Kermode on Film

In this episode of Kermode on Film, Mark welcomes two legendary guests for a lively film conversation, recorded at the BFI Southbank on Monday 14th July 2025.

This is Part 2 of that show, in which Mark is joined by Allison Anders, the director of Gas Food Lodging and Grace of My Heart, to talk about her work. She talks about her experiences of working on Paris, Texas, and about her bucket list project, Paul Is Dead.

Mark is also joined by best beloved writer, actor, and broadcaster Stephen Fry, who reflects on his enduring relationship with cinema, storytelling, and satire.

In the first half of the 14 July MK3D show, uploaded last week, Mark was joined by Barbara Broccoli and John Carney to discuss the stage to screen production of Sing Street, and by actor and writer Arinzé Kene to talk about Harvest.

Films and Productions Mentioned in This Episode:

• Love and Mercy
• Grace of My Heart
• Gas, Food, Lodging
• Paul Is Dead
• Paris, Texas
• The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan
• The Return, Uberto Pasolini, Ralph Fiennes
• Oh Brother Where Art Thou
• The Hobbit
• There and Back Again
• Gaslight, Thorold Dickinson, Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• Fury, Fritz Lang, Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney
• Dambusters, Peter Jackson

Guests in This Episode:

• Allison Anders
• Stephen Fry

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.

MK3D is a production of HLA Agency

This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones

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