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the house itself is kind of almost blood red. while she's there, she encounters a series of men. all of them are a bit creepy and all of them are played by rory kinnear. here's a clip. what is it? what's happened? what are you doing here? has it come back? why aren't you replying? she gasps.
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see, i could see you flinching. yeah, i shivered in that little bit! but i think that's great because i think what that means is that the film is achieving that kind of fairy tale ambience. i mean, obviously, you know, apple trees, there's the spectre of the green man. there's all these male characters played by the same person, which tells us something which is either that she is seeing all men as the same person or that all men are basically the same, which is essentially, you know, the message at the centre of the movie. the reason i liked it is this — firstly, i like the idea about adult fairy tales. i mean, the best fairy tales are scary. they are creepy. you know, when we were kids, we read fairy tales because we liked that. this is an adult tale, but it is creepy. second thing is, jessie buckley is terrific. she always is. i've never seen a film in which she's bad. roy kinnear playing all the different men does manage to inject each one with a different ambience, but you get the idea that they are
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generically the same person. and then, in the third act, it goes completely insane. and as somebody who really likes — if i use the phrase cronenbergian body horror, does that make you want to see it or does that make you want to go and see something else? it makes me very much want to run in the other direction. 0k. well, if one is a fan of cronenberg body horror, and i understand that i'm not selling this to you very well, the last act is really fun because it's twisted and strange and, you know, kind of company of wolves and altered states and all that sort of stuff. and i really enjoyed just how far out there it's willing to be. i mean, it's not a film that's hedging its bets. it's kind of ok, if you've come this far, let's just go the whole hog. and i enjoyed that very much. i also liked the sound. i think one of the reasons you're creeped out by that clip that we watched is the sound. i mean, the soundtrack is very, very eerie. and the colour and the lighting. yes. and the league of gentlemen—type of... yes. and funnily enough, i read one
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reviewer who said it's like the league of gentlemen, if it wasn't a comedy. although there is some sense, i mean, there is humour in there. i mean, it's very kind of wry and satirical. and the last movement, i suspect that you are not going to go and see men, but if anyone does, i do think that many people will, that last thought of it as a dyed in the wool horror fan, ijust thought, good, good, good to see somebody actually going for it and not going, "let's make this acceptable to the mainstream." let's just follow this story where it's going. maybe i would say this if i could guaranteed that it's still light when i came out of the cinema, which at the moment is easy to do, isn't it? it's not it's not terrifying. it's not terrifying. it's just unsettling. it plays on my mind. next film, major. now, this is in the indian language of telugu. yeah. in fact, they've made it in more than one version for the maximum availability. biographical drama inspired by the real life story of sandeep unnikrishnan,
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who was awarded india's highest peacetime gallantry award following his actions during the november 2008 mumbai attacks in which he rescued 14 hostages. it's a true story, although i have to say that watching the film, you think this is very definitely a movie version of a true story. essentially, major sandeep is played as a cross betweenjames bond and bruce willis in die hard. now, the strange thing about that is because the movie is, particularly in its final act, is very much an over cranked action movie and it's completely sort of unashamed of that's what it is. everything is done in very broad strokes. there is very little subtlety. when the music starts, you know, starts really kicking in when everything's really sort of taking off, there is not an understated moment in it. that said, it's well done, it's efficient, it's very, very emotionally manipulative, and it is a film that is designed to stir the audience. but it is very, very...
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it's a movie as opposed to... i mean, there is a true story behind it. but this is the movie. yeah, of a national hero. bergman island. sweden. bergman island, only be one reference concept. so, bergman island is faroe. and this is made by mia hansen—love, tim roth and vicky krieps, who was so great in phantom thread play a film—making couple who go to stay on bergman island in which you're surrounded by the ghost of bergman. there's 35 millimetres screenings of his films. there's a bergman safari in which you can go to all the places that bergman worked, and they've gone there for inspiration. but they have a relationship which appears to be showing bergman—esque cracks. here's a clip. how was it? it was pretty good, actually. yeah. but i've been feeling a bit yuck since i got back. - why? what happened ? it must be a burger. so, where were you? driving around.
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oh, yeah, driving around? i met a guy. oh, you met a guy? student. film student from stockholm. was he handsome, sexy? was he was brilliant _ when he talked about bergman? not like you. but his clumsiness has his charm. thanks. shut up. i think that's really cute anyway. i think that's really cute. anyway, so there is sort of things about their relationship which don't quite gel. and then she starts saying to him, "look, i've got a script. "i can't find an ending to it. "can i ask you for your advice?" he says, "well, i'm sure i can't help, but go ahead." and she starts telling him the script for her movie about a doomed relationship. and then the film shifts into that movie, which stars mia wasikowska. and what you get is these two stories inter—playing and a lot of discussion about whether or not
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you can separate bergman's personal life from his art and whether art can be separated from reality. the answer seems to be, no, it can't, all these things but it features things like... it's got the most brilliant use of tina charles's i love to love of any film i've ever seen. it also features a brilliant sequence to abba's the winner takes it all. so, it's a lot more charming than you would expect. and i think partly that's because vicki krieps does such a greatjob of bringing the audience in. partly, it's because the scenery is really fantastic. i mean, that's not the garden with the apple tree in the middle of the night, you know, this is beautiful to look at. but it's a film which is kind of multilayered and there's a lot going on, but it doesn't feel portentous and pretentious. and there's one lovely moment in which they're having a conversation about bergman, everyone talking about bergman. and then somebody says, "yeah, we met bergman, he was horrible," which ijust thought was quite nice to see it. being able to sort of laugh at itself in that way. it does look very pretty. yes. and won't do the tourist board any harm in sweden. ijust the idea of a bergman safari...
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i just... the idea of a bergman safari... you would go on it! no, i wouldn't. no, iwouldn�*t. how no, i wouldn't. how dare you! top gun: maverick. so much discussion this week from people who saw the first one, should you see this as a sequel after so long? there was so much... no, says the people in the gallery. there was so much swagger. i mean, i was 17 and i thought, "what?" well, i wasn't a big fan of the first one because the first one felt very much like the kind of, "oh, yeah, here we go." you know, it's alljingoistic, flag waving and jets and all that sort of stuff. this i went into thinking, "oh, you know, the sequel to the film i didn't really want." it's fantastic. and i went in thinking, 0k, at the very best it will be ok. it's really, really exciting. and one of the things i loved about it was the flying sequences, which many of which are done
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for real, you know, with cameras on the planes actually flying around. if you see this on a massive screen with a massive sound system, you feel like you are being thrown around at mach io. tom cruise appears not to have aged one day since the original film. i mean, some people have said, oh, it's interesting because it's a film about ageing. no, it isn't. it's a film about not ageing. it's a film about apparently sleeping in a fridge because he looks exactly the same. but i thought it was really well done. and even if it sounds to me like you weren't wowed by the first one. no, i'll give this a whirl. you'll really enjoy it. you will really, really enjoy it. it's terrific fun. 0k. dvd or reissue, pickpocket. theatrical reissue, just very briefly, the bfi are doing a bresson season which is called of sin and salvation the cinema of robert russell and the reissuing pickpocket from 1959, which is inspired by dostoevsky�*s crime and punishment. many people have seen it already. it's good to see it up on a big screen. werner herzog called it intense and beautiful, although being werner he would have
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said it was intense and beautiful! but also actually went french. but also actually went french. there was my french werner herzog impression. paul schrader said it was as close to perfect as there can be. but lovely to see a film like this being reissued. select cinemas. you have to seek it out, but it's worth doing. mark, thank you very much. that's it for this week, thanks for watching. see you next time, goodbye. hello there. scotland and northern ireland saw the lion's share of the sunshine and the warmth today. further south — although, northwest england didn't fare too badly — it was cloudier and breezier with some showers. tonight, the weather really gets going, start to see a rush of showers and thunderstorms moving up from the near continent, initially into southern counties of england and then spreading
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northwards into parts of wales, the midlands, east anglia. this line of showers and thunderstorms merge together to produce an area of more thundery rain as it pushes into the midlands. to the north of here, largely dry, clear skies, one or two chilly spots, a little bit of mist and fog, cooler along the north sea coasts, but further south, it will be quite muggy and mild. so, we start our sunday morning off on a really wet note across the midlands, northern england, parts of wales. some of the rain may continue to be thundery for a while, then it will start to ease down. scotland and northern ireland, again, another glorious day, plenty of sunshine, feeling warmest in northern scotland, 21 celsius. the sunshine comes out across southern england into the afternoon. that could spark off a shower or thunderstorms too. top temperatures here around 19 celsisus, but disappointingly cool under that cloud through central areas, 12—14 celsius. now, as we head through sunday night, it stays rather cloudy, outbreaks of rain across the midlands, northern and eastern england, much of scotland and southern parts of england, south wales could see clearer skies. but it will be another mild one in the south versus single digits in the north. now, that area of low
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pressure will start to pull away from the east coast into the north sea as we head through monday. and then we'e in between weather systems for monday afternoon. so, it should be a quieter day generally. but we will start off with that area of cloud through many central, northern and eastern areas. the rain eventually pulling away from the east coast along with a strong breeze. then the winds will be lighter into the afternoon. we should see more sunshine across parts of wales, southern england, and again, some good spells of sunshine in scotland, where we could make 21 celsius, but we could even see 20 celsius in the warmest spots in the south. again, into tuesday, we are in between weather systems, so it's another quiet day, we think, before it starts to turn more unsettled from wednesday onwards, as atlantic low—pressure systems start to move in across the country. that will bring outbreaks of rain followed by sunshine and showers. so, it's a quieter start to the new week. wednesday, one area of low pressure will move through, followed by another one by the end of the week, which will bring some windy weather and sunshine and showers.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm lukwesa burak. the crowds have arrived at buckingham palace as the concert to celebrate the queen's platinum jubilee kicks off. 22,000 people are in the audience, including more than 30 members of the royal family. cheering excited ticket—holders lined up earlier to see a series of stars performing tonight. well, apart from the royals, i'm most excited to see diana ross. i want to see diana ross, andrew bocelli, queen, them all. amazing! there are concerts and then there
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are concerts. all of the

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