Twiggy on Ken Russell, and Kötting's Hallucinated Worlds: What Shapes an Icon?
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The legendary icon herself, Dame Twiggy Lawson, joins Mark Kermode to talk about TWIGGY, Sadie Frost’s documentary about her life as a model, singer, actress and fashion icon. They also talk about working with Ken Russell on THE BOY FRIEND and THE DEVILS – and meeting her idol Fred Astaire.
Mark is also joined by film director and visual artist Andrew Kötting to talk about his exhibition EVERYWORLD, created together with his daughter Eden. Kötting described the exhibition as a hallucinatory experience, drawing on the ghosts from his previous film projects. The exhibition is on now at Undershed gallery on the ground floor of the Watershed in Bristol, and will be at Swedenborg House in London from late April till the middle of June 2026.
The Mark Kermode Live in 3D shows happen live every month at the BFI. Head over to the BFI website if you’d like to join us at the BFI Southbank.
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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)
These films are masterpieces. Watch them.
This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and edited by Alex Jones.
Image by Julie Edwards Visuals
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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. |
| 0:21.0 | 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? |
| 0:32.1 | Welcome back to Kerrmod on Film and thanks for downloading this Kerrmode on Film podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Mark Kermode and this episode is the |
| 0:38.9 | second half of our March 26 live show recorded at the BFI IMAX. I'm delighted to talk to |
| 0:45.5 | filmmaker and artist Andrew Kotting about his films, his new VR project and the Every World |
| 0:50.7 | Exhibition. And then I'll talk to Dame Twiggy Lawson, who join me to talk about the documentary |
| 0:55.2 | Twiggy, which maps her brilliant career for model to film star, to pop star, to podcast host. So sit back, |
| 1:02.5 | relax and take a front row seat at MK3D at the BFI IMAX. Enjoy. Now, on the subject of filmmaking heroes, our next guest is someone I have been trying |
| 1:17.3 | to get on the show for a decade. And as you know, the show turned 10, just like in the last year. |
| 1:24.0 | This is 111 show, whatever it is. So, he is an extraordinary filmmaker, |
| 1:29.1 | although filmmaker doesn't really cover it. |
| 1:31.9 | In terms of his features that you may have seen, |
| 1:34.5 | he's made things like Gallivant, which is extraordinary, |
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