Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to the fifth and penultimate episode of Celebration

of Cinema, or celebrate our cinemas, the limited edition series of podcasts brought

to you by Empire in association with those fine and funky folks at Miracat movies from

compare the market. Apologies for my voice by the way I was at a football match over

the weekend and I yelled myself horse and I haven't quite recovered, so there you go.

Anyway in case you aren't a newcomer to this series, the goal of the show is simple,

now the cinemas have reopened their doors, we want to celebrate them. Pure and simple,

so each week I interview someone from the world of film about the movies and the movie

going experiences that shaped them. What for example was the film that lit a fire

under the cinematic back sides, what film made them laugh the most cry the most or scared

the pejises out of them the most, what's their favourite cinema in the whole wide world

and of course perhaps most important of all what is their movie snack of choice.

This week brings an unexpected spark and an unexpected sparks to the show. Russell Mail

and Ron Mail are the brothers behind sparks, the delightfully odd art pub duo who've been

making gloriously catchy music for five decades or more. You may have seen them in Edgar

Wright's recent documentary about them, The Sparks Brothers and in that you may have learned

that in addition to their musical careers, their massive film buffs as well and have actually

been trying to make movies for a while now getting frustratedly close to the start line

with the Tim Burton directed project a few years back. That didn't happen obviously,

but what did make it in front of the cameras is Layles Carrick's Annette and a startlingly

surreal and brilliant slice of utter madness which stars Adam Driver and Marianne Coutier

as a married couple who have a child. And that's all I'm going to say on that, except

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