to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. what have you been watching, mark? we have stronger, which is a film about the boston bombing survivor jeff bowman. human flow, a very affecting documentary by ai weiwei. and the dinner. steve coogan and richard gere together at last! we can discuss that. stronger, i mean, people will remember so vividly the boston marathon bombing and this is very much about the aftermath. so jake gyllenhaal as jeff bowman, who was a young bostonian who was there at the finishing line and was involved in the blast and lost both his legs. and then having survived the bombing, then had to rebuild his life both physically and indeed, mentally. and deal with the fact he'd suddenly become right at the centre of the spotlight, which saw him in many ways as the embodiment of the boston strong mantra. here's a clip. when you're ready, scooch ahead

before you stand up. yeah. 0k. 0k, scooch ahead. up, hips back. chest up. chest up, chest up. good, good, 0k? good. it's a little sore. it's like needles on my legs. you look awesome! good job, jeff. it looks amazing. keep going. i can't, i can't. i've got to sit down. good job, good job. now the story's extraordinarily,

not least because when he wakes up in hospital the first thing he does is say, "i saw the bombers." he wants to pass on that information. but what the film is really, really interested in is the way in which his struggle to recover works. and also his relationships with his originally on—off girlfriend and his mother and his family. you saw miranda richardson as his mother, who is really, really terrific. and i think what's central to it is the film doesn't play him as a hero, it plays him as somebody who is in a position, you know, which they had nothing to do with. and suddenly find themselves in the centre of this great personal struggle and suddenly find themselves the centre of all this media attention. and is you know, on the one hand doing this very, very heroic thing, but on the other hand finding it very hard to cope with that attention. what i like about the film is that it doesn't try and paint two—dimensional pictures. he has fractious relationships with his family, with his girlfriend, he goes through different phases. i think what happens with the movie is it involves you in the story in a way that you genuinely believe

that what you're seeing is a realistic portrayal. it's not exploitative, it's not melodramatic. i think it's based on a book he wrote. absolutely. the details are true. we've seen enough hollywood movies which are doing triumph over adversity, but do so in a way that is kind of saccharine and very sentimental and relies very heavily on sentimentality and melodrama. i found this very moving. there are moments that make you cry, moments that make you laugh. the most important thing was it seemed honest, it seemed truthful. it was done in a way that is low—key enough to never feel like what it was doing was exploiting the situation at all. i was surprisingly moved by it. it doesn't change the format of film, it doesn't do anything major to the structure, the kind of story we've seen before. but it plays it well and plays it in a heartfelt way. it feels like an honest endeavour that was moving and affecting. the ai weiwei film, your second choice. human flow.

sadly i haven't seen it yet. i can only assume that it is unbelievably, unbearably moving. it is very moving. ai weiwei is a conceptual artist. this is about the current refugee crisis and the humanitarian disaster unfolding around the world. it's a portrait of global displacement, different people forced to move from their homes for horrific reasons, shot in 25 countries. 20 countries, 25 film crews. some of the footage is hand—held. some of it, these extraordinary aerial shots, drone shots, of huge numbers of people moving through incredibly hostile terrain of refugee camps. we do get interviews, we do get discussions, but the most affecting stuff is this sort of image of humanity on the move, and the persistence of barriers and borders and boundaries and people rather than receiving a welcome, facing a wall. it is a film that has a cumulative impact over the course of the movie you do become overwhelmed by the scope of this. but i think, again, it's a very

interesting piece of film—making because it is using film to tell the story in a way which is, you know, specifically visual. we do get discussions of these terrifying subjects as the film plays out. i think the stuff that works less well is when we see ai weiwei talking to some of the refugees, that the stuff that actually, weirdly enough, has less impact than when you see the scope of what the film is depicting, it's called human flow. 0k. the dinner. yes. what did you think? well... hmm. 0k. it's the latest from oren moverman, and it's adapted from a novel. it is the story of the hidden violence of the bourgeoisie. it's also one of those things that asks the question, what would you do to protect a loved one? in upstate new york, two chalk and cheese brothers, played by steve coogan and richard gere, you couldn't get more chalk and cheese. and their respective partners, rebecca hall and laura linney. they meet in an upmarket restaurant. coogan‘s character is tetchy and awkward and difficult. gere is a smooth politician.

but there is a terrible family secret they have to discuss. here is a clip. this is long overdue. what were you talking about? we were just enjoying one of those awkward pauses, as they say. not talking about anything. well we're going to talk tonight. put it all on the table. there's a lot going on. are you 0k? don't. perhaps there's a better table. it's really, it's all right, we're fine here. actually, actually, the other room i think is better. this room is private enough. as private as a fish tank. there's something wrong, let me check, just a second. i actually agree. i'm not moving. what's interesting about this is this discussion they're not having, that they move towards having, plays out over the courses of this ridiculously elaborate dinner. each course is, you know, described by the maitre d'

in incredible terms. at the centre of the discussion is this hidden secret about something which has happened with their children. and i think the film has got really good performances. great cast, really good ensemble cast. oren moverman got a very good performance out of richard gere previously in a film in which richard gere was playing a homeless man. actually, this director got a really good performance out of him. the problem with the film to some extent is it probably two courses too long, it's two hours and it should be 89 minutes. when we at the table, when that kind of... the unspoken arguments are sort of broiling and seething away i think it works rather well. it then has this kind of flashback structure in which it moves back to events in the past and we see things unfolding from lots of different perspectives. to me, that works slightly less well. i know some people have really taken against the movie. one of the reasons is, they're pretty claustrophobic company. they're not people you want to spend that much time

in their company because... steve coogan‘s character is so difficult, so awkward. richard gere's character seems to be so smooth and so smarmy. yet during the course of the drama it does play with our expectations of how each character's motivations will fall. it's flawed, no question about it, and it is at least two courses too long, but in the middle of it there is a main course which is well worth trying. i think i absolutely killed the food metaphor stone dead now. we've done it but we knew what you meant by it. let's not do it again. best out, i'm so delighted you have chosen this, because it encouraged me to see it again, a film i haven't seen probably since i was at university. a matter of life and death. an absolute delight. one of the greatest movies ever made. made immediately in the aftermath of the war, the ministry of information said to powell and pressburger, could you please make a film that would encourage the brits and the americans to like each other more. and they came up with a matter of life and death, which ends up being a story about this

world and the next. it's just been re—released in a 4k print. it's so moving. it starts with david niven as a doomed airman, you know, falling in love with somebodyjust on a radio. then he evades death because the emissary from the other world coming to get him gets lost in the fog of the channel. it's a film that plays out, you can either read it as a psychological drama or read it as an other—wordly drama, or you canjust read it as a comedy, some slightly metaphysical romance. it's funny and smart and looks brilliant. extraordinary cinematography. how many times have you seen it? i think this was only my second. but you, you know, effectively forced me to watch it again this week and i just thought, some of the script is wonderful. it's just... it is, i hate to say this, the kind of film theyjust don't make any more. yet it's incredibly future—looking. it does that brilliant thing of converting the wizard of oz, everything down on earth is in technicolor, everything in the other world is in black and white, which inverts what you would actually expect. it's one of the greatest movies ever made. if not, arguably, the greatest movie ever made.

and it's out again. from 1946. fantastic. very quick thought about dvd. atomic blonde. i mean basically this is a sort of, you know, and adaptation of the graphic novel coldest city. it's a tale of spies and neon. charlize theron is having an absolute ball in it. it doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's very stylish and it's very entertaining. it could be, i think there is a place for, you know, the stylish, stylishly empty film, and this is it. i enjoyed it very much, though it's probably a guilty pleasure. i love that, stylishly empty. marvellous. what a way to end. thank you very much, mark, see you again next week. plenty to discuss this week, as we've just proved. enjoy your cinema viewing this week. see you next time. bye bye. good evening. a weekend of wintry weather and the snow has caused significant disruptions through the day to day to travel, to power networks, a lot of school closures on monday morning to. pretty beautiful as well, lots of great

pictures from our weather watchers sentin pictures from our weather watchers sent in and in terms of snow depths, the deepest snow was found in sennybridge which is in mid wales where we had 33 centimetres, while over a foot of snow fall. still a little bit of sleet and snow coming out of the cloud across the southern half of england and wales too but any sleet and snow is easing away but what we will be seeing is widespread ice developing overnight. as the temperatures really plunged well below freezing, even in the middle of the towns and centres, one is true or minus three degrees but in the countryside is likely to see -10 in the countryside is likely to see —io perhaps —12. still a few snow showers across parts of scotland and northern ireland too. ring monday we turn our attention to this area of low pressure, bringing disruptive weather across france, spain, and on the northern edge of the low pressure we are likely to see a mix of frame with a bit of sleet and hill snow pushing into the south—east of england, the winds picking up with some grim conditions and rain, sleet, snow and strong wind back but away from the

south—east of england is not a bad day, a cold, isis darts — watch out for those slippery stretchers. sunshine dominates by the afternoon, one or two degrees above freezing but that will fill cold with a northerly wind. further snow showers across scotland, northern ireland and rain, sleet, is so showers across wales and the south—west of england are heading through to the early hours of tuesday morning now, a cold night tomorrow night, —12 degrees also once again in the countryside so some ice, also freezing fog patches and it will be slow to clear on tuesday so they could cause a few problems, perhaps an disruptions to trouble once again. coming afternoon, they should clear away, leaving some sunshine. then cloud moves in from the west, turning a little bit more mild, the hint ofa turning a little bit more mild, the hint of a change to come late on tuesday. still bitterly cold towards the east though. and to change midweek comes in the form of a weather front to was that moves that is way west to east across the country, it will introduce a milder thing to do with a four weather.

still breezy with some rain clearing towards the east and then a return towards the east and then a return to sunshine and showers, some of those by the go to wednesday heavy and bunbury. temperatures 5— io degrees, much more mild and we have seen through the course of the weekend. eventually it will turn less cold into the middle of the week but do watch out for some ice to ring monday morning. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: more violent protests across the middle east after donald trump recognises jerusalem as the capital of israel. israel's prime minister says it's time for everyone to accept the change. i think the sooner the palestinians come to grips with this reality, the sooner we come to grips with this reality, the sooner we will move towards peace. venezuela's president maduro says he is banning the main opposition parties from next year's presidential election after they boycotted the latest mayoral polls. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: a stark warning from

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