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Our final guest on BFI Player's 'The Cut', watch Ana Matronic on robots and Fritz Lang's masterpiece - "My fascination with robots began with 'Star Wars', which was the first movie I ever saw in the cinema. Robots were never scary or anything. They were kind of like toys come to life, and so I was always fascinated with them. 'Metropolis' is one of the greatest, most influential films ever made. The robot character was a direct influence on C-3PO. It definitely is one of the biggest touchstones for all robot films that have come after it. Every single frame is so considered. You could take any still from 'Metropolis', put it in a frame, and hang it on your wall. It's just machine-age robot perfection. It's just one of the most beautiful films ever made."

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"What was he? Who was he? What was he doing?” Gilles Peterson tells us why Searching For Sugar Man is essential viewing for music lovers. #BFIPlayer

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"For the music alone, this film is essential.” Gilles Peterson tells us why All Night Long is a must watch for jazz fans. #BFIPlayer

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"You could really feel how far apart society was at that time.” Gilles Peterson discusses the racial divisions highlighted in documentary Dread Beat and Blood. #BFIPlayer

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"It is femininity, but very artificial femininity." Photographer Juno Calypso discusses the meaning behind her work and its link to cinema. #BFIPlayer

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"Art is an important prism to show how things matter." Fashion designer Bella Freud explores how filmmaking can empower voices all around the world. #BFIPlayer

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“The clothes are so unforgettably beautiful and exquisite.” Fashion designer Bella Freud discusses the Yves Saint Laurent costumes found in Belle de Jour #bfiplayer

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""For my inspiration I look around pretty much everywhere." Acclaimed fashion designer Bella Freud reveals the films that have inspired her and her work. From her Chiltern Street shop in Marylebone, London, she discusses the link between film and her creative process. #bfiplayer

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NEW: In the latest episode of ‘The Cut’, acclaimed fashion designer Bella Freud reveals the films that have inspired her and her work #BFIPlayer

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Mark Kermode applauds George MacKay and his work in Bypass, a work of social realism with real punch.

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"It was so passionate, so real." Architect Lord Rogers tells us why The Battle of Algiers is the greatest war film ever. #BFIPlayer

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World-renowned architect Lord Rogers chats about the cultural influence of Italy and its cinema #BFIPlayer

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Lord Rogers, the visionary behind Paris' Pompidou Centre and London's Millennium Dome, discusses the magic that links architecture with film #BFIPlayer

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Doc Brown reveals how Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, alongside Steven Knight’s Locke, have influenced his work in the latest episode of The Cut #BFIPlayer

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Tales of war and want, nerve and desire, flavoured with wit and rhythm from some of the greatest filmmakers ever assembled. Comic books and potboilers, literature and memoir populate these stories from a nation whose land and language accommodates tellers from the world. #BFIPlayer

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Celebrate the outsiders and mavericks whose independent methods rewrote the rulebook for American cinema. Both landmark features from, and illuminating documentaries about, some of the movement’s key practitioners, including Kenneth Anger, John Cassavetes, Gregg Araki and John Waters. Told together their stories are testimony to a movement that changed the way Hollywood operates and revitalised American cinema. #BFIPlayer

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“The complications of the shortcomings of human beings…that is what I’m interested in writing about.” Doc Brown discusses the films he loves and how the influence his work #BFIPlayer