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Film Stories with Simon Brew

In conversation with Stephen Frears - The Lost King, My Beautiful Laundrette, The Queen, Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly and more

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9813 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Decade after decade, director Stephen Frears has maintained an enviable output of movies and TV shows, and his latest film - The Lost King - is now playing in UK cinemas. He joins Simon for a podcast special, where they chat about his work, from breaking through with My Beautiful Laundrette, to the ultra-fast turnaround of Dangerous Liaisons. They also talk about the perils of making studio films in Hollywood, why The Queen went to cinemas rather than TV (and legal advice was involved!), and the assorted challenges of The Lost King... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4

Hello, this is Simon Brew.

0:32.8

I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a special episode of the Film Stories podcast.

0:39.5

Come with me.

0:41.8

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

0:44.8

In movies. Movies. Movies that had stories.

0:47.7

The story just sucks a man. This is just the beginning.

0:52.6

There are the stories. We would honoured if you would join us.

0:59.6

Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.

1:03.4

I am Simon Brew as always.

1:04.5

That's absolutely everything you need to know about me.

1:07.0

The aim of the podcast though, well, the title gives it away.

1:09.5

I'm here to talk off the stories of film and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all those ingredients that go to make the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover in this podcast have more of a mainstream leaning to them than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.

1:29.8

I try not to punch down.

1:30.9

I try not to do snuck.

1:32.1

This podcast is very much a celebration of cinema.

1:35.9

And this episode is one of my occasional special episodes too,

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