Downsizing, filming sex scenes and a satire on ceramics
Matt Damon's new film Downsizing reviewed, choreographing sex scenes in the #MeToo era. Plus a history of political and satirical prints transferred onto British ceramics.
Matt Damon's new film Downsizing imagines a solution to over-population is to shrink humans to five inches tall. Director of Film for the British Council Briony Hanson reviews the film which is part midlife strife part speculative science-fiction.
A choreographer for sex scenes on stage or on screen is just as important as that for a fight scene - so says movement director Ita O'Brien, who is calling on the industry to do more to protect performers in scenes involving sex or nudity. Ita O'Brien and casting agent Chris Carey discuss her proposals in the post-Weinstein, #MeToo era.
Political cartoonist Martin Rowson joins John at the British Museum to meet Patricia Ferguson, curator of a display called Pots with Attitude: British Satire on Ceramics, 1760-1830 which looks at the Georgian fashion for printing satirical drawings onto pottery .
And on the day the BFI re-issues of the classic British nuclear disaster film When the Wind Blows, based on the cartoon by Raymond Briggs, Ian Christie considers the film's relevance now.
Presenter : John Wilson
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.
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Downsizing
Duration: 05:25
Filming Sex Scenes
Duration: 10:25
Satire on pots
Duration: 06:54
When the Wind Blows
Duration: 06:32
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Hong Chau and Christoph Waltz
Photo credit: Paramount Pictures
Downsizing is on general release from 24 Jan, cert 15
Main image: Kirsten Wiig, Matt Damon, Maribeth Monroe and Jason Sudeikis in Downsizing
Photo credit: Paramount Pictures听
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Bonaparte Dethron鈥檇 Apr 1 1814
Pots with attitude
Creamware jug, Cambrian Pottery,
Swansea, Wales,
Transfer-printed in black and painted in enamels,
On loan from private collection
British satires on ceramics
1760 鈥� 1830 at the
until听11 MarchCredits
Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Interviewed Guest Briony Hanson Interviewed Guest Ita O'Brien Interviewed Guest Chris Carey Interviewed Guest Martin Rowson Interviewed Guest Patricia Ferguson Interviewed Guest Ian Christie Producer Dymphna Flynn Broadcast
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