Nail-biting thriller HALLOW ROAD by director Babak Anvari, and stunningly strange and beautiful CIELO by writer-director Alberto Sciamma

Kermode on Film

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Kermode On Film Mark talks to director Babak Anvari, whose nail-biting thriller Hallow Road was released in UK cinemas on 16 May 2025, and he talks to writer-director Alberto Sciamma, whose stunningly beautiful film Cielo premieres at SXSW on 6 June 2025.

This episode of Kermode On Film was recorded live at the BFI Southbank on 19 May 2025, and was the first half of that date's Mark Kermode Live in 3D show.

In Part 2, Mark is joined by director Shannon Murphy, who talks about the television series Dying For Sex, based on a true story starring Michelle Williams.

Mark also talks with John Maclean about Tornado, the Samurai western set in 18th Century Scotland, and with Eddie Hamilton, editor of the Mission: Impossible films, among many others.

Thanks for listening!

Film mentioned in this episode:

Hallow Road

Under the Shadows

I Came By

The Exorcist

Star Wars

Cielo

Tales of Ordinary Madness

La Grande Bouffe

People mentioned in this episode:

Babak Anvari

Alberto Sciamma

William Gillies

Rosamund Pike

Matthew Rhys

John Cassavetes

Lorne Balfe

Depeche Mode

Peter Adams

George Mackay

Bettina Kadoori

John Dunton-Downer

Ana-Maria Vera

Marco Ferreri

Ben Gazzara

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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!

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This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.

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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.
0:33.6	Thanks for downloading this episode of Kermode on film.
0:36.7	This week's episode was recorded
0:38.3	live at the MK 3D show at the BFI South Bank on the 19th of May 2025. And in this first
0:45.2	half of that show, I speak to two directors whose films are very distinct from each other.
0:50.0	First up, Babak Anvary, whose nail-biting thriller Hallow Road was released in UK cinemas last Friday and is absolutely terrific.
0:58.0	And then I talked to Alberto Shama, whose stunningly strange and beautiful film, Thiello, premieres at South by Southwest London in June.
1:05.7	This episode of Kermod on Film, as I said, was recorded live at the BFI South Bank in London on the 19th
1:11.3	of May, sit back and enjoy a front row seat.
1:16.2	You could keep that going for a bit longer, I was quite enjoying it.
1:24.5	I've just realized I've been wearing this suit every show for suit every show we've done for 10 years.
1:30.3	And apparently it's shrunk.
1:33.3	And I don't know how that's happened, but I'm going to get a new one.
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