if we could, touch on the ft story, if we could, please, and it is this plan to cut graduate salary thresholds for paying back loans, because this is going to have a knock on effect to. yeah. this is very significant. this is about_ yeah. this is very significant. this is about the — yeah. this is very significant. this is about the treasury money and the policies _ is about the treasury money and the policies towards tuition fees and young _ policies towards tuition fees and young people being really turn towards — young people being really turn towards cheaper vocational education. currently, graduates start— education. currently, graduates start to — education. currently, graduates start to pay back their student loans— start to pay back their student loans when their salary hits just over_ loans when their salary hits just over £27,000. but ministers are really— over £27,000. but ministers are really seriously looking at reducing that figure, which would then save the treasuryjust under the treasury just under £2,000,000,000 the treasuryjust under £2,000,000,000 per year. this the treasuryjust under £2,000,000,000 peryear. this is the treasuryjust under £2,000,000,000 per year. this is a report— £2,000,000,000 per year. this is a report called — £2,000,000,000 per year. this is a report called the... it is recommending cutting the cap on annual_ recommending cutting the cap on annual tuition fees. will that be

realty— annual tuition fees. will that be realty a — annual tuition fees. will that be really a source of inspiration for the government? that would be welcomed i am sure by students. but this is— welcomed i am sure by students. but this is all_ welcomed i am sure by students. but this is all part of saving money and also this— this is all part of saving money and also this levelling up agenda of the government, this revolution... thank ou, government, this revolution... thank you. benedicte- _ government, this revolution. .. thank you, benedicte. thank— government, this revolution... thank you, benedicte. thank you _ government, this revolution... thank you, benedicte. thank you for - you, benedicte. thank you for summing that up. thank you and goodnight from all of us. hello, and a warm welcome

to the film review here on bbc news. and taking us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, it's mark kermode. and all of human life is here! very interesting week. we have the many saints of newark, which is a big—screen prequel to the sopranos. we have the green knight, in which dev patel plays gawain. and gagarine, in which a young man struggles to save the home he lives in from demolition. so, many saints of newark. the small screen goes to the big screen in a sense. it is the prequel to the sopranos. exactly that. so, michael gandolfini, son ofjames, plays the young tony soprano. the setting is the �*60s, with the newark riots of �*67 being a big part of the plot. and the story essentially finds tony falling under the influence of dickie moltisanti, the surname which means "m any saints" here's a clip. johnny, this is our christopher.

laughter hello, christopher moltisanti! it's your uncle johnny! i'm back from england! come here. finally, huh? got myself a son. i hear he's slow with the talking. hi, christopher, hello! 0h, what's the matter? don't cry, it's only me, your uncle tony. 0k, all right, all right. you know, every time you're here, he cries like this. i didn't do anything! look at that! i don't know what it is. it's like i scare him or something. some babies, when they come into the world, know all kindsl of things from the other side.

so, you have to ask yourself two questions. firstly, does it work for the fans? secondly, does it work as a stand—alone movie? now, were you a big sopranos fan? never seen it, i'm afraid! i should have done, people say it is the greatest tv show ever made. the greatest tv show ever made is the wire. or the film review on the bbc news channel! not an aficiando, so i have to say, as a stand—alone movie, it feels like it is spending a lot of time getting a lot of pieces in place for stuff which is going to happen later on. it feels very much like an origins film in which, weirdly enough, the origin is actually to the side of what you expect it to be. and also it feels weirdly like an appendage to the scorsese cinematic universe. it kind of feels like a weird appendage to martin scorsese's films. this is what happens when you take something and put in cinema, does it stand up on its own? i would say, for example, fire walk with me, the twin peaks prequel,

it is a brilliant horror movie... even if you've never seen twin peaks. el camino, the breaking bad sequel, it made sense as an appendage. this has to battle to find itself in the cinema. its primary audience will be the people who love the series, and i'm sure people who know and love the series will get much more out of it than i did, but ijust wonder why it's in the cinema, because i suspect its primary audience actually will be an at—home audience. it's fine, it's perfectly well made, it has nice performances, but it does feel a little bit scorsese—light. i think it needs to be more cinematic, and again, i would say fire walk with me is a near perfect movie even if you've not seen twin peaks. it's fine — they are not going to put it on the billboard, i don't think! the green knight, this is based on the i think iath—century

poem, though i think you will dispute this. i want to be clear, i'm not disputing this! i got in touch with the poet laureate, and he said 14th, maybe early 15th... such a name—dropper! yeah, my old friend simon. this is a retelling of sir gawain and the green knight, gawain, not sir, early on tops off the head of the green knight. a year later, he must make a pilgrimage to the green knight's chapel to face a similar blow in return. this is directed by david lowery. you can see it streaming and you can in cinemas, and let me make a suggestion — go and see it in cinemas. it looks fantastic. it has a real earthy feel to it, but it's also strange and spiritual and dreamy and sensuous. it's got a fantastic score. dev patel is the best he's ever been. i think dev patel can do everything.

he was so great in personal history of david copperfield. i think this really marks him as on the finest actors of his generation. and this is faithful to the text, but it also takes many adventurous leaps, and it looks like something that was made with love in its heart, looks like something made by somebody who really did this as a passion project. and i have seen it a couple of times now, and i want to go straight back and watch it again. there was so much in it that is strange and adventurous and weird and really rather wonderful. one of my favourite films of the year. see it in the cinema, see it on the big screen. high praise. gagarine. .. now, this was shot on a housing project in parisjust before it was demolished. cite gagarine just outside of paris. based around, youri named after yuri gagarin... for those who don't know, the famous russian cosmonaut... of whom we see footage at the beginning. the estate is going to be demolished, but youri wants to fix

it in spite of its many problems. here's a clip. here's what's great about this. it has its feet on the ground and its head in the stars. he retreats into the estate as it's

clearly going to be demolished, and he starts to turn his apartment into a kind of recreation of the space capsule. and it then enters these flights of fancy. he is inside a building, but he is imagining he is in a spaceship, and the music again is very big. it goes to the stars. they have music by the streets. they have this really amazing ethereal space music, and it sounds like it shouldn't work at all, it sounds like it shouldn't work, but i loved it. the use of locations, i think it was really good. great performances, and the fact that it is shot in the authentic location, the use of locations on it is really good, and it is about his interiorjourney and about him imagining this world that he wants to be part of, this out—of—this—world world he wants to be part of. it is a good example of a film that, "there's no way that should work," and then you watch it and it does. it's so well done. it's like poetry or a piece of music. this is done in a similar vein as the green knight, very,

very different films, but both imaginative, and they're not afraid to tell a slightly different story. piece of poetry, but not iath—century poetry. or isth—century! best out is rose plastulie, which we talked about last week? ijust want people to go and see it. you've seen it three times? i have, and i still don't think i have got all the nuances of it. a young woman adopts another identity to track down her birth parents. it's a mystery and a psychodrama. the film—makers made a film called helen. they are great film—makers. again, deserves to be seen on the big screen. and reissue? denis villeneuve's dune is coming up. the adaptation of the unfilmable novel. this is the david lynch 1984 dune. this was a turkey, a commercial turkey. it was a bomb.

it is an unfilmable novel. it makes no sense whatsoever, it really doesn't, but there are things in it that are so david lynch—y and so strange... sting coming out of the showers wearing this pair of wings underpants — just, i wonder whether the denis villeneuve version will have anything to match it. it is all over the place. if you've read the book, it's annoying because it's not the book, and if you have not read the book, it doesn't make sense. one of these film, its so bad is it so good? it's one of those films that is so misguided, it's kind of fascinating. lynch didn't have final cut, but originallyjodorowsky was going to do it ia hours long with salvador dali with in one of the lead roles, but dali wanted $100,000 an hour. blue velvet, he did, but that was an absolute classic. dune was the counterpoint

to blue velvet. that is the... when i first saw blue velvet, i walked out, because i couldn't bear being in the screening room with it. i think it's an absolute masterpiece. when i saw dune, part of me thought, "is this going to start making any sense?" and i watched it again just recently — no, not at all! no sense at all! sometimes it doesn't matter. you always make perfect sense. mark, thank you very much indeed. that's it for this week's film releases. thank you so much for watching.

it was rather gloomy for many of us today, tomorrow we should see a better chance of sunshine as the winds get stronger, breaking up the cloud, but rain will be arriving out west thanks to this cold front. tonight will be mainly dry and buggy. tonight will be mainly dry and buggy, variable cloud, a bit of mist and merck, i— buggy, variable cloud, a bit of mist and merck, 1— two showers. 13— 15 c across the board, tomorrow starts off warm, mainly dry, we should see more sunshine around is the winds will be strongerfrom more sunshine around is the winds will be stronger from the south breaking up our cloud. meanwhile this cold front will arrive across northern ireland in western scotland, bringing stronger winds and heavy rain at times. very warm for late september, 22— 23 c. that cold front continues to journey its way eastward through sunday night, it doesn't reach the eastern side of the country before we get to monday morning, so another dry, warm, muggy night, but behind that rain band for the west, it will be turning cooler.

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