Season 1

01 Sean Connery Episode 110th May 1997 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 02 Steve Martin Episode 221st February 1998 03 Terence Stamp Episode 328th February 1998 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. 04 Martin Scorsese Episode 44th April 1998 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. 05 Paul Schrader Episode 525th April 1998 About screenwriter/filmmaker/producer Paul Schrader who entered Hollywood with the script of "Taxi Driver". 06 Jack Lemmon Episode 615th August 1998 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). 07 Brian De Palma Episode 78th November 1998 08 Jonathan Demme Episode 827th February 1999 09 Jane Russell Episode 915th May 1999 Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was an American film actress and one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. 10 Bernardo Bertolucci Episode 1018th September 1999 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. 11 David Lynch Episode 1128th November 1999 Mark Cousins meets US director David Lynch, the creator of such idiosyncratic and groundbreaking screen landmarks as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks 12 James Coburn Episode 1211th March 2000 13 Roman Polanski Episode 1327th May 2000 14 Woody Allen Episode 1410th June 2000 Mark Cousins Interviews Woody Allen about his life and work. 15 Rod Steiger Episode 1515th July 2000 16 Lauren Bacall Episode 165th August 2000 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. 17 Janet Leigh Episode 1716th December 2000 18 Kirk Douglas Episode 1828th December 2000 19 Tom Hanks Episode 1921st January 2001 20 Donald Sutherland Episode 2022nd March 2001 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. 21 Jeff Bridges Episode 218th August 2001 22 Dennis Hopper Episode 2220th August 2001 23 Jeanne Moreau Episode 231st December 2001 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. 24 John Sayles Episode 248th December 2001