and there's no stop. listen to me! i just... i think he has a little speech. i have a little speech that's building here. when it comes to the smaller screen, there could be more honours for the adored boundary—breaking flea bag. i cannot believe we're here. i mean, a year ago, we were previewing at the bfi, and now we're stood at the golden globes. yeah, i'm blown away. with no clear frontrunner set to sweep the board, it's likely there'll be a few memorable moments ahead. the golden globes are notoriously difficult to predict. the only real certainty is that champagne will flow — and probably a few tears, too. sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello. it has been quite cloudy for many this weekend but the weather generally speaking has been quite quiet, quite innocuous. the same cannot be said for the next few

days, thing stepping up a gear. tonight it stays cloudy, some health fog and sports of drizzle. winds picking up in north—western parts of the uk. chile in eastern scotland and england where we see clear breaks, but generally a mild night. a mild and cloudy start, with spots of drizzle. from the west, heavy rain, moving through northern ireland into western scotland in the morning, getting to england and wales through the afternoon. east anglia and the south—east should stay dry until after dark. behind the rain, something brighter with sunshine but also some showers. on tuesdayit sunshine but also some showers. on tuesday it will turn mild, highs of 15 or 16 degrees, but with that, heavy rain and severe gales across the northern half of the uk.

hello, this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. the headlines: hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in iran to mourn the assassinated military leader general soleimani. president trump warns the us has a list of 52 targets that will be hit "very hard" if iran decides to retaliate. the iraqi government has summoned the us ambassador over the airstrike which killed the general. royal navy warships are ordered to escort british—flagged vessels in the persian gulf and the prime minister

is returning to the uk from his caribbean holiday. the australian prime minister warns that the bushfire emergency could last for months. 2a people have now died since the crisis began and thousands have lost their homes. the costs of hs2 are "out of control" and its benefits overstated, according to the deputy chair of its review panel. now on bbc news, a special edition of talking movies looks back at highlights from the world of cinema in 2019. hello from new york. i'm tom brook. in today's programme, a special edition of talking movies, we will be looking back at some of the highlights of

the world's biggest and most prestigious film festival. our focus today is indian cinema. can you make me laugh? he laughs we are talking movies. for us, the big event in 2019 was that it was the 20th anniversary of talking movies, and two special celebrations were held in which big—name stars were interviewed before an invited audience. injanuary, in new york, the talking movies celebratory guest of honour was top british film—maker and actor kenneth branagh. i greeted him as he arrived for the festivities. this affable 59—year—old star was happy to mingle with the crowd to pose for photographs. the invited audience was eager to find out what he had to say. cheering have a seat. thank you. i have been looking at your work.

you have a very impressive body of work. there are 37 films that you have appeared in as an actor. crikey! some 18 feature films that you have directed. you have earned five oscar nominations and you have won four baftas and your film credits include a great array of films, from hamlet, murder on the orient express, thor, a very varied group of films. did you always think that you might have a career in the movies when you were a young boy? by no means, no means. i come from a working—class belfast family. my parents were not remotely connected with showbiz. i did not know anything about how you could even get anywhere near what was going on behind that screen, and my film education, if you like, was seeing often black and white movies on a saturday morning or saturday afternoon, so that is where i knew about laurel and hardy, and charlie chaplin, buster keaton, and saw

lots of classic hollywood movies. to be anywhere near them professionally, it was like... you might as well have been talking about going to venus. it wasn't until, you know, i started doing some school plays and then somebody said, you could be an actor, and i said, "what, how? "what do you do? "and there are things called drama schools? " i did not know anything about this, and then i started the process. you can break our hearts, but you cannot break our spirits. cheering we will not be silenced. the #metoo movement has brought about a reckoning in the film industry and beyond, but in the wake of #metoo, there has not exactly been progress for a lot of women in the film industry. female directors, last year, there were fewer working on top movies than there were the year before. what can be done about that, do you think? well, that is maybe a false measurement. at least in that if the progress of women is defined only

by whether some of them direct so—called top... it is one measure. it is one measure, but it is a measure also that plays to a high, glitzy end of something. what would you like? how many...? what would constitute, in that instance, some sense of equality? i think the change will happen. i agree it has been slow, but not necessarily in other parts... i think, in the pyramid of all of this, i think there is much more change that is not as visible as that disappointing sign, that has more and greater numbers of diverse voices and certainly many women's voices coming into other parts of that particular pyramid, so i think it will change. it is great to see you. thanks so much for doing this interview. indian superstar shah rukh khan was our special 20th anniversary guest of honour in mumbai in november. this hugely popular indian star

was an enthusiastic participant. he sat down with me for a candid interview, discussing the challenges facing bollywood, the #metoo movement, and his career and much, much more. let me ask you a little bit about your early career. was there one role that you felt really defined you as an actor early on and gave you recognition? i was told, tom, when ijoined the film industry, when i met people here, i will not name the wonderful director, but right down the road, he called me once, made me sit down, and said very honestly, and i love him for that, i worked with him later and i respect him a lot, he is a good friend even now, in spite of what he told me then. he looked at me and he said, "you know, the greatest asset you have as an actor is that you are ugly, and i can put you in any role." that is not true. he did not know better at that time. there is no accounting for taste! so he looked at me and he said, "you are so different looking." i guess that is what he meant. it came out a little wrong. and he said, "i can

put you in any role. and that is the greatest asset you have." i did not think of myself as someone who could be a typical hindi movie star, so i somehow got in tune with... i did not want to be the hero, i did not want to romance a girl, i did not want to be, you know, doing the typicalfilms. let me ask you, i heard that you don't think you are a particularly good dancer, is that right? yeah. it is hard to believe, though. i mean, you dance in an incredible way in many... i am petrified. are you? yeah, i have four, five left feet. i am really pathetic. i have to tell you, honestly, and you do not believe it, because of course, they save me, the choreographers and the directors and the actresses that i work with. i don't know if your assessment of your dancing is totally accurate, to be honest, because i have seen some very impressive moves, and there is one film where there is a sequence that i really like, dil se, when you are dancing on top of a train, and that is an incredible bit of cinema, isn't it? was that difficult to do? that was one of the funnest things to do.

it was one of the most fun things and that song and dance, i can do any time because it only involves four steps. so i will start it and you follow. no, no, no, there is no way i'm doing that. i am the most clumsiest person alive. come on, tom? no, no, no, no! right. no, you have to do it. i will do it for you. come and stand with me at least. ok, i will stand with you. so this is... he is going to... cheering

superhero films produced under the marvel banner have become an almost permanent feature of the modern movie landscape. in 2019, top american director martin scorsese critiqued marvel films and provoked a very strong response. he stated that marvel "is not cinema. it is something else. we shouldn't be invaded by it. we need cinemas to step up and show forms that are narrative films." a strong critique indeed. emma jones reports. despite appearances, martin scorsese is a giant of film, one whose opinion on the state of his industry matters. while the 77—year—old director has grasped modernity with both hands in choosing netflix to distribute his three and a half hour epic the irishman, while promoting it, scorsese has gone public with his thoughts

on superhero franchises. the value of a film that is like a theme park film, for example, the marvel—type pictures, where the theatres become amusement parks, that is a different experience. it is not cinema. it is something else. you know, whether you go for that or not, but it is something else and we should not be invaded by it. and so that is a big issue, that is a big issue, and we need the theatre owners to step up. marvel, and behind them, parent company disney, dominated the box office last year. avengers: endgame and captain marvel were among the record seven films that made more than $1 billion in 2019. sony's spider—man: far from home was another. you've got gifts, parker. but we have a job to do. marvel‘s profit should help fund its new black panther film, due in 2022. its star, chadwick boseman, chose diplomacy rather than superhero force when asked

about scorsese's comments. he has a great opinion. he is smart. he is a genius at what he does, so obviously he is not wrong, but it is an opinion. he is not completely right either. but boseman agreed that another film he has done recently, a mid—budget new york cop thriller called 21 bridges is of a type that is getting harder to finance and put in cinemas. # represent, you # gotta represent. ..# i was thinking, and i was saying to other journalists, i do not think we see enough movies like this in the cinema any more. i agree. it is hard to get them made because, you know, the bigger studios are doing big budget movies and remakes and so these types of movies, which are movies that i grew up on, that i, you know, that i watched, actors that i love do these type of movies, you know, they do not get done any more.

since the financial crash a decade ago, risk has been a four letter word to studios with star power a key factor in the life of a film. now might be a really good time for you to get angry. i'm always angry. like boseman, mark ruffalo's superhero status as marvel‘s hulk does get his edgier films into cinemas. he put all his weight behind dark waters to play a real—life environmental lawyer who took on one of the usa's biggest conglomerates. good word—of—mouth meant it got shown on more screens as time went on during its us release. i am a corporate defence attorney. so? i defend chemical companies. it is true that that mid—budget character—driven drama that used to be, you know, studios used to make those movies and they would win awards and then they would make more and they would win awards, that

bottom seems to have fallen out. but perhaps cinema is not getting its due. even five years ago, diverse award season contenders such as bombshell, the farewell, or harriet might never even have been commissioned, let alone get a big—screen release. i am working on a novel. it is a story of my life. a major studio, sony, is putting its holiday season push behind little women, whose lead cast is, apart from timothee chalamet, female and made by a female director traditionally beloved of independent film. i can't believe they let us make it. i still can't believe they let us make it. like, i look at this and i think, "studios don't make period pieces any more, they don't make movies about four sisters." you know, it's a novel. there are so many categories in which generally people say, "no, thanks." but why do you think they let you make it in that case? it was probably meryl streep!

it may seem like cinema is stuck on the same old franchises, but, as it moves into the next decade, it is clear it is becoming increasingly hybrid. take something like joker. it is a billion dollar film with superhero origins and yet it has the arthouse endorsement of a golden lion from the venice film festival. there is a lot to it that suggests it is a film that really wants to be taken seriously by how serious it takes its own subjects, but ultimately it is the most famous super villain of all time and, in that sense, it therefore is marketed off the back of a very, very recognisable character and you cannot see it through any other prism, therefore, than it being a superhero, or rather, in this case, a super villain film. i'm the one they should be scared of. even superhero franchises will evolve in 2020. three major releases will all be led by women, from dc comics birds of prey to wonder women 1984, and marvel‘s black widow.

in september, talking movies travelled to toronto to report on the wealth of offerings at that city's top film festival. in keeping with our editorial remit, we put a focus on international cinema and among the films that caught the attention of our reporter was a satire from nigeria. director abba makama came to toronto with a film that delivers comedy and weighty questions about traditional beliefs in the modern age. the lost okoroshi is a movie about raymond, a man who is disillusioned with modern life. his ideal situation would be moving back to the village, live off the land, you know, farming, and he is being haunted in his dreams by an okoroshi masquerade, which, a masquerade, for people who do not 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 turn back into a human, and he starts a spiritual journey as an okoroshi, in the city of lagos. it will fit like this. unlike an okoroshi one would see at a masquerade festival in nigeria, in the film, raymond cannot take off the mask because he is irreversibly transformed into a spirit. he cannot communicate with 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, like, 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, you know. and i got older and i realised, "yo,

it is just a guy dressed up in a costume," but what amazed me was that there was an unspoken agreement that the moment this guy wore this costume, he is now being elevated to a spiritual being, and thatjust blew my mind away, that. and there is also that thing of it being anonymous. like, there is power in that. i do not care who you are, if you see a masquerade, it is intimidating. that is 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 nollywood 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 have done huge movies, i have done small movies, but, when i got the call from abba to come look at the script, i ran to it. yes, it is an indie film, but it has a unique voice.

and that is what is critical. big productions, they can mimic this, but i think it is important coming from a singular voice. makama's independence of the nigerian film industry leaves him with a 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. 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 compose the west african nation. there will be arrangements for okoroshi to be on social media. 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 do not give answers. i ask questions. again, i am asking a question, "who are we, where are we going, what is 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 is exactly what i am 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.

at number ten, once upon a time in hollywood, one of the best films quentin tarantino has ever made, the story of a once successful actor played by leonardo dicaprio and his stunt double, portrayed by brad pitt. great performances and a great sense of place, los angeles in 1969. when you bring me out, can you introduce me asjoker? in ninth place, joker, a well wrought psychological thrillerfrom director todd phillips with a mesmerising performance byjoaquin phoenix, one of the most successful comic book films ever. # please won't you be my neighbour?# at number eight, a beautiful day in the neighborhood, director marielle heller's compelling story featuring american children's tv pioneer fred rogers, played exquisitely by tom hanks.

in seventh place, the original horror film us, written and directed byjordan peele, with a standout performance by lupita nyong'o. yes, sir. they are walking into a trap. your orders are to deliver a message calling off tomorrow morning's attack. at number six, director sam mendes‘ warfilm 1917, which follows two british soldiers in the trenches. an outstanding ensemble cast but much credit must go to george mackay, who has the key role. they sing in spanish. in fifth place, the glorious pain and glory from director pedro almodovar. a thinly—veiled autobiographical work from the spanish director in which a character like him is brilliantly portrayed by antonio banderas.

at number four, parasite, which focuses on two south korean families, one very wealthy, the other impoverished. the poorer family insinuate themselves with interesting consequences into the richer family's world. excellent adventurous cinema from director bong joon—ho. isn't it wrong to lie? it's a good lie. most families in china would choose not to tell her. in third place, the farewell, the moving story of how a family creates a gathering for a grandmother who does not know she has only a short time to live. a strong performance from awkwafina. i thought we should talk. 0k. i don't know how to start. at number two, director noah baumbach's marriage story, a very well observed portrait of a marriage falling apart with excellent performances from adam driver and scarlett johansson. back then, there was nobody in this country who didn't know who jimmy hoffa was. and the talking movies number one film of 2019 is the irishman.

director martin scorsese is on familiar ground with this well executed mob epic which runs for almost three and a half hours. a new film classic with great work from robert de niro and al pacino. would you like to be a part of this history? yes, i would. please remember you can always reach us online at bbc.com/talkingmovies and you can find us on twitter and facebook, so, from me, tom brook and the rest of the talking movies production team, here in new york, it is goodbye as we leave you with likely oscar nominee renee zellweger singing over the rainbow from the film judy. # somewhere over the rainbow # skies are blue # and the dreams that you dare to dream

# really do come true.# it may have been pretty cloudy for most of us this weekend that the weather has been fairly quiet and innocuous and certainly quieter than it will be through the week ahead because we will see heavy rain and gales, particularly on tuesday. generally very mild. later in the week, it will turn drier, but through this evening and tonight, we continue to see a feeder club from the south—west, producing hill fog, mist and drizzle. it will turn windy across the western side of the uk as well but a mild night for most of us, just a little bit chilly, perhaps, where we hold onto some clear spells, but high pressure that has kept things largely settled for

a weekend retreats to continental europe during tomorrow, allowing this frontal system and from the west, bringing outbreaks of rain. head of the front, a cloudy start, murky in places with the odd spot of drizzle, then this rain splashes through. not reaching east anglia or the south—east until after it gets dark. further north and west, sunshine returns but with one or two showers and those temperatures 9-11d. showers and those temperatures 9—11d. some of that rain will reach the south—east corner as we go into the south—east corner as we go into the evening hours. it will be a slightly chilly night but as we go on into tuesday this area of low pressure starts to dominate the scene. a lot of white lines on the chart, isobar squashing together meaning it will be very windy, particularly in the northern areas, but with that windy and wet weather we but with that windy and wet weather we will have very mild air pumping up we will have very mild air pumping up from the south. tuesday the martyrs day of the week. the further south and east you are, decent amount of dry weather and sunshine.

further west, outbreaks of rain, very strong winds gusting to 70—75 mph across scotland but also gusty to the eastern side of the pennines, causing problems if you are travelling on a high sided vehicle. temperature —wise, 13—15d, that is extraordinary for this point in january. as we move into wednesday, this cold front moves southwards introducing colder air, particularly to the northern half of the country. further south, we hold onto something relatively mild. more wet and blustery weather on thursday. drier but chillier on friday.

this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 4: hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in iran to mourn the assassinated military leader general soleimani. president trump warns that the us has a list of 52 targets that will be hit "very hard" if iran decides to retaliate. iraqi mps pass a resolution calling for foreign troops to leave the country. royal navy warships are ordered to escort british—flagged vessels in the persian gulf as the prime minister returns to the uk from his caribbean holiday. the australian prime minister warns that the bushfire emergency could last for months and announces the creation of a recovery agency to help those who've lost homes. i didn't see any flame.