Sean Connery

S01 E01 • Saturday, May 10, 1997 • May 10 • 1h

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 anecdotesto Mark Cousins about his life in cinema. Films discussed include Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and The Hill. Director Mark Cousins Executive producer May Miller

Steve Martin

S01 E02 • Saturday, Feb 21, 1998 • Feb 21 • 1h

Terence Stamp

S01 E03 • Saturday, Feb 28, 1998 • Feb 28 • 1h

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.

Martin Scorsese

S01 E04 • Saturday, Apr 4, 1998 • Apr 4 • 1h

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 Кундун (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, Italo-American (1974), a documentary with his parents as subjects.

Paul Schrader

S01 E05 • Saturday, Apr 25, 1998 • Apr 25 • 1h

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

Jack Lemmon

S01 E06 • Saturday, Aug 15, 1998 • Aug 15 • 1h

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).

Brian De Palma

S01 E07 • Sunday, Nov 8, 1998 • Nov 8 • 1h

Jonathan Demme

S01 E08 • Saturday, Feb 27, 1999 • Feb 27 • 1h

Jane Russell

S01 E09 • Saturday, May 15, 1999 • May 15 • 1h

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

Bernardo Bertolucci

S01 E10 • Saturday, Sep 18, 1999 • Sep 18 • 1h

Bernardo Bertolucci's career reached a peak of notoriety with Last Tango in Paris (1972) in 1972, but atmospheric early work such as Spider's Strategy (1970) and The Conformist (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.

David Lynch

S01 E11 • Sunday, Nov 28, 1999 • Nov 28 • 1h

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

James Coburn

S01 E12 • Saturday, Mar 11, 2000 • Mar 11 • 1h

Roman Polanski

S01 E13 • Saturday, May 27, 2000 • May 27 • 1h

Woody Allen

S01 E14 • Saturday, Jun 10, 2000 • Jun 10 • 1h

Mark Cousins Interviews Woody Allen about his life and work.

Rod Steiger

S01 E15 • Saturday, Jul 15, 2000 • Jul 15 • 1h

Lauren Bacall

S01 E16 • Saturday, Aug 5, 2000 • Aug 5 • 1h

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.

Janet Leigh

S01 E17 • Saturday, Dec 16, 2000 • Dec 16 • 1h

Kirk Douglas

S01 E18 • Thursday, Dec 28, 2000 • Dec 28 • 1h

Tom Hanks

S01 E19 • Sunday, Jan 21, 2001 • Jan 21 • 1h

Donald Sutherland

S01 E20 • Thursday, Mar 22, 2001 • Mar 22 • 1h

With roles in Военно-полевой госпиталь M*A*S*H. (1970), 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.

Jeff Bridges

S01 E21 • Wednesday, Aug 8, 2001 • Aug 8 • 1h

Dennis Hopper

S01 E22 • Monday, Aug 20, 2001 • Aug 20 • 1h

Jeanne Moreau

S01 E23 • Saturday, Dec 1, 2001 • Dec 1 • 1h

Considered by Orson Welles to be the greatest actress in the world, Jeanne Moreau was the muse of French cinema in the 1960s. Here she reveals the stories behind the making of Jules and Jim (1962), and explores sexual and intellectual freedom in her career and private life.

John Sayles

S01 E24 • Saturday, Dec 8, 2001 • Dec 8 • 1h