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News from Cannes; China Mieville; Exile on Main St reviewed; Tyler Perry

With Kirsty Lang, including the Rolling Stones back with Exile on Main St, American film star Tyler Perry, China Mieville on his novel Kraken and the latest news from Cannes.

With Kirsty Lang. Film critic Kate Muir reports live from the Cannes Film Festival as it reaches its climax

Actor and director Tyler Perry is one of the highest-paid men in Hollywood and his films - such as Why Did I Get Married? and Madea's Family Reunion - consistently top the US box office with a predominently African-American, churchgoing audience. As his latest, starring Janet Jackson, receives a special screening in London, Tyler Perry discusses his rise from community theatre in Atlanta to media mogul, and the problems he still has getting cinemas to screen his films.

The re-release of The Rolling Stone's 1972 album, Exile on Main St, has shot to the top of the mid-week charts. It was famously recorded in the basement of Keith Richards' villa in the South of France. Music critic David Hepworth discusses why the album is so popular 38 years after its original release.

Novelist China Mieville talks about Kraken, his darkly-comic urban fantasy about the theft of a giant preserved squid, which provokes deadly warfare between squid-worshippers, occult villains and the Metropolitan Police's cult-squad.

Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

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30 minutes

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  • Cannes Film Festival

    • Cannes Film Festival

      Film critic Kate Muir reports live from the Cannes Film Festival as it reaches its climax.

      Duration: 04:26

  • Tyler Perry

    • Tyler Perry

      Hollywood film director and actor Tyler Perry discusses his rise from community theatre in Atlanta to media mogul and outlines the problems he has getting his films screened at cinemas.

      Duration: 10:18

  • Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St

    • Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St

      The re-release of The Rolling Stone's 1972 album, Exile on Main St, has shot to the top of the mid-week charts. Music critic David Hepworth discusses why the album is still so popular.

      Duration: 05:22

  • China Mieville - Kraken

    • China Mieville - Kraken

      Novelist China Mieville talks about Kraken, his darkly-comic urban fantasy about the theft of a giant preserved squid.

      Duration: 07:35

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  • Fri 21 May 2010 19:15

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