wartime propaganda movies. we begin with rules don't apply. warren beatty, he hasn't had the best of years! with that oscars fiasco. it has been 16 years since he wrote and directed... this was meant to be his big return. as he gets older is he getting better? this is a vanity project that he wrote, directed, starred in... it's interesting, he began the end of old hollywood with his film bonnie and clyde. it brought indie cinema into the fore, destroying the old studios, a success in 1967. this is old hollywood where he started out in as an actor. you can imagine him coming into town like the star lily collins does here. it's good on the details of how a boss—like howard hughes ran the studios.

everybody is waiting on him. starlets, showbiz and businessmen. even presidents wait on the wealth of howard hughes for their green light. it shows how he used to keep starlets in various places, the big mansions he kept them in, they were secretive, they had rules that apply to them. but not to warren beatty‘s howard hughes... i decided when i won a talent contest that maybe i would give it a go in hollywood. lam frank. two weeks in los angeles, you are working for howard hughes? i'm having high hopes. $400 a week on top of this? i hope howard hughes doesn't expect to meet you in a hotel room... i would like to thank you for my acting classes, ballet classes and the chance to become a star. what the hell is she doing here? you said you wanted that girl with two ms? yes, marilyn monroe! she is a baptist nun...

sex is bad because it could lead to dancing. i am a square. movie actresses are supposed to be sexy, and they the rules in this town? without carly simon here, some people suggest that warren beatty could be talking about himself in some of this? you probably think this film is about you... he has been a figure in hollywood, and him playing howard hughes recently, played by leonardo dicaprio in martin scorsese's the aviator, he is a strange and shadowy figure that warren beatty plays himself. like indiana jones, with a pilot jacket. i think warren beatty becomes obsessed with the mania that howard hughes himself was overtaken by and the film becomes oppressive and oppressive, you think it will be light and fluffy and full of 50s jazz numbers, but it isn't. the romance between lily collins

and alden ehrenreich, the chauffeur, it is overshadowed by his ego in his own film, a howard hughes thing to do. i see where he was going but it is like oscars night, chaos awaits those fingertips! he will never live it down! letters from baghdad. we've all heard about lawrence of arabia but not many people have heard of gertrude bell, the queen of the desert? yes, maybe we have heard of lawrence of arabia because of that epic tribute, gertrude bell never really had hers, this documentary is as epic as it gets. there is another film with nicole kidman in where she stars, this is a more fitting tribute through this letters that she left through her correspondence in the desert. she was the most powerful women in the british empire, the end of world war i — the borders of arabia were being drawn.

she was very much involved in that with winston churchill, riding into the desert, a redoubtable british colonial figure, intrepid explorer, part spy, part stateswoman, part antiquarian. in the arab world, she learned farsi, she understood everything. magnificently played by tilda swinton, what you would expect. what is well done in the documentary directed by two women, they resurrected these letters, finding brilliant archive footage from baghdad and damascus, all of that stuff we see we see on the screen now. the sphinx is an apt figure as gertrude bell stares out. there's footage now from the region which is war—torn and ravaged, war was always something in that sand, but there is an elegance to it, a kind of colonial innocence in that footage which is beautiful. it really summons up a lost time,

gertrude bell's voice rings out as a lost voice of the british empire. let's move onto their finest. british film crew attempting to build morale during the second world war. what's not to like? in this film, they have bill nighy and gemma arterton. they wanted to make authenticity and optimism shine out to boost morale through the war. pathe news wasn't enough. stiff upper lip, chocs away for their finest, directed by denmark's lone scherfig. this goes back to the 1940s, gemma arterton making her way as a script girl, directing slop dialogue. a romantic dialogue in movies. here she is, elbowing her way in and finding her voice on the set. even taking on bill nighy who plays a washed—up actor, ambrose hillyard.

an example, a mention of the clever code, i may say that would be the first clever thing that she's done in her life! laughter just a dash of humour and further along... excuse me... certainly. no, no... it's the caption at the end is going to be "he's not listening but the enemy might be". it's a joke for women who never think that their husbands pay attention. if you start answering, the caption would make sense. i wrote it. the scenario. i will be in my dressing room, if anyone needs me... gemma arterton revealed on the one show recently that she used alexjones‘s accent as a model for that? there is a presenting gig for her if the oscars are not forthcoming!

i did not know that was alexjones, very good! she is very good in it, gemma arterton, the rosy cheeked script girl who becomes the force of the movie. it is about female voices coming in while the war was on. and gaining some power. people saying that when the war was finished that the women would not go back into their little boxes after this taste of freedom. it is about that, but the film is good at wartime tailoring and capturing that rubble of london. it is funny, witty and elegant, as you would expect from people like bill nighy, but the spectre of death is never far away. a bomb drop away. the rubble of london. there is a mix of romance and the making of a movie, like rules don't apply earlier, there is that madness of making movies which hangs this together. it's interesting, movies provide shape and structure, and an ending where life at that time was full of mess and never did. that is why people loved movies back then. 30 million people per week went to the movies.

it was the revival for the british people, after a demise beforehand? it would be great if this can get an audience of 30 million in the opening weekend, i don't think it will but this film is very witty, charming and elegantly done. a very good performance from gemma arterton and neatly tied up by the director, lone scherfig, with a good amount of skill. people would think it is a women's picture but it has depth and elegance, and i love the wartime tailoring in the costumes from charlotte walter. i may get one, a decent coat! the best out is get out. it is a horror film? yes, it is out at most cinemas, it isn't a horror film in a scary way, it's about race and is very edgy. there is this depth going on, like the stepford wives,

a black guy goes to a white neighbourhood to meet the parents, the parents of his girlfriend... they do not know that her daughter's boyfriend is black? and then they find out, then we realise that maybe they do? it isn't a scary horror film with scary bits going on, it could be a great date movie, it is a really edgy bit of us comedy, it made me laugh a lot, get out. there is the british actor daniel kaluuya there who is brilliant in it and alison williams, who was in girls, thatjust finished on television this week. if you are missing lena dunham's work, there is one of them in get out. and the best dvd, the lady from shanghai. orson welles... and rita heyworth, his wife at the time. she was a famous redhead. in this famous noir film, he cut her hair, and turned her blonde!

the studio were up in arms. they want her as a redhead. it's a bit of a mess this movie, and the final sequence is a hall of mirrors, you don't know who is shooting at who, there's this scene which was later spoofed. i love this film, it is a puzzle but has all of the classic things you need from this kind of film. orson welles does one of the worst irish accents, he plays michael o'hara. nevertheless, it has a great atmosphere and shows that orson welles was a fantastic film—maker but ultimately flawed. that is what you want from your orson welles films. and that is what you want from jason solomons. that's all for this week. thank you for watching, goodbye. hello. it is not unusual to have

snow in april. we had it in april last year. given how mild march was it will be a shock to the system. we have seen a general downward trend in temperature. last week that temperatures were soaring to their mid—20s. by day temperatures have started to sink southwards, cambridge being an example. at this time of year, given the sun is increasing in strength, you would normally expect the temperature to be rising through april. it will fall even further the last week in april and even into the start of may. this weekend is not too cold. there will be sunny spells and a touch of ground frost by night. the ground frost comes behind this week weather front. a bit ground frost comes behind this week weatherfront. a bit chilly ground frost comes behind this week weather front. a bit chilly in the north but plenty of sunshine and wintry showers across scotland. elsewhere a lot of cloud. there will be good spells of sunshine. we'll

still see temperatures into the mid—teens in the sunshine. to the north of the weather front is colder air. the keep the quo with the high—pressure and generally settled conditions. some sunshine comes through. towards the north of scotla nd through. towards the north of scotland we are starting to see signs of a developing area of low pressure. we have been keeping our eye on it most of the week. it has the potential to bring a good dose of rain in the know of scotland's most of us have a nice day on sunday. —— in the north of scotland. as the cold front sink southwards we allow the true, cold, arctic air to blast southwards, right across the uk. with it, there would be some big showers, wintry showers. hale, thunder, lightning and snow for the sleet and snow across lower levels. given the strength of the wind it will feel bitterly cold out and

about. monday sees the cold weather front sinking south. we just hang on to our temperatures into the teens in the south. it will feel significantly colder. the showers coming through the thick and fast. plenty more showers with us on tuesday. the cold air by that stage has reached the south coast. unlike you to lie at low levels in southern areas. we could see a dusting further north. the cold air is with us. by tuesday and into wednesday to showing signs that we are getting some milder air pushing in of the atlantic. it is likely we will see that colder air being cut off. at the same time as the high—pressure ruling pushes its grip across the uk and the other low pressure and northerly winds are taken further east, we could then see another low pressure coming into the north as the jet stream buckles. pressure coming into the north as thejet stream buckles. it pressure coming into the north as the jet stream buckles. it pushes up some mild air across the uk. before

that happens, we are at risk of some significant frost by night. farmers and growers beware. some very significant showers as well by day. it really is a very april looking picture the showers for the first pa rt picture the showers for the first part of the week. by the end of the week with. to see things warming just a little. at that stage, the cold air is heading to europe. the government says no cuts to foreign aid — but stops short of promising to keep pensions rising as they do now. as theresa may campaigned in berkshire, her chancellor in the us also suggested a possible softening of the government's promise not to raise taxes. all chancellors would prefer to have more flexibility in how they manage the economy and how they manage the overall tax they manage the overall tax burden down, than having to have their hands constrained. we'll be assessing what messages voters can take from the first few

days of political campaigning. also tonight. the paris gunman — the authorities reveal he'd beenjailed forfiring at police officers before. a report into the deaths of three sas reservists on the brecon beacons says it could happen again. tributes are paid to the former england and aston villa defender ugo ehiog who's died at the age of 1m.