MONICA DOLAN on Typist, Artist, Pirate, King; OTTO BAXTER & PETER BEARD on Otto Baxter, Not a F••ing Horror Story, and KRISTY MATHESON on the LFF 2023
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we go back to September 2023, to the eve of the BFI London Film Festival.
TYPIST ARTIST PIRATE KING, Director Carol Morley's latest film, was about to release, and Mark spoke with its star, brilliant actress and national treasure Monica Dolan who played the role of Audrey Amiss.
Mark also talked with filmmakers Otto Baxter and Peter Beard, the documentary filmmaker who made OTTO BAXTER, NOT A F***ING HORROR STORY – about the background to Otto Baxter's short film THE PUPPET ASYLUM.
Finally Mark spoke with London Film Festival director Kristy Matheson, who spotlights some of her favourite films in the BFI LFF.
Enjoy!
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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 was a two-second clip of a black man on horse? |
| 0:17.8 | We want the finest wines available to humanity. |
| 0:21.0 | We want them here and we want them now. |
| 0:24.2 | You really don't want me to play, huh? |
| 0:26.5 | No, I do. |
| 0:27.9 | Captain Hardy said no. |
| 0:29.6 | Captain who? |
| 0:31.9 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode. |
| 0:33.3 | Thanks for downloading this Kermode on film podcast. |
| 0:36.0 | And thanks for joining me for part one of |
| 0:37.7 | the MK3D show recorded live at the BFI South Bank in September 2023. First up, I talked to Monica |
| 0:44.2 | Dolan about her role in typist artist Pirate King, directed by the great Carol Morley. |
| 0:49.3 | Next, I'm joined by director Otto Baxter and documentary filmmaker Peter Beard. They talk about |
| 0:54.1 | Otto's film The Puppet Asylum and Peter's making of documentary, |
| 0:57.8 | Otto Baxter, not an effing horror story, which reveals what it was like for Otto to make a film. |
| 1:04.1 | And I talked to the director of the BFI London Film Festival, Christy Matheson, |
| 1:08.0 | who gave us an insight into what to expect from the 2023 festival. |
| 1:12.6 | The thing I like most about the walk on to this thing thing, Nick, it's his job to be there, |
| 1:30.3 | but it also feels like your job to applaud. You don't need to applaud me. We're literally |
| 1:35.3 | like in the same team. Hello everybody. How are you all doing? |
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