The Movie Café - 28/10/2010

Janice Forsyth with the unmissable weekly film programme. Film critic Siobhan Synnot reviews John Landis' black comedy BURKE AND HARE - filmed largely on the streets of Edinburgh and retelling the story of the city's legendary 19th century grave robbers, the film stars Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis in the lead roles, but is it any good? Still Game and Chewin' the Fat star Greg Hemphill, the narrator of THE DUNWICH HORROR talks about this gripping horror movie which has no visuals and is coming to the Grosvenor Cinema in Glasgow on Halloween. We hear about the Document 8 Film Festival which is currently running in Glasgow and focuses on human rights and social issues around the world. In the wake of the recent rescue of the 33 Chilean miners, Janice will be joined by a filmmaker who has made a documentary about a family of miners who risk their lives illegally mining for coal in Poland, and finding out about films made over the last year in Edinburgh, Clydebank and Fife which highlight the stories of people living in poverty in Scotland today. Director Lisa Cholodenko talks to the Movie Café about her Sundance hit THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT - in which Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play a middle-aged lesbian couple whose lives are disrupted when their teenage kids go searching for their biological father. AND: we ask what it's like to be an extra on a film set, and what the reality is of sitting through a finished film in the hope that your performance didn't end up on the cutting room floor. Joining the discussion will be two Glasgow-based regular extras, and a casting agent.