Meera Syal on ELF & Panto with Kiefer Sutherland + Joachim Trier on SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Mark is thrilled to welcome Joachim Trier, whose beautiful film SENTIMENTAL VALUE is in UK cinemas boxing day, and Meera Syal, who talks to Mark about her favourite Christmas film ELF - and her role in TINSELTOWN, directing Kiefer Sutherland in a Christmas Panto. Enjoy!
This episode is one half of the December 2025 MK3D, recorded live at the BFI Southbank on Monday 15 December. The next half of the show is podcast on 30 December and features Brett Goldstein, Imogen Poots and William Bridges talking about ALL OF YOU, and Tim Key and James Griffiths talking about THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND.
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Opening title quotes from:
- Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)
- Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)
- Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)
- The Exorcist (William Friedkin, Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)
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| 0:00.0 | In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. |
| 0:03.6 | You find the fun and snap! |
| 0:08.5 | Did you know that the very first assembly of photographs and sequential order to create a motion picture |
| 0:13.8 | was a two-second clip of a black man on horse? |
| 0:17.8 | We want the finest wines available to humanity. |
| 0:23.2 | We want them here and we want them now. |
| 0:29.1 | You really don't want me to play, huh? No, I do. Captain Hardy said no. |
| 0:30.3 | Captain who? |
| 0:37.1 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode. Thanks for downloading this Kermode on film podcast. This episode is one half of our most recent |
| 0:38.4 | MK3D show. That's the live show that I do every month at the BFI South Bank in London. |
| 0:44.0 | On this episode, you'll hear from director Yarkim Trir, whose beautiful film's sentimental value is in UK |
| 0:48.8 | Cinemales from Boxing Day, and the brilliant Mira Sayal, who talks to me about her favourite |
| 0:53.4 | Christmas film, among other things. |
| 0:55.2 | So sit back, relax, and enjoy a front row seat at MK3D recorded live at the BFI South Bank in London, December 25. |
| 1:06.3 | Never knowingly undersold. |
| 1:13.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:15.1 | How lovely to see you all here. |
| 1:17.0 | This is the 108th MK3D show here at the BFI. |
| 1:21.9 | So lovely to see you all. |
| 1:23.1 | Thank you very much for coming. |
| 1:24.7 | I want to start by doing... |
| 1:26.2 | There isn't any other way of doing this, I'm afraid. |
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