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Film director Todd Solondz talks to Anne McElvoy about his new suburban satire Dark Horse, which stars Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow.

Anne McElvoy talks to the acclaimed US film director Todd Solondz about his new suburban satire Dark Horse which stars Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow. Solondz burst to prominence in the late '90s with the art-house hits "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and "Happiness," but since then has pursued an ever more individual and idiosyncratic path.

Marina Warner and Richard Cork discuss mankind's instinctive desire for flight as a new exhibition, Flight and the artistic imagination, opens at Compton Verney in Warwickshire. This mesmerizing feat has obsessed artists for centuries as they've tried to explore what the world looks like from above.

Susannah Clapp reviews the new play from Joe Penhall which opens tonight at The Royal Court Theatre, London. Birthday, starring Stephen Mangan and Lisa Dillon, is set in a chaotic maternity ward and imagines a future where men can give birth.

And the next of this year's New Generation Thinkers, Josh Nall punts his way through the canals of mars as he examines the relationship between astronomers and the red planet.

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45 minutes

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Thu 28 Jun 2012 22:00

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  • Thu 28 Jun 2012 22:00

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