this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 8pm. president trump did not conspire with russia during the 2016 election campaign — and oleg ivenko is the star, according to the report and i gather ralph fiennes scoured by special counsel robert mueller. the justice department also the former soviet union looking says there's not enough evidence to charge him for somebody to play nureyev. he needed somebody who could dance, because he said if you were going with obstruction ofjustice. to get a body double in, it would double the time of the film and the budget of the film. so they needed someone who could dance. senior conservatives have been as you can see from the clip, holding talks with mrs may at her chequers country retreat i think he is very on how to deliver brexit, charismatic on camera. following reports of a cabinet coup he is a good actor and gives you that sense of, on the one hand to oust the prime minister. everything that's attractive about nureyev‘s character, but also everything that is dangerous about it. environment secretary, because what the film is really michael gove — who's one of those about is east and west, that's been touted to take over control and rebellion. from may — says he has no desire so at the centre of it is ballet to replace her as leader. which of course is something which requires really strict discipline, something the russians are very strong on. it's not the time to change but he is a rebellious spirit, the captain of the ship. what we need to do is he's told at one point, chart the right course, you're not technically very good, actually, in some ways you are quite clumsy, but your spirit is perfect, and that's really

what the film is about. i mean, hats off to fiennes for not only getting his head around the complexities of ballet, but also russian... when the characters are in russia, they speak russian, they do not do that thing about speaking english in sort of cod russian accents. and although it is a fairly well known story, watching the film, you realise how much you didn't know about it. and i do think it was a really smart decision to get somebody who can convince you as a dancer. you watch the ballet sequences and they are every bit as much part of the narrative of why his character does what his character does, as all the dialogue and all the rest of it. i thought it was really interesting, and i am somebody who knows nothing about ballet. i doubt that's true. the next is from jordan peel, who did get out. which i absolutely loved, that was stunning. get out was great. the thing with get out was it was very much in the style of ira levin who wrote stepford wives, it was a film about the way in which liberal america was still deeply racist. this is slightly more broad and slightly harder to pin down,

but i like that about it. it's essentially a family who go for a holiday up by santa cruz, and outside their house turns up another family of doppelgangers. and in the title is a pun. the film is called ‘us‘, but ‘us‘ is us. and there is a line that rings through it in which somebody says "we're americans." and you can watch the film and think, ok, maybe it's about the way in which everyone has a shadow side, you know, kind of like a jekyll and hyde thing, or maybe you can see it as a parable about the way that affluent societies have a kind of parasitic relationship with the hidden underclass. or you can just see it as a sort of jack finney bodysnatchers—style horror tale that is really, really well done. and the clever thing about it is, remember all the stuff at the golden globes about get out being a comedy? i think somebody said, "well, what should it be?" and actually it should have been a documentary. in the case of this, the scary bits are properly scary, the funny bits are properly funny, and all the way through it's thought—provoking and really well textured.

it is the kind of film you would come out afterwards and go for a coffee with a friend and go, 0k, what was it about? what was actually happening? what was the message? it's not straightforward, it's not simple, but it's really crowd pleasing, i think it will do really well. he's a terrifically good director. did you find get out scary? more sort of intriguing, rather than scary, i guess. i watched it twice because it made sense more the second time you've seen it. ok, then the same is true of us. once you have seen us the first time round, if you go back and watch it, there's loads of very clever things. that you've missed the first time, yeah. exactly, and the bits that are meant to be scary are properly scary. not in a gory way, there is some violence in it, but it's just really well—placed. a bit scarier than get out? yes. 0k, minding the gap, you've told us a documentary about skateboarders that is not a documentary about skateboarders. no. so bing liu started this, he was filming him and his friends skateboarding when he was a teenager, and originally what he was doing

was trying to make a film that, in their own words, shows them having the best time of their lives. but then, as they grow up, the film becomes about a kind of crisis in masculinity and what is actually happening to his friends as they go from childhood to manhood, and they all start to discover that their love of skateboarding was kind of a way of escaping from things in their background, in their past. we start to see evidence of domestic violence, of problems of poverty, of repeating sins of the parents being passed down through the children. and the brilliant thing about it is, it does all this in a way that never feels like it's anything more than an intimate look at friends who had found something in skateboarding. here's a clip. what happened? do it. hey, is this the skateboard? yeah. keire, he held in a lot.

and his dad, you know, he was really kind of strict on him. you know, his father was...he was a carpenter, and he wanted keire to do that. 'cause he couldn't get the other boys to follow in his footsteps, but keire didn't like it. hurry! do it! sometimes, i'd know that i had to work with him, so i would sneak out my window, like, threw my board out first and just climb out. then when i got home, i got disciplined. it was no escape for a while. so, i mean, i thought it was really moving and engrossing, partly because it is very intimate. also because in the same way the skateboarding is the thing that the young men use to escape, obviously the film—making

is a therapy for the film—maker who goes back to confront his own demons and things in his own past. and it shifts very gently from being something which is a little bit like richard linklater's boyhood or maybe that documentary dogtown and z boys, into something which really gets under the skin of these young men, as they now are, wrestling with the fact that they still have things in their past that they haven't dealt with. i thought it was really terrific, and i went in knowing nothing about it at all other than it was about skateboards. laughs. i know a little bit about skateboarding because when i was a kid i used to skateboard, but... i can imagine you were pretty good actually. yeah, no, i used to fall off quite a lot, but it was the thing to do. for those not watching the bbc news channel this weekend, what is best out at the moment? ok, so this is the last week i'm going to do this, i'm only ever allowed two. kindergarten teacher, the maggie gyllenhall film, you have to seek it out because it's not playing in a lot of theatres. but it's a story about a teacher who becomes obsessed that one of her pupils is the new mozart. the whole film is really about,

is the kid actually a brilliant poet or is it all to do with the projection of the kindergarten teacher, who is played by maggie gyllenhall? i think she's brilliant, i think the film is really, really smart. i actually do want to see that one. yeah, it's great. and best dvd is something that i know you loved, i kind of liked, but not as much as you. i was amazed that widows didn't get more attention from the awards. it's based on the lynda la plante tv series, directed by steve mcqueen, who of course cast lupita nyong'o in 12 years a slave, and she's the lead in us. i thought this was great, a brilliant ensemble cast headed up by viola davis. what didn't you like? i didn't like that it didn't develop all the women's characters, i didn't feel...to a full extent. all right, i mean, i remember, no, it's, i was going to say it's a fair criticism. it is enjoyable. yeah, but i think it's more than enjoyable, i think it's actually really profound. i think from a film—making point of view, i think it is a brilliantly—made film. profound how? because what it does is, it shows you a group of characters who you think you understand,

and then you realise that you actually don't know them. and it's one of those films in which action is character. people don't explain what they're doing, they do it, and that explains what they're doing. maybe i'll go and see it again, on dvd. mark, thank you so much, as ever. mark kermode there. that's it for this week though. thank you so much for watching. goodbye for now. hello. for many we have had some decent sunshine this week but also a number of heavy showers in the northern half of the uk but in the week ahead it looks like it will be mostly dry with some spells of sunshine coming and going and it is set to get milder and indeed by the end of the week, some of us could see temperatures reaching 18 degrees by the time we get to friday. before we get that we had better talk about the start of the week and on monday, a chilly start for some fault of

some patchy frost in the countryside but a glorious start, plenty of morning sunshine. in the afternoon, a trend for the weather to turn cloudy from the north and west as the days go by we will have these chilly northerly winds knocking the edge off the temperatures around some of the east coast in scotland and england. 10 degrees in norwich, 13 in london and cardiff, not as warm as on sunday but still not bad in the sunshine and out of the breeze. 0n in the sunshine and out of the breeze. on monday night, we keep the clear skies are so temporary is again falling away pretty sharply. another cold night, cold enough for some patches of frost developing in the coldest areas where we keep the clearest skies longest. 0n the coldest areas where we keep the clearest skies longest. on tuesday, we still have the area of high pressure maintaining the dry weather for most of the uk but we have this week atlantic front brushing the far north of scotland and that will continue to bring some thicker cloud here with the threat of a bit of rain at times for the western isles, highlands and also across the northern isles. away from that,

after a sunny start again, the tendency for the weather to turn a bit cloudier but still a lot of fine and dry weather around on tuesday. temperatures between 13 in aberdeen and 1a or15 temperatures between 13 in aberdeen and 1a or 15 degrees in southern england and wales. more of the same in the middle of the week, still be high pressure is with us and we have weather fronts pestering the far north of scotland bring thicker cloud and the risk of a bit of rain at times. the temperatures are beginning to edge upwards a little bit in england and wales with highs of around 15 degrees in hull and london. towards the end of the week as the high pressure moves closer to southern england we get more of a feed coming in from the continent and that will tend to increase the temperatures across england and wales whereas the further north in scotla nd wales whereas the further north in scotland and northern ireland, the winds are more influenced by the weather from the atlantic and there will be little overall change in temperatures. 13 again in aberdeen and belfast, up to 17 degrees in the south east england in the sunshine

on thursday afternoon. we ended the week with huybrechts still in charge but it is showing signs are beginning to slip away allowing this cold front to move in off the atlantic. that fund will bring thicker cloud into scotland and northern ireland with more general outbreaks of rain. as it pushes southward and eastward it is likely to wea ke n southward and eastward it is likely to weaken significantly so probably not much rain left in it as it moves into northern england and to the south of it in the sunshine, we could have temperatures rising further up to 18 degrees but again, a bit cool in scotland and northern ireland. into the weekend, we have some cooler air pushing southward across the uk so temperatures dropping a little bit but still some drier weather around and some sunshine. into the following week, the big question is whether this area of high pressure moves away. if it does, how quickly that process happens. if it does eventually leave, we could be looking at low pressure into the week and beyond with the risk of rain and some fairly brisk winds but there is a lot of uncertainty. that is your

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