In this episode of Kermode on Film, Mark talks to comedian and actor Nick Mohammed about his career from Ted Lasso to Mr Swallow, his role in the West End play THE TRAITORS

and his upcoming TV series WAR. 

Next, he welcomes David Kittredge to talk about his documentary BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL, about the making and fallout of John Boorman’s EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC. David discusses his passion for the film, the ambition behind it and the chance Boorman took.

Tune in to next week's Kermode on Film to hear the other half of September's MK3D when Mark talks to Molly Manners, Marni Duggan and Galaxie Clear about their debut feature EXTRA GEOGRAPHY and to actor, director and writer Simon Callow about his book on THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (BFI Film Classics). 

Take a front row seat for the 116th edition of MK3D at the BFI Southbank. Enjoy!

MK3D shows happen live every month. Head over to the BFI website if you’d like to join us in the audience at the BFI Southbank.

Opening title quotes from:

·   Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)

·   Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)

·   Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)

·   The Exorcist (William Friedkin, Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop, with Anaïs Ferrato as Assistant Producer.

It was edited by Alex Jones.  

Image by Julie Edwards.

Kermode on Film and MK3D are HLA Agency productions.

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In the last of four episodes from the Provence Arts Festival du Film, Mark sits down with editor Susan Steinberg to talk about Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter. Next, he talks to Samantha Morton about her festival highlights, her role as Circe in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and Heath Ledger. And finally, festival director Lucy Darwin looks back on the festival, and the Elvis screening that blew her mind.

Films mentioned in this episode

Gimme Shelter (1970, dir. Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)

Cocksucker Blues (dir. Robert Frank, unreleased)

Broken English (2025, dir. Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth)

Summer of Soul (2021, dir. Questlove)

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025, dir. Baz Luhrmann)

One to One: John & Yoko (2024, dir. Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards)

The Odyssey (2026, dir. Christopher Nolan)

Rosemary's Baby (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)

The Brothers Grimm (2005, dir. Terry Gilliam)

This episode was recorded at the Provence Arts Festival du Film, an annual festival founded by Lucy Darwin, dedicated to documentary cinema and the arts held in the hilltop village of Ménerbes, which this year focused on music documentaries.

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and recorded and edited by Richard Gay.

With thanks to Lucy Darwin and the Provence Arts Festival du Film, and to Susan Steinberg and Samantha Morton.

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Mark Kermode and Jack Howard discuss Spider-Man: Brand New Day at the Sun Pub on Drury Lane

Other films and TV mentioned in this episode:

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Planet of the Apes film series (1968 - 2024)

Star Trek film series (1979 - 2016)

Back to the Future (1985)

Spider-Man: The Animated Series (TV Series 1994–1998)

Regarding Henry (1991)

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Titanic (1997)

Spider-Man (2002)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Avatar (2009)

The Social Network (2010)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

The Avengers (2012)

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Avengers: End Game (2019)

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Oppenheimer (2023)

Snow White (2025)

Avengers: Doomsday (2026)

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027)

Marvel's X-Men (2028)

With thanks to Richard Gay and The Sun Pub on London's Drury Lane.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production

Produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop

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This episode sees Mark in conversation with jazz musician Darius Brubeck and documentary filmmaker Michiel ten Kleij to discuss their documentary Playing the Changes: Tracking Darius Brubeck, which traces how jazz became a quiet force for political change in apartheid-era South Africa.

Ten Kleij explains how a planned film about the 1958 Brubeck Quartet tour behind the Iron Curtain evolved, once a rival BBC documentary was announced, into a broader, independently-financed story spanning Poland and Durban. Darius Brubeck reflects candidly on growing up in his father's shadow, the 'dynastic' continuity jazz offered black South African audiences under apartheid, and the guidance of his wife Catherine in shaping how he used his own talents for purpose rather than pure virtuosity.

This episode was recorded at the Provence Arts Festival du Film, an annual festival founded by Lucy Darwin, dedicated to documentary cinema and the arts held in the hilltop village of Ménerbes, which this year focused on music documentaries.

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and recorded and edited by Richard Gay.

With thanks to Lucy Darwin and the Provence Arts Festival du Film, and to Darius Brubeck and Michiel ten Kleij.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production

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Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production

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Mark Kermode talks to director Kevin Macdonald and cinematographer David Katznelson after an outdoor screening of ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO, the intimate documentary portrait of the couple's 18 months in 1970s Greenwich Village.

They discuss rebuilding John and Yoko's Greenwich Village apartment for the film, the newly discovered phonecall archive, and Sean Ono Lennon's remix of the 1972 concert footage.

This episode was recorded at the Provence Arts Festival du Film, an annual festival founded by Lucy Darwin, dedicated to documentary cinema and the arts held in the hilltop village of Ménerbes, which this year focused on music documentaries.

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and recorded and edited by Richard Gay.

With thanks to Lucy Darwin and the Provence Arts Festival du Film, and to Kevin Macdonald and David Katznelson.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production

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This month, Mark once again was an integral part of the Provence Arts Festival du Film, an annual festival dedicated to documentary cinema and the arts held in the hilltop Luberon village of Ménerbes, founded by Lucy Darwin, which this year focuses on music documentaries.

This is the first of a few episodes from the festival. Today Mark is joined by Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth to talk about their film BROKEN ENGLISH about legendary singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull, starring George Mackay and Tilda Swinton. They also touch on 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH, their film chronicling Nick Cave's life.

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and recorded and edited by Richard Gay.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production

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Recorded in the mosquito-infested fields of Latitude Festival, Mark and Jack dig into film music to mark the paperback release of Mark's book Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music, co-written with Jenny Nelson.

They talk composer-director shorthand including John Williams and the "shark" scene from Jaws, Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan's one-page brief for Interstellar; they discuss the "great soundtrack, shame about the film" phenomenon referencing S. Darko, Cannibal Holocaust, Exorcist II: The Heretic; and how Jack worked with composer Benjamin Squires on his own short film The Second Time Around.

Mark also talks about Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and the eerie 15/8 time signature that makes The Exorcist's theme feel so wrong, and gives some hard-won advice on sticking with a creative career when nobody's paying you yet.

Titles mentioned in this episode include:

Spider-Man

The Social Network

Drive

Interstellar

Man of Steel

Superman

The Lord of the Rings

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Wolfman (2010)

Jennifer 8

S. Darko

Donnie Darko

Cannibal Holocaust

Exorcist II: The Heretic

The Exorcist

Don't Look Now

E.T.

Jaws

Jurassic Park

You Were Never Really Here

There Will Be Blood

The Zone of Interest

Wicked / Wicked: for Good

Mary Poppins (Blunt-era)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Blade Runner

Drive My Car

Psycho

Suspiria

The Shining

The Odyssey

The Second Time Around (Jack Howard's brilliant short film, now available on Channel 4)

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop, and edited by Jack Howard.  

Recorded by Richard Gay.

Kermode on Film and MK3D are HLA Agency productions.

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In this episode of Kermode on Film, Mark talks to Imran Perretta about his moving debut feature ISH and to Jason Isaacs about the eight projects he's filmed back to back recently

If you missed the first half of this edition of Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI Southbank, listen to episode 290, in which Mark talks to founder of the Straight 8 Film Competition Ed Sayers about his documentary feature SUPER NATURE, a stunning exploration of the natural world filmed on Super 8 Film by 40 filmmakers from all across the world. And he talks to Sian Clifford about her surreal mockumentary LADY.

MK3D shows happen live every month. Head over to the BFI website if you’d like to join us in the audience at the BFI Southbank.

Opening title quotes from:

·       Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)

·       Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)

·       Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)

·       The Exorcist (William Friedkin, Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop, and edited by Alex Jones.  

Image by Julie Edwards.

Kermode on Film and MK3D are HLA Agency productions.

© HLA Agency

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Kermode and Jack Howard discuss Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey at the Sun Pub on Drury Lane

Other films mentioned in this episode:

Silent Running (1972)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Dunkirk (2017)

Society (1989)

Oppenheimer (2023)

Spirited Away (2001)

Interstellar (2014)

Inception (2010)

The Ninth Configuration (1980)

The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (2001-3)

With thanks to Richard Gay and The Sun Pub on London's Drury Lane.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production

Produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop

© HLA Agency

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Kermode on Film, Mark talks to the founder of the Straight 8 Film Competition, Ed Sayers about his documentary feature SUPER NATURE, a stunning exploration of the natural world filmed on Super 8 Film by 40 filmmakers from all across the world.

Next, he welcomes Sian Clifford to talk about her new feature LADY, a surreal mockumentary which follows a lonely aristocrat's attempt to find the spotlight. Sian discusses her love for comedy, ten years of FLEABAG and her childhood fascination with Laura Dern.

Tune in to next week's Kermode on Film to hear the other half of July's MK3D when Mark talks to Imran Perretta about his debut feature ISH and to Jason Isaacs about the eight projects he's filmed back to back.

Take a front row seat for the 115th edition of MK3D at the BFI Southbank. Enjoy!

MK3D shows happen live every month. Head over to the BFI website if you’d like to join us in the audience at the BFI Southbank.

Opening title quotes from:

·       Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)

·       Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)

·       Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)

·       The Exorcist (William Friedkin, Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)

This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop, and edited by Alex Jones.  

Image by Julie Edwards.

Kermode on Film and MK3D are HLA Agency productions.

© HLA Agency

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Kermode and Jack Howard discuss Matt Johnson's Canadian comedy Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie at the Sun pub in London's West End.

Other films mentioned in this episode:

Back To The Future (1985)

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

The Hangover (2009)

Borat (2006)

Backrooms (2026)

Obsession (2025)

Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)

The Holdovers (2023)

Blackberry (2023)

With thanks to Richard Gay and The Sun Pub on London's Drury Lane.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production

Produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop

© HLA Agency

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.