and from all of us, goodnight. next on bbc news it's the film review. hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, is mark kermode. hi, mark. what have you been watching? i think we have something for everyone. we have le mans 66, which stars christian bale and matt damon. we have the amazing johnathan doc,

which is a documentary that becomes an enigma. and the report, in which the cia are called to account. yeah, it's a really interesting week, actually! it is! yes! so let's start with le mans ‘66 — not to be confused with le mans — known in other territories as ford v ferrari. you know, le mans was the 1971 picture which my dad took me to see when i was a kid. so this is the story of the ford motor company attempting to regain its mojo by winning le mans at a time when, as the quote says in the film, james bond doesn't drive a ford. although, henry ford i! says that's because he is a degenerate. they essentially call in carroll shelby, who's this designer, played by matt damon, who wears a cowboy hat and a kind of an all—american good old boy. he wants to call in ken miles, who's a british war veteran and race car driver, played by christian bale, who is very much his own man, and who we first meet in his garage. here's a clip. another satisfied customer? can i help you, miss?

wasn't that an mga 1500? ah, you know your cars! ilike them. i love the sound they make, the way it goes right through you. right. that vibration. mine is the wood—panelled country squire across the street. a real hot rod. oh, yeah? is it fast? very. wait a second. what type of girl are ya? the type of girl who likes the smell of wet gasoline... ooh. ..burnt rubber... ooh. are you some kind of a deviant, are ya? well, that makes sense. i married you. i think that does gives you the sense, to some extent, of the playfulness of the story which, you know, in many ways is very serious. so christian bale as that character, and matt damon as someone who is very, very different.

now, like senna, this has sort of a chalk—and—cheese pairing at the heart of it — notjust between their two characters, but also between them as the designers and drivers who have a, you know, a forward—looking vision, and ford, who is this kind of very corporate motor company. they basically want him out because they think that he's a loose cannon, he won't do what he's told when he's put in front of the cameras, he says whatever comes into his mind. shelby wants him in because he says it's the only way to win. you have to have someone who actually knows what they're doing. so, many things to like about this. firstly, the performances are really terrific. you get to know these characters, you get to like the characters and to care about them. secondly, the race sequences are just nail—biting — very much like that ron howard picture rush. a lot of it is to do with the sound effects, the crunching gears. they filmed it in a way that does put you right in the cockpit of the car, so you do feel those race sequences. i like all the behind—the—scenes stuff, the way in which it's, you know, it's that sort of fight between the corporate and the individual — which you could see to some extent as being, you know, maybe a fight about making films in a very sort of corporate—run environment. the most important thing is i don't

really have any outside interest in motor racing at all but this documentary made me interested in these characters — i didn't know how the story panned out. i didn't know any of the twists and turns of it. yeah, and i loved senna in the same way. i didn't expect to. and it's a fantastic watch, so... and, i mean, i think it's really down to the fact that the film does have a joyous sense to it. i mean, it is a serious subject and it's a life—and—death subject but there is, as i say, i think you saw from that clip, there is a playfulness, a sense of entertainment, of liking the people first and the cars second. 0k. even if the people like the cars first and the people second, so... um, now, the second film today, i don't even know how to describe it, i don't know what to make of it, but... we have to tread... thank god you are here. we have to be careful what we say. so it's called the amazing johnathan documentary. it's a documentary about the amazing johnathan, a comedy magician who achieved huge vegas success around the turn of the century and then — he called himself ‘the freddy krueger of comedy‘. his act involved appearing

to scoop his eyeball out on stage, appearing to drive a skewer through his tongue. and then 2014, when he was on—stage, he announced that he had been given a year to live because he had a heart condition. the documentary picks up in the more recent future in which he's still here and he's going out to do more gigs. and it begins as a documentary about this extraordinary character, about whom i did not know anything, whether he'd achieved this sort of great deal of success. but it very soon becomes a documentary about itself. because we discover that the film—maker not only has his own particular interest in telling this story, but also that he's not the only person trying to tell the story. so it has an unreliable narrator, somebody for their profession is an illusionist, a prankster, somebody who makes things appear real that aren't real. we have a documentary film—maker who starts making a documentary about documentary film—making. and we have enough twists and turns that by the time it got to the final — at which point it could've become very naval—gazing, it actually manages to pull off a bravura final flourish. the only thing i'd say is if this has intrigued you,

then see the film without reading another word about it. because i know that you've read about it. i — but yes, and i haven't seen it, and i'm intrigued. that's as far as it goes. the less you know, the better. i mean, if you liked — like, same with, like, searching for sugar man, you know, those kinds of films in which the less you know as you go in, the better it is. because i did find myself going, "no! no! really? !" 0k! intrigued. well, that's always a good thing. the report. adam driver is danieljjones, who headed up this investigation into the cia's use of enhanced interrogation techniques. the title of the film says the torture report, with the word ‘torture‘ blacked out — or, more specifically, redacted. so it's about the report into the cia techniques, about which we now know much more than we did then in the wake of 9/11. and his conclusion is firstly, that these techniques are torture and secondly, that they don't work. of course, the cia is not impressed. here's a clip. i vehemently disagree with the narrative that you're trying to string together here. it lacks context.

it does not paint an accurate picture of the work that was done. let's go. senator, john brennan's name is in that report. he was director tenets's chief of staff and then deputy executive director when the programme started. he grew up at the agency! he claims to have spoken out against the eit programmes. where? ijust spent five years looking at their e—mails. i never found anything to suggest that's true! well, we knew this wasn't going to be easy, they have their own narrative and they aren't going to stick to it. maybe we could come up with some middle ground, find some common language. i thought ourjob was to provide oversight and accountability, not middle ground. i have a question for you. do you work for me or for the report? and i'd encourage you to think about that before answering. hmm! so that's annette bening, as dianne feinstein. yes. so the interesting thing about this, you can see from it, it's a drama that plays out in rooms and a lot of it is people in rooms having conversations or looking

stuff up on a computer or going through... which can be dry. yes, it can be. and i think there is an argument that there is a certain amount of dramatic inertia. it therefore says a lot for the film that firstly, i think because the subject itself is really interesting, but also, it's told in a way that it kept me gripped. and at the heart of that is adam driver. he has two movies out this week — he is also in marriage story — the noah baumbach film which is a netflix release, although in cinemas as well — and he is two completely different characters in these films. i absolutely believed in him as this kind of dogged, you know, very sort of low—key person who is just involved in seeing this report through to the end. there's a lovely moment when it looks like he's been threatened with legal action and someone says to him, "you know, you don't have a legal problem. you have a sunlight problem". what they mean is, firstly that his report may never see the light of day. but also, he hasn't been in the sunlight for a very long time — he's spent five years in a bunker. i know, obviously, the subject that it's dealing with is... so distressing, yes.

..so distressing, and i think the film isjudicious in its use of actually showing us what the report is about. mostly it's about his efforts to get that report finished and to get it out into the open, against, you know, huge odds. so, i think it's an important story. it's very recent history and yet, already it's something that, you know, we need to remember these stories because they are important, and i think it's well done and hats off to adam driver for this, and also for marriage story, which are out in the same week. best out? ok, this is the last week i'm going to do this. i'm trying to smile but, you know! the thing with monos is no matter what you think... yes, here's is the thing! here's the thing, 0k. i know that, it, you know, this looks like a film about child guerillas but it's so much more. for me, it's you know, a modern day retelling of the lord of the flies. i think on a performance level, that cast is extraordinary. the cast is extraordinary, i give you this. i think the movie soundtrack... the soundtrack‘s amazing. soundtrack‘s amazing. ..is arguably one of the best soundtracks of the year. i think visually, it is utterly breathtaking. there are moments — you're with me so far, 0k? i'm with you so far.

but you found itjust... it's too stressful. too stressful. it's still stressful, after three weeks, mark. it doesn't get any less stressful. you know, but — but — is that not an indication of how powerful it is? uh, yes, yes. that you found it very — because it is meant to be — it'sa gripping... yeah, yeah. um, so dvd of the week is, um, diego maradona — gripping in a different way. not so stressful! no! interesting. although there is — i mean, funnily enough, it opens up with a kind of car chase through the streets of naples. it resembling that car chase in the french connection. it focuses on diego maradona's time in naples and looks at a kind of divided soul. diego, home life, maradona, the professional life. and as it, with all of asif kapadia's work — he made senna, which we spoke of before, and he also made amy — i think he's very good at getting under the skin of a subject and finding a way of kind of placing dualities, you know, so that there is a tension in the characters. i mean, i thought this was really fascinating — and bear in mind again — i said this about motor racing — i've never seen a football match in my entire life

and i still watched this and i knew where i was, i understood it because it's constructed like a dramatic narrative. he's a very dramatic documentary film—maker. he's clever. he's a clever film—maker. he really, really is. and so, if it can work for me, then i think i can work for anyone. yeah. really, really interesting week. thakn you very much. see monos again! see monos again. again?! again, yes. that's it! enjoy your cinema—going. bye— bye. chuckles. hello there, you might remember in the last week venice was hit by severe flooding, and in many ways sunday we have a repeat performance on the way. we are talking about another of these high waters coming in around midday on sunday, 1.6 metres above the normal water level, one of the highest we have seen in the last 90 years, perhaps not quite as high as tuesday but still one of the top five we have seen in the

last 90 years. the reason, areas of low pressure forming in the mediterranean bringing the strong south—easterly winds right up the adriatic and that creates a bullet of water that gets shoved towards the north, towards venice. as well as that we have some thunderstorms as that we have some thunderstorms as well. that low pressure eventually swings quite close to our shores and we will see in a moment, but for the time being overnight we have some rain around, particularly the north—east england, some showers coming into scotland and northern ireland, quite a cold night, vertically whether skies stay clear for any length of time, we could see some frost in scotland, it is frosty at the moment, and across southern counties of england as well. tomorrow more of the same guy patchy rainfor tomorrow more of the same guy patchy rain for northern england and north wales and also the north midlands, further south dry and bright, some sunshine, showers over cornwall, some showers coming into kent and the thames estuary, scotland and northern ireland will be the best of the day's sunshine, there will be some showers across northern scotland, it will feel quite chilly. looking at the weather picture

through sunday night, we will see these guys clear across the north of these guys clear across the north of the uk, so there will be widespread frost, a cold night, temperatures “11 in edinburgh but even colder in the countryside. this area of low pressure is the one bringing the flooding to venice tomorrow, by monday it gets really quite close to eastern england, it is really only this thin sliver of high pressure thatis this thin sliver of high pressure that is getting on its way. and it looks like the most likely scenario at the moment is that they will be a dry, cold frosty start of the day, a few mist and fog patches but should remainfine, few mist and fog patches but should remain fine, settlements only for the most part. however the rain is not far away from those eastern areas so it is something we are monitoring very carefully, given the state of the saturated ground across the country. as we head into the middle part of the week, low pressure is going to start to moving of the atlantic and without the wins will tend to background and cumin from the south—easterly direction, that will drag in milder errors a week goes by and we have some rain in the forecast which could be quite happy across the eastern side of wales and across the midlands. that is not great news because across the

midlands we have problems ongoing with flooding at the moment, of course we don't want any extra rain, but that's what we're looking out towards the middle of the week.

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