Mario & Mandela Van Peebles on Outlaw Posse, and documentary makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin

02/11/25 • 46 min

In this episode of Kermode on Film, Mark is joined by Mario Van Peebles and Mandela Van Peebles, to talk about their film Outlaw Posse, shown as part of the BFI season Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western. And he talks to Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty, the director and producer of the high grossing new documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin.

Sit back and enjoy Part 1 of this MK3D show recorded live at the BFI Southbank on Monday 10 February 2025.

In Part 2, Mark is joined by a star of stage and screen Fiona Shaw, and composer, musician and superstar Warren Ellis.

Thanks for listening, and remember, keep watching the skies.

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The opening title sequence of Kermode on Film uses quotes from:

Mary Poppins, directed by Robert Stevenson and distributed by Walt Disney Motion Pictures – quote featuring Julie Andrews.

Nope, written, directed and produced by Jordan Peele, and distributed by Universal Studios – quote featuring Keke Palmer.

Withnail & I, written and directed by Bruce Robinson, and distributed by HandMade Films – quote featuring Richard E Grant.

The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty and directed by William Friedkin, distributed by Warner Brothers – quote featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair.

We love these films. We urge you to seek them out, and watch them, again and again.

They are masterpieces!

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production.

Cover photo by Julie Edwards.

This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#MarkKermode #MK3D #KermodeOnFilm #BFI #BFISouthbank #MarioVanPeebles #MandelaVanPeebles #OutlawPosse #GhandiFilm #AliFilm #MalcolmX #MohammedAli #LedZeppelin #BecomingLedZeppelin #AllisonMcGourty #BernardMacMahon #SafetyLast #HaroldLloyd

Films and TV series mentioned in this episode:

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Films mentioned in this podcast:

Vertigo

Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles

Outlaw Posse

Posse

Baadasssss! (2003)

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

Gandhi (1982)

Ali (2001)

Becoming Led Zeppelin

American Epic

Safety Last

Napoleon (1927)

Napoleon (2024)

People and bands mentioned in this episode:

Chantal Ackerman

Mario Van Peebles

Mandela Van Peebles

Melvyn Van Peebles

Johnny Cash

Whoopi Goldberg

Bernard MacMahon

Allison McGourty

Robert Redford

Robert Plant

Jimmy Page

John Paul Jones

John Bonham

Carter Family

Pink Floyd

The Who

Carl Davis

Gaylord Carter

Abel Gance

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Sit back and enjoy Part 1 of this MK3D show recorded live at the BFI Southbank on Monday 10 February 2025.

In Part 2, Mark is joined by a star of stage and screen Fiona Shaw, and composer, musician and superstar Warren Ellis.

Thanks for listening, and remember, keep watching the skies.

———————

The opening title sequence of Kermode on Film uses quotes from:

Mary Poppins, directed by Robert Stevenson and distributed by Walt Disney Motion Pictures – quote featuring Julie Andrews.

Nope, written, directed and produced by Jordan Peele, and distributed by Universal Studios – quote featuring Keke Palmer.

Withnail & I, written and directed by Bruce Robinson, and distributed by HandMade Films – quote featuring Richard E Grant.

The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty and directed by William Friedkin, distributed by Warner Brothers – quote featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair.

We love these films. We urge you to seek them out, and watch them, again and again.

They are masterpieces!

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production.

Cover photo by Julie Edwards.

This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Films and TV series mentioned in this episode:

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Films mentioned in this podcast:

Vertigo

Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles

Outlaw Posse

Posse

Baadasssss! (2003)

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

Gandhi (1982)

Ali (2001)

Becoming Led Zeppelin

American Epic

Safety Last

Napoleon (1927)

Napoleon (2024)

People and bands mentioned in this episode:

Chantal Ackerman

Mario Van Peebles

Mandela Van Peebles

Melvyn Van Peebles

Johnny Cash

Whoopi Goldberg

Bernard MacMahon

Allison McGourty

Robert Redford

Robert Plant

Jimmy Page

John Paul Jones

John Bonham

Carter Family

Pink Floyd

The Who

Carl Davis

Gaylord Carter

Abel Gance

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Previous Episode

RYE LANE's Raine Allen-Miller & Vivian Oparah, and Taghi Amirani on COUP 53

In this week’s episode of the MK3D show Mark Kermode talks to Taghi Amirani whose film COUP 53 – edited by Walter Murch and featuring Ralph Fiennes – explores the involvement of the CIA and MI6 in the coup in Iran in 1953. Mark and Taghi also connect About their shared love of LOCAL HERO.

The Mark is joined by RYE LANE director Raine Allen-Miller and star Vivian Oparah to talk about their film, which follows two youngsters reeling from bad break-ups who connect over a particularly eventful day in South London. They also talk about their respective influences: Vivian discusses the fight scene in US, and Raine revealsher Guilty Pleasure BOWFINGER.

This episode of Kermode On Film is the first half of the MK3D show recorded live at the BFI Southbank on 13 March 2023.

Thank you for listening!

———————

The opening title sequence of Kermode on Film uses quotes from:

Mary Poppins, directed by Robert Stevenson and distributed by Walt Disney Motion Pictures – quote featuring Julie Andrews.

Nope, written, directed and produced by Jordan Peele, and distributed by Universal Studios – quote featuring Keke Palmer.

Withnail & I, written and directed by Bruce Robinson, and distributed by HandMade Films – quote featuring Richard E Grant.

The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty and directed by William Friedkin, distributed by Warner Brothers – quote featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair.

We love these films. We urge you to seek them out, and watch them, again and again.

They are masterpieces!

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production.

Cover photo by Hedda Archbold.

This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#MarkKermode #MK3D #KermodeOnFilm #BFI #BFISouthbank #TaghiAmirani #WalterMurch #Coup53 #RyeLane #VivianOparah #RaineAllenMiller #LocalHero #Us #Bowfinger

Films and TV series mentioned in this episode:

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Films mentioned in this podcast:

Coup 53

Local Hero

Rye Lane

Oliver Twist

Annihilation

Bowfinger

People mentioned in this episode:

Taghi Amirani

Walter Murch

Ralph Fiennes

David Puttnam

Vivian Oparah

Raine Allen-Miller

Lupita Nyong’o

Natalie Portman

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Next Episode

Warren Ellis on I'm Still Here and composing, and Fiona Shaw on Hot Milk

In this episode of Kermode on Film, Mark is joined by Fiona Shaw to talk about her new film Hot Milk, which premiers at the Berlin Film Festival this year, and to Warren Ellis, composer, musician and superstar, to talk about his score for Walter Salles autobiographical film I'm Still Here.

Sit back and enjoy Part 2 of this MK3D show recorded live at the BFI Southbank on Monday 10 February 2025.

In Part 1, Mark was joined by Mario Van Peebles and Mandela Van Peebles, to talk about their film Outlaw Posse, shown as part of the BFI season Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western. And he talked to Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty, the director and producer of the high grossing new documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin.

Thanks for listening, and remember, keep watching the skies.

———————

The opening title sequence of Kermode on Film uses quotes from:

Mary Poppins, directed by Robert Stevenson and distributed by Walt Disney Motion Pictures – quote featuring Julie Andrews.

Nope, written, directed and produced by Jordan Peele, and distributed by Universal Studios – quote featuring Keke Palmer.

Withnail & I, written and directed by Bruce Robinson, and distributed by HandMade Films – quote featuring Richard E Grant.

The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty and directed by William Friedkin, distributed by Warner Brothers – quote featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair.

We love these films. We urge you to seek them out, and watch them, again and again.

They are masterpieces!

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production.

Cover photo by Julie Edwards.

This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#MarkKermode #MK3D #KermodeOnFilm #BFI #BFISouthbank #FionaShaw #HarryPotter #HotMilk #Ammonite #WarrenEllis #NickCave #I'mStillHere #WalterSalles # #CaliforniaSuite #Mustang #TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord #AndrewDominik

Films mentioned in this podcast:

Outlaw Posse

Becoming Led Zeppelin

Hot Milk

Sex Education

Ammonite

Safety Last

California Suite

I'm Still Here

Roma

Mustang

The Proposition

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Zoolander

Song for Bob

People and bands mentioned in this episode:

The Who

Deborah Levy

Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Emma Mackie

Kate Winslet

Claire Rushbrook

Charlie Chaplin

Maggie Smith

Simone Rocha

Walter Salles

Fernanda Torres

Nick Cave

John Hillcoat

The Bad Seeds

Jackson Ellis

Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Gaspar Noé

Andrew Dominik

Brad Pitt

Casey Affleck

Sam Shepard

Gerard McCann

Angelo Badalamenti

Nina Simone

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