Margy Kinmonth on WAR PAINT, and Sasha Nathwani on LAST SWIM

Kermode on Film

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Kermode on Film was recorded live at the BFI Southbank on 7 April 2025.

Mark talks to Margy Kinmonth about WAR PAINT - WOMEN AT WAR, her documentary about women war artists.

And he speaks with Sasha Nathwani, about his directorial feature debut LAST SWIM, a beautiful British coming-of-age film starring Deba Hekmat.

Sit back and enjoy Part 1 of this MK3D show recorded live at the BFI Southbank.

In Part 2, Mark is joined by Icelandic singer-songwriter Emiliana Torrini, who talks to about her performance in THE EXTRAORDINARY MISS FLOWER, directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. And he talks with Charlie Brooker about Season 7 of BLACK MIRROR.

Thanks for listening!

People mentioned in this episode:

Val Kilmer

Tom Cruise

Richard Loncraine

Tom Conti

Noddy Holder

Margy Kinmonth

Kate Winslet

Dziga Vertov

Sasha Nathwani

Deba Hekmat

Shakyra Dowling

Peter Bradshaw

Bill Forsyth

Matt Damon

Ben Affleck

Robin Williams

Jack Nicholson

Chloe Zhao

Emiliana Torrini

Iain Forsyth

Jane Pollard

Charlie Brooker

Films, plays and tv series mentioned in this episode:

Heat

Tombstone

Top Gun Maverick

Final Reckoning

Slade in Flame

Lee

Man With a Movie Camera

Last Swim

Sound of Metal

The Rider

Star Wars

Good Will Hunting

The Extraordinary Miss Flower

Black Mirror

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The opening title sequence of Kermode on Film uses quotes from:

- Mary Poppins, directed by Robert Stevenson and distributed by Walt Disney Motion Pictures – quote featuring Julie Andrews.

- Nope, written, directed and produced by Jordan Peele, and distributed by Universal Studios – quote featuring Keke Palmer.

- Withnail & I, written and directed by Bruce Robinson, and distributed by HandMade Films – quote featuring Richard E Grant.

- The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty and directed by William Friedkin, distributed by Warner Brothers – quote featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair.

We love these films. We urge you to seek them out, and watch them, again and again.

They are masterpieces!

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production.

Cover photo by Julie Edwards.

This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.

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