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past find money for the past injection that the nhs needed, and that the suggestion of the end of austerity. to have prior instinct than her, it is going to be really interesting to see what he comes up with because tax rises are unpopular. will have to leave it there for now, thank you for joining to leave it there for now, thank you forjoining us this evening. that is it for the papers tonight, do not forget you can see the front pages of the papers, it is all there for you seven days a week at bbc .co .uk. and you can see it later on on bbc i player. my thanks and now it is the film review. hello there and welcome to the film review here
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on bbc news and taking us through this week's cinema releases as ever is mark. mark, what have you got for us this week? very interesting, we have fahrenheit level nine, a new film from michael moore. dogman. and they shall not grow old, an extraordinary war documentary from peterjackson. so fahrenheit 11—9, michael moore of course, is this just trumpe of course, is this just trump in his line of fire? not entirely, so the title is inverted, fahrenheit 9/11, which itself was a play on fahrenheit a51. and the 11 nine refers to trump's election and it begins with how did we get here. basically what it does is investigates the way both
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democrats and republicans have kind of abandoned a disenfranchised portion of america and what michael moore argues is that, one that kind of thing happens, that's when you get the rights of trump. of thing happens, that's when you get the rise of trump. it does its best when it investigates specific examples, such as, he goes back to the flint michigan water crisis where to which the pursuit of money essentially meant that people ended up drinking poisoned water and politicians did not act well. in fact, it is what amounts to a cover—up. this is april cook hawkins. she was asked to participate in the cover. i was the case manager here in flint michigan. all of the results in regards to the blood levels, i input those numbers and made sure they were all correct. and while doing so, she discovered that the government officials had cooked the books. my supervisor asked if i would go help them out the numbers and not show certain things.
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someone came in and the test high, the health department did not want that number to be shown. she began to secretly making printouts 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? yes. the normal number 3.5, anything over 3.5 is considered a high level. six points six, five points six, five, five, six, seven, ten, six, eight, six, six, 14. not a single number that's 3.5 or lower? no. so how does it compare to michael moore's other films? well, it is nothing like the impact to which it the film to which the title refers to which went on to be the biggest selling documentary of all time and how much effect it will actually have, the interesting thing is what i like about it is that it has less grandstanding and less stunts
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than some of his previous documentaries have, which is bordered on the flippant. and also some uncharacteristic soul—searching from him, he talks about his own relationship with them these figures relationship with these figures we actually get to see him on roseanne, some years ago with donald trump, where he admits that he went easy on him. i went soft on them because they asked me to. it was passionate and most importantly, it suggests that there is a younger generation of people coming through who will refuse to be mistreated who michael moore suggests are the future of the country and the beginning of a brighter future. and i don't think it will have anything like the impact that the title refers. we also have, they shall not grow old. which is a film by peterjackson and will come to that in a moment. and now we have dogman which, tell us about that. he made gamora, reality and tale of tales. this is a little bit to the style of gamora. about this dog groomer who has this
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shop on a desolate seafront. he wants to be liked by his neighbours and his daughter, he has this weirdly ingratiating smile but he also has smile but he also has this dog that has been beaten by its master and wants to please them. and he is bullied by this person who ever windows is terrible and someone must do something about him, but nobody does anything, and at the end he's the one that has to do with him. the one that has to deal with him. but i really liked about this with peace of the location. it is real tragedy and it and real pathos and at the centre of it, it is the man who won the best actor award and deservedly so, i think it is a terrific performance by him that holds the hold the film together and to be the emotional core of it. a very deserving when. a very deserving win. and this is they shall not grow old, a famous movie director and you are interviewing him about this the other day and it is a fascinating project.
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this is something new with the archive footage for the armistice. and he looked at the footage and he thought that actually, the best thing to do would be to try to bring it up—to—date. old black—and—white silent footage and try to make it look as contemporary as possible. so what they did was, by first correcting this speed, silent domes had a very quick speed, and to get colourisation process buddhist thatis that is done with incredible detail. having lip readers figure out what people were saying and having this film in the —— fill—in blank. and the whole thing comes together and an extraordinary vivid portrait of events that reflect notjust the horror of the war, but also the strange sense, at least of the beginning, the adventure. you did
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not polish any buttons, nobody worried, all they were concerned with is if you work get to fight. everything was friendly, lots of kindness teach person. the war was not active yet, it was fun to be on the front line. it was not very dangerous, with a slight slice of dangerous, with a slight slice of danger to make it interesting. the fa ct danger to make it interesting. the fact that it is no longer stuttering black and white, does it make you empathize with these guys in the front line much more?|j empathize with these guys in the front line much more? i think it does front line much more? i think it d oes exa ctly front line much more? i think it does exactly that. we are used to seeing some of these images before, but we are used to seeing them as black and white footage as historical document, and the speed thing is very important, but it looks a grainy black—and—white footage, it is like a big wooden box
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when it was originally shot on, but with this incredible processing, it looks contemporary, it brings it all closer. and the first time i sought, there is a section when it goes from black—and—white to colour, you can hear audible gasp in the audience. it it is so much more than a gimmick, it is something that really puts the humanity back into that footage. this extraordinary use of technology to restore the human element to footage of the kind of felt we had seen, but somehow comes alive and it's as if it was shot yesterday, using the basis, you see how dumb they are, you see the smiles and big deal like real individual people, notjust —— you on the youthful they are. it is emotionally overwhelming, a passion project and he really of love and
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when it was played, be appointed sure to schoolchildren i think you'll have an extraordinary, and he this will be really affected by it. it is like a compressed history of cinema, push together in one film. why he wants to do this so much? he has been interested in the first world war, the war museums, don't come around, peterjackson has worked so much of technology, he wondered what the technology could do. how we could make this footage, live, and he did a test reel and when they did test real, then looked at it and they were like, that is a astonishing. you have never seen anything like it. and technical achievement. so moving, so powerful. and passed out at the moment? i like the first man, he was the thing, it is not a movie about it is a movie
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about loneliness and grief and i thought it was a very wonderful, and i was wondering why it was so downbeat, and it's a film that happens to be about the moon landing. another thing is that it really captures that sense that the space rockets were held together with rivets and screws in old flick switches, you are in a tin can on a massive amount of fuel, the bravery involved in this is quite incredible. i really loved it! the best dvd? the happy prince. i mentioned this because it is an interesting dome, it is about the last years of oscar wilde, and although it does not seem perfect, we use think it is made with passion and care and tequila with every frame, all of the things that do not
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quite work for me about the film, there is a real sincerity and honesty about it. it is a slightly flawed work but i admire its intentions if you can tell it is a heartfelt project, it looks like someone heartfelt project, it looks like someone really yearned to make it and something that was polished but felt a little bit careless. thank you so much. any quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film reviews reviews across the bbc online at bbc .co .uk. and you can find all of our previous programmes on the bbci player. but that is fit for this week, thank you much watching. for this week, thank you much we have had someone been the sunshine this weekend, but by the end of the week, things are looking
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much older. some slightly colder air, cold front on northwesterly wind, this area of high pressure is a dominant feature but notice this front, never too far away northern scotla nd front, never too far away northern scotland and now bring stronger wind, some of that may filter down to the northern thailand, but for much of scotland and northern ireland, try start the week, spells of sunshine this debate plot on the west. through monday, some stronger gusts from the northwestern side of scotland, 15 to 60 miles, 70 mph, a windy day here, in fact, a cooler day across the uk heading to the weekend into the 1a celsius. through monday night into tuesday, much of the area stays mainly dry, but the wind extends for the south across scotla nd wind extends for the south across scotland and those ones will start to strengthen across northern england and northern ireland with a bit more cloud beating down. saw this combined exit poll tonight is going to tuesday, between five and
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10 celsius. here's our area high pressure " 10 celsius. here's our area high pressure," to the north of scotland, a squeeze that continues across scotla nd a squeeze that continues across scotland but also northern england and northern ireland, but for the south and east, it should remain dry, some sunshine, temperatures up to 15 or maybe 16 celsius, temperatures to the eastern side of scotla nd temperatures to the eastern side of scotland with sunshine, heading to fairly cool 12 earth 13 for the west, one or two showers, the westerly airflow, will the wind was in some niche strengthen just a little bit more cloud, some spousal sunshine to the east. 15 to 16 celsius, but that mild air does not last for long as we go to the end of the week, with the cold arctic air heading its way down across the uk,
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so it's going to be much colder later on friday and into the weekend. some strong winds and the chance for some snow on the hills of scotland. that is all from me. some snow for the hills of scotland and northern england. will to newsday on the bbc. i'm mariko oi in singapore, the headlines: saudi arabia's foreign minister describes the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi as murder, but insists his death was not part of a high—level plot. the individuals who did this, were outside this authority. there obviously was a tremendous mistake made. australian prime minister scott morrison is to say sorry on behalf of the nation to thousands of child sexual abuse survivors. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme. taiwan's worst rail disaster in three decades leaves at least 18
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