Screen Players Film Club

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with Oscar and BAFTA winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz who is responsible for some of the most nuanced, potent and beautiful films in contemporary cinema. In this episode she joins Charlotte Bogard Macleod at Soho Square Studios for an open, vulnerable and fiercely honest conversation about the movie “She Said.” Rebecca shares insights about how she w...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with filmmakers Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter discussing their documentary Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other. We’re also joined by the subjects of the film - writer Maggie Barrett and her husband, the legendary photographer Joel Meyerowitz. Wow! This documentary is good. It’s better than good. It’s an intimate exploration of the marriage...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with one of the greatest cinematographers of all time, Sir Roger Deakins and his creative partner James Ellis Deakins, who join Charlotte Bogard Macleod to discuss the Coen Brother’s masterpiece “ The Man Who Wasn’t There .” Don’t miss hearing about the hilarious pranks the Coen Brothers played on set, and how Roger and Ethan Coen developed an almost telepathic...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with Oscar nominated and Emmy Award winning screenwriter  Hossein Amini  talking to Charlotte Bogard Macleod at Soho Square Studios about the process of adapting James Sallis’ lyrical novel  Drive   for the big screen. Don’t miss hearing how Hossein plans his thrilling car chase sequences, and his jaw dropping confessions about his own d...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with legendary documentary maker Nick Broomfield and singer-songwriter and Bastille frontman Dan Smith, who join Charlotte Bogard Macleod to discuss Nick’s film  Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love . Discover how this story of the muse who inspired a songwriter came to inspire Dan’s own songwriting. Don’t miss Nick’s extraordinary revelation...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with one of Britain’s best-loved and most acclaimed producers,  Tessa Ross   CBE , joining Charlotte Bogard Macleod at Soho Square Studios to discuss the BAFTA and Oscar winning masterpiece  Conclave . Don’t miss Tessa sharing the secret of how she got her hands on early chapters of Robert Harris’s novel, and then persuaded him to let her hav...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with Oscar winning screenwriter  Simon Beaufoy  joining Charlotte Bogard Macleod live in The Cinema in The Arches to discuss his smash-hit  Slumdog Millionaire.   Don’t miss Simon’s unique insights on how to handle a multi-strand, non-linear narrative without confusing the audience. Hear how the whole project was nearly consign...

Welcome to the very first episode of Screen Players Film Club! We’re kicking off the series with award-winning artist and filmmaker  Sam Taylor-Johnson , who joins Charlotte Bogard Macleod live from The Cinema in Selfridges to discuss her poignant debut feature  Nowhere Boy , about the early life of John Lennon. Don’t miss Sam sharing what happened when Paul McCartney called her out...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club. In each episode a filmmaker, writer, producer or actor talks to host Charlotte Bogard Macleod about the creative journey behind one of their best-loved movies. We get into it all - the behind the scenes anecdotes and the never-before-told secrets - before moving onto more profound conversations about what it means to be a human navigating through life...