Film critic Simran Hans joined us for Here’s the Thing to give her recommendations for the 61st BFI London Film Festival. In List-O-Mania, to tie in with the release of Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! (2017), Mark gave us his Top Ten ‘Batshit Crazy’ films. Director Ildiko Enyedi came to talk about On Body and Soul (2017) in Coming Attractions. Eddie Marsan, currently in The Limehouse Golem (2016), joined us to share his Guilty Pleasure (1966), Carry on Screaming. In One From the Vaults we looked back at the original tv miniseries of It (1990), and the current film (2017), comparing Bill Skarsgård’s and Tim Curry’s Pennywise. Guest Clarke Peters joined Mark for Sound & Vision which saw some beautiful renditions of Stormy Weather, Hellzapoppin’, and Five Guys Named Moe. In Sound & Vision Mark talked about the musical conversation in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) on the occasion of that film’s 40th anniversary re-release.
