Arena
Season 3
Episodes
1. Edinburgh Festival
Features the 1977 Edinburgh International Festival with a new production of Carmen, the experimental shows, Film Festival, Television Festival, and art galleries.
2. Cinema
with Gavin Millar returns for a new season after a visit to Hollywood, which despite rumours of slump and panic is still the unquestioned capital of the cinema world. We talked to one of its ruling princes, John Franken heimer, director of The Manchurian Candidate and Grand Prix, about his career in the Dream Factory, and especially his latest suspense thriller Black Sunday.
3. Cinema
4. Art and Design
5. Cinema
Diane Keaton and Woody Allen talk about the filming of 'Annie Hall' and their long friendship.
6. Theatre
7. Cinema: Greece
8. Art and Design: Richard Seifert
9. Cinema
10. Theatre: Hands Off the Classics
In the 17th century Troilus and Cressida was censored and in the 18th century Tate gave King Lear a happy ending. The programme debates the line between interpretation and vandalism.
11. Cinema: 21st London Film Festival
12. Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag
13. Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 2
14. Theatre: Leonard Rossiter
15. Cinema: The Deep
16. Cinema: The Force is with us?
17. Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities; Henry Moore discusses Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings.
18. Cinema: The Force is with us? - Part 2/Howard Hawks
19. Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard
20. Cinema: Joseph Conrad
21. Art and Design: Carrington
22. Cinema: Claude Renoir
23. Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...
24. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
25. Art and Design: Carl Andre
26. Cinema: Dancing Years
27. Theatre: Taking Our Time
28. Art and Design: Way Out West
29. Theatre: Children of the Gods
30. Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?
A tribute to the British filmmaker Alan Clarke (1935-1990).