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.
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, acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living directors, talks to Mark Cousins. 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 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, a documentary with his parents as subjects.
Mark Cousins talks to Oscar-winning actor and cinematic legend Jack Lemmon about his career.
Director Jonathan Demme swept the Oscars with 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, but his previous films - including concert movie Stop Making Sense, yuppie-in-peril thriller Something Wild and Melvin and Howard, were also stylish portraits. Here, with Mark Cousins, Demme discusses his life, career and upcoming movie Beloved.
n a rare interview, Hollywood sex symbol Jane Russell talks to Mark Cousins about her film career, her difficult childhood, and working with Marilyn Monroe.
James Coburn's rugged, laconic persona has graced films including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and the recent Affliction, for which he won his first Oscar. Here he talks to Mark Cousins about his career, relationships and crises.
Rod Steiger talks to Mark Cousins about his celebrated roles in On the Waterfront, Dr Zhivago, Oklahoma! and In the Heat of the Night, while sharing anecdotes about James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.
Multiple oscar nominee and star of The Big Lebowski and The Fabulous Baker Boys Jeff Bridges talks to Mark Cousins about his life, family and his most personal films in his longest television interview ever.
Filmed in the room where he rehearsed with James Dean for Rebel without a Cause, Dennis Hopper discusses his extraordinary career and many roles, which also include Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and Easy Rider.
The French actress talks about directors Truffaut, Antonioni, and Fassbinder, and explores sexual and intellectual freedom in her career and private life.
Mark Cousins talks to independent film-maker John Sayles about his stylistically complex work, including Passion Fish.
Part 1 of 2. This compilation was edited by Tim Langer, working with Mark Cousins to produce a record of the extraordinary variety of guests who appeared in Scene by Scene over a 6 year period. "A decade before The Story of Film: An Odyssey, I had a TV show on the BBC in which I interviewed movie directors and actors about their craft. Scene by Scene ran for 24 episodes. I talked to people as varied as Roman Polanski. Jane Russell, Sean Connery, Bernardo Bertolucci, Janet Leigh, Rod Steiger, David Lynch, Brian de Palma, Jeff Bridges, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Jeanne Moreau and John Sayles. In each case we watched film clips of their work, which I paused, rewound or slo-mo’d as we talked. I learnt about American cinema in those encounters, and life, too. My guests were talented people, but many had been troubled. Scene by Scene was about movies and life. For copyright reasons, the series hasn’t been broadcast for a decade. Now, the great editor Timo Lager has compiled two ninety minute mash ups of it. We’ve done this without permission and for the love of film. Please don’t sue us. Thanks to our all producers, DPs, editors, researchers and guests. They were golden years." -Mark Cousins
"A decade before The Story of Film: An Odyssey, I had a TV show on the BBC in which I interviewed movie directors and actors about their craft. Scene by Scene ran for 24 episodes. I talked to people as varied as Roman Polanski. Jane Russell, Sean Connery, Bernardo Bertolucci, Janet Leigh, Rod Steiger, David Lynch, Brian de Palma, Jeff Bridges, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Jeanne Moreau and John Sayles. In each case we watched film clips of their work, which I paused, rewound or slo-mo’d as we talked. I learnt about American cinema in those encounters, and life, too. My guests were talented people, but many had been troubled. Scene by Scene was about movies and life. For copyright reasons, the series hasn’t been broadcast for a decade. Now, the great editor Timo Lager has compiled two ninety minute mash ups of it. We’ve done this without permission and for the love of film. Please don’t sue us. Thanks to our all producers, DPs, editors, researchers and guests. They were golden years." -Mark Cousins
