RYE LANE's Raine Allen-Miller & Vivian Oparah, and Taghi Amirani on COUP 53
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.5 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode of the MK3D show Mark Kermode talks to Taghi Amirani whose film COUP 53 – edited by Walter Murch and featuring Ralph Fiennes – explores the involvement of the CIA and MI6 in the coup in Iran in 1953. Mark and Taghi also connect About their shared love of LOCAL HERO.
The Mark is joined by RYE LANE director Raine Allen-Miller and star Vivian Oparah to talk about their film, which follows two youngsters reeling from bad break-ups who connect over a particularly eventful day in South London. They also talk about their respective influences: Vivian discusses the fight scene in US, and Raine revealsher Guilty Pleasure BOWFINGER.
This episode of Kermode On Film is the first half of the MK3D show recorded live at the BFI Southbank on 13 March 2023.
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- 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.
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Films mentioned in this podcast:
Coup 53
Local Hero
Rye Lane
Oliver Twist
Us
Annihilation
Bowfinger
People mentioned in this episode:
Taghi Amirani
Walter Murch
Ralph Fiennes
David Puttnam
Vivian Oparah
Raine Allen-Miller
Lupita Nyong’o
Natalie Portman
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