and concerned about your life, if you're his friend he wants to know everything about you and would remember all the details when you pick up again and meet again. he was just a lovely, full person that you feel privileged to have known. there will be in a gap in the shows in which he was, how do you think he will be remembered? in which he was, how do you think he will be remembered ?|i in which he was, how do you think he will be remembered? i think people who perhaps had not had a chance to appreciate him for his brilliant will start to see him for who he was. those who were fully aware of him will miss them very much.“ was. those who were fully aware of him will miss them very much. if you can think of one particular moment that stands out give it a go?” can think of one particular moment that stands out give it a go? i am trying to think of when i can repeat on television at the moment. there we re on television at the moment. there were so many very

on television at the moment. there were so many very funny moments. i do remember taking him and dropping him off at the hospital and what he knew he was not well. he said come in with me. i went in with him and he said to the notice this is my friend, jack, he is brick experience when he gets cancer. and i was thinking if you can makejokes like that, then you are a genius. the actor clive swift, who starred in the bbc sit—com, ‘keeping up appearances,‘ has died, at the age of 82. we are not driving a rolls—royce. he played the put upon husband of hyacinth bouquet, one of television's most notorious social climbers. a statement from his agent

said he died at home after a short illness, surrounded by his family. now on bbc news, it's time for the film review. 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? we are definitely in awards season, so we have a couple of contenders. first the green book, the story of an unlikely friendship. can you ever forgive me? the memories of a forger. and burning, a film from south korea. where do you want to start? green book, first picture, best supporting actor, and mahershala ali is tipped to win. peter farrelly with his brother used to make comedies, like dumb and dumber, and this is a comedy. it is

based on a friendship between tony, who needs work, and old school races. he goes for a job interview and he finds that the job is to be a chauffeur and minder for an african american pianist. but he needs the work. they are to ring the segregated south. and they are chalk and cheese. one of them is educated and a brilliant musician and the other is vulgar and comes from the streets. inevitably during their journey together they find they have things in common, not least when tony is trying to write letters home to his wife and don starts to tell him how he should write a letter. he ——here is a clip. dear dolores, d—e—e—r. this is an animal.

"as i am writing this letter i'm eating potato chips and i'm starting to get thirsty." you know this is pathetic, right? tell me what you are trying to say. i don't know. you know, i miss her. then say that. but do it in a manner that no one else has ever done it before. something like... put this down. "falling in love with you was the easiest thing i have ever done." "nothing matters to me but you and every day i am alive i am aware of this. i loved you the day i met you. i love you today and i will love you the rest of my life." aw. it is a good—hearted film, you can see from that. it is oscars, so whenever there is an oscar contender there is controversy. on the one hand, this is not true, they were not friends, it was an employer and employee relationship. there have

been complaints that this is a story about racism but seen through the eyes of a white character and he saves the day. there have also been comparisons with driving miss daisy, which won the oscar for best picture. but that was saved by the performances. in this case it is the performances that saves it. i understand the criticism that it is a soft film and it is just trivia. but the performances are really winning, so much so that when you are watching the film you think, i am going to park all the things i think that is wrong with it because i like the characters. i think mahershala ali has a good chance of winning. i think viggo mortensen does a good job with his role. you would be hard pressed not to be charmed by it because its heart is in the right place. it makes a lot of mistakes, it is not ground—breaking and it is

fantastically soft soap to. remember it is awards season. how much of the aspects of the chemistry between the two leads applies to your next pic of the releases? good question. melissa mccarthy and richard e grant have been nominated as well. this is based on a true story, the story of lee is real, author who could not get published, so she started forging letters from famous literary figures, noel coward and dorothy parker. she found out she got quite good at it. she said in the film i am a better dorothy parker than dorothy parker. richard e grant is jack hock, the character she fakes the letters for. a lot of people say he is like withnail and i, but that character was needy. in this he puts up a lot of front because he has got a lot of anxieties. she is fantastic. a couple of reviews have

said it is a revelation. but it is not a revelation, she was in dramatic theatre for a number of years. she has always had a dramatic underpinning. this was brought to the screen and a very likeable form. i like the chemistry between them. norepinephrine's name comes up a lot in the dialogue in a funny way. and as a huge fan of her i liked this in much the same way. it is about the characters. it is about somebody who finds her own voice by pretending to be the voices of other people and i think it works really well. richard e grant is fantastic. it is a long overdue nomination. the next release, burning, which is not about chemistry and it is entirely different. this is based on a short story which i have not read. shy young man, his mother left home and

his father was in trouble with the law and he has to turn to the family farm. one day he sees a girl who is outside a stall trying to get punters to come in and he does not recognise. what he does not realise is she knew him as a child from the village where they both grew up. hard to work out from that what that film is really about. exactly and i have seen the whole film and it is still quite hard. he is smitten but mystified. she tells him things but he does not remember. then she asks him to look after her cat which he never find. then she turns up with a playboy boyfriend who is a gatsby type figure and he likes to make barnes disappear by burning them down and then she disappears. the rest of the film is him trying to

figure out whether she has disappeared, as she actually disappeared? is he involved? do we get any answers? maybe it is a murder mystery and maybe it is a film about rich and poor and town and country and reality and invention and memory and what you think remember. the film closes on you like this and it becomes so mesmerising. i was completely gripped by it and afterwards i spoke to a couple of people and said, was that a clue? did you see the cat? what i loved about it if it is one of those films that gets right under your skin. it is absolutely breathtaking. is it a murder mystery, a love story, a paranoid thriller? is it all in his mind? at no point does the film say, here is what is going on. it is really brilliantly mystifying in a way which is completely mesmerising. i

just wanted to go straight back in and watch it again. i will watch it again. even on second viewing it will keep the secrets. you have got to be up with the uncertainty of it. but how wonderful, i loved it. it is so hard to describe. you have no idea what you are talking about even after seeing it. go and see it to have a proper discussion with you about it. destroyer. i like this. the whole of the best director liz has not one single female director in a year that had so many great movies directed by women. this film has been sadly overlooked and it needs to find an audience. it is a really good, twisted cop thriller. and two sentences on best dvd. disobedience, again it is a story about life, love, religion,

betrayal, the universe and everything. wow, that will do me. that is a good collection for this week. thank you so much. and that is all we have time for. thank you for watching. goodbye. hello there. many parts had to the snow falling now. all kinds of chaos across parts of hampshire. this is likely to continue for quite a while. we have some mornings up until midnight for this. snow showers across scotland and east england as well. also some disruption tonight and into tomorrow. the snow across the

southern part will ease overnight. elsewhere, and that clear skies, and it is going to be a cold one. we will see the risk of ice where we have had snow showers filing. despite the weekend off many places and bright. watch out for the ice and bright. watch out for the ice and eastern areas. it is a better picture for southern england and much of wales as well. those with three showers could give way and my showers piling into northern scotland. a fine morning for northern ireland. find money for you, lots of sunshine. those showers will continue to ease down for the little bit of the day. northerly

winds despite the sunshine. high—pressure bills and their saturday night and it meets with lighter weights with a clear skies, the colder nights with a widespread frost and ice where we have had winter wheat showers. sunday, at that atlantic is coming back to life. whether systems will be moving infor life. whether systems will be moving in for sunday. maybe some health snow. we will see the snow turning heavier in the hills of scotland. the remaining of rain south to the nines in the district. it looks like the eastern part of the country should get cold. it is going to turn less cold and mild across the southern areas. the weekend is looking cold. with three showers and that rain.

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