tv The Film Review BBC News November 1, 2019 8:45pm-9:01pm GMT
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the england team prepares for tomorrow's big match. will they lift the rugby world cup trophy for the first time since 2003? now on bbc news, it's time for the film review with jane hill and mark kermode. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. a very interesting mixed bag of this week. we have the aeronauts, up up and a way in a huge balloon.
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and doctor sleep, the sequel to the shining. and after the wedding, starring julianne moore and michelle williams. that was my nervous laugh. let's start with the lovely felicityjones and eddie redmayne. how are you with heights? i am not too bad, actually. this is basically a mixture of fact and fiction and spectacle. it is basically about an attempt by a meteorologist and a balloon pilot to go the highest above the earth that anyone has ever gone and two characters are jaimes glaisher, played by eddie redmayne, who is a real character, and amelia wren played by felicityjones.
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they are essentially talk and she's, he's a pilot and a showman. she understands the need to put on a show. they are attempting to break the record for altitude and the higher they go, the more they encounter weather, storms, cloud and everything else that the film—makers chose to throw at them. here is a clip. i'm not sure your instruments are much use to us now. we need to batten down. please put on your wet weather clothing. there are no prizes for obstinacy. james, if you won't listen to me... ..listen to that. but not one of my readings suggested a storm. well, that's what it is. and we're inside the cumula, which is precisely where we shouldn't be. don't worry, she's not made of conductive material, so we won't attract lightning. and if we are struck, the gas will explode,
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so we won't live long enough for me to point out... aargh! i should not laugh. it is nervous laughter. it has an entertaining cinematic spectacle. one hand, you have the narrative which follows some fairly basic parameters. they are chalk and cheese characters who are stuck together in a basket which is up in the air and they have to learn to put their differences aside and work together. it takes liberties with the truth, although in the back of it there is a true story which has been much polished. however, for me, the main thing was that i went thinking eddie redmayne, felicityjones, it was going to be a character study and i did not realise how much of a spectacle it would be. iam i am actually terrified of heights. i have been up in a hot—air, and this is really good at giving you the spectacle of climbing around and inside a balloon, lost in the highest reaches. i found several moments of it thrilling, but
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absolutely terrifying. it is a really good piece of cinema. narratively, there are some hokey elements to it. i like the characters, largely because these are good performances and the story is interesting, if fanciful. but the sheer cinematic spectacle of it is what won me over. i was going like this... that is like me any horror film. have you ever seen the walk? it was about walking between the twin towers? i felt like that very good 25 minutes. it was a fanciful, but entertaining. i am not brave enough to go up in one, because i am more worried about the landing. they coming down is always going to...
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doctor sleep is the sequel to the shining. and famously stephen king was not a fan of stanley kubrick's film of the shining. this picks up the story years later and danny has grown up in dealing with the demons of the past and other people in the world have his shining abilities. they are being pursued by the character rose the hat, who is played by rebecca ferguson. we know the narrative will move back towards the overlook hotel. the shining, many people feel it is terrifying, i have never done, but i do not think it is terrifying, it is atmospheric. this is not primarily a horrorfilm, it is much more like it are all those stephen king stories, like firestarter or carrie, a young person who has a ability they do not understand what happens to them. it is an adventure
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rather than a horror. it is a completely different movie to the shining. it is absolutely its own thing and much more about the narrative and storytelling whereas the stanley kubrick film was to do with atmosphere and that feeling of dread. actually, i thought it was much better than expected. it is played, it is made quite sincerely. and there are sort of cheeky call—backs to the stanley kubrick film. i went and they're scared that it would let me down, and actually being pleasantly relieved. i say this advisedly, it reminded me of things like — elements of twilight in there, i do know that some people think that is a criticism. i love the twilight movies, and there is an element of fantasy in there, which i am a big fan of it. you would be fine with it. but you have to see the shining first.
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let's move on to after the wedding. they slip the genders of the originalfilm. it is a remake of the 2016. michelle williams runs an orphanage in kolkata and has to go to the america to get an investor. she meetsjulianne moore who is very busy and says her daughter is getting married tomorrow, and she says to come. as soon as she gets the wedding and set eyes onjulianne moore's husband and daughter, she panics and freaks out and runs off to be on her own. here is a clip. i couldn't agree more. i am not into weddings. i'd like to be alone. tell me about it, crowds are awful. music, laughter in background. ok, i can take one for the team
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and drink them both. you know how at every wedding, there are always a few single people pretending not to care they're single? oh, well, we're those people. it's weird, right? i'm divorced. what's your story? get away from me. 0k. what you see in that clip is everything you need to know in that film is playing out on herface, not on what he is saying, but in how she is reacting. you know from that moment what the big reveal is and it turns out the story then has further reveals which are more schematic and a little too neat for me. for me, the film balances between two things — very good performances in which individual moments worked really, really well and an overarching narrative which is kind
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of melodramatic and a schematic and rather too neatly laid out. on the basis of the performances along, it is really great. i love the show—don't—tell film making. my favourite thing in the film is when someone does not say anything, butjust by the way they look or stand, you know exactly where you are. i think it is a flawed film, some critics have been very sniffy about it, but there are individual moments in this which worked really well and justify the thing that do not work about it. it isjust those moments, and julianne moore is always terrific. and michelle williams, i like her a lot. there is a dynamic between the two of them although they're chalk and cheese. you realise there are two sides of a similar coin. and best out this week, i knew what we are going to choose. it was so stressful when i saw it. did you like it? i thought it was very well—made.
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i was so stressed. i struggle to enjoy films that stress me out that much. but it was excellent and the score was unusual and interesting. it is meant to be a film about teenagers, but it is kind of lord of the flies and that score, it is unbelievable and gets under your skin. are you glad that you saw it? i can tell that you did not enjoy it. i am a bad person because i only managed about two—thirds of it. i could not take any more. i was thinking, why is no one dying of hypothermia, who is the hostage? it is intense. it is an intense cinematic experience. and when we get to the end of the year i think it will be on my best of the year list. the souvenir, which is a film byjoanna hogg is my best dvd. she is one of britain's best film—makers. it is based on a relationship
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which she had many years ago and about which a degree of mystery still exist. she is currently cutting the souvenir part two, which is about the aftermath of the relationship and i cannot wait to see it. because i think this is hogg's most accessible film, although it is still very, very chilly. it is almost like a psychological thriller, a gaslighting story. she is a brilliant film—maker and it is really worth seeing. i loved it. oh, you have seen it? looking forward to part two? very much. it is an interesting week. enjoy yourfilmgoing, whatever you see. and have a great weekend, goodbye. hardly surprising if i tell you there's more rain in the forecast for this weekend. and on top of that, some very windy weather on the way as well. starting in the early
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hours of saturday morning, the met office has issued a severe weather warning, and those winds could prove disruptive and even damaging during the course of saturday. this low pressure is heading our way, and it basically parks itself over the uk during the course of the weekend, bringing unsettled weather. but it is also bringing milder weather. at the moment it is pretty chilly in the moment it is pretty chilly in the north of the country, but that mild weather will spread northwards. in the short term, we have rain spreading through northern ireland into scotland, it may be the odd clear spell. but the real story is this area here just to the south of ireland, where the swathe of very strong winds is early on saturday morning. the onset of the gaels around 5am on the shore of cornwall at devon, southwest of wales as well. it is to the south where we have that strongest core of wind and the heavy rain. that will be tracking across southern parts of
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the uk. here it is the morning onwards, strong winds and heavy rain impacting the southwest of the country. central and southern england moving into the south midlands. but at the same time, northern england with much lighter winds, same for belfast and glasgow. it really will be the southern portion of the uk, isolated gusts could hit 80 mph, and inland in places like london up to 60 mph, and that could prove disruptive with tree damage from these strong gusts of wind. but notice that across northern england, we even have some sunshine in the forecast here around newcastle. how about temperatures? whether you are in the south or north, it will be more or less the same, talking about 10—12dc for most of us. i mention that low—pressure parking itself across the uk. it will park itself and also start to blow itself out. winds are much lighter on sunday, still a bit of a breeze out there, but the real
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this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 9pm: nigel farage calls on borisjohnson to join forces for the election, but the prime minister says there'll be no deal between them. any other party, voting for any other party, it risks putting jeremy corbyn into numberio. a man faces extradition from ireland as part of the investigation into the deaths of 39 migrants in a lorry in essex. the england team prepares for tomorrow's big match. will they lift the rugby world cup trophy for the first time since 2003? the queen has wished england's rugby team the very best for a "memorable and successful" match tomorrow.
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