The Movies That Made Me...

The Movies That Made Me: Season 2: Episode 8: Rock & Pop Frank Sinatra and Harry Belafonte, Doris Day and Dorothy Dandridge were all music stars who became movie stars. Singer Al Jolson even made the first talkie but it was Elvis Presley who broke the mould, then shaped a new one. Luke Sorba and film journalist, presenter and writer Ian Hayden Smith guide us through their favourite films featuring a rock star or pop star in an acting role from Tina Turner to Lady Gaga, David Bowie to David Essex, Mick Jagger to Kris Kristofferson, Ringo Starr, Cher, Madonna and many others. So please join us for Rock and Pop and the Movies BONUS: Producer’s Pick Host: Luke Sorba @LukeSorbaLabour (X) Producer: Andrew Paine @ItPainesMe (Bluesky)

The Movies That made Me: Season 2: Episode 6: MONEY Part 2 They say sex and money make the world go around and cinema is of course part of that world. We shall consider Cinema's Sexiest Moments later this Season but coming up now is our Double Episode on Films about Money. And what better guest to join me than Financial Journalist and Broadcaster Adam Shaw, former host of BBC 2's Working Lunch and Business Presenter on Radio 4's Today Programme. In Part Two we focus on The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, I Daniel Blake, and The Sting - plus Producer's Choice The Italian Job (and reveal our Platinum Play Out winner). And you don't have to beg, borrow, steal, earn, con or fall out over a fortune as our Podcast is absolutely free! End Credits Luke Sorba: Host X: LukeSorbaLabour Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer Blue Sky: ItPainesMe

The Movies That Made Me... Season 2: Episode 4: Favourite Final Scenes It's the last day of the year: What better time to discuss the last scene of a movie? Six in fact as Luke Sorba is joined by playwright / comedian / actress/ improviser/ TV presenter and Life Coach: Alison Goldie. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ikiru Dead of Night Black Narcissus Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Parasite All contend for the prize of Favourite Final Film Scene. Along the way we discuss famous freeze frames and staring faces, one-liners, re-unions, deaths and all the other ingredients that make up a classic closing moment. Learn our Producer Andrew Paine's choice (a contender for most memorable death, closing line and freeze frame all at once). And we end with the best closing musical moment EVER. Warning: There will be spoilers. But they will be worth it! TMTMM is a Picard Production. Hosted by Luke Sorba. Produced and Edited by Andrew Paine End Credits Luke Sorba: Host Twitter: LukeSorbaLabour Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer Blue Sky: ItPainesMe

The Movies That Made Me: Season 2: Episode 2 - FIGHTING The War of the Words, Motions Eleven, The Mild Bunch... not actual films but titles that conjur the feel of this week's movie debate as: Script Editor and former Curzon Magazine film critic Martha "The Mace" Julier squares up against Former Actress and Teacher of English Literature and Media Studies Katie "The Catapult" Purslow to make the case for their Favourite Movie Fight Scenes. Refereed by Luke "The Long Sword" Sorba, Fights not Battles means no to (Abel Gance's) Napoleon, Saving Private Ryan or Avengers: Endgame. But yes to Enter the Dragon, Charlie's Angels (2000), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Aliens, The Raid and... Bridesmaids! Download now, it's a knock out. TMTMM is a Picard Production. Hosted by Luke Sorba. Produced and Edited by Andrew Paine End Credits Luke Sorba: Host Twitter: LukeSorbaLabour Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer Twitter: ItPainesMe

The Movies That Made Me… Episode 6: Trial By Jury Luke Sorba wrote and directed his first movie on Super 8 when he was 18 years old. "The Mirror Within" won in the Novice Category at Streatham and Norwood Amateur Film Club's Annual Awards. He only made one more (apart from some YouTube sketches) but he has since watched 6000 movies made by other people and owns 1600 on DVD. He spent more teenage hours at the National Film Theatre and the Electric Cinema than anywhere else, and is currently on first name terms with staff at Peckhamplex. Over two hundred books on cinema fill his shelves and he has a complete collection of Monthly Film Bulletin magazines (incorporated in Sight and Sound since 1990) going back to 1964. As an actor and writer, as well as a teacher of story telling Luke brings professional experience to his observations but it his status as a super-fan that sets him apart. He is rare among enthusiasts in that there is no period nor genre nor country whose movies he is not curious about. From Intolerance to Inception, The St Valentine's Day Massacre to The Belles of St Trinian's, Do the Right Thing to Dr Dolittle, Zombieland to Nomadland, Superfly to Superman, Tod Browning to Todd Haynes, Federico Fellini to The Fast and Furious, Monika Treut to Monica Bellucci, there is a place for everyone in The Movies That Made Me. Luke Sorba and Andrew Paine previously collaborated on the online improvised comedy show "Unmute". Together they make up Picard Productions. Episode 6 features… Lee Apsey is an award-winning writer, director, producer and performer across film, theatre and digital media. His accomplishments range from critically acclaimed feature films and TV pilots to multiple sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, Brighton Fringe and Leicester Square Theatre atop a multi-million viewership across online projects. As an improviser he has taught and performed in the UK, Europe, Asia and United States for over a decade. He is the co-founder of CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation (“A Spectacular must see” - ☆☆☆☆☆ Bunberry Magazine) as well as currently performing Your Flaws: The Musical and freestyle rap show Slice of Rhyme. Susie Labinjoh is a civil liberties and human rights solicitor. She specialises in: civil actions against the police and other public bodies; related human rights claims; compensation claims for victims of miscarriage of justice and public law challenges related to these areas. In her spare time she enjoys film, theatre and podcasts amongst other things! Trials By Jury... JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (2000) d Gale Edwards Possibly the most famous miscarriage of justice, this time presented as a rock opera. Made washing your hands in public a trope 2000 years before Covid. Contrasts: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) d Norman Jewison; The Passion of the Christ (2004) d Mel Gibson; The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) d Martin Scorsese MRS DOUBTFIRE (1993) d Chris Columbus Alongside Aladdin. and Good Morning Vietnam a fantastic platform for the comedic talent of Robin Williams. And by no means as sentimental as some of Williams’ subsequent films. Contrasts: Kramer vs Kramer (1979) d Robert Benton; Tootsie (1982) d Sydney Pollack TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) d Robert Mulligan A classic movie (adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic book) which is particularly interesting to revisit with a post-Black Lives Matter perspective. Racism, justice, community – all through the gaze of a child. Contrast: In the Name of the Father (1993) d Jim Sheridan JUST MERCY (2019) d Destin Daniel Cretton Jamie Foxx reminds us how incredibly versatile he is in this searing true story about a black man falsely convicted of a murder that takes place in the Harper Lee’s home town. Contrast: A Few Good Men (1992) Rob Reiner A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946) d Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger A wonderfully rich film that is both truly of its time – just after World War 2 – and yet its playing with form and dealing with diversit

The Movies That Made Me… Episode 4: Want To Change The World Luke Sorba wrote and directed his first movie on Super 8 when he was 18 years old. "The Mirror Within" won in the Novice Category at Streatham and Norwood Amateur Film Club's Annual Awards. He only made one more (apart from some YouTube sketches) but he has since watched 6000 movies made by other people and owns 1600 on DVD. He spent more teenage hours at the National Film Theatre and the Electric Cinema than anywhere else, and is currently on first name terms with staff at Peckhamplex. Over two hundred books on cinema fill his shelves and he has a complete collection of Monthly Film Bulletin magazines (incorporated in Sight and Sound since 1990) going back to 1964. As an actor and writer, as well as a teacher of story telling Luke brings professional experience to his observations but it his status as a super-fan that sets him apart. He is rare among enthusiasts in that there is no period nor genre nor country whose movies he is not curious about. From Intolerance to Inception, The St Valentine's Day Massacre to The Belles of St Trinian's, Do the Right Thing to Dr Dolittle, Zombieland to Nomadland, Superfly to Superman, Tod Browning to Todd Haynes, Federico Fellini to The Fast and Furious, Monika Treut to Monica Bellucci, there is a place for everyone in The Movies That Made Me. Luke Sorba and Andrew Paine previously collaborated on the online improvised comedy show "Unmute". Together they make up Picard Productions. Episode 4 features… Stella Duffy is a writer and psychotherapist. She is an award-winning writer of seventeen novels, over seventy short stories and fourteen plays. Stella worked in theatre for over thirty-five years as an actor, director, facilitator and improvisor and received the OBE for Services to the Arts in 2016. She is also a yoga teacher and runs yoga-for-writing workshops. Alongside her private psychotherapy practice, Stella works for a low-cost community mental health service. She is in the third year of a doctorate training in Existential Psychotherapy and her research is in the embodied experience of postmenopause. Twitter: @stellduffy Web: https://stelladuffytherapy.co.uk/ Anshu Srivastava spent twenty-five years training and working as an architect, before changing direction and becoming a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Web www.mra.co.uk Web www.srivastavatherapy.co.uk The Movies That Made Them Want To Change The World GREGORY’S GIRL (d Bill Forsyth) 1981 A film that is sweet without being sentimental, hopeful without being naïve, with an object of desire that subtly takes control. A remarkable portrait of an unremarkable teenager. Contrast - The Inbetweeners Movie BOY (d Taika Waititi) 2012 A father and son re-unite, two cultures join across an ocean, and innocence is on the line in 1980’s Aotearoa / New Zealand. Waititi’s blend of humour and pathos, of optimism and discovery is already laid out in his most autobiographical movie. The end credits sequence is outstanding! Contrast - Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.2 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (d Gillo Pontecorvo) 1966 So realistic some audiences thought they were watching a documentary. Banned in France for being to honest about its colonial past. Proudly political it is simultaneously gripping as a human drama, thriller and war movie. Contrast – The Wind that Shakes the Barley DESERT HEARTS (d Donna Deitch) 1985 A landmark movie as Queer Cinema meets the mainstream, putting Jane Rule’s 1964 romantic novel on screen – stunning landscapes, honest performances with actors and director putting their careers on the line. It was viciously attacked by the New York Times but is now a deserved cult classic. Contrast – Lianna THE FLORIDA PROJECT (d Sean Baker) 2017 The most sublime final sequence I have witnessed this century. And the movie before that is pretty darn great too! It excels across more than one genre and is one of the best movies centred on a single building, in cinema. Contras

Movies That Made Me… Episode 2: Creative Artists Luke Sorba wrote and directed his first movie on Super 8 when he was 18 years old. "The Mirror Within" won in the Novice Category at Streatham and Norwood Amateur Film Club's Annual Awards. He only made one more (apart from some YouTube sketches) but he has since watched 6000 movies made by other people and owns 1600 on DVD. He spent more teenage hours at the National Film Theatre and the Electric Cinema than anywhere else, and is currently on first name terms with staff at Peckhamplex. Over two hundred books on cinema fill his shelves and he has a complete collection of Monthly Film Bulletin magazines (incorporated in Sight and Sound since 1990) going back to 1964. As an actor and writer, as well as a teacher of story telling Luke brings professional experience to his observations but it his status as a super-fan that sets him apart. He is rare among enthusiasts in that there is no period nor genre nor country whose movies he is not curious about. From Intolerance to Inception, The St Valentine's Day Massacre to The Belles of St Trinian's, Do the Right Thing to Dr Dolittle, Zombieland to Nomadland, Superfly to Superman, Tod Browning to Todd Haynes, Federico Fellini to The Fast and Furious, Monika Treut to Monica Bellucci, there is a place for everyone in The Movies That Made Me. Luke Sorba and Andrew Paine previously collaborated on the online improvised comedy show "Unmute". Together they make up Picard Productions. Episode 2 features… Tai Campbell is a writer, director, comedian, celebrity impressionist and life long film fan. A founding member of the UK's first all Black improv team Do The Right Scene, he has credits include BBC One, BBC Three and Vice. He enjoys pretty much anything that can make him laugh and is a real sucker for a great story Suki Webster most recently starred in “Motorhoming with Merton and Webster” a six part travel show on Channel 5. Suki is a founder member of the critically acclaimed “Paul Merton’s Impro Chums”. She is a regular guest with The Comedy Store Players and appeared in the West End run of One Word Improv co-starring with Eddie Izzard and ‘Whose Line is It Anyway Live’. She also has her own Improv show ‘Suki Webster’s Guest Speaker.’ In 2018/19 Suki wrote and starred in a Radio 4 sitcom ‘My Obsession.’ Film & TV work includes: Comic Act (Gemini Films). The New Adventures of Robin Hood (Warner Brothers, US TV), Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes To Glastonbury (BBC2) and Baby Father (BBC2). Radio: Just A Minute (R4) The Impro Musical (R2). Theatre Work: Court In The Act and Passport to Danger (Watford Palace Theatre & Chichester) A Visit From Miss Prothero, Mon Droit and Making News. (Edinburgh Festival.) Our Creative Artists come from… MY FAVOURITE YEAR 1982 (Richard Benjamin) Set in the 1950’s heyday of live television with a tour de force from Peter O’Toole and based on the memories of Mel Brooks and the shock he got when he met his screen idol, Errol Flynn in real life. Contrast: Last Action Hero (1993) THE JACKSONS – AN AMERICAN DREAM 1992 (Karen Arthur) Five hour epic biopic of one of the most talented and famous musical families in history and a look at the pain offstage as well as the genius on it. Contrast: The Sound of Music (1965) SUNSET BLVD 1950 (Billy Wilder) The most famous street in cinema houses a fallen silent movie star from a bygone era and a hack Hollywood screenwriter feeding off each other to survive in an industry that consumes everyone. Contrast: Singing in The Rain (1952) THE SHINING 1980 (Stanley Kubrick) Wannabe great American novelist Jack Nicholson gets writer’s block holed up off season in creepy Overlook Hotel and his family suffer the consequences. Contrast: The Haunting (1963) A MIGHTY WIND 2003 (Christopher Guest) Affectionate parody of the 60’s US Folk Revival scene in particular and Band Reunions in general. Featuring the late, legendary Fred Willard who once said to Luke “you are very funny” and he