tv The Film Review BBC News October 25, 2019 8:45pm-9:01pm BST
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container in essex. how are you getting your election? the prime minister tells jeremy corbyn he should back an election — as the eu agree to another brexit delay — but it hasn't decided how long the delay will be. a report has blamed a catalogue of errors for an air crash in indonesia last year in which 189 people died. 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 have an interesting week,
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we have the the last black man in san francisco which is a sundance film festival hit. we have monos, an extraordinary feature. and black and blue, a thriller starring naomie harris. lots of talk about all of these. so, san francisco features. this was a film that was funded initially by crowd funding, the appeals with an idea and they did really well. it is code written by and stars jimmie fails who plays a man who is desperate to retrieve his family home in the upmarket filmore district of san francisco. he has a good friend who he tours around the city with and they have been pushed to the outskirts, and visit this house regularly which is now lived in by a white couple, who he feels don't look after the house properly. he turns up and paints their windowsills. "go away, it's our house," and he says, "well, you're not looking after it properly." he arrives there one day to discover they themselves have been
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thrown out of the house, there's an inheritence problem, they're no longer living there, the house is now empty. he decides we're going to move back in and he goes to see his aunt to go get the furnishing that used to be in the house before they moved out, here is a clip. your daddy didn't send you here, right? no. you sure? i swear to god. because i hope he's done dragging you into his schemes. auntie, this is for us. 0k. i'm proud of you. i really am. thank you. i miss that city. 0h, ooh! you still good though, baby. you still look good. what i love about this and i think you get a little sense of it
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from that as it has a surreal comic element to it but it also has a pathos and element of tragedy even about it. on the one hand, it is about how place changes through gentrification because the whole thing is his grandfather made the house and they want to get back to it. on the other hand, it is about how any place changes depending on how you look at it. there is a lovely thing about the two main characters skateboarding through the city and you see the city passing by them but you also see the bond between them as one put his hand on the other‘s shoulders for them to skateboard together, and it is about how people and places are intertwined. the director described it as a love story between a man and a house. it is partly about history, partly about personal relationships. it has the most wonderful score who i hadn't come across before. this score lends a fairy tale aspect to this story. on the one hand, it is a story about a prince being exiled from his castle. it can be quite an angry film
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because gentrification makes people, you know, upset. yes, and absolutely isn't although there is a thread of anger in the narrative but what is lovely about it is it is strangely gentle, strangely serene, almost dreamy. and i spent a long time watching it thinking the real genius of this, one hand the music is fabulous, and it has this look about it which as you get into the rhythm of the piece, you learn to slightly slow yourself down and atune to the frequency of the film. it is very rich, very rewarding, often very funny but it has a tragic comic dark heart to it. it is about a very real thing, something changing, about memory, about history and about gentrification, but also it is kind of a fairy tale. it was made from the ground up for very little money and it was backed by brad pitt's plan b. and it's really remarkable.
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interesting, really interesting. i don't know how to even describe the second film, i am bemused reading about it. monos almost defies description is by words because it is a audio and visual experience. it is directed by alejandro landes. he isa he is a colombian ecuadorian film—maker. it is a story about teenage guerrilla soldiers in an unnamed location on the top of the mountain above the cloud line where they are being trained. they are also looking after an american prisoner. we don't have geopolitical details of where they are, even when this is and how this got there. at the beginning they are being trained by somebody called the messenger who leaves them to their own devices. there is a motif in the film of a pigs head on a stick which immediately makes you think lord of the flies. there is a lot of lord of the flies. there is a lot of heart of darkness and by extension, apocalypse now. this reminded me of a strange movie about child soldiers
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called johnny mad dog, which is very hallucinogenic, very moving, very, very upsetting and horrifying. i also saw echoes of other films. it is a film which is so kaleidoscopic that despite the fact it is about on one hand, child soldiers, it is about so much more. it is a coming of age story. it has a universal feel, you never know where the story is taking place or when. it is about the group dynamics between this cast and how it fractures and splinters. the cast is made up of people who have never done on—screen work before and on the other hand, at least one cast member was a regular on hannah montana and one lead in kings of summer which is one of my favourite coming of age stories of all time, and who i did not recognise until halfway through the film. it has a score that is quite the most astonishing thing i have heard in years. it is billing, it is absolutely brilliant and indescribable. i was about to say
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defies description. defies description, yes. the third choice naomie harris, i love her. it is a very nuts and bolts. thriller. she is a policewoman and there is racism in the force. the film is called black and blue. she has to decide on being black or blue and now she is blue and is a police woman. very early on she accidentally films an appalling act on her body can. she is on the run from everyone. here is a clip. hello? it's me, it's me. the hell is going on? is that blood? i need sugar. look, i don't know what's going on but you can be in here.
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i've been shot. what? what do you mean? can i use the phone? who shot you? can i use your phone? you got to go. i don't want no part to this. the police is riding around here all the time, they'll help you. it was the cops that shot me. that is a great set up and she is really terrific and she elevates it from being essentially a nuts and bolts b—movie thriller into being something more than that. narratively there is a weird echo of the comic to remember that film set in belfast called 71, about a british squaddie who is separated and finds himself trapped in this area where he doesn't understand the situation, doesn't understand the landscape. this has a similar sort of claustrophobia to it. it is very efficiently put together, there are some very tense set pieces. as the narrative goes on to become
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slightly more and more unbelievable and in the end it becomes rather ridiculous but all the way through it, you believe in her and because you believe in her you believe in the story. i am a real suckerfor a well executed genre picture. a well executed stripped down genre picture which is what this is. it may well be more at home on dvd or screaming. i don't think it will be a huge cinema hit but i think she is really great and it is done efficiently by someone who understands. the director comes from a horror thriller background, and that is a great thing, good training ground, and i think she really elevates it to the next level. ok, best out is probably something we all need to cheer us up in these dark times. 90 minutes of pure goodness, shaun the sheep farmageddon. i am a huge fan, ijust smiled and laughed and giggled all the way through. it is a shaun the sheep movie with a kind of et twist. it doesn't matter what age you are,
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it is just so charming and funny and moving and made with real care and love, and i am a huge silent movie fan. there is no dialogue in it. so much asjust a silent movie humour. incidentally the combine harvester is a setup for a gag which i laughed about for about three minutes. honestly, it will make everyone feel the world is a better place, it is so lovely. i think we should have that on prescription then, the whole nation. really should, i don't feel very well, see shaun the sheep farmageddon you will feel better. quick talk about dvds. very quickly, bright bone do not take a huge amount of money in cinemas. it is a dark take on the superhero origin myth. i do not know much about it and consequently i really knew enjoyed it. it is not the most original thing in the world, it takes a lot of influences from predecessor writing and films but i like how the strength of its convictions
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and it seemed to take itself seriously enough to work. it is a dark take on the superman origins myth. i know you have a certain fondness for its superhero movies. i'm certainly married to someone who loves all of that. that will be on our shelf. but shaun the sheep farmageddon, shaun the sheep farmageddon, shaun the sheep farmageddon. double bill, shaun the sheep farmageddon and monos, your mind will be blown. that is my weekend sorted, thank you very much. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello again, heavy and persistent outbreaks of rain will continue to affect parts of wales and england not just through the affect parts of wales and england notjust through the night and while on into saturday as well, this is oui’ on into saturday as well, this is our rain bearing cloud, whetherfind
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that does not just stretch our rain bearing cloud, whetherfind that does notjust stretch out into the atlantic but does all the way into the subtropics, whether a friend that stretches for over 3000 miles, comparing that to moisture, it is really targeting the hills of england and wales and we can see some flooding issues building in place. the heaviest rain is across the hills of southern wales and they issued an amber weather warning for this area and flooding seems likely on account of those large accumulations of rain and you can see 120 mm of rain heading into saturday as well but it is not the only place that will see heavy rain, the morris will get a lot of heavy rain and even lower down across the midlands and north england, some localised flooding issues and mild in the south and smiled at 15 degrees and there is patchy frost and continues to be some patchy showers across northwestern scotland. here is saturday plus my forecast, even as the band of rain
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and slowly pulls away from the worst hit areas, there will be a lot of water coming off the hills still only flooding to get worse as the day goes by, plenty of sunshine across the country and the far north of england as well and it is a cold day, at temperatures in the single figures and mild airjust about clings on across the forest southeast. three saturday night, the colder air will arrive and into sunday, cold and locally frost the start to the day and the clocks go back and hour on sunday morning, and another hour spent underneath a warm duvet. most of us after a frosty start, plenty of sunshine, a few showers for northern and eastern scotla nd showers for northern and eastern scotland and perhaps one or two across the coast of england. temperatures, clear day here but not quite so chilly in scotland, we will keep this cold weather with us and
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this is bbc world news today. i'm ben bland. our top stories. six of the 39 people found dead in a truck in the south east of england may have come from vietnam. one possible victim sent distressed messages to her brother. four people are now under arrest. a new wave of protests in iraq leaves at least 21 people dead. and also coming up — a special report on the rise of ‘stalkerware‘ spy apps on mobile phones. they can expose your messages, gps location and even see through your camera. hello and welcome
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