1997

Summary Mark Cousins talks to actors and filmmakers in-depth about their work and lives. View more details

1997

Scene by Scene

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Sean Connery Paul Schrader Woody Allen Mark Cousins

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Genres : Documentary Talk-Show

Release date : May 9, 1997

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary Mark Cousins talks to actors and filmmakers in-depth about their work and lives. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary Talk-Show

Release date : May 9, 1997

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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David Lynch and Mark Cousins in Scene by Scene (1997)

Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader in Scene by Scene (1997)

Rod Steiger and Mark Cousins in Scene by Scene (1997)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • May 09, 1997

Sean Connery

With a career spanning nearly 40 years, Scottish actor Sean Connery is one of the world's most popular movie stars. In this programme, while watching clips from his films, he relates anecdotes to Mark Cousins about his life in cinema. Films discussed include Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and The Hill.

Episode 2 • Feb 20, 1998

Steve Martin

Episode 3 • Feb 27, 1998

Terence Stamp

Maverick actor Terence Stamp talks to Mark Cousins about his life, loves and the decisions that have shaped his career. Clips from Billy Budd and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert are interspersed with Stamp's candid comments.

Episode 4 • Apr 03, 1998

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese, acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living directors, talks to Mark Cousins in an interview that coincides with the release of Kundun (1997), exploring the life of the Dalai Lama. In his New York production office, Scorsese discusses the experiences of working with actors such as Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli and Harvey Keitel, and how his style has evolved over the last three decades. Scorsese also analyses clips from Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas and New York, New York, and what he considers his best film, Italianamerican (1974), a documentary with his parents as subjects.

Episode 5 • Apr 24, 1998

Paul Schrader

About screenwriter/filmmaker/producer Paul Schrader who entered Hollywood with the script of "Taxi Driver".

Episode 6 • Aug 14, 1998

Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon talks to Mark Cousins about his diverse and enduring career in cinema in a conversation punctuated by clips from his films, including The Apartment (1960) and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

Episode 7 • Nov 07, 1998

Brian De Palma

Episode 8 • Feb 26, 1999

Jonathan Demme

Episode 9 • May 14, 1999

Jane Russell

Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was an American film actress and one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s.

Episode 10 • Sep 17, 1999

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci's career reached a peak of notoriety with Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972) in 1972, but atmospheric early work such as Strategia del ragno (1970) and Il conformista (1970) had already earmarked him as a major talent. Here, in the company of Mark Cousins, he discusses the frank sexuality in his work and influences informing it, and his hatred of his native Italy. The programme includes clips from Bertolucci's films and from those of his many admirers.

Episode 11 • Nov 27, 1999

David Lynch

Mark Cousins meets US director David Lynch, the creator of such idiosyncratic and groundbreaking screen landmarks as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks

Episode 12 • Mar 10, 2000

James Coburn

Episode 13 • May 26, 2000

Roman Polanski

Episode 14 • Jun 09, 2000

Woody Allen

Mark Cousins Interviews Woody Allen about his life and work.

Episode 15 • Jul 14, 2000

Rod Steiger

Rob Steiger talks to Mark Cousins about his celebrated roles in On the Waterfront, Dr Zhivago and In the Heat of the Night, and shares anecdotes about James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.

Episode 16 • Aug 04, 2000

Lauren Bacall

In a rare interview, Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall speaks to Mark Cousins about her career, her marriage to Humphrey Bogart and her friendships with Katharine Hepburn and Rock Hudson.

Episode 17 • Dec 15, 2000

Janet Leigh

Episode 18 • Dec 27, 2000

Kirk Douglas

Episode 19 • Jan 20, 2001

Tom Hanks

Episode 20 • Mar 21, 2001

Donald Sutherland

With roles in MASH (1970), Klute (1971) and Klute (1971), Donald Sutherland made his name in some of the outstanding films of the seventies. He has remained one of Hollywood's most versatile actors, and in this programme he talks with Mark Cousins about his life and work.