22/07/2011

Modern love is the focus in this week's film programme presented by Matthew Sweet. A septuagenarian Christopher Plummer comes out after forty years of marriage when his wife dies in Mike Mills' Beginners; Jennifer Aniston plays a randy dentist in Seth Gordon's new film, Horrible Bosses; and Rita Hayworth torments herself and Glenn Ford in the luminescent, Gilda -- King Vidor's classic film noir which has just been re-released. All are subject to scrutiny -- Matthew discusses the part autobiography plays in Beginners with the director; probes Jennifer Aniston on the need for boundaries in comedy; and muses on the femme fatale with the novelist,Linda Grant, who is passionate about Rita Hayworth. There's also the first of six trips into the weird and wonderful world of horror with the comedian and actor, Mark Gatiss. This week he takes Matthew Down Under to a terrifying nursing home where one of its residents, Patrick, casts his deadly spell. Producer: Zahid Warley.