Made in England (Hold Fast Network)
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| 13 Mar 2024 | Made in England Trailer | 00:01:14 | |
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| 02 Apr 2024 | All of Us Strangers (2023) with John Grindrod | 01:09:12 | |
All of Us Strangers (2023) is written and directed by Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) and stars Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Jack McInroy is joined by John Grindrod, author of Iconicon, Outskirts and Concretopia, to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: John Grindrod Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ | |||
| 15 Apr 2024 | Two Way Stretch (1960) with Nathaniel Metcalfe | 01:00:54 | |
Two Way Stretch (1960) is not an Ealing comedy, but its sharp script, big laughs and magnetic Peter Sellers performance make it worthy of being ranked alongside the best of them. Jack McInroy is joined by comedian and podcaster Nathaniel Metcalfe to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Nathaniel Metcalfe Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ | |||
| 22 Apr 2024 | Dead Man's Shoes (2004) with Paul Wilson | 01:11:55 | |
Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) is Shane Meadows’ and Paddy Considine’s back-to-basics revenge thriller about a soldier who heads back to his home town in the Derbyshire countryside to deal with the bullies who mistreated his brother. As the film celebrates its 20th anniversary, Jack McInroy is joined by arts journalist Paul Wilson to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Paul Wilson Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 30 Apr 2024 | The Guns of Navarone (1961) with Owen Pomery | 00:58:47 | |
The Guns of Navarone (1961) is a World War II adventure film that was a hit with audiences and Oscar voters alike. Gregory Peck heads a ragtag group of commandos, including David Niven, Anthony Quinn and Stanley Baker, on a mission to destroy Nazi guns on an island in the Aegean Sea. Jack McInroy is joined by illustrator and comics writer Owen Pomery to discuss the film. Owen’s latest book, The Hard Switch, is available now. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Owen Pomery Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 13 May 2024 | Burning an Illusion (1981) with Tega Okiti | 00:54:42 | |
Burning an Illusion (1981), written and directed byMenelik Shabazz,is a landmark of UK cinema, often billed as the first British film to give a central voice to a black woman. The film follows 22-year-old Pat as she navigates relationship struggles, societal pressures and systemic racism. 30 years later, Steve McQueen’s film Lovers Rock would draw from a similar milieu. Film curator Tega Okiti, who voted for this film in the 2022 Sight & Sound magazine poll of the greatest films ever made, joins Jack McInroy to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Tega Okiti Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 20 May 2024 | It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) with Darren Richman | 00:58:14 | |
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) is a rare example of a British noir film and a pioneering social drama where working class people take centre stage. Googie Withers plays Rose Sandigate, a frustrated housewife whose world is turned upside down when her former lover escapes from prison and seeks her help. Writer and journalist Darren Richman joins host Jack McInroy to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Darren Richman Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 28 May 2024 | The Business (2005) with Nicolás Obregón | 01:28:29 | |
After the cult success of The Football Factory, writer-director Nick Love and star Danny Dyer reunited for The Business (2005), a crime thriller about cockney gangsters living in Spain’s Costa del Sol. Beloved by lads’ mags, the film is as much a time capsule of the mid-00s UK as it of 1980s, when it's set. Jack McInroy is joined by novelist Nicolás Obregón to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Nicolás Obregón Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 17 Jun 2024 | Up the Junction (1965 & 1968) with Lizzy Stewart | 01:19:40 | |
Up the Junction, Nell Dunn’s 1963 short story collection about contemporary life in working class Battersea has been adapted twice, first by Ken Loach for the BBC’s Wednesday Play, broadcast in 1965, then as a big screen romantic drama for Paramount Pictures in 1968. While both films retain much of Dunn’s dialogue and the harrowing social issues she highlighted, the story and aesthetics between the versions are very different. Jack McInroy is joined by author and illustrator Lizzy Stewart to discuss both films. Lizzy’s books include the prose-comics hybrids Alison and Walking Tall, and the children’s picture book There’s A Tiger in the Garden, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and a World Illustration Award. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Lizzy Stewart Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 25 Jun 2024 | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) with Jeanie Finlay | 00:49:58 | |
A British pilot falls in love with an American radio operator in the moments before his plane crashlands, and his survival causes turmoil in the heavenly realm. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s World War II fantasy-romance A Matter of Life and Death (1946) is one of the most beloved British films ever made, ranking 78th in Sight & Sound magazine’s poll of the greatest films ever made. Documentary filmmaker Jeanie Finlay (Your Fat Friend, Seahorse, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King) joins Jack McInroy to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Jeanie Finlay Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 02 Jul 2024 | The Old Crowd (1979) with Alex Cox | 00:47:28 | |
Lindsay Anderson made his TV debut in 1979 with The Old Crowd, an Alan Bennett-scripted satire about an upper-middle class dinner party where cracks are appearing in the walls of George and Betty’s upper-middle class home, and in society at large. Alex Cox, writer-director of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy, and original Moviedrome presenter, joins Jack McInroy to discuss the film. Alex is currently crowdfunding what he’s billing as his last film, a western adaptation of Gogol’s Dead Souls. You can back the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexcoxfilms/my-last-movie Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Alex Cox Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ | |||
| 22 Jul 2024 | Early film in England 1895 - 1906 with Christian Hayes | 00:55:44 | |
Cinema was born at the end of the nineteenth century and the early period saw great technical and artistic leaps. Georges Méliès, the Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison are well known, but there are also a number of English pioneers were equally important. We discuss the works and technical innovations of the likes of R.W. Paul, G.A. Smith and Cecil Hepworth. Novelist and film historian Christian Hayes is the guest. Films covered: A Rough Sea At Dover (1895) Blackfriars Bridge (1896) Upside Down; or, the Human Flies (1899) The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) Grandma's Reading Glass (1900) How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900) Attack on a China Mission (1900) Army Life; or, How Soldiers Are Made: Mounted Infantry (1900) Cheese Mites; or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant (1901) The Big Swallow (1901) Fire! (1901) Undressing Extraordinary (1901) The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901) Rescued by Rover (1905) The ? Motorist (1906) Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Christian Hayes Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 06 Aug 2024 | Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980) with S.J. Harris | 00:50:01 | |
Vivian Stanshall returned Rawlinson End, his influential comedy opus, throughout his career, first recording it as a BBC radio series in 1975, then as a record in 1978. The 1980 film adaptation, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, stars Trevor Howard as the titular Sir Henry, an eccentric custodian of a crumbling British country estate who is trying to exorcise the trouserless ghost of his brother. S.J. Harris, author of the graphic novel Eustace, joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: S.J. Harris Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 27 Aug 2024 | The Elephant Man (1980) with Jeff Jensen | 01:48:16 | |
The Elephant Man (1980) tells the story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a severely deformed man in Victorian-era London, saved from a freak show and brought into the care of Dr Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) at the London Hospital. The film was nominated for eight Oscars. Directed by David Lynch following his debut film Eraserhead, The Elephant Man is sometimes seen as an outlier in his career, but there are themes and motifs that appear throughout Lynch’s filmography. Screenwriter and journalist Jeff Jensen joins to discuss the film. Jeff wrote on the HBO series Watchmen, Disney’s Tomorrowland, and the Eisner-winning graphic novel, Green River Killer, as well as co-hosting Entertainment Weekly’s Twin Peaks podcast. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Jeff Jensen Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 09 Sep 2024 | Yesterday (2019) with Stephen Graham | 02:05:49 | |
What if you woke up one day and nobody in the world could remember the Beatles except you? That is the premise of Yesterday (2019), the film that united two of British cinema’s biggest names, director Danny Boyle’s and screenwriter Richard Curtis. With the Fab Four’s entire songbook at his disposal, can struggling singer-songwriter Jack Malick finally make it big? Stephen Graham, musicologist based at Goldsmiths and author of Becoming Noise Music, joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Stephen Graham Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 23 Sep 2024 | Excalibur (1981) with David and Nathan Zellner | 00:46:06 | |
John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) is an epic retelling of the King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table myth with plenty of sex, violence and sumptuous visuals. Filmmaking duo David and Nathan Zellner, whose movies include Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) and Sasquatch Sunet (2024), join to discuss the film. Bonus chat with the Zellner brothers about directing Showtime’s The Curse, is on the Made in England YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@madeinenglandpodcast Host: Jack McInroy Guest: David and Nathan Zellner Theme music: Harlow Family Group 30 days free Mubi: https://mubi.com/en/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ | |||
| 03 Oct 2024 | The Rebel (1961) with Michael Cumming | 00:43:03 | |
After the radio and television success of Hancock’s Half Hour, Tony Hancock made his big screen debut with The Rebel (1961), playing a bored office clerk who trades the City of London for the Paris art scene. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, directed by Robert Day. Director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast of London) joins to discuss the film. Michael will be on tour with his film, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes, in October and November. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Michael Cumming Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 30 Oct 2024 | Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001) with Hugo Greenhalgh | 01:02:54 | |
Ricky Tomlinson plays the first football manager from the lower leagues to get the England job in Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001). Lapsed football journalist Hugo Greenhalgh joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Hugo Greenhalgh Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 20 Nov 2024 | Maurice (1987) with Stephen Soucy | 00:55:42 | |
After the Oscar success of A Room With A View, Merchant-Ivory followed up with another E.M. Forster adaptation, Maurice (1987). Maurice Hall (James Wilby) comes to terms with his sexuality in repressed Edwardian England, embarking on affairs with the aristocratic Clive Durham (Hugh Grant making his feature debut) and working class gamekeeper Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves). Directed and co-written by James Ivory, who would go on to win an Oscar for Call Me By Your Name, this is a landmark film in the history of gay cinema. Director-producer Stephen Soucy joins to discuss the film, as well as his new documentary, Merchant Ivory, which will be in UK cinemas in December. Visit merchantivoryfilm.com for information and bonus content. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Stephen Soucy Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 18 Dec 2024 | Eyes Wide Shut (1999) with Jonathan Lethem | 01:17:12 | |
When his wife admits to having fantasies about another man, Dr Bill Harford becomes obsessively jealous and finds himself on a psychosexual odyssey through an erotic underworld in Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick cast married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and recreated New York City on a Pinewood studios backlot in the longest shoot in film history. Eyes Wide Shut confounded many on its initial release, but over time has proven to be worthy of as much study and acclaim as any of Kubrick’s masterpieces. Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude, joins to discuss the film. Jonathan’s latest book, Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture, is available now from Ze Books. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Jonathan Lethem Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 01 Jan 2025 | Bronson (2008) with Joe Greenwood | 00:55:04 | |
Tom Hardy plays Britain’s most notorious prisoner in Nicolas Winding Refn’s English language breakthrough film, Bronson (2008). Joe Greenwood, host of 10TB Hard Drive podcast, joins to discuss the film, and Refn’s career. Listen to 10TB Hard Drive on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Acast. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Joe Greenwood Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 20 Jan 2025 | Rye Lane (2023) with Corrina Antrobus | 00:44:29 | |
Two young lovers, reeling from recent breakups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London, in the award-winning romantic comedy, Rye Lane (2023). Corrina Antrobus, author of I Love Romcoms and I Am A Feminist, joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Corrina Antrobus Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 11 Mar 2025 | A Canterbury Tale (1944) with Dan Kois | 00:53:07 | |
In wartime England, three modern day pilgrims - a melancholy ‘land girl’, a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant - are waylaid in the English countryside where they have to solve a bizarre local mystery before going on to Canterbury to get the blessings they seek, in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Canterbury Tale (1944). Writer, journalist and podcaster Dan Kois joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Dan Kois Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 23 Mar 2025 | Victim (1961) with John Airlie | 00:51:46 | |
Dirk Bogarde stars as Melville Farr, a barrister targeted by blackmailers, in noir thriller Victim (1961). Made at a time when it was illegal to be gay, Victim challenged the British film censors with an empathetic depiction of London’s gay community, and is the first film to use the word ‘homosexual’. John Airlie, Associate Lecturer in Film and Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: John Airlie Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||
| 08 Apr 2025 | Wonderland (1999) with Nia Childs | 00:52:21 | |
Gina McKee, Molly Parker and Shirley Henderson are sisters searching for connection and direction in Michael Winterbottom’s tapestry of urban melancholy, Wonderland (1999). Michael Nyman’s score and Sean Bobbit’s cinematography make it one of the most atmospheric and memorable films of its era. Filmmaker and curator Nia Childs joins to discuss the film. Host: Jack McInroy Guest: Nia Childs Theme music: Harlow Family Group Films featured on upcoming episodes of Made in England: https://letterboxd.com/saintjackmc/list/made-in-england-upcoming-episodes/ Get Mubi free for 30 days: https://mubi.com/t/web/global/qrb2jfqf | |||