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i'm jane hill. and taking us through this week's cinema releases is jason solomons. good to see you, jason. what have you been watching? well, this week we've got everything — elvis, we've got beckett, we've got wham! talk about absurd. we'll start with baz luhrmann's long awaited biopic of the king elvis and the man who discovered him, colonel tom parker, played by tom hanks. and then we go to france for, literally, a prison drama — a drama being made in a prison where inmates put on samuel beckett's waiting for godot. they do have time on their hands, after all. and then i will not let you down — it's george michael freedom uncut. will it be any good? you've got to have faith, jane. excellent. plenty more puns where they came from. let's start with elvis. i mean, i love a lot of baz luhrmann's work. so tell me, what's it like? yeah, this is the man who made strictly ballroom, moulin rouge, the great gatsby. he's got this typically frenetic style, and here

he is taking on the myth, the legend, the king of rock and roll, elvis, and the man who discovered him played by tom hanks, colonel tom parker. let's have a look as we go back right to the beginning of the story where elvis was a country boy around country fairs with gospel and country at his heart. and then colonel parker discovers him at the fairground and realises he might have a hit act on his hands. what are you thinking, jimmy? i don't know what i'm thinking. please lord, don't let him hurt my baby. hurt him? looks like they wanna... now, i don't know nothing - about music, but i could see in that girl's eyes he was a taste of forbidden fruit. - she could have eaten him alive. he was my destiny.

it already looks very glitzy. it's a long film. is it like that all the way through? it is kind of like that all the way through. it doesn't let up. the lizardly gaze of tom hanks looking at his prey, there, almost, elvis played by newcomer, relative newcomer austin butler, who's got a difficultjob on his hand, given that everyone�*s impersonated elvis over the days. can he do more than an elvis impersonation? and not really. sure. not really. he doesn't really build this character. i didn't really understand what it was i was supposed to be watching. the film goes on and on to the purchase of graceland, having number—one hit singles and becoming the biggest star in the world and then going to germany and meeting priscilla and then having this glitzy las vegas residency and the movie is in hollywood. all puppeteered by colonel tom parker, played by tom hanks. the film never stops for breath, as you would expect from baz luhrmann. that's what we like about

his signature style. this is the can, can, can frenetic atmosphere. but here it needs a bit of drama. it needs to work out why elvis is caught up in this act, caught in the trap, as it continually says, from suspicious minds. why is he in this trap? why can't he get out? what's his problem ? what's he thinking? and i don't think i ever really got to know. huh. beautiful as it was, itjust is a series of people going, "oh, oh," reaction shots about, "0h, we're about to hear a hit number. 0h, isn't he six?" and, "his hips are about to shake. isn't he naughty?" because there's an interesting tale about the tom hanks character. by all accounts, not a nice character and took a huge percentage of all elvis's earnings. 50%. and i mean, you could get a lot of drama out of that, a lot of real tension out of that fact. yeah, elvis seems to be quite happy with the relationship. he seems to sort of say, "well, i owe him everything, i wouldn't be where i am without colonel tom parker." it's the hangers—on that sort of say, "well, hold on, you're getting swindled here." and yes, it could be a film

about greed and fame and how that bloats you and how that is dangerous. and it's sort of all there. ijust thought it needed to have a little break at some point and make us think and sort of put ourselves in this. and if you're from the generation who don't know elvis, and i'm presuming that quite a lot of people don't know him any more, you want to find out. there are some brilliant reconstructions, as you can see there, of the tv special and the vegas special, but those are actually available to view on dvd, so you might almost be better off watching those bits, brilliantly restaged as they are. it reminded me a little bit of the end of bohemian rhapsody when freddie mercury does the live aid, it's brilliantly staged and it is here, but what does it mean is what i couldn't find out. 0k. 0h, interesting. it's going to look lovely. but, yeah, there's clearly some question marks. a lot of music. a lot of talking and some silences in your second choice. yeah. we'll go to france for the big hit, un triomphe, as it is in the french version. it won best european comedy at the european film awards this year, and it's about a man,

an out—of—work actor who gets to put on a workshop with some inmates in a prison. and he realises that because they just wait and wait and wait, that the most absurd and relevant piece that they could put on is waiting for godot. so they put waiting for godot on, much to the sort of upset of the local magistrate and the head of the prison, and it becomes a triumph, a big hit, taking these these sort of ne'er—do—wells, the criminals and putting them all together and finding meaning in in the stage and in the absurdity of beckett's play. and how he gets five or six prisoners and he deliberately doesn't want to know what crimes they've committed, and he has several hours a week with them doing rehearsals. i was struck that you said it got some comedy awards because for me it's more of a drama. i enjoyed it. it was quite slow but i enjoyed it. but i wouldn't have it down as a comedy, if i'm honest. no, i was slightly surprised. i mean, there are moments of comedy in it when they sort of clown around and play around and i suppose waiting for godot sometimes is classed as a comedy in an absurd way. so i suppose it's

that kind of comedy. i thought that it was very well done and very well performed. yes, very well acted. and all the time you're thinking, you know, it's going to be like the porridge movie where they, you know, under the cover of a football match, they're going to escape from prison. so are they going to do that? is that what they want? are these career criminals or can they be changed by their new life on the stage? yes. watch and find out on that one. i won't spoil it. george michael is the third choice this week. yeah, from beckett. and beckett didn't know absurd! he didn't know he'd be talked about in the next breath as george michael. new documentary called freedom uncut. or at least i thought it was a new documentary. it's actually been on channel 4 in a version before shortly after george died. now, we all remember where we were when george died because it was christmas day 2016. i took it very hard, jane. he was a hero of mine. i saw wham! in their very first concert with the shuttlecocks down the shorts. i saw them at wembley. i saw the final, which is in this film. i saw george in concert, he was a real hero to me.

i had the shorts, the t—shirt, the fila tracksuits. i've been to ibiza in that pool! wearing them now, are you? exactly. "i can suntan." and i really wanted to find out through this documentary what's so special about george and why people love him. let's look at one of his great albums, listen without prejudice, and that brilliant video for freedom, directed by david fincher. freedom is kind of like this funk—groove masterpiece thatjust comes in at, like, track two. you're striving to make something every time you go in the studio half as good as a record like that. it's the mona lisa. if you're going to say _ to your record company, "look, i'm not going to be in this video," i'd say that's a fairly good - consolation prize, really. five absolutely gorgeous j supermodels that people still want to look at today. it changed the whole face

of how videos were done. the video said everything. it was genius and it was a revolutionary thing. george had raised the bar to a whole new level. - i mean, what's not to love about that bit? i mean, i love george michael's music, too, but is this strictly for the die—hard fans? it's, weirdly, directed by george michael. and so it's him getting some of his famous mates, james corden and mark ronson and eltonjohn, to say how brilliant he is, which he is, the hits... theyjust keep on coming. and i was tapping my feet. i think they're really funny. ricky gervais is very funny. liam gallagher is, unusually, very funny in it. but if you're making a documentary about a pop star, one who's deceased and leaves a great legacy of work on sexuality and aids behind, you need to anchor him in the time and work out what's iconic about him and why he's still important. so none of that's in there? it is a bit. it's really shallow. it grazes that truth about why he's so good and why his music is so still so appealing and his image is so appealing. right. and i wanted a bit more from this

to work out why i love george michael so much. i needed them to tell me. 0k. ah, interesting. all right. best out this week, then? yeah. why not go to the cinema? i know it's nice weather, but emma thompson is tremendous in good luck to you, leo grande directed by sophie hyde, written by the comedian katie brand. it's a two—hander about a 60—year—old woman waiting for a sex worker to come and give her her first, first—ever orgasm. can i say orgasm? i think ijust did. so that's what she's waiting for. it's very, very well done, beautifully acted. and i think she's up for a long haul of awards. i think it's one of her finest performances. and we're talking remains of the day we're talking the tall guy. she's tremendous in this. yes. 0h, interesting. sadly, the one i haven't been able to see yet. but... you'll love it. it's absolutely on my list. absolutely. and if you don't want to sit in a cinema in such beautiful weather, what else would you recommend for us? a reshoot in the cinema, and a 4k restoration and on video is...

ah, both. two birds in one. well, definitely two birds and one stone, because it's the wings of desire by wim wenders'1987 cult classic about two angels who want to fall... one angel who falls in love with a trapeze artist and wants to become human so he can make contact with him. it was remade as city of angels with nicolas cage and meg ryan. but this is the original and this is the best. ah! so you see with something like that, that is such a classic, what do you do? what is your choice? do you watch it at home or do you go and see that beautiful 4k restoration? if you can see it in the cinema, it'll look better than it probably ever looked before. i've seen it and it looks... the inky blacks of the photography are just magnificent and it's probably been a longtime since you've seen it. so i would go to the cinema to see that. but then i'm a film critic and a film producer, so that's what i do. no, no, ithink i'm with you on that. i'm with you on that. just one final quick final thought, if i can say it, about emma thompson, actually, because, of course, there's all this talk about this is a revolutionary film because it's about a... it depends on which review you read. but whether it's a 55—year—old woman or a 60—year—old woman, anyway,

employing the services of a young man in his 205. yeah. daryl mccormack. it kind of switches the pretty woman thing on its head a bit. am i wrong because haven't seen it? am i wrong to be slightly annoyed that we keep talking about her as a much older woman at the age of 55—60? it's not that old. no, it's not that old. no, it's definitely not old. i agree with you. it's definitely not old. it's a lot older than the kid that's coming to kind of be her sex worker, though, that's for sure. i think it's about... yeah, it is an ageist thing. and do we do we look at that age gap? i mean, recently we saw that the film with with the licorice pizza, which has an age gap in it with a younger boy and an older woman. yes. i think we're seeing that being flipped now. i think it's interesting and i think it's sort of about an older woman reclaiming her life after a failed marriage and getting her life back and wanting some agency. and that... and silly as it is, we don't see it enough on screen and emma thompson really rests that debate back. yes. well, you're spot on there. thank you very much, jason. good to see you. quite a mixed bag this week, but enjoy your cinema—going,

whatever you choose to go and see. we'll see you next time. thanks for being with us. bye— bye. hello. let's take a look at what's expected on monday, and not a particularly cold start for the morning commuters. temperatures around six or seven o'clock around 10—13 degrees. bright enough start in the far west and across eastern parts of england, but in between, through eastern wales, western parts of england, cloud, outbreaks of rain which will turn more showery as that works its way eastwards through the morning and into the afternoon. lots of sunshine developing across western areas later, a scattering of showers, particularly across scotland. but much more sunshine in western areas, and with lighter winds compared with sunday, should feel a touch warmer. a little bit cooler, though, compared with the weekend in the east where we still finished with a bit of cloud and one or two showers. end of the day, though, northern ireland more cloud, outbreaks of rain and strengthening winds start to push their way and that rain becomes more persistent through the night and spreads its way up to south west scotland, the isle of man as well and around the irish sea.

a chilly start to tuesday by comparison for eastern areas, but as we go through this week, the south and east of the country should stay largely dry with a few showers around, but always some rain at times to the north and the west. i'll see you soon.

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