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In this last episode of Movietime, Julie Rigg reflects on a 40+ year career with Weekend Arts presenter Sarah Kanowski. Plus, a couple of highlights from Julie's time at RN: a 2003 interview with Danish director Lars Von Trier, just after he made Dogville, and from the same year a conversation with Quentin Tarantino, recorded in the lead up to the release of Kill Bill.

This week on Movietime Summer an interview with 'the mother of the French new Wave', Agnes Varda. The interview was recorded in 2001, just after the release of her marvellous documentary The Gleaners and I, a film about the tradition of gleaning crops after the harvest, and the legal rights of the gleaners. It is also about urban gleaners who scavenge food at urban markets, and goods discarded on the streets in a society built on waste. We meet them as philosophers, not as victims, and a wonderfully wide and eccentric range of people they are. Beyond this, the film is about how art is made, about artists as gleaners, collecting and refashioning images and ideas. And finally, it is about Agnes Varda herself, then in her mid-seventies: in fact Varda’s film starts with the Millet painting of the gleaners and at one stage she very cheekily turns the camera on herself, clutching a sheaf of wheat. Varda has called the film 'Agnes in the year 2000', and it's also about time passing, and her own ageing. She actually does this gallant thing and focuses her little digital camera on her own hand, the wrinkles, the blotches -- and in another sequence where she runs a comb through her hair, she shows the grey near the part, where the red dye grows out. She spoke to Julie on the line from Paris.

This week on Movietime's Summer series something quite special -- and never before broadcast -- a panel discussion with the master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami featuring Julie Rigg with critics David Stratton and Adrian Martin.