he carried with him a photo of his great uncle, leonard plant, along with his medal. he jumped in on the first wave and the following day was killed. this is one of the last opportunities to do it whilst perhaps we still have veterans who would have been there on the day, they are still around to share that experience with us. hundreds attended today's ceremony, among them, the few surviving veterans. every year, i come back, because i like to know when i come back that i go to the graves, and it is the memories that... so many men wiped out. i couldn't believe it. shown by the mortar sergeant, who, with a wry smile,

declared to his mates on their way into captivity... 75 years on, young and old, remembering those who died in one of the most daring missions of the second world war. extraordinarily remembrance. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. saturday was a glorious day of summer saturday was a glorious day of summer —like weather across much of the uk with temperatures in the mid 20s and we saw highs of 27 celsius in anglesey during saturday afternoon. ng salter and more u nsettled afternoon. ng salter and more unsettled from sunday onwards. through the rest of the evening and tonight we have rain moving from the west to northern ireland, wales and the southwest will have heavy bursts with thunder and only 15—i7d overnight. clear skies across scotla nd overnight. clear skies across scotland and eastern england on sunday morning at this band of

showery rain arrives across eastern areas through the middle of the morning and the next area of rain moves west to east through the afternoon. an unsettled story and not as warm as recent days, 18—23. northern and eastern scotland staying dry. monday is a drier story for many, there will be sunshine but later it turns wet and windy from the south—west and this rain works eastwards through the day with highs of up to 20 degrees.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... jeremy corbyn has quashed an attempt to oust tom watson as the deputy leader of the labour party — a row which has overshadowed the start of the party's conference in brighton. teenage climate activist greta thunberg arrives to cheering crowds at a youth summit on climate change in new york, ahead of the un general assembly next week. and 75 years on from the battle of arnhem, a mass parachute drop takes place in the netherlands to mark what was known as operation market garden in world war ii. now, in a special edition, talking movies reports from venice, toronto and new york on the excitement of film festival season.

hello and welcome to talking movies. i'm tom brooke. it is film festival season. we had venice and toronto, soon it will be new york and london's festivals. in tonight's programme will be looking at the festival films that have been making an impact, films that have been breaking new ground, films that might win oscars. all that and more in this special festival season addition of talking movies. film festival season really began at the end of august when the venice film festival got under way. in recent times, venice, the oldest film festival in the world, has become a bit of an oscars launchpad, and that has brought it considerable attention. emma jones is in venice at talking movies. it's nojoke.

there are those who think the ‘best picture‘ oscar was already given out at venice. amidst all the famous faces that this year's festival, on a carpet, his glamour is only rivalled by camp. one event stood out. joker starring joaquin phoenix is directed by todd phillips. it shows the results when a lonely man with mental health problems is given a gun. one small thing... yeah? when you bring me out, can you introduce me asjoker? phoenix's performance was one of the most talked about performances of the festival. it scooped a traditionally arthouse prize, venice's golden lion. it's all so exciting the way the movie's been impressed by the venice film festival. this festival has always been known for bold decisions, i think they did that this year with a lot of these movies, we really took a bold swing with the film.

the venice film festival has become the place to launch an oscar winner. from gravity to birdman to the shape of water. they all had their first screenings here. creating a buzz at venice can often launch it straight into awards contention. whilejoker continued its progress towards toronto, another film also appearing at both festivals picked up venice's golden lion for best screenplay. no.7 cherry lane is a two—hour hand drawn animation, penciled on rice paper, no less. inside by chinese paintings and written by chinese—born director yonfan. this is his first animation, and his first film for a decade. set in hong kong in 1967, voiced by local talents that include sylvia chang, zhao wei and alex lam, it's an intergenerational love triangle, set against protests and huge social

changes in the then—british—governed territory. the film has a very controversial opinions, but art is controversial. and it looks like an ordinary love movie, but then this movie deals with sexuality, it deals with the human mind and all those — it's a complicated movie. it's very nostalgic for me, seeing hong kong the way it was with the aeroplane right on top of everybody's rooftops. but, you know, for me, it's a very courageous film. you know, yonfan did it with a lot of courage. because he never did any animation before, but he felt with the subject matter and what he wanted to express can only be done with animation. what really rocked audiences

yonfan‘s was scenes of protests and riots of a population on the streets. it seems to uncannily echo recent pictures from hong kong. even though in 1967, the protesters were demanding chinese rule. i think this film is one of those weird times when life imitates art because it's another pivotal moment for hong kong. i think that is the power of art. when something that was made without the intention, but now has a different meaning, it makes you think of things differently. i think the whole world is trying to make sense of everything and they have a lot of questions. but for me, someone who didn't experience of the political arrest in the 60s, it makes you think, you want to understand history. what did you want to say to hong kong with this movie? i would say to hong kong,

hong kong, i love you. you know? when i first moved to hong kong and smelled the freedom in the air, on the street, the word freedom in hong kong. and then until 1967 there was this strong force from the north, the continue station does make continuation of the cultural revolution came to hong kong and there were big rides in hong kong. —— riots. hong kong was upside down. but no.7 cherry lane should mainly be taken as a story of two women's emotional liberation, and a work of exquisiteness nostalgia. elsewhere in the festival, films that meant to provoke did well. the grand jury prize went to roman polanski's ‘an officer and a spy‘, an intricate historical look at anti—semitism in france through the dreyfus affair. polansky‘s inclusion in the venice

lineup was a source of fury to some. as was nate parker's american skin, in which he also acts. the film earned an 8—minute standing ovation despite mixed critical reviews. it may have rehabilitated his career, after his last film was derailed by historic rape allegations, from which parker had been acquitted. the most talked about film went on to toronto unrewarded. the painted bird is by czech director vaclav marhoul is 169 minutes, a black—and—white study, in a made—up language, slavic esperanto. it is about how a young jewish boy survives world war ii. it was made for arthouse awards, but it's so unrelentingly grim that pummelled critics, never mind audiences, found it hard to stay in their seats. the toronto international

film festival began while venice was still in progress. this year, toronto had some 2115 full—length features in its lineup, films that included challenging artistic work, and pictures hoping for oscars glory. toronto had its share of film based on true stories. one of the more celebrated was a beautiful day in the neighbourhood, starring tom hanks who plays beloved american children's tv pioneer fred rogers. # please won't you be my neighbour? rogers wanted every child to feel loved. mr fred rogers is the first person i have played that is not undergoing the great crisis of their business or their lives. mr rogers doesn't want anything except for people maybe to understand themselves in the world a little bit better. so that is a different kind of gig. thankfully, this story isn'tjust

formulaic biographical picture, starring the life of mr rogers and a cynical journalist. during the film we see the journalist's values transform by the time he spends with rogers. matthew rees said he was starstruck. i spent a lot of time going oh, my god, it is tom hanks. then watching him transform into this embodiment of fred rogers, certainly not an impersonation, but really embodying him was something to behold. the film was directed by talented filmmaker mario heller, it is her first main studio venture. she was going to fred rogers‘ wisdom. he wanted children to know that they were lovable and ok exactly how they were loved. that was incredibly radical, to tell a child you are loved for you, not for what you do, not for what you

wear, not for anything else, that you are loved just the way you are. that's everything. tom hanks was made to play this role, just about everyone admired his performance, which will definitely get the attention of oscar voters. another toronto film based on a real story wasjust mercy, brian stevenson, an activist played by michael b jordan. all my people say you're going to fight for me. it means a lot. he fought to save a man on death row in alabama, a man wrongly convicted of murder of a white woman. the case was based on false testimony. it was in many ways the result of racism. things were really, really bad. it's 2019 and somethings are still in the same place. not a lot has changed. being able to tell this story, use my platform to get the story out

to the masses is really important. we can understand each other a bit better and become closer to things we see on tv and film. making it a a little bit more personal and having some mercy. this film examines what justice and mercy are in america right now. and it contends with our racist past but also our racist present. just mercy went over well with toronto audiences but there were complaints that the direction was pedestrian, lacking in flair. the central performances, those given byjamie fox and michael b jordan as brian stevenson were seen as outstanding, a real triumph. you are a tough man, prepared to leave the house. one toronto film which had been greatly anticipated was jojo rabbit, a dark comedy set in world war ii. it is the story of a young german boy smitten with nazi

ideology who has an imaginary friend who happens to be adolf hitler. jojo, my old friend, how are you? hi, adolphe. he is a totally brainwashed, innocent child who hasn't had much parenting and is alone, scared in the world. what kind of relationship does he have with hitler? he's his conscious, he is his only friend, he is who he looks up to. mother, played by scarlettjohansson does not his mother, played by scarlettjohansson has been found to be hiding a jewish girl in the house. scarlettjohansson thinks it is done well to have this coming—of—age story told through a child's eyes. there is a way of innocence, and i think roman is such a lovable actor and his performance is so touching and innocent. it really made the atrocity feel that much more visceral. it's a very unique film and it's

impossible to get people any sort of line for the story because it just doesn't do itjustice. but the film drew a mixed reaction with many critics expressing frustration. some thought the film somehow minimised the horrors of nazism. others thought the cartoonish depiction of the nazis as a bit of a gimmick, dressing up what is quite a conventional story, but audiences loved the film and it won the festival's people's choice award, often a strong indicator of the oscars' best picture winner. yelling and an explosion. a strong dose of reality came through in the toronto film rocks. set in london, it's the story of a teenage girl called rocks with a set of friends and her younger brother trying to survive after being abandoned by their mother. this is not presented as a story of a victim but a joyous celebration of close relationships between girls. 100%, that's one of the main themes

throughout the story, friendship. it's like, as girls you have to stick together and always back each other through everything, yeah. the film is cast with non—professional actors. it was developed collaboratively through workshopping. the dialogue is improvised. the picture is directed by sarah gavron whose previous films include brick lane and suffragette. she likes to tell women's stories. rocks was a very female production. it had 75% female crew which is hugely unusual and they were also young and there were also many women of colour involved. we wanted the girls themselves in the film to look behind the camera and see women who they could imagine themselves being one day. they could imagine maybe one day they'd be a writer, maybe one day they would be a producer, director, a member of the camera team, a member of the sound team, and that felt organic and it also created an environment that felt safe for them to do their best work. rocks is bringing to audiences characters that don't get a lot of screen time, in this instance,

young women of colour. so many people who have felt like the screen hasn't loved them back, i hope they feel loved and they take away that feeling of validation and of being seen and being worthy. rocks is like a lot of young black girls i know, young women of colour i know, young women i know, who are stronger than they should have to be and because of that, aren't offered help and who don't ask for help in return and but inside she's a well ofjoy, of hope, of love, of generosity, but can appear tough on the outside. the performances in the film were strong. the actress playing rocks, bukky bakray, was adept at moving between strength and vulnerability. she really kept the picture anchored. rocks was one of the more refreshing films at toronto, it told a very emotional story without becoming bound to any kind of formula. toronto makes a big effort to define

itself as an international film festival with a wide reach. among the offerings this year was a film from nigeria. it's a satire exploring some big ideas. it's called the lost okoroshi. tristan daley reports. director abba makama came to toronto with a film that delivers comedy and questions about traditional beliefs in the modern age. the lost okoroshi is a movie about raymond obinwa, a man who is disillusionment with modern life. the ideal situation would be moving back to the village, live off the land, farming, and he has been haunted in his dreams by a okoroshi masquerade. a masquerade, for people who don't know, is a man dressed up in a costume that represents an ancestral spirit. people worship this masquerade, so i made a film about a man who is transformed into a masquerade and can't turn back into human

and starts a spiritual journey as a okoroshi in the city of lagos. unlike an okoroshi one would see at a masquerade film in nigeria, in the film, raymond can't take off the mask because he is irreversibly transformed into a spirit. he can't communicate with the words or interact with the world as a normal human would. he wanders the streets, dancing and receiving offerings from pedestrians, doling out divine punishment to wrongdoers and making acquaintances with a strange group of characters. my inspiration for making this film stems back from my childhood. there would always be a masquerade festival. at night, when the masquerades would come out and roam the streets, we would all be in bed and i would just obsess about what was going on. i got older and i realise, yo, it's just a guy dressed up in a costume but what amazed me was there was an unspoken agreement

that the moment this guy wore this costume, he's now been elevated to a spiritual being and thatjust blew my mind. there is also that thing of it being anonymous, there is power in that. i don't care who you are, if you see a masquerade, it's intimidating. that's magicalfor me. though there are many comedic elements, the lost okoroshi is a film with an unconventional structure and main character. something you might not see in some of the more popular comedy films made by makama's contemporaries in hollywood or the nigerian film industry. an actor who plays in the lost okoroshi relished the chance to work with him for this reason. in my acting career so far, i've done huge movies, i've done small movies, but when i got the call from abba to come and look at the script, i ran to it. yes, it's an indie film but it has a unique voice and that is what is critical. big productions can mimic this

but i think it's important coming from a singular voice. makama's independence of the nigerian film industry leaves him with limited budget, perhaps evident in the rough style of his production. however, it also gives him freedom to explore complex subject matters. his dedication to realising his unique vision offers festivals like toronto a film to run on their projectors and gives him a shot at an international platform for his artistic voice. listen, cocoyam head, i don't want him in my compound. the first feature film to land makama at toronto international film festival in 2016, green white green, addressed issues of national identity in nigeria and tensions between the ethnic groups that composed the west african nation. but with the lost okoroshi, the titular masquerade wanders the streets of lagos aimlessly,

begging the audience to ask whether traditional african spirituality has a place in modern nigeria. with my work i don't give answers, i ask questions and again, i'm asking the question, who are we, where are we going, what's going on? are we displaced culturally, like, as a people? i think self—awareness is important but you can only be self—aware if you ask the tough questions about who you truly are and that's exactly what i'm doing with this film. luckily for me, the okoroshi followed makama to toronto. although the director claims not to have answers to the questions posed by his film, i made an offering to the ancestral spirit, just in case. toronto is being followed by the new york film festival which kicks off here in manhattan next week. it will show a relatively

small number of films, including one very big attraction, the 3.5 hour gangster drama the irishman from director martin scorsese. it's the festival's opening night film. i heard you paint houses. it stars robert de niro and al pacino. it features lots of expensive de—ageing technology to make the actors look younger at different points in the movie. the film is generating a must see cachet. well, it's martin scorsese so i think it's obviously this huge thing looming there in an award season. i think a lot of question marks around it too, though. you have him getting back into form in this particular kind of gangster movie but also he is working with netflix which is a new partner. you have some of the masters of acting and filmmaking involved in this, so i do not think that it is going to go awry. i think it's just new territory for a lot of these people

and from the trailer, i wasn't sure how i felt about the digital de—ageing yet. i didn't feel like it really gave me enough to let me immerse myself in it and see if i could really lose myself in the effect. is this frank? yes. hiya, frank, this isjimmy hoffa. well, that brings the special festival review edition of talking movies to a close. we hope you've enjoyed the show. please remember, you can always reach us online at bbc.com/talkingmovies and you can find us on facebook too. from me tom brook and the rest of the talking movies production team here in new york, it's goodbye as we leave you with a clip from number seven cherry lane, which was shown both in venice and toronto.

good evening. our spell of warm, dry, summerlike weather continued through the day on saturday, but, things are about to turn rather more autumnal from sunday onwards. this was the picture saturday afternoon in bexley, greater london, beautiful blue skies there. in some places, we had temperatures up to 27 celsius, including north wales. and that's down to the fact that we've had this warm air drifting its way in from the south, but waiting in the wings out towards the west, an area of low pressure will be pushing weather fronts in from the west through the day on sunday, and actually for much of the week ahead, we have low

pressure anchored out to the west. so through the rest of this evening and overnight, it's clouding over from the west. some heavy bursts of showery rain for northern ireland, wales, the southwest of england too, with the odd rumble of thunder. eastern england and much of scotland should stay dry overnight, so here, temperatures will be lower, but it is still a mild night wherever you are. in fact, cardiff seeing overnight lows of around 17 degrees. so quite mild, quite humid in fact, as we start the day on sunday. but there will be spells of further showery, and at times thundery rain moving gradually eastwards. i think eastern england will see a bit of sunshine around two, and actually northern leeds and scotland should stay dry for much of the day, but elsewhere, quite a bit of cloud and those showers working their way gradually from west to east. it won't be as warm as it was on saturday, so temperatures around 18—20d, for most of us, we could see 23 degrees for most parts of east anglia. into sunday night, and that batch of heavy showery rain moves gradually northwards and eastwards. so many of us starting monday on a bit of a dryer note. temperatures still on the mild side,

we could well see some mist and some fog patches as we start the new working week. now through the day on monday, we have got this area of low pressure moving in from the atlantic. now, that's associated with the remnants of ex—hurricane humberto, moving their way in, so bringing a spell of wet and fairly windy weather later on in the day, actually for much of monday morning, many of us should be largely dry. cloud tending to break up, so some sunshine, some fairly light winds, temperature is not doing too badly for the time of year. but later in the day, we will see this wet and windy weather initially arriving across the southwest of england and south wales, that will then push its way further eastwards and northwards across the uk later on in the day. but temperatures about 17—20d or so, and then you will notice with the outlook over the next five days or so for our capital cities, a bit of a downward trend in those temperatures. some sunshine, but also some heavy and thundery showers. goodbye.

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