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David Mamet's Bambi vs Godzilla, The Simpsons Movie

Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the cultural highlights of the week.

The Simpsons Movie
After 18 years and 400 episodes television鈥檚 most famous animated family hit the big screen. The story begins with Homer Simpson falling in love with a pig and ends with him plunging Springfield into an environmental disaster.

Bambi vs Godzilla
In this book of essays, David Mamet, the playwright and screenwriter, gives us a subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a film-maker who enjoys a love/hate relationship with the movie business.

Bambi vs Godzilla is published by Simon and Schuster.

British Film Forever
British Film Forever is a seven-part series and forms the centrepiece of 大象传媒 2鈥檚 upcoming season celebrating the rich heritage of British Film: The Summer of British Film. The series will examine British film by genre and also features interviews from leading actors and directors, including Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Ewan McGregor and Richard Curtis.

Guest Choice
Paul Farley nominates a long established London umbrella shop as his guest choice and explains how it inspired one of his poems. It was founded in 1830 and is still owned and run as a family business.

Spirit Life Exhibition: Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection
This exhibition of rare Islamic art and manuscripts at The Ismaili Centre in South Kensington, London presents treasures from the collection of the Aga Khan which will eventually be displayed at the new Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada in 2010. It includes over 165 objects from the collection showing the diversity of artistic traditions in the Muslim world. The exhibition covers a geographical area stretching from India in the east to Spain and Morocco in the West, and spans over a thousand years, from the ninth to the 19th century.

45 minutes

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  • Sat 28 Jul 2007 19:15

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