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WRITER/DIRECTOR Bruce Robinson, who has recently reinvented himself as a novelist, was the talent responsible for some of the finest British films of the 1980s - viz The Killing Fields and Withnail and I. In How to Get Behind In Film Making (9.45pm FilmFour), Robinson dissects his own rollercoaster career, with contributions from such diverse characters as Andy Garcia, Richard E Grant (right) and David Puttnam.
This is followed by How to Get Ahead in Advertising (10.35pm FilmFour), an unusual black comedy starring Grant as an advertising exec whose personality is trans-formed for the worse when he sprouts a second head. Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson and John Shrapnel provide solid support. Like much of Robinson's work, it is simultaneously imaginative and disturbing.
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