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Meera Syal on ELF & Panto with Kiefer Sutherland + Joachim Trier on SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Season 2, Ep. 259
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In this episode, Mark is thrilled to welcome Joachim Trier, whose beautiful film SENTIMENTAL VALUE is in UK cinemas boxing day, and Meera Syal, who talks to Mark about her favourite Christmas film ELF - and her role in TINSELTOWN, directing Kiefer Sutherland in a Christmas Panto. Enjoy!
This episode is one half of the December 2025 MK3D, recorded live at the BFI Southbank on Monday 15 December. The next half of the show is podcast on 30 December and features Brett Goldstein, Imogen Poots and William Bridges talking about ALL OF YOU, and Tim Key and James Griffiths talking about THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND.
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Opening title quotes from:
- Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)
- Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)
- Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)
- The Exorcist (William Friedkin, Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)
These films are essential viewing.
Watch them. Love them. Share them.
They are masterpieces.
Mark Kermode Live in 3D and Kermode on Film are HLA Agency productions
This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones
Image by Julie Edwards.
© HLA Agency
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