Scene by Scene
Scene by Scene: Season 1

Air Date

May 10, 1997

Episodes

24 episodes

Scene by Scene

Season 1

Episodes

1. Sean Connery

May 10, 1997
60 min

With a career spanning nearly 40 years, Scottish actor Sean Connery is one of the world's most popular movie stars. In this programme, while watching clips from his films, he relates anecdotesto Mark Cousins about his life in cinema. Films discussed include Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and The Hill. Director Mark Cousins Executive producer May Miller

2. Steve Martin

February 21, 1998
60 min

3. Terence Stamp

February 28, 1998
60 min

Maverick actor Terence Stamp talks to Mark Cousins about his life, loves and the decisions that have shaped his career. Clips from Billy Budd and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert are interspersed with Stamp's candid comments.

4. Martin Scorsese

April 4, 1998
60 min

Martin Scorsese, acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living directors, talks to Mark Cousins in an interview that coincides with the release of Кундун (1997), exploring the life of the Dalai Lama. In his New York production office, Scorsese discusses the experiences of working with actors such as Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli and Harvey Keitel, and how his style has evolved over the last three decades. Scorsese also analyses clips from Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas and New York, New York, and what he considers his best film, Italo-American (1974), a documentary with his parents as subjects.

5. Paul Schrader

April 25, 1998
60 min

About screenwriter/filmmaker/producer Paul Schrader who entered Hollywood with the script of "Taxi Driver".

6. Jack Lemmon

August 15, 1998
60 min

Jack Lemmon talks to Mark Cousins about his diverse and enduring career in cinema in a conversation punctuated by clips from his films, including The Apartment (1960) and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

7. Brian De Palma

November 8, 1998
60 min

8. Jonathan Demme

February 27, 1999
60 min

9. Jane Russell

May 15, 1999
60 min

Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was an American film actress and one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s.

10. Bernardo Bertolucci

September 18, 1999
60 min

Bernardo Bertolucci's career reached a peak of notoriety with Last Tango in Paris (1972) in 1972, but atmospheric early work such as Spider's Strategy (1970) and The Conformist (1970) had already earmarked him as a major talent. Here, in the company of Mark Cousins, he discusses the frank sexuality in his work and influences informing it, and his hatred of his native Italy. The programme includes clips from Bertolucci's films and from those of his many admirers.

11. David Lynch

November 28, 1999
60 min

Mark Cousins meets US director David Lynch, the creator of such idiosyncratic and groundbreaking screen landmarks as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks

12. James Coburn

March 11, 2000
60 min

13. Roman Polanski

May 27, 2000
60 min

14. Woody Allen

June 10, 2000
60 min

Mark Cousins Interviews Woody Allen about his life and work.

15. Rod Steiger

July 15, 2000
60 min

16. Lauren Bacall

August 5, 2000
60 min

In a rare interview, Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall speaks to Mark Cousins about her career, her marriage to Humphrey Bogart and her friendships with Katharine Hepburn and Rock Hudson.

17. Janet Leigh

December 16, 2000
60 min

18. Kirk Douglas

December 28, 2000
60 min

19. Tom Hanks

January 21, 2001
60 min

20. Donald Sutherland

March 22, 2001
60 min

With roles in Военно-полевой госпиталь M*A*S*H. (1970), Klute (1971), Donald Sutherland made his name in some of the outstanding films of the seventies. He has remained one of Hollywood's most versatile actors, and in this programme he talks with Mark Cousins about his life and work.

21. Jeff Bridges

August 8, 2001
60 min

22. Dennis Hopper

August 20, 2001
60 min

23. Jeanne Moreau

December 1, 2001
60 min

Considered by Orson Welles to be the greatest actress in the world, Jeanne Moreau was the muse of French cinema in the 1960s. Here she reveals the stories behind the making of Jules and Jim (1962), and explores sexual and intellectual freedom in her career and private life.

24. John Sayles

December 8, 2001
60 min