i didn't know where belfry was. i guess i was thinking about belgrave, which is a lot closer. so stupid. then i got a realjob. and they are letting me do this because they think it is funny. the pass is icy — it takes me four hours to get here, it's going to take me four hours to get back. i have to work in the morning. now, you can tell from that, the tone of the film seems to be... remember that famous quote — waiting for godot was a play in which nothing happens twice? you could say that this is a film in which nothing happens three times. but it is in the nothing—happening an awful lot is happening. and a lot of it is to do with, as you saw in that, one character is talking and another character is looking. but it is the looks which are actually saying more than the dialogue, and what i like about this, kelly reichardt is a film—maker

who works on mood, long shots, you believe in these characters absolutely, and the story is not evident immediately — you have to give it time, let it settle. it is a film i want to see again. the performances are fantastically naturalistic — you do believe in the characters, sometimes to the point where you think, i am going to stay with them for a while, even though i am not entirely sure where the narrative thread is going. over the course of the drama, it does have a cumulative affect, but so much of it is to do with the tone of the atmosphere, you know, the way in which people look at each other, the environment in which they find themselves, the isolation, and the way in which they do or do not relate to the other characters around them and the landscape. that is a very hard sell, because you are not going to put that on a movie poster — a film about the way you may or may not relate to the people and the landscape around you! but it is a film that you have to meet halfway. but she is a superb director, and they are great performances. it sounds absolutely intriguing

to me, and that put it on my list, for sure. good. and can there be any doubt about film of the week? no — moonlight is the best thing in cinemas at the moment, the best thing i have seen in a very long time. it won the best picture oscar, and the remarkable thing — when was the last time that the best film of the year actually won the oscar for best film of the year? finally, it happened! it is so brilliant that it did — i think barryjenkins has done a brilliantjob, a coming—of—age story, a triptych, three periods in the same character's life, played by three different actors. each one chaptered according to the name of the character. it is about a tough life, but it has got immense beauty, a wonderful soundtrack. it looks fabulous, you really believe in the characters, it is tactile, sensuous and strange and adventurous, and everything that you want a movie to be. and everything about it kind of says, this is great, there's no way this will win big at the awards — and it did, and it is such a brilliant thing. i am so pleased for barryjenkins. he is still a very young director, and you don't realise that,

in movie terms, it was made on a very small budget. absolutely tiny, and again it is one of those demonstrations that it is not about your resources — it is about passion, commitment and talent. this is a low—budget movie, when you compare what it is up against, and it is really wonderful. you talk about passion and it commitment — that takes us to our dvd. ken loach. i, daniel blake, and this was overlooked by the academy, and it is a great shame that it was, because it was unbelievably powerful — directed by ken loach, wonderful script, great performances by davejohns and hayley squires, and a story which basically has a message, the message being that bureaucracy and bureaucratic inefficiency can be used as a tool of repression. that doesn't sound like it will make for great drama, but it does — it is about characters that you know and like and care about, and it has got a sequence that has been referred to many times — the foodbank sequence — that i think is one of the most perfect pieces of film—making, understated film—making. the cameras stay a long way

away from the character, they watch the action play out in real time, and it is so powerful. 50 moving. it really is. it is notjust that it has a message, the way in which tells the story is powerful. i thinkjust as a piece of film—making, it is really brilliant. i, daniel blake is out on dvd — if you don't want to go to the cinema this week, stay at home and watch that, and possibly sob! it is a good week in all its variety. that's it for this week, though. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/film. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. and that is it for this week. thanks for watching. see you next time. ice to be informed over the next six

oi’ ice to be informed over the next six or nine months, all hopes are pinned on the inquiry to provide adequate airat the end on the inquiry to provide adequate air at the end we can move on from there. i'm not sure we will get that far. the picture was of an iron lady, echoes back to margaret thatcher, and she is not in that position. no, she is not, and a reception at alim ozturk got here when she came in this time, it was michelle o'neill that had that perception. reception. very clearly the story of this election has been sinn fein's stunning electoral success. here in belfast and west belfast they've taken four belfast and west belfast they've ta ken four out of belfast and west belfast they've taken four out of five seats. very comfortably ta ken those taken four out of five seats. very comfortably taken those seats with over 61% of the vote. in north belfast interestingly, that surge of support for sinn fein has meant that we could be on the verge of for the first time ever having more nationalists elected in a constituency—wide election in north belfast than unionists, which again would be a remarkable change on how

things have been nine months ago. big name potentially in trouble in north belfast, nelson mccausland. yes, a significant figure within the dup, former culture minister. and really the mood music seems to be from the dup that they think he has lost. he is out yet on the numbers, but from the body language of the dup members it appears that they've lost a significant figure within the party. that would leave the dup and unionism within belfast likely down tojust six unionism within belfast likely down to just six seats out of 20 because they'll have lost a seat in east, north and south belfast. what do you see as the overall picture then, you we re see as the overall picture then, you were saying earlier that there is a possibility that sinn fein and the dup could have the same number of seats of 28, but with some results in the last half hour that's possibly not going to happen now.|j still expect the dup to be around 29, 30, to still have a slight lead over sinn fein. the other big question today is what happens to the smaller parties within the unionist and nationalist blocks? mike nesbitt said this felt

different on the doorstep and yet the uup has failed to deliver. the sdlp have really failed to deliver. ido sdlp have really failed to deliver. i do wonder whether there is room for a smaller party within either electoral block now. frankly, if you area electoral block now. frankly, if you are a strong unionist, you vote dup. if you are — what is the future of the uup and sdlp? the idea of going into opposition was not a bad one, stormont needed an opposition but it's not working on the doorstep. the only good election result the uup have had in the last few years is when they went into a pan—unionist front at a westminster election in 2015, everything else has been, frankly, mediocre in terms of elections, they're going to have to have a new strategy and maybe a new leader. is there an obvious successoi’, new leader. is there an obvious successor, though, if he decides it's not worth carrying on? not really. thank you very much. we will leave it there. more from you later. thank you very much, tara.

let's cross over to north antrim and speak to the tuv leaderjim allister whojoins us from speak to the tuv leaderjim allister who joins us from the seven towers leisure centre. evening to you, thank you very much forjoining us. iam thank you very much forjoining us. i am looking at my computer here. i don't think anybody‘s formally been returned at this stage a lot of eliminations, are you confidentable you will hold on to your seat? yes, iam within you will hold on to your seat? yes, i am within about 200 votes of the quota so i think that's pretty clear what's going to happen. i think it's going to end up one sinn fein seat, one tuv seat and one ulster unionist seat and two dup, which is a loss of a dup seat. will that be philip logan who will lose that seat, the candidate who came through last may? yes, it certainly looks like that. i do have to say this, this is a poor day for unionism. it's a day that need not have happened but for the arrogance of mrsfoster it wouldn't have happened. it's a day when we

have happened. it's a day when we have seen sinn fein advances and probably arrived at the point unnecessarily where unionism is no longer the majority control in the assembly and i think that does send a message to both the leaders of unionism and the unionist party that given that stormont will only continue if the dup now fill sinn fein's boots with endless concessions and — they are insatable on that front, many unionists will be asking themselves whether in these circumstances we really want to keep stormont and i think all unionists have to do some heart—searching about whether or not that's the best way to protect the union where we have an elevated and advanced sinn fein agenda which will be so avarice in its demands of unionism and unionism if it wants to keep stormont is going to have to pay an incredible and repeated price and! pay an incredible and repeated price and i do question whether that is in the interests of unionism. well, you

have questioned how arlene foster has handled the situation and she — you say she bears some responsibility for what's happened for sinn fein's advances. how could she have stopped that, how could she have prevented martin mcguinness's resignation, the only thing she could do was step aside to stop that happening and if she had done that you would have been the first person to say she was dancing to sinn fein's tune? of course - i would row it back much further than that. the dup by bringing sinn fein into government created the crocodile scenario and of course they've had to feed it ever since. and as that crocodile has grown stronger and more avarice and demanding the daily diet increases. this day was coming, it's come sooner than need be. because of the courtesy of the dup advancing sinn fein in government. of course, they are eager to do it again because we hear them talk about wanting to get back into the executive, they want power above all else, but this is power at the cost

of paying the sinn fein price and it's clear that the sinn fein price is becoming increasingly and unsustainably high, that's why i say unionism needs to consider if doing thatis unionism needs to consider if doing that is any longer in their interests. 0k. that is any longer in their interests. ok. good to talk to you, thank you very much indeed. we will keep a close eye on the count as it unfolds there in ballymena. jim allister confident that he will hold on to his seat. it's been a bad day for the ulster unionist party and harold mckee in particular, elected in south down last year has been eliminated. he spoke to our reporter a short time ago. as an mla for nine months, and enjoyed doing it, and i worked closely with the fishermen, they knew i was working for them, despite all of that, you know... is it fair to say that rmi did not impact on the dup vote in south down? rhi was

not really mentioned as much as had been and i think, you know, i don't know what obviously a massive turnout by the nationalist and republican movement particularly, who ferried people into the polling stations by bus, made sure they were making a special effort. your party leader mike nesbitt will come under scrutiny off the back of the election result across northern ireland. what do you feel his position is this evening? well, it's not for me to say at this present time, iam not for me to say at this present time, i am sure there will be discussions around it in the near future. has it been as far as you are concerned a good enough performance from the ulster unionists on the basis of what you know so far? you can't say it's a good performance when you lose a seat. is your party leader partly responsible for the performance, do you think? well, maybe had a few difficulties, made it slightly awkward for myself to go to the door, i did try to sell this was me, not mike nesbitt standing in south down. i have worked for you in the

past, this is me. but it didn't materialise. that was harold mckee talking to our reporterjulian o'neill. we welcome at this stage viewers across the united kingdom on the bbc news channel for our continuing assembly election coverage here in northern ireland. let's hear from election coverage here in northern ireland. let's hearfrom julian fowler who is our reporter in fermanagh south tyrone. you are at omagh leisure centre. interesting developments there, what's the latest? well, in stage four we have had the election of two sinn fein candidates, michelle gildernew and a new young candidate, gemma dolan. as expected, sdlp transfers have gone to the ulster unionist rose marry barton and that could spell trouble for lord maurice morrow, now they're transferring the surplus sinn fein votes, that could help their third candidate sean lynch across the line. he is currently 231 votes

behind lord morrow. with those sinn fein transfers that could be just enough to get the last seat for sinn fein thachlt would leave sinn fein here on three seats, the dup, arlene foster on just here on three seats, the dup, arlene foster onjust one here on three seats, the dup, arlene foster on just one and the ulster unionist rose marry barton on one. thank you very much. let's hear from gregory thank you very much. let's hearfrom gregory campbell, the east londonderry mp who at the east londonderry and foyle count at the foyle arena in derry. evening to you. thank you forjoining us. you have been keeping a close eye on both those counts. yes, very close eye. it's been a long day and i am sure it will be a longer evening. what about foyle, first of all, i am not sure of the state of play as far as that is concerned but gary middleton looking good for that 5th seatin middleton looking good for that 5th seat in foyle, is he? well, yes, it's not over the line yet, but a

tremendous performance by gary, given the context of this sustained diet that we have had for three months every day. he not only put the number of votes up that the dup got, but he put the share of the vote up, given the rise in sinn fein's vote in a predominantly nationalist constituency, that's not an easy ask and he managed to do it and! an easy ask and he managed to do it and i think that he will take that seat. what about east londonderry, it's your own constituency, of course. you had three dup mlas in the six member constituency, it's now five members. are you going to lose one of those three seats? we said several months ago this was very difficult to take 60% of the seats, three out of five of them with 33% other foot, and