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i heard the piano. don't lie. it's rude. what are you doing here? i heard the piano. don't lie. it's rude. your cop. i'm not here to take you in. oef? then what? ijust have some questions. a lot of praise for harrison ford's performance. i think he's great, but the key performance is the director, danny villeneuve, who has done a brilliantjob of danny villeneuve, who has done a brilliant job of following danny villeneuve, who has done a brilliantjob of following on the themes of the original blade runner. ridley scott's original was fantastic visually, and this takes your breath away. the world appears to go on forever, it is completely immersive, you can believe in it. it also has this roaring soundtrack that around memories of an van
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the original, and the original story was about, what does it mean to be human, what a memory stick to inform oui’ human, what a memory stick to inform our personality, how do we define oui’ our personality, how do we define our identity? these are big science—fiction ideas. blade runner 2049 says these are the ideas that matter. 30 minutes in, when i realise it really did have the confidence to take its time, to place itself, i heaved a sigh of relief, because i was so glad that the director had clearly taken the spirit of the original. i've seen it twice now, the first time i was just knocked out by the way it looks, the way it sounded, the way it was as a cinema experience, but the second time around what was fascinating was how much it became a melancholy experience. it is drenched in that idea of tears in the rain which was pa rt idea of tears in the rain which was part of the original blade runner,
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and if blade runner is really important to you, you wanted this to be good, and every body was scared, how are you going to not trip up, and that sense of palpable relief and that sense of palpable relief and ecstatic excitement that not only has danny villeneuve understood and paid homage to the original, he has moved it on and made something which is a modern science—fiction classic but looks back to metropolis and takes its place in the pantheon alongside films like 2001. it is a film that blade runner deserves to have come after it, and i thought it was wonderful. we have seen the original, we are all that age. do you have to have seen the original to enjoy this? if you haven't seen the original, whether you are going to see this or not go and see the original, it is a very important film. but i think you do have to have seen the original. and you have
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to see the final cut, the ridley scott final version which sorts out all the little problems. then the experience of watching blade runner 2049 will be much richer because you will understand the resonance of particularly things that happen in the latter third of the film. but who wouldn't want to see blade runner again? exactly. the glass castle, brie larson, woody harrelson. based on a memoir by jeannette walls, opens with her as a gossip columnist played by brie larson, engaged to a financial adviser, she sees her parents played by woody harrelson and naomi watts going through the trash. she flashes back to her itinerant upbringing, her mother was an artist who was more interested in doing paintings than cooking for the kids, her father was a rebel who believes in building the glass castle but is also a belligerent bully and a drunk. the movie goes back and forth between the present—day story of the past, and it is not an entirely
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happy marriage. it is directed by man who worked with brie larson briefly on an independent film, and really announced her to the world, but she is actually not in the most important part of the film, which is the part where she is much younger, when she's growing up these parents who are totally reckless in their parenting and have this dippy idea of how you should raise kids, but their kids are endangered and bullied and deprived in some ways. the film, i wanted it to come together more than it does, but it has solid performances, it is directed with heart, but it doesn't quite pull itself together for me. the mountain between us, kate winslet, idris elba, a survival story and a love story, two for the prize of one. yes, a snowstorm, they both need to get somewhere, they charter a small plane which flies
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into the side of a mountain and they are stranded. there is no record of theirflight, are stranded. there is no record of their flight, they have are stranded. there is no record of theirflight, they have no are stranded. there is no record of their flight, they have no food, they have no phone signal, and a p pa re ntly they have no phone signal, and apparently they have nothing in common. here is a clip. are you 0k? a couple of bruises, a couple of cracked ribs, i'm 0k, a couple of bruises, a couple of cracked ribs, i'm ok, i got lucky. a couple of bruises, a couple of cracked ribs, i'm ok, i got lucky! he didn't follow the flight plan? no, but there was radio contact. how long has it been? 36 hours. we've got plenty of water as long as we can melt snow. we've got four packets of almonds. a couple of candy bars. half eaten sandwich. and some cookies. what kind of cookies? what? joke.
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did it grab you? the question is, will lay survive, will they run out of food, will a relationship develop? the plane crash at the beginning reminded me of the phil alive. if this turns it into alive actually. it never convinced me of their circumstance, i never felt that they were genuinely endangered, and it walked a very strange path between being one kind of movie and another kind of movie. it is based ona another kind of movie. it is based on a book by chris martin, but it is at its strongest when it deals with what people do when they think they are never going to get back to the real world. it works less well when it is dealing with something else, when it is trying to be something closer, and you said yourself, disaster movie, road movie, love
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story, it isn't bad, itjust isn't convincing. alive, actually, i'm sure they are drawing up a script as we speak! what is best out of the moment. they have rereleased the coen brothers‘ film blood simple, it is shorter than the original which i‘m all in favour of. you go back and you look at it, and it is every bit as thrilling as it was when it first came out, double—crossing, dirty tricks, deadly humour, genuine horror. when i first saw this on a double bill with the evil dead and they have gone after that to make fargo and no country for old men, and you remember how thrilling and dark and strange it was, but knowing what the brothers went on to do, it is interesting seeing the seeds of
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all those ideas in blood simple. and on dvd? wonder woman. that family is that rarest of things, a modern superhero movie that i really had fun with, i really enjoyed. they did a terrificjob of taking this character and giving her a whole new screen life. when you think of how dreary and boring batman versus superman was, and how much applauded felt, this feels lively and vibrant and different, and it feels like it is actually taking an idea and running with it in a way that opens it up toa running with it in a way that opens it up to a whole new audience. i remember sitting in a cinema when i first saw this. you could feel people enjoying the movie, there was none of the ponderous chin stroking, it just felt like the none of the ponderous chin stroking, itjust felt like the movie was jumping off the screen, and i think it is really good. i missed it in the cinema, so i‘m looking forward to it. but see it on a big television screen!, and to mine, we will do it this weekend! mark, thank
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you very much. more film news and reviews from across the bbc online. and you can find all of our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that‘s it for this week, thank you very much for watching, goodbye from us. hello again. as was the case with saturday, at its best there was nothing wrong with sunday, as evidenced by one of our weather watchers in york. however in other parts of the british isles, there was indeed a lot of cloud around. no rain here of the suffolk coast, but it was a pretty close—run thing. there were showers to be had little bit further offshore overnight, and we bit further offshore overnight, and we will just bit further offshore overnight, and we willjust reinforce the cloud coming in over scotland, whether from striking raise the heart of scotla nd from striking raise the heart of scotland and putting —— pushing it
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towards the northern isles. not a cold night or a cold start to the new week, but it will be fairly disappointing first up across parts of scotland. enough cloud for there to be the odd bit of rain on a not too strong south—westerly breeze. northern ireland, quite a bit of cloud around, the odd bit and peace of rain, but really not amounting to very much. the greater part of england and wales starting dry, although the way towards the south—west, the clouds sitting very low across the so watch out for some hill fog, and there will be some drizzly rain here, and that may well fade with time, the cloud trying to lift with the brightness coming through, but you get the sense that although there will be a lot of dry weather to start the week across much of the british isles, the sunshine will be patchy across the greater part of england, wales, the north of england, scotland faring a lot better. and the cloud filling in across northern ireland to finish
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off the day. i don‘t think there will be only issues with the weather for the football. then another set of fronts will tumble down across england and wales, bringing the prospect of some rain, then things brighten up for the greater part of the day until we bring in the next set of weather fronts from the atla ntic to set of weather fronts from the atlantic to spoil the latter part of the afternoon through northern ireland and the western side of scotland. these fronts have a good deal more about them, you notice the number of isobars, so the wind quite a feature of the day on wednesday and if you are anywhere near that front, you will be seeing quite a bit of rain. so wet and windy in the middle part of the week, rain at times for sure, but once we get towards the end of the week, things could turn warmer, especially in the south. this is bbc news. i‘m martine croxall. the headlines at 7. theresa may insists she will stay in power, despite moves by rebels calling for to resign, former deputy prime minister lord
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heseltine says a reshuffle is now inevitable. the only alternative is to go forward and attack that seems to me inevitable now. it would mean a reshuffle, high profile, dangerous because you create more enemies than you actually attract. more than 300,000 people march through barcelona waving spanish flags, to oppose plans to declare catalonia independent. as the snp conference gets under way, nicola sturgeon says she won‘t think about a timescale on a second independence referendum until the brexit deal becomes clearer. it does not mean i will.
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