

Janet McTeer

Patrick Malahide

Ian McKellen

Sean Mathias

Kevin Kline

Jeff Goldblum

Kevin Costner

Simon McBurney

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