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at this stage of proceedings. it looks great but all the infrastructure around it doesn't quite work. and it is important, you know, i am really pleased that the mayor of liverpool has spoken out and demanded answers and asked for the british government's help on this. we have got to understand why it is. we're customers, you know, they want to treat us like customers, they want to charge us a fortune for the tickets, so treat us like customers, then. we are all paying good money to go to these matches, good money to spend time in paris, therefore treat us like customers. the idea that you would go to a play and even be expected to be there two hours before, which most liverpool supporters were, i hasten to add, but the idea you go to the theatre and say, "you have got to get there two hours before, "but by the way, if we still can't get you in, that's your fault." that is absolutely ridiculous. we wouldn't stand for it anywhere else. it is time we stopped standing for it in football as well. if an investigation does rule and comes out with clear transparent findings and supports lots of the points that you have brought up there, do you expect anything to change? ultimately, no, because this
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is a pan—european problem. i, for instance, do not at all like going to games on the iberian peninsula with the way in which they are policed as well. you are dealing with a number of different police cultures. i mean, ours isn't fantastic at times but, you know, i feel safer going to turf moor then back to the stade de france. let me make that crystal clear. so, you know, i think that is a complex question and it will take some solving at this stage in proceedings. but first and foremost, i think there has got to be big questions into uefa's practices. uefa are the pan—european body, and then within there, they are the ones who organised this event. they have put an event on an they have done it in on and they have done it in such a way that football supporters were left to feel unsafe en masse. this is not one or two instances, this is a huge number of liverpool supporters, whether they were caught up beforehand or after, almost everybody was caught up in one aspect of it, and it is simply not good enough, not in the year 2022, but it is never good enough. now on bbc news,
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it's the film review. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. i'mjane hill, and taking us through this week's releases as ever is mark kermode. hi, mark. hello. we have quite the week. we have top gun: maverick. i know that you've recently rewatched the original top gun. this is the sequel. we have the bobs burgers movie, and i confess, i had never heard of bob's burgers before the movie. and we have between two worlds, a drama starring juliette binoche. top gun. we've already booked our tickets, you see. so, there's a lot riding on the next few minutes. ok, so, long—awaited sequel to the �*80s hit directed by tony scott, the original. the sequel is byjoseph kosinski. tom cruise, who appears to have been sleeping in a fridge because he hasn't changed
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at all since his original incarnation, maverick, still has that rebellious streak. he's out in the mojave desert testing jets. at the very beginning, we see him doing mach ten against the advice of everybody else. he gets called back to the top gun academy in order to teach a bunch of freshfaced new recruits how to fly, to do a very, very dangerous mission which will be arrayed on a uranium enrichment plant, and only tom can teach them how. here's a clip. good morning, aviators. this is your captain speaking. welcome to basic fighting manoeuvres. as briefed, today's exercise is dog fighting, guns only, no missiles. we do not go below the hard deck of 5,000 feet. working as a team, you have to shoot me down, or else. or else what, sir? or else i shoot back. if i shoot either one of you down, you both lose. this guy needs an ego check. we'll see to that. so, let's say we put - some skin in the game. what do you have in mind?
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whoever gets shot down first has to do 200 push—ups. - guys, that's a lot of push—ups. they don't call it an exercise for nothing, sir. you've got yourself a deal, gentlemen. flight's on. let's turn and burn! fanboy, you see him? nothing on the radar up ahead. he must be somewhere behind us. well, we're both chuckling. yeah. so, here's the thing. so, miles teller is rooster, who is the son of goose, about whose death, you know, maverick still feels responsible. so, there's a kind of personal thing going on there. but the thing that makes this work is, as you just saw in that clip, the flying sequences are just spectacular. i mean, they are really, really spectacular. i saw this in imax, and i have no great love of the first top gun. i think if you see it again now, you go, really not quite as good as everyone remembers it being. it was quite thin when we rewatched it! very, very, very creaky.
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this absolutely delivers what you want from a popcorn blockbuster. the flying sequences are astonishing. also, the emotional beats of it — they're manipulative as anything, but they work, and i was sitting in the cinema, against all my betterjudgement — serious film critic — and going, "yes! "i'm going to punch the air!" i started crying at one point when there was this kind of emotional standoff between these two male characters who had an awful lot of stuff going on that they had to deal with, and even the sound of some of the tunes, a great use of won't get fooled again there. itjust works, and no matter how much you try to resist it, itjust works and overwhelms you. the thing i really liked about it was cinemas have had a bad time the last few years. this is the kind of movie that reminds people why they get off the couch, why they go to the cinema, why they sit there, friday night, bring it on. it's really well done, and no matter how much i tried not to be taken in by it,
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not to go, "yeah, it'sjust manipulative stuff," yeah, but it's really well done manipulative stuff and it's really enjoyable. see it on a big screen. 0h, you've made me very happy! we're seeing it on a big screen. are we meant to reference the fact that tom cruise is allowed to do this at the age of nearly 60, but the women are not that old? i mean, there's a few problems around that, but... the one thing i would say is tom cruise does not look like any other person of his age i have ever seen. i mean, it's...he literally looks the same, and when they do the thing with topless beach sports and you go, how... "how is that possible for you to look like that?" i have no idea! whatever age he actually is, in this film, he's 28. well, it's going to be a fun weekend and that's what we all need. we all need some of that. moving onto bob's burgers! so, this is a big—screen spin off of an animated tv sitcom that i hadn't seen. a family running the bobs burgers bar.
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the bank threatens foreclosure. there's a huge sinkhole that opens up in the front of the burger bar, so nobody can get into it. also, there's a murder mystery. now, i knew nothing going in. i actually thought, "oh, this will be a kids' cartoon thing" — you know, bob's burgers. it's not. it's much more in the mould of something like the simpsons. and it's really funny. there are great gags, there are great comedy songs. the burger bar is right next door to a funeral home called it's your funeral, which tickled me enormously. it's a long gag about this carnival—esque wharf, the slogan of which is "80 years of cheap thrills and almost no decapitations." and underneath all the silliness, there's this rather sweet story about overcoming your fears and families bonding and families sticking together, but it's like a gag a minute. there's a fonziejoke in it i don't think anybody under the age of 50 will get. but i went in knowing nothing about it, i came out... there's been loads and loads of series. i am going to track it down on television, because i really enjoyed the film and i knew nothing. oh, but that's fun, that's a good recommendation.
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and a french film, i think, for number three? between two worlds. this is in cinemas and on curzon home cinema. this is based on a nonfiction book, a writer who went undercover in the cleaning industry to find out what things were like at the harsh end of the economic spectrum. the book, over here, was published as the night cleaner. juliette binoche is marianne, turns his back on her life in paris, goes off to a new town where nobody knows her, goes for a job as a cleaner says, "i'll take it." and they go, "well, it's not just that you take it, "we have to want you to take it." and she discovers that even for a job that lowly, you really have to sell yourself. here's a clip.
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so, firstly, what she learns is that she's been really snobby about working in the cleaning industry. she's been looking down at it. she realises it's very hard to get the job. secondly, she discovers just how hard thejob is, and particularly when she starts working on the ferries, which are really... they are described as like a commando operation. the stamina involved is extraordinary. so, part of it is a ken loach film aboutjust how tough life is at the bottom of the economic spectrum in this particular circumstance. the other thing that's going on is she's lying to everybody. she's actually middle class. and she's gone into this to find out, to make visible the invisible,
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but she's lying to them about who she is. so there are two separate layers of the drama going on, and actually, i thought that worked really well because, on the one hand, you're seeing life, you're seeing just how tough it is, particularly on the ferries. the timescales involved, the amount of work that has to be done — backbreaking work for minimum wage. but this whole other layer, the fact that she's being deceitful, that she is somehow almost spying on them and drawing them into her friendship circle and pretending that she's understanding what's going on, but she has a whole other life that she's going to go back to, she's going to write a book. so i thought it was kind of really fascinating, a bit ken loach in what it shows you about the world, but also a dramatic story about someone being deceptive about who they are. yes, the theme and the tone very much puts you in the mind of loach�*s work. and i think some of the performers in this — not actors — are... they're nonperformers. the whole thing has the smack
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of authenticity, and that's why i said there is definitely a loach element to this, and it is eye—opening and heartbreaking at times. but the thing that i think gives it a mainstream edge is that there is also this slightly melodramatic contrivance of the story about her own deception. and obviously i love juliette binoche anyway, i think she's great in everything, but she plays this really well. and it's interesting. so, she is playing a character that's playing a character, so it's like a dual layer to the performance anyway. really interesting, really interesting. and best out this week? you've seen the quiet girl. i loved it, i loved it. it's beautiful, simple, gentle. not simplistic, but gorgeous storytelling. again — how often do i find myself saying this? another remarkable performance by a very, very young... i know. i don't know how young the actress is, but she's very young. astonishing. it's a directorial debut, and it's so sure—footed. and the comparison i made
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was celine sciamma — whose films i love, as you know — capturing of childhood at that point, the cusp of childhood and adulthood. and you keep thinking that the film is going to take a turn for the terrible. but it... yes, you do! i had a knot in my stomach for some of it. it's set in a rural ireland in the early �*80s. but very...so gently moving. i would say gently moving. i was overwhelmed by it. and the other thing i found about it is the more you think about it, the more powerful it becomes. it's kind of deceptively low—key when you watch it. but then it really, really sticks with you. i think it's wonderful, i think it's absolutely wonderful. it's one of the films of the year. and i couldn't believe it was a debut. that's what i mean by "completely assured". absolutely assured. you feel like you're in the hands of someone who understands cinema, understands storytelling, understands just how much information to give you. and so much is said without words, it's wonderful. and a brilliant score as well. that's it. dvd? well, actually, heatrical
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reissue before the dvd. back in cinemas and a change of pace — get carter is back in cinemas. now, the thing with get carter is... it's a 4k restoration. they've done it from the original 35mm camera negatives, so it looks brilliant. get carter, probably, a lot of people have seen on television. it's one of michael caine�*s defining roles, it's brilliantly directed by mike hodges. it is tough, it is uncompromising. it was made in 1971, and even to this day, it's got that gritty, cutting edge to it that... everything about it pops, and you forget sometimes just what an incredible screen presence michael caine is. the camera loves him, but he's got that thing. he's empathetic but dangerous at the same time, and this is a story about somebody in a world in which there is very little empathy. and it's really, really worth seeing. see it on a big screen. 4k restoration of get carter. and then it'll be on disk in a month or so. 0k. really interesting week.
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good mixture. i'm so glad you love quiet girl. oh, it's beautiful! because otherwise you would have had to stop doing this! it's beautiful, but there's lots to choose from this week, so have a great week whatever you decide to go and see. see you next time. bye— bye.
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this is bbc news. the headlines at 6pm... culture secretary nadine dorries has urged uefa to launch a formal investigation — after liverpool fans were tear—gassed at the champions league final. president biden is in texas to meet the families of some of the 19 children and two teachers shot dead by a teenage gunman. president zelensky visits his troops on the front—line in eastern ukraine, for the first time since the war started. another day of travel disruption — waits of six hours reported for ferries at dover, and hundreds of flighs cancelled at some uk airports. leicester has it in the bag! and one of the greatest jockeys of all time,
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leicester piggott, has died at 87.

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