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Focus on film: Eleanor Wachtel talks to director Mike Leigh and actor Michael Caine

Posted by Words At Large Admin on November 17 at 12:00 AM

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What's It All About?A young woman bicycles around London, wanders into a bookstore, chats up the clerk, goes outside and discovers her bike has been stolen. Does she curse? No, she regrets that she didn’t have the chance to say goodbye. That's the premise behind Mike Leigh’s cheerful new movie Happy-Go-Lucky. Eleanor Wachtel talks to the director about his own life and times, in this interview that took place during this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Also on the show this week: a conversation with actor Michael Caine, star of such films as Alfie, Sleuth and The Cider House Rules, who has written about his long career on the big screen in his autobiography What's It All About? (Arrow).

First aired November 16, 2008 on Writers & Company. [runs 52:40]

Writers & Company airs on Thursdays at 11:00 p.m. (11:30 in Newfoundland) and on Sunday afternoons (times vary across the country). You can also listen to the show as a podcast.

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