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tv   The Film Review  BBC News  October 19, 2018 5:45pm-6:00pm BST

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this is the start of the countdown to the invictus games, the sporting celebration of wounded warriors. invictus is at the heart of harry's journey, an 18 nation competition, for those physically and mentally scarred by conflict. he has walked with the men and women of the armed forces. now, he will lead the games he created, to celebrate their survival. now on bbc news a look ahead to sportsday at 630 tonight... and coming up, remember that epic semifinal during wimbledon this summer? well, that is set to be a thing of the past. kevin anderson and john isner battled it out in the final set for nearly three hours, the second longest match in wimbledon history. that has prompted a change in the rules for next year, with tie—brea ks set
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a change in the rules for next year, with tie—breaks set to be introduced at 12-12 with tie—breaks set to be introduced at 12—12 in the final set, which will apply to all wimbledon events. we will have all the reaction to that decision along with all the buildup to this weekend's premiership action coming up at half past six. now on bbc news it is time for the film. —— it's time for the film. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so, mark, what do we have this week? very interesting, we have the new documentary by michael moore, fahrenheit 11/9. garlic, a prizewinner from cannes. and fahrenheit 11/9. garlic, a prizewinnerfrom cannes. and they shall not grow old, an extraordinary
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documentary by peter jackson. shall not grow old, an extraordinary documentary by peterjackson. so, fahrenheit 11/9, michael moore, a great polemicist, is this just donald trump in his line of fire in this film? not entirely. the title obviously is an inverted fahrenheit 911 which itself was a play on fahrenheit... it refers to trumpet‘s election and the film begins with, how did we get here? what it basically does is investigate the way that democrats and republicans have kind of abandoned a disenfranchised portion of america and what michael moore argues is that when that kind of thing happens, that is when you get the rise of trump. it is at its best when it's investigating very specific examples, such as, he goes back to the crisis in which the pursuit of money essentially meant that people ended up drinking poisoned water. and politicians did not act well, in fact there was what amounts to a cover—up, here's a
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look... this is april concours kings. she was asked to participate in the cover—up. kings. she was asked to participate in the cover-up. i was the case manager hearing michigan. all of the results in regards to the blood levels, i input those numbers and made sure all of those numbers were correct. and while doing so she discovered that the government officials had cooked the books. my supervisor asked if i could go in and help them out with the numbers and help them out with the numbers and not show certain things. if somebody comes in and they test high, the health department didn't wa nt high, the health department didn't want that number to be shown. she began secretly making printers of the falsified records and was afraid to show them to anyone until she brought them to me. is this an actual document that you kept as a piece of evidence? kalam normal number is 3.5 and anything over 3.5 is considered a high level and
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should five comma six come seven comma ten commerce six comma should five comma six come seven comma ten commerce six comma six come a 14... not a single number which says 3.5 or lower. so how does this compare to michael moore's other films? it doesn't have anything like the impact of the film to which the title refers, which i think went on to be the biggest simon berghan entry of all time and it is scratching a book how much effect it will actually have. what i like about it is it has less grandstanding and less stunts than some of his previous documentaries had which i think sometimes bordered on the flippant if there is also some uncharacteristic soul—searching from michael moore, who talks about his own relationship with some of these figures, we actually get to see him on roseanne some years ago with donald trump and he admits, i went really easy on him, i went soft on him because they asked me to. i think it is sincere and i think the
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most important thing is that this suggest that there is a younger generation of people coming through who will refuse to be mistreated, who will refuse to be mistreated, who michael moore suggests the future of the country and suggests cousin the beginning of a brighter future — but i don't think it will have anything like the impact of the film to which the title refers. we've also got they shall not grow old, which is a film by peter jackson and we will come to that in a minute. but let's do garnett, which... tell us about that. this is matteo garrone, this takes him to the style he is a dog groomer who has a shop on a desolate seafront, he wants to be liked by his customers and by his daughter. he also has the manner of a dog but he is also caring. and he is bullied by this thug who everybody knows is terrible but nobody will do anything about him. and in the end marcelo is the person who has to deal with him. firstly it has a brilliant sense of
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location, it has real tragedy in it and real pathos and at the centre of it marcello fonte, it is a fantastic performance from him and it holds the film together, he won best actor at canton for it and very, they. yeah, they asked him to do something with the archive footage for the centenary of the armistice and he looked at the footage and he thought that the best thing to do would be to can make it look as contemporary, firstly they corrected the speed because you then cleaning up the image and then doing a colourisation process which is done with incredible attention to detail and to figure out what people on screen
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we re to figure out what people on screen were saying and then actors to fill in the banks no narration but the, recorded actually by a bbc archive and the whole thing comes together in an extraordinarily vivid portrait of these events which reflects not just the horror of the war but also, andl just the horror of the war but also, and i think this is an important pa rt of and i think this is an important part of the documentary, the strange sense at least at the beginning of adventure, here's a... you lived like tramps, you didn't polish any buttons, you or any uniform bits that you liked and nobody worried, all they were concerned with was that you were fit to fight. everything was friendly, there was a lot of kindness to each person. when the war was not very active it was really rather fun to be on the frontline. it was not very dangerous, sort of out of door camping with the boys with a slight spice of danger to make it
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interesting. and does the fact that it is no longer stuttering black and white, does it make you empathise with the skies on the frontline much more? i think it does exactly that. we're used to seeing some of these images, we've seen before, but we're used to seeing them as black—and—white footage, a sort of historical document, partly this big thing but also it is old grainy black—and—white footage. if you look at the camera the battle of the song was shot on, it is a big wooden box and yet suddenly with this incredible processing, it looks contemporary. it brings it all closer. there is a section where it goes from black—and—white into colour and you could hear an audible gasp in the audience when that happened. it is so much more than a gimmick is something which actually puts the humanity back into that footage. it is this extraordinary use of technology to restore the human element to footage which we kind of thought we had seen and yet somehow it now comes alive and there
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is some trench footage which, it is as if it was shot yesterday, you see the faces, you see how young they are, you see the smiles, they feel like a real individuals, notjust figures from archive footage. jackson said very clearly, this is not a documentary about the war, it's the story of those men. and it is emotionally overwhelming, i think it's a real passion project and a real live of love and i did the interview with peterjackson when it played in front of schoolchildren andi played in front of schoolchildren and i think anyone who sees it will be really, really affected by it. it is like 100 years of technology put into this film as well. what did he say about why he wanted to do this so say about why he wanted to do this so much? he has been interested in the first world war for a very, very long time and the opportunity came because of the imperial war museum's involvement and he said the centenary is only going to come around once and because peter jackson has worked so much with technology, he wondered, what could the technology do? how could we make
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this footage come alive? he said they did a test real and when they did that they looked at it and they went, that's astonishing. believe me, it is really breathtaking, you've never seen me, it is really breathtaking, you've never seen anything like it. an amazing artistic and technical achievement. i thought so and so powerfully moving. and out at the moment? i love first man, have you seen moment? i love first man, have you seen it yet? going to see at this weekend i hope! it is a movie about loneliness and grief which happens to have a spaceship in the middle of it! again! to have a spaceship in the middle of it! again i thought it was wonderful. some people said, why is it so downbeat? it is because it is an internal story which just happens to be about the moon landing. the other thing about it is, it really ca ptu res other thing about it is, it really captures the sense that these space rockets were held together with rivets and screws and, you know, old flick switches. you just think, you are like in a tin can on a massive amount of fuel! bravery involved is quite extraordinary. incredible
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courage. i loved it, i really loved it. and best dvd? just briefly the hgppy it. and best dvd? just briefly the happy prince. i mention this because it is an interesting film, rupert everett directing and starring in a film about the last year's and days of oscar wilde. although i don't think it is dramatically perfect, sometimes you see a film and you think, this is made with passion and ca re think, this is made with passion and care and you can feel it in every frame. and for all the things that don't quite work for me about the film, i think it has a real sense that the honesty about it. —— i think it has a real sincerity and honesty. it is slightly flawed but i admire its intentions and you can tell it is a heartfelt project and i would always rather watching something which looks like somebody had yearned to make it rather than something which was polished but felt a little bit canas. mark, fantastic. thank you very much. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. but that is it for this week, who
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thank you so much for watching. hello. most of us have seen some sunshine today, there has been some more cloud around in north—west england and into northern ireland and central and southern scotland but in the sunshine it has been getting up to 16—7 team. through this evening we will keep the zone of cloud across northern ireland, central and southern scotland and down into north—west england but slowly it will pushing back northwards. further south we will have some clear skies but also some mist and fog developing once again, a fairly clear night across much of england and wales, temperatures close to freezing in some rural spots. mist and fog slow to clear once again across england and wales,
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once again across england and wales, onceit once again across england and wales, once it does they will be some good spells of sunshine, further north a lwa ys spells of sunshine, further north always more cloud and outbreaks of rain across northern and western scotland. it will be a fairly windy day for the western isles and northern isles. elsewhere lighter winds and temperatures getting up towards 17—18 in the sunshine. 20 men are found guilty of being part of a grooming gang that abused girls as young as 11 in and around huddersfield. the men plied their victims with alcohol and drugs, and abused them over seven years. on one occasion, she came home and her neck was completely black with bites, from one side to the other. a taxi had just pulled up outside and pushed her out. sometimes victims were driven to the yorkshire moors, and abandoned there at night. police have praised the courage of those who came forward to give evidence. also tonight: the former head of mi6 says he has little doubt that the saudi regime ordered the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi. the islamist preacher anjem choudary appears outside a probation hostel
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after being released from prison. he'll be monitored by the security services. are there any lessons to be learned from that? it was the biggest bonus in the country.
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