Moving Pictures

- Season 3

(1993)

In the first of its new series, BBC2's weekly cinema night presents a celebration of CinemaScope. Directors Michael Mann, Philip Noyce (Patriot Games), and Paul Verhoeven extol the wonders of widescreen cinema on its 40th anniversary. There's a look at how Quentin Tarantino, a 29-year-old video store manager, became Hollywood's hottest new talent with his debut feature Reservoir Dogs. And novelist J.G. Ballard on why David Lynch's controversial Blue Velvet was "the best film of the 1980s".

BBC2's weekly cinema night presents a profile of maverick producer Robert Evans, making a comeback with the controversial Sliver (1993). The power behind The Godfather (I and II), Chinatown, and Marathon Man, Evans's career declined in the 1980s. There are interviews with Evans and some past and present collaborators, including Sharon Stone, Faye Dunaway, Roman Polanski and John Schlesinger. Plus Scottish actor-turned-writer Peter Capaldi on his new road movie, Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992), and a tour of California's Lone Pine, legendary movie location.

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