they see a horse in a field a nag! they see a horse in a field a thing, we could train that up. the national, of course, i missed it today believe it or not and i didn't have a chance but the money down. it's the one race where form doesn't matter. it's not how good... nicholas owen could be the horse in front of us, we could be the star horses, you fall at the fence and ta ke horses, you fall at the fence and take us down with you, the two winners. nicolas, were you in the grand national again? what's going on! we won't discuss how mrs owen handed £10 to a bookmaker this afternoon never to be seen again... you didn't back the 111—1? afternoon never to be seen again... you didn't back the 14-1? that is it for the papers this hour. thank you penny and charlie, you'll both be back at 11.30 for another look at the stories making the news tomorrow. coming up next — the film review. hello and welcome to

the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, is mark kermode. lovely to be with you. and you. nice to see you. what do we have? this is a really, really good week. we have i am not your negro, which is an oscar—nominated documentary about james baldwin. we have raw, which is a real breathtaking debut feature byjulia ducournau. and a quiet passion, terence davies' film about emily dickinson. and i am not your negro, billed as a documentary. is it solidly a documentary, a funny genre? well, basically what it is it's based on an unfinished project that james baldwin had started working on, to tell the story of america

through the story of three men, medgar evers, malcom x and martin luther king. and so what you get is the film is narrated by samuel ljackson, and it mixes news footage, reportage, clips from movies, clips from television programmes and it puts together basically a narrative which tells the story in a way which is both polemical and also i think rather poetic. one of the outstanding features is some of the footage of baldwin himself, who comes across as a brilliant orator with an absolutely mesmerising mind. let's see a clip. i have more in common with a black scholar, than i have with a white man who is against scholarship. and you have more in common with a white author than you have with someone who is against all literature. so why must we always concentrate on colour, or religion, or this?

there are other ways of connecting men. i'll tell you this. when i left this country in 1948, i left this country for one reason only, one reason. i might have gone to hong kong, i might have gone to timbuktu. i ended up on the streets of paris. there was a theory that nothing worse could happen to me there that had already happened to me here. you talk about making it as a writer about yourself. you have to be able then to turn all the intent with which you live, because once you turn on your back on this society, you may die. you can see it seems really, really urgent, really engaging, and it's a terrific watch. it's brilliantly constructed. the montage work is fantastic. the way in which they mix news footage and television and films. there is a very, very coherent argument, which is about the sort of nature of america, which seems every bit as pertinent now as it did when this was sort of first envisaged. the thing that was most striking about it is, on the one hand, you asked, is it a documentary. yes, it is. it's nominated alongside 13th. but it's also a polemical essay. it's basically, it is a visual essay that's put together with i think extraordinary clarity.

but it doesn't lecture. no, it doesn't and that's what's so brilliant about it. you end up feeling that what you are seeing is a visual representation of an argument that may have been laid down in literature and really engaging, really, as i said, timely. feels very, very urgent. put together in a way that absolutely grabs the audience's attention and leads them through this story. i think it does so brilliant. it was up against very strong competition in the oscars, but it's a really good piece of work that is accessible to everybody, i think. and has done really well at the box office. it really has. perhaps more than they expected, which is quite heartening as well. now... now, look, mr kermode, because when we decided that we would like to continue working together, i said your challenge, of course, was to try to get me into horror films. well, thanks for doing that on week one. that's fine. because i've read a lot about raw. but you haven't seen it. you haven't yet seen it.

i haven't the stomach to go to see it. yes, you do. it's a french belgian cause c l bre, from the writer—directorjulia ducournau. the story of a young woman who is a vegetarian, who goes to vet school and there are these hazing rituals. one such ritual, she is forced to eat a raw rabbit. she says, "i'm not going to do that, i'm a vegetarian", but then she starts to develop previously suppressed appetites. the film turns into on the one hand a horror movie, that refers to movies like i suppose trouble every day, and to some extent carrie, we are what we are. but on the other hand, is a story about a young woman attempting to fit in when she is a misfit, about somebody who really wants to be part of a group, but discovers that she's something outside the group. it's very metaphorical and allegorical and on some levels, the director described it as a modern tragedy, a modern ancient tragedy. it's also got a fairy tale element to it. yes, there are visceral things in it. yes, there are moments in which you will gasp and recoil, but there's also humour, wit. there's really heartfelt emotion in it. brilliant performances.

it's a film which means something. it has meaty substance, pun fully intended. i hear you but i also read that people have actually been physically sick in the cinema. no, there are stories about people fainting. i kind of struggle with that bit. stories about people fainting i'm sure are exaggerated... they're not! i'm sure there are exaggerated. honestly, give it a go, you will really like it. i promise! let's see how long we work together before i have the guts, in every sense, to go and see that. i am however really, really looking forward to a quiet passion. the wonderful terence davies. terence davies, i'm a huge fan of terence davies, a true poet of cinema. this is his film about emily dickinson, with a terrific central performance, i think, by cynthia nixon. she's the young poet who is told early on that classics of every language are the works of men, not women, says an editor, who agrees to publish one of her least wayward poems. she's a rebellious spirit. she wrestling with the eternal soul. she's wrestling with religion, she's wrestling with society, and also her lack of recognition in her lifetime.

she is finding solace in herfamily and herfriends. here's a clip. this is my third commencement ball and not a hint of romance. do you suppose that men are frightened of a woman who teaches and is used to her independence? men are supposed to be fearless, aren't they? in the war, yes. in religion, always. in love... never. look at that divine creature. what a noble head he has. like a roman emperor. nero. let's hope he's just as wicked. see, i think cynthia nixon is terrific. i also think catherine bailey is scene stealingly good.

what i like about this film, on hand it's really funny. there's real life and laughter in it. it's also very profound. i mean, it is a film that's about poetry that has visual poetry. the composition... you end up thinking of vermeer or carl dreyer. if you know terence davies' work, the way he will move a camera very slowly around a room or around a theatre, he's somebody who at an early age fell in love with cinema, sitting in the balcony as a child, looking at the moving image and you can tell this from every frame of the movie. emily dickinson, she became reclusive. as she got older, she got frailer and lived in the same house for years and years and years. is there a sense of claustrophobia about this as a result? there is. i think that is the case with all terence davies' films. one of the things he does brilliantly is writing about people whose inner lives are very... what happens is that she expresses herself through poetry. at one point she says there is prosperity but i would like to be recognised within my lifetime.

actually, it all came later on. this is classic terence davies material. people trapped in slightly claustrophobic, slightly suffocating circumstances, but with these vibrant inner lives. and as i said, the thing to remember is, the poster is trying to play this up, it is very funny. there is a lot of laughter in it. it is also tragic, it is also spiritual and transcendent. think about it, in a week that you have this, i am not your nego and raw, that is the full smorgasbord of cinema right there. i'd like you to see all three of those films, because i think you will find something in all three of them, including raw. that's my task for the weekend ahead. goodness! best 0ut, she said, moving on swiftly. something that i think is really good fun although it's proving very divisive is free fire. it's a kind of absurd action movie, all entirely set in a warehouse with a group of entirely incompetent and unsympathetic characters, taking potshots at each other. it's like they've taken a central idea, which is the shoot out at the end of the film. what if you made the whole film that thing... it almost plays out

in real—time, fantastic cast. brie larson, cillian murphy... just a terrific piece of cinema. and again, much funnier than you'd expect from the subject matter. 0k. i'll have to take your word on that one. dvd, for anyone who wants to stay in. moana, proper, classic, modern disney. it's a story about a young polynesian adventurer, who sets out into the ocean in order to save her homeland. wonderful songs, absolutely, justjaw—dropping animation. beautiful storytelling lines. a film made with real love and affection that you could watch at any age at all, from nine to 90. it's a real winner. i was going to say, is it aimed at children but actually it's one of those adults can watch? i think like all the best kids movies, it's aimed at all of us. if you think of something like inside out or mary poppins, films that anyone of any age can sit down and just be overwhelmed by. 0k.

i will probably discover now my nieces have seen it ten times. yeah. thank you very much, mark, see you again soon. thank you very much. a quick reminder, you can find all the film news and reviews from across the bbc online. you can also find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer, of course. i have my tasks for the weekend. enjoy your cinema going, thanks for watching. see you soon, bye—bye. good evening. there are some changes on the way for some of us tomorrow but it has been a super start to the weekend. not quite make hay while the sun shines but this tractor was very busy in shropshire. and the farm outlook was clear blue skies across much of scotland today. we have seen some cloud lingering in the far north of scotland, up towards the northern isles, otherwise clear skies. this cloud could push back to north west scotland and northern ireland later

on in the night, otherwise it is as you are but we will see mist and fog forming across southern counties of england and it will be chilly after the warmth of today. looking at these temperatures in towns and cities, you can knock off a few degrees for rural areas but warming up quickly, the fog soon clears away, sunshine for england and wales, eastern scotland also and here is the change. cloud and rain from the north west and eventually into western parts of england and wales. clouding over across the whole of scotland for the afternoon. not much rain for eastern scotland, this rain will be very light and patchy but cloud will soon arrive in the day across northern ireland and then this rain in the afternoon. not very much rain but temperatures lower than today and it will cool down quite a bit across wales and western england as the cloud arrives, the highest temperatures are for the midlands and eastern england, possibly 25 across east anglia. this is the peak of the heat, the warm air is pushed away by that weather front, very little rain as it

heads its way southwards but it introduces colder air, the wind direction changes from the southerly to more of a north—westerly on monday. you will notice a difference, most places dry, a little sunshine at times but more cloud around and a few showers, mainly for northern ireland and northern scotland, where there could be some snow over the mountain tops. it is cold enough for that. temperatures across the board are lower than this weekend, significantly across england and wales. that cool north—westerly airflow does not last long, it gets cut off by this high pressure moving in and around the top of that, more of a westerly atlantic flow, blowing in cloud across scotland and northern ireland and across north—western scotland where there could be heavy rain but for england and wales, probably a dry day but still those temperatures at best around 15 celsius.

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