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The Movies That Made Me... MONEY Part 2

The Movies That made Me: Season 2: Episode 6: MONEY Part 2
They say sex and money make the world go around and cinema is of course part of that world. We shall consider Cinema's Sexiest Moments later this Season but coming up now is our Double Episode on Films about Money.
And what better guest to join me than Financial Journalist and Broadcaster Adam Shaw, former host of BBC 2's Working Lunch and Business Presenter on Radio 4's Today Programme.
In Part Two we focus on The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, I Daniel Blake, and The Sting - plus Producer's Choice The Italian Job (and reveal our Platinum Play Out winner).
And you don't have to beg, borrow, steal, earn, con or fall out over a fortune as our Podcast is absolutely free!
End Credits
Luke Sorba: Host
X: LukeSorbaLabour
Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer
Blue Sky: ItPainesMe

The Movies That Made Me... MONEY Part 1

The Movies That Made Me: Season 2: Episode 5: MONEY Part 1
They say sex and money make the world go around and cinema is of course part of that world. We shall consider Cinema's Sexiest Moments later this Season but coming up now is our Double Episode on Films about Money.
And what better guest to join me than Financial Journalist and Broadcaster Adam Shaw, former host of BBC 2's Working Lunch and Business Presenter on Radio 4's Today Programme.
In Part One we will survey the genre, then take an in-depth look at The Big Short, Dumb Money and Ealing caper classic The Lavender Hill Mob.
And you don't have to beg, borrow, steal, earn, con or fall out over a fortune as our Podcast is absolutely free!
 
End Credits
Luke Sorba: Host
X: LukeSorbaLabour
Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer
Blue Sky: ItPainesMe
 
 

The Movies That Made Me... FAVOURITE FINAL SCENES

The Movies That Made Me... Season 2: Episode 4: Favourite Final Scenes
It's the last day of the year: What better time to discuss the last scene of a movie?
Six in fact as Luke Sorba is joined by playwright / comedian / actress/ improviser/
TV presenter and Life Coach: Alison Goldie.
 
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ikiru
Dead of Night
Black Narcissus 
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Parasite
 
All contend for the prize of Favourite Final Film Scene.
 
Along the way we discuss famous freeze frames and staring faces, one-liners, re-unions, deaths and all the other ingredients that make up a classic closing moment. Learn our Producer Andrew Paine's choice (a contender for most memorable death, closing line and freeze frame all at once). And we end with the best closing musical moment EVER.
 
Warning: There will be spoilers. But they will be worth it!
 
TMTMM is a Picard Production. Hosted by Luke Sorba. Produced and Edited by Andrew Paine
 
End Credits
Luke Sorba: Host
Twitter: LukeSorbaLabour
Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer
Blue Sky: ItPainesMe
 
 

The Movies That Made Me... MEMORABLE SONGS

The Movies That Made Me: Season 2: Episode 3 - MEMORABLE SONGS
 
Favourite Movie Musical? That is a well covered topic. Which is why we are not covering it here. Instead I am joined by actor, writer and improviser from Olivier Award winning musical Showstopper!, Ruth Bratt, plus former break-dancer now Director of The Comedy School Keith Palmer MBE to discuss our favourite songs  in movies other than musicals. Think of Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet, "Show Me the Way to Go Home" in Jaws, Dolly Parton and 9 to 5, Mona Lisa ending with Nat King Cole or the opening of Do the Right Thing 
 
In this episode we will focus on High Noon, The Fisher King, When Harry Met Sally, The Long Goodbye, The Harder They Come and because Keith was in it on stage as a boy we let in West Side Story.
 
TMTMM is a Picard Production. Hosted by Luke Sorba. Produced and Edited by Andrew Paine
 
End Credits
Luke Sorba: Host
Twitter: LukeSorbaLabour
Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer
Twitter: ItPainesMe
 

The Movies That Made Me... FIGHTING

The Movies That Made Me: Season 2: Episode 2 - FIGHTING
 
The War of the Words, Motions Eleven, The Mild Bunch... not actual films but titles that conjur the feel of this week's movie debate as: Script Editor and former Curzon Magazine film critic Martha "The Mace" Julier squares up against Former Actress and Teacher of English Literature and Media Studies Katie "The Catapult" Purslow to make the case for their Favourite Movie Fight Scenes.
 
Refereed by Luke "The Long Sword"  Sorba, Fights not Battles means no to (Abel Gance's) Napoleon,  Saving Private Ryan or Avengers: Endgame. But yes to Enter the Dragon, Charlie's Angels (2000), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Aliens, The Raid and... Bridesmaids!
 
Download now, it's a knock out.
 
TMTMM is a Picard Production. Hosted by Luke Sorba. Produced and Edited by Andrew Paine
 
End Credits
Luke Sorba: Host
Twitter: LukeSorbaLabour
Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer
Twitter: ItPainesMe

The Movies That Made Me... BUILDINGS

The Movies That Made Me: Season 2: Episode 1: BUILDINGS
 
Welcome back to The Movies that Made Me. To celebrate the host's birthday we are launching Season 2 on October 20th, with BUILDINGS.
 
The cinema you watched them in, is not the only building that matters when it comes to memorable movies. Some legendary films are as well known for their locations as they are for their plots, even their stars. 
 
Award-winning Radio Producer Mandy Wheeler and Actor/Photographer and Blue Badge Guide Sean Patterson join me as we discuss our favourite buildings on film, real or invented, from Gothic to Dystopian, Modernist to Fairy Tale and focussing on The Innocents, Rebecca, Brazil, Blade Runner, Die Hard, North by Northwest and Beauty and the Beast.
 
TMTMM is a Picard Production. Hosted by Luke Sorba. Produced and Edited by Andrew Paine
 
End Credits
Luke Sorba: Host
Twitter: LukeSorbaLabour
Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer
Twitter: ItPainesMe
 
 
 

The Movies That Made Me... TRIAL BY JURY

The Movies That Made Me… Episode 6: Trial By Jury
Luke Sorba wrote and directed his first movie on Super 8 when he was 18 years old. "The Mirror Within" won in the Novice Category at Streatham and Norwood Amateur Film Club's Annual Awards. He only made one more (apart from some YouTube sketches) but he has since watched 6000 movies made by other people and owns 1600 on DVD. He spent more teenage hours at the National Film Theatre and the Electric Cinema than anywhere else, and is currently on first name terms with staff at Peckhamplex.
Over two hundred books on cinema fill his shelves and he has a complete collection of Monthly Film Bulletin magazines (incorporated in Sight and Sound since 1990) going back to 1964. As an actor and writer, as well as a teacher of story telling Luke brings professional experience to his observations but it his status as a super-fan that sets him apart.
He is rare among enthusiasts in that there is no period nor genre nor country whose movies he is not curious about. From Intolerance to Inception, The St Valentine's Day Massacre to The Belles of St Trinian's, Do the Right Thing to Dr Dolittle, Zombieland to Nomadland, Superfly to Superman, Tod Browning to Todd Haynes, Federico Fellini to The Fast and Furious, Monika Treut to Monica Bellucci, there is a place for everyone in The Movies That Made Me.
Luke Sorba and Andrew Paine previously collaborated on the online improvised comedy show "Unmute". Together they make up Picard Productions.
Episode 6 features… 
Lee Apsey is an award-winning writer, director, producer and performer across film, theatre and digital media. His accomplishments range from critically acclaimed feature films and TV pilots to multiple sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, Brighton Fringe and Leicester Square Theatre atop a multi-million viewership across online projects.
 As an improviser he has taught and performed in the UK, Europe, Asia and United States for over a decade.
He is the co-founder of CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation (“A Spectacular must see” - ☆☆☆☆☆ Bunberry Magazine) as well as currently performing Your Flaws: The Musical and freestyle rap show Slice of Rhyme.
Susie Labinjoh is a civil liberties and human rights solicitor. She specialises in: civil actions against the police and other public bodies; related human rights claims;  compensation claims for victims of miscarriage of justice and public law challenges related to these areas.  In her spare time she enjoys film, theatre and podcasts amongst other things!
Trials By Jury...
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (2000) d Gale Edwards
Possibly the most famous miscarriage of justice, this time presented as a rock opera. Made washing your hands in public a trope 2000 years before Covid.
Contrasts: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) d Norman Jewison; The Passion of the Christ (2004) d Mel Gibson; The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) d Martin Scorsese
MRS DOUBTFIRE (1993) d Chris Columbus
Alongside Aladdin. and Good Morning Vietnam a fantastic platform for the comedic talent of Robin Williams. And by no means as sentimental as some of Williams’ subsequent films.
Contrasts: Kramer vs Kramer (1979) d Robert Benton; Tootsie (1982) d Sydney Pollack
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) d Robert Mulligan
A classic movie (adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic book) which is particularly interesting to revisit with a post-Black Lives Matter perspective. Racism, justice, community – all through the gaze of a child.
Contrast: In the Name of the Father (1993) d Jim Sheridan
JUST MERCY (2019) d Destin Daniel Cretton
Jamie Foxx reminds us how incredibly versatile he is in this searing true story about a black man falsely convicted of a murder that takes place in the Harper Lee’s home town.
Contrast:  A Few Good Men (1992) Rob Reiner
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946) d Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
A wonderfully rich film that is both truly of its time – just after World War 2 – and yet its playing with form and dealing with diversity are so relevant today.
Contrast: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) d Robert Wise
TWELVE ANGRY MEN (1957) d Sidney Lumet
The quintessential movie about a jury which actually started out as a TV drama ( and you can literally see why). The group is all ready to condemn and to punish… until a single individual quietly suggests they take one more look.
Contrast: Lord of the Flies (1963) d Peter Brook
End Credits
Luke Sorba: Host
Twitter: LukeSorbaLabour
Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer
Twitter: ItPainesMe

The Movies That Made Me... SCREEN PARTNERSHIPS

The Movies That Made Me… Episode 5: Screen Partnerships
Luke Sorba wrote and directed his first movie on Super 8 when he was 18 years old. "The Mirror Within" won in the Novice Category at Streatham and Norwood Amateur Film Club's Annual Awards. He only made one more (apart from some YouTube sketches) but he has since watched 6000 movies made by other people and owns 1600 on DVD. He spent more teenage hours at the National Film Theatre and the Electric Cinema than anywhere else, and is currently on first name terms with staff at Peckhamplex.
Over two hundred books on cinema fill his shelves and he has a complete collection of Monthly Film Bulletin magazines (incorporated in Sight and Sound since 1990) going back to 1964. As an actor and writer, as well as a teacher of story telling Luke brings professional experience to his observations but it his status as a super-fan that sets him apart.
He is rare among enthusiasts in that there is no period nor genre nor country whose movies he is not curious about. From Intolerance to Inception, The St Valentine's Day Massacre to The Belles of St Trinian's, Do the Right Thing to Dr Dolittle, Zombieland to Nomadland, Superfly to Superman, Tod Browning to Todd Haynes, Federico Fellini to The Fast and Furious, Monika Treut to Monica Bellucci, there is a place for everyone in The Movies That Made Me.
Luke Sorba and Andrew Paine previously collaborated on the online improvised comedy show "Unmute". Together they make up Picard Productions.
Episode 5 features…
Lesley Ann Albiston is a comedy playwright, theatre director, actor improviser, teacher and fine artist. Her recent plays Chop Me Up Or Let Me Go and A Slice Of Eel Pie have been performed on the London Fringe to great reviews. Lesley Ann shares her birthday with one of her favourite film directors, Alfred Hitchcock. 
Twitter: @LesleyAnnAlbist
Neil Cole is an actor, playing several roles in Amazon Prime horror anthology series Dark Ditties Presents… and lead roles in forthcoming feature films The Chain and Sentinel. He is a also an award-winning comedian and presenter (MTV, National Geographic, Eurosport)
Twitter: @neilcole
https://theneilcoleshow.com
 
Howdy Partners...
WAY OUT WEST   d James Horne (1937) Peak sound era Laurel and Hardy, the template for so many male comedy double acts from Abbott and Costello to Dumb and Dumber.
Contrast: Stan and Ollie (2018)
FIGHT CLUB   d David Fincher (1999) Edward Norton in a study of toxic masculinity from before the term was coined and when Brad Pitt was still a screen actor (and a good one!) rather than just a screen persona.
Contrast: A Beautiful Mind (2001) when Russell Crowe was still a screen actor (and a good one!) rather than just a screen persona.
SOME LIKE IT HOT d Billy Wilder (1959) The second Billy Wilder movie to be chosen by a guest on The Movies That Made Me… and why not? Starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, this is genuine Hollywood gold (albeit based on an obscure French movie from 1935 called Fanfare of Love).
Contrast: Shakespeare in Love (1998) See below…
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE d John Madden (1998) More cross-dressing and disguises (see above) this time with Joseph Fiennes. One of the best ever representations of theatre on film. Plus one of a tiny number of movies in which you don’t wish Gwyneth Paltrow had been replaced by another actress.
Contrast: Stage Beauty (2004)
THE PRODUCERS d Mel Brooks (1967) Quite simply my favourite comedy ever, with career-defining performances from Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. Though originally scheduled to star Peter Sellers and Dustin Hoffman!
Contrast: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) Inter-generational satire from Hal Ashby more famous for box office hits Being There and Shampoo, critically-acclaimed The Last Detail and Best Picture Oscar winner Coming Home. Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon star in his most original film.
Contrast: The Mother (2003)
End Credits
Luke Sorba: Host
Twitter: LukeSorbaLabour
Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer
Twitter: ItPainesMe

The Movies That Made Me... WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD

The Movies That Made Me… Episode 4: Want To Change The World
Luke Sorba wrote and directed his first movie on Super 8 when he was 18 years old. "The Mirror Within" won in the Novice Category at Streatham and Norwood Amateur Film Club's Annual Awards. He only made one more (apart from some YouTube sketches) but he has since watched 6000 movies made by other people and owns 1600 on DVD. He spent more teenage hours at the National Film Theatre and the Electric Cinema than anywhere else, and is currently on first name terms with staff at Peckhamplex.
Over two hundred books on cinema fill his shelves and he has a complete collection of Monthly Film Bulletin magazines (incorporated in Sight and Sound since 1990) going back to 1964. As an actor and writer, as well as a teacher of story telling Luke brings professional experience to his observations but it his status as a super-fan that sets him apart.
He is rare among enthusiasts in that there is no period nor genre nor country whose movies he is not curious about. From Intolerance to Inception, The St Valentine's Day Massacre to The Belles of St Trinian's, Do the Right Thing to Dr Dolittle, Zombieland to Nomadland, Superfly to Superman, Tod Browning to Todd Haynes, Federico Fellini to The Fast and Furious, Monika Treut to Monica Bellucci, there is a place for everyone in The Movies That Made Me.
Luke Sorba and Andrew Paine previously collaborated on the online improvised comedy show "Unmute". Together they make up Picard Productions.
Episode 4 features…
Stella Duffy is a writer and psychotherapist. She is an award-winning writer of seventeen novels, over seventy short stories and fourteen plays. Stella worked in theatre for over thirty-five years as an actor, director, facilitator and improvisor and received the OBE for Services to the Arts in 2016. She is also a yoga teacher and runs yoga-for-writing workshops.
Alongside her private psychotherapy practice, Stella works for a low-cost community mental health service. She is in the third year of a doctorate training in Existential Psychotherapy and her research is in the embodied experience of postmenopause.
Twitter: @stellduffy
Web: https://stelladuffytherapy.co.uk/
Anshu Srivastava spent twenty-five years training and working as an architect, before changing direction and becoming a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
Web www.mra.co.uk
Web www.srivastavatherapy.co.uk
The Movies That Made Them Want To Change The World
GREGORY’S GIRL (d Bill Forsyth) 1981
A film that is sweet without being sentimental, hopeful without being naïve, with an object of desire that subtly takes control. A remarkable portrait of an unremarkable teenager. Contrast - The Inbetweeners Movie
BOY (d Taika Waititi) 2012
A father and son re-unite, two cultures join across an ocean, and innocence is on the line in 1980’s Aotearoa / New Zealand. Waititi’s blend of humour and pathos, of optimism and discovery is already laid out in his most autobiographical movie. The end credits sequence is outstanding! Contrast - Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.2
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (d Gillo Pontecorvo) 1966
So realistic some audiences thought they were watching a documentary. Banned in France for being to honest about its colonial past. Proudly political it is simultaneously gripping as a human drama, thriller and war movie. Contrast – The Wind that Shakes the Barley
DESERT HEARTS (d Donna Deitch) 1985
A landmark movie as Queer Cinema meets the mainstream, putting Jane Rule’s 1964 romantic novel on screen – stunning landscapes, honest performances with actors and director putting their careers on the line. It was viciously attacked by the New York Times but is now a deserved cult classic. Contrast – Lianna
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (d Sean Baker) 2017
The most sublime final sequence I have witnessed this century. And the movie before that is pretty darn great too! It excels across more than one genre and is one of the best movies centred on a single building, in cinema. Contrast – Les Quatre Cents Coups
FIVE EASY PIECES (d Bob Rafelson) 1970
Full of sound and fury signifying… a great deal. My favourite performance by Jack Nicholson in my favourite film from the Easy Rider / Raging Bull era. Karen Black is a revelation in a classic “going home” movie. Contrast – The Royal Tenenbaums
The Movies That Made Me… credits
Luke Sorba: Host
Twitter: LukeSorbaLabour
Andrew Paine: Producer & Audio Engineer
Twitter: ItPainesMe
 

The Movies That Made Me...LOVE

The Movies That Made Me… Episode 3: LOVE
Luke Sorba wrote and directed his first movie on Super 8 when he was 18 years old. "The Mirror Within" won in the Novice Category at Streatham and Norwood Amateur Film Club's Annual Awards. He only made one more (apart from some YouTube sketches) but he has since watched 6000 movies made by other people and owns 1600 on DVD. He spent more teenage hours at the National Film Theatre and the Electric Cinema than anywhere else, and is currently on first name terms with staff at Peckhamplex.
Over two hundred books on cinema fill his shelves and he has a complete collection of Monthly Film Bulletin magazines (incorporated in Sight and Sound since 1990) going back to 1964. As an actor and writer, as well as a teacher of story telling Luke brings professional experience to his observations but it his status as a super-fan that sets him apart.
He is rare among enthusiasts in that there is no period nor genre nor country whose movies he is not curious about. From Intolerance to Inception, The St Valentine's Day Massacre to The Belles of St Trinian's, Do the Right Thing to Dr Dolittle, Zombieland to Nomadland, Superfly to Superman, Tod Browning to Todd Haynes, Federico Fellini to The Fast and Furious, Monika Treut to Monica Bellucci, there is a place for everyone in The Movies That Made Me.
Luke Sorba and Andrew Paine previously collaborated on the online improvised comedy show "Unmute". Together they make up Picard Productions.
 
Episode 3 Features...
Martha Julier is a film graduate, and a Script Editor working in TV Drama. Despite this, she has somehow retained her love of Film & TV. 
As a freelance script editor, Martha’s worked on projects for BBC, ITV and FX/Disney+.
Dan O’Connor is one of the world's foremost innovators in unscripted theatre. He is a multifaceted actor, improviser, writer, and director performing on television and stage around the world. His training includes the American Conservatory Theater and extensive work with Keith Johnstone (Author of Impro) since 1986. He is a graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.  Dan is the founder of the critically acclaimed Impro Theatre and is a co-founder of BATS Improv in San Francisco and LA Theatresports. Dan has been teaching internationally for 30 years training writers, actors and directors about narrative storytelling and exploring the future of theatre. In that time he has also worked with corporate clients using improvisation as tool for adaptation and change.
He has been guest performer with everyone from Second City to Groundlings. Most recently he has developed the "LIVING STORY BOARD" with Stephen Kearin an ongoing development process for animators, storyboard artists and writers at Disney and Dreamworks Animation. He co-wrote Life UnScripted: Using Improv Principles to Get Unstuck, Boost Confidence, and Transform Your Life published by North Atlantic Books.
You can watch Dan’s TED Talk titled “Improvising a Better World” by clicking here.
 
Love Is In The Air...
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1946 (Frank Capra)
Post-war America in need of healing finds family man and community leader, Jimmy Stewart on the precipice of self-destruction. Can love pull him back? The movie that most defines Capra-esque. Contrast: A Christmas Carol (1951)
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 1985 (Stephen Frears)
Race, Class, Sexuality and Toxic Masculinity all explored with candour and passion decades before “woke” meant anything more than what you did before eating breakfast. Hanif Kureishi’s best screenplay, the launch of Daniel Day-Lewis as a movie star. Against a backdrop of heartless Thatcherite Britain. Contrast: Loving (2016)
STRICTLY BALLROOM 1992 (Baz Luhrmann)
The movie that gave the BBC the title (well, half) of its most popular TV show of the last twenty years. Outsiders from different worlds come together in the Australian auteur’s first film. The sequence using Cindy Lauper’s True Colours is sublime. Contrast: Romeo + Juliet (1996)
LA BELLE E LA BETE 1946 (Jean Cocteau)
Poet, playwright, artist, novelist, Cocteau’s live action telling of the classic tale ask the eternal question: can true love redeem? Magical. Contrast: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
BEFORE SUNRISE 1995 (Richard Linklater)
The most romantic film inspired by a railway station since Brief Encounter. Semi-improvised dialogue between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as lovers thrown together by chance adds authenticity and intelligence to a film that launched the most unlikely movie franchise. Right person, wrong time, wrong place…. can love survive? Contrast: The Lady Vanishes (1936)
CASABLANCA 1942 (Michael Curtiz)
When love of justice and romantic love collide, one must be sacrificed? Bogart. Bergman. And a world of talent on and off-camera. Luke’s favourite film. Film’s most romantic song. Contrast: There is none. It’s a non-pareil.