she has really raise the greatjob. she has really raise the profile of mental health issue s. and she got the royal family involved. she got prince harry to talk about what happened after her mother's death. we know about the stiff upper lip stereotype of the royal family. they do tend to shy away from controversial issues, even ones that should not be controversial. citing what she has done to get all of that coverage for it, and then to go and run the marathon, and to raise all that money, and the matter charity, the official charity, there does well. —— so official charity, there does well. ——so| official charity, there does well. —— so i think what she has done to get. and all those runners, amateurs, raising huge amounts of money. think all that money for such worthy causes. about the mental

health, i think it is extraordinary. as the daily telegraph rightly points out, unprecedented attention to an overlooked cause. we cannot say that enough. then as you have physical injuries that are more visible. of those injuries are just as real, and that needs... and it is commendable that prince harry, prince william, and the duchess of cambridge have got this worldwide publicity for this. that is it for the papers tonight. very nice to have you. and now it is time for the film review. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through the cinema releases this week is jason solomons.

what do we have this week? the glamour of old—school hollywood is the backdrop for a love story between a starlet and her chauffeur under the watchful eye of reclusive billionaire howard hughes in warren beatty‘s rules don't apply. we have the sands of time, which reveal voices from a hidden era in the form of gertrude bell's letters from baghdad, as read out by tilda swinton in the documentary letters from baghdad. and wartime london's rubble provides the setting for gemma arterton and bill nighy in their finest, as they struggle to produce wartime propaganda movies to pep the nation up through the war. we begin with rules don't apply. warren beatty, he hasn't had the best of years, it has to be said, with the oscars fiasco. this is his big screen return, it has been 16 years since he wrote and directed... and of course, now

remembered for oscar night. is his year getting better? i could say, it isn't particularly. this is a sort of vanity project that he wrote, directed, starred in... it's interesting, he started 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 sort of old hollywood in which he started out himself as a young actor. you can imagine him coming into town much like the star lily collins does here. it's good on the details of how a boss like howard hughes ran studios. everyone waiting for him. he's like a godot figure. everyone's waiting on him, starlets, chauffeurs 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, big, big mansions he kept them in, they were secretive, there were a lot of rules that applied to them. but didn't apply to warren beatty‘s howard hughes... i decided when i won a talent contest that maybe i'd give

it a go in hollywood. hi, i'm frank. two weeks in los angeles, you're working for howard hughes? no harm having high hopes, ma'am. $400 a week on top of this? from all i've read about howard hughes, i hope he doesn't expect to meet you in some hotel room... mr hughes, i'd like to thank you for my acting classes, thank you for my ballet classes and thank you for the chance to become a star. what the hell is she doing here? you said you wanted the girl with the...two ms. yes! marilyn monroe! that's marla mabry, she's a baptist nun... amen. you do know why babtists think sex is bad, don't you? because it might lead to dancing. maybe i'm not the right girl for this. i'm a square. a movie actresses should have big bosoms and be sexy, i mean, in this town, aren't those the rules? without carly simon here, some people suggesting that warren beatty could be talking about himself in some of this?

yes, you bet, you think this film is about you... i suppose it is because he has been such a figure in hollywood, and you wonder, him playing howard hughes.. howard hughes recently of course played by leonardo dicaprio in martin scorsese's the aviator. this is a very different howard hughes, right near the end of his life. a very strange, shadowy figure that warren beatty himself plays with a moustache, almost indiana jones—like, kind of pilot's jacket and hat. the problem is that i think beatty becomes very obsessed with the mania that hughes himself was overtaken by and the film becomes very depressive and oppressive. where you think it will be light and fluffy and full of ‘50s jazz numbers, it isn't. the romance between lily collins and alden ehrenreich, the chauffeur and the starlet, it is overshadowed by beatty‘s own performance and perhaps his own ego overtaking his own film, which is quite a howard hughes thing to do. i see where he was going with this but kind of like on oscar night — a little bit of chaos and disaster

awaits those fingertips. he'll never live this down, will he. let's move on. 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? indeed, the female lawrence of arabia. perhaps we have heard of lawrence of arabia because of the epic tribute. gertrude bell never really had hers, and this documentary is as epic as it gets. there is a werner herzog film out at the moment in which nicole kidman stars as gertrude bell, but this is the more fitting tribute. it's done entirely through this letters that she left through her correspondence from the desert. she was the most powerful women in the british empire. at the end of world war i, the borders of arabia, mesopotamia as it was known, are being drawn. the borders of iraq. 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. and very much a woman

in two mens' worlds, the british empire and the desert. in the arab world, she learned farsi, she understood everything. brilliantly played by tilda swinton, who's just the sort of bony, eccentric figure that you expect to be playing her. what is well done in the documentary, directed by two women, they resurrected the letters, finding brilliant archive footage from baghdad and damascus — all of that stuff we see on the screen now. the sphinx is an apt figure as gertrude bell stares out at you rather enigmatically throughout. there's footage now from the region which is war—torn and ravaged. we see it there. war was always something in that sand, but there is an elegance to it, a kind of colonial innocence in this footage which is absolutely beautiful. some of it's hand tinted. it really summons up a lost time. gertrude bell's voice rings out as a lost voice of british empire. let's move on to their finest. a british film crew attempting to boost morale during the second world war. what's not to like? indeed and bill nighy

and gemma arterton. the ministry of information, led by richard e grant, they wanted to make authenticity and optimism shine out to boost morale through the war. news was notjust enough. stiff upper lip, chocks 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, the romantic dialogue in movies. here she is, elbowing her way 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, 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 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 might think it is a women's picture, but it has depth and elegance, and i love the wartime tailoring in the costumes. 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, but it's very edgy. there is this depth going on, like in 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 allison williams, who was in girls, thatjust finished on television this week. if you are missing it, there is one of them in get out.

and the best dvd, the lady from shanghai. orson welles... and rita hayworth, his wife at the time. she was a famous redhead. in this famous film, he cut her hair and turned her blonde! the studio were up in arms. they wanted 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 it 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. good evening. if you have already packed away that when the code, it might be time to dig it out again. turning colder. —— winter coat. wintry showers. frosty nights for gardeners as well. monday, a cold front working in across scotland bringing outbreaks of rain. to the north, sleet and snow in the north.

further south across the country, cloud. relatively mild for the bulk of england, wales, and northern ireland. as the cold front goes further south during monday colder conditions will move to the north. sleet and snow in scotland, mild in the south, mid teens. further north, 7- the south, mid teens. further north, 7— nine degrees during the afternoon. a frosty start to tuesday morning. then a day of sunshine and showers. some of them falling as sleet and snow in the highlands of scotland. perhaps in the north—east of england as well. temperatures only around 7— ii. i'm kasia madera in london. the

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