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migrants attempted to reach the UK. Now it is a special edition of the

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Hello and welcome to Shetland and a Kermode. It is

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Hello and welcome to Shetland and a special edition of the programme at

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the film festival. We are at the harbour and the arts centre and Mark

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Kermode is here as always. We have Nicole Kidman and Colin

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Firth in the thriller Before I Go To Sleep we have the comedy sex tape,

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and we have the following up film to the documentary,.

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And we also have remarkable directors, including Joanna Hogg. We

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will be talking about the role of women in the industry and that is

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one of the themes that this year's festival.

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Yes, there is a four`year project about the role of women in the

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British film industry. They will also show that funds. Other guests

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included American Interior, and Brian Cox will be here tomorrow.

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Before I Go To Sleep. It is based on a famous novel.

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Nicole Kidman wakes up in the morning with a strange man who turns

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out to be Colin Firth, which is for her a total nightmare. It turns out

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that she cannot remember anything from one day to another following an

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accident that happened back in her 20s. Here is a clip.

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You had an accident. It was a bad accident, you had head injuries. You

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have problems remembering things. What things?

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Everything. You only store information for a day, when you wake

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up it is gone and you back to early 20s.

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OK? Trust me. I am scared. I know, it is all right. I love you.

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I love you. The book is traffic, but there are

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some critics who said it was forgettable? There are two problems.

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Cinema loves and easier. It is something which works

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cinematically. The problem is a lot of people will know the big twist in

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the novel. The interesting thing is it is essentially a flimsy story, a

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big shaggy dog story with a twist. It is made into something better by

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the performances. Nicole Kidman was so terrible in Grace of Monaco. That

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was terrible. In The Others she was very good at doing paranoid. Colin

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Firth does a good job. Mark Strong was good as they possibly sinister

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Doctor Nash. It is a good yarn well told. It is in the end rather

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flimsy. It does not have any great psychological depth but it is good.

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Now, Sex Tape you might think is a story now. It is a story where a

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couple decide to spice up their life by making a Sex Tape which they

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upload to the cloud. As a result of recent news stories, people have

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said, is it tasteless? It is not that, it is the question about is it

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funny? There is a joke about Breaking Bad which was so old hat

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that I found it funny! Let's move on to Dangerous Game. A

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lot of people particularly in Scotland are looking forward to that

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opening next weekend. It is directed by Anthony Baxter. He made a very

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good documentary about Donald Trump building a golf course in

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Aberdeenshire. This basically follows the story up a few years

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later. It goes back to looking at what happens around the golf course

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and expanding the story around the world. Here is a clip.

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It causes me a lot more work pushing my barrow...

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Give any person or situation where the water does not come out of a tap

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and their lives This was a huge cause celebre in

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Scotland because of Donald Trump, a symbol in some ways of international

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big business. And there were local people including that old lady who

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were being hard done by. The film used clips from Local Hero. He first

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saw Anthony Baxter's movie and he was really impressed. He said he

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could not have come up with a villain like Donald Trump. This film

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looks at places like Dubrovnik who are having golf courses built on

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world Heritage sites. The interesting thing is now Donald

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Trump has agreed to be interviewed by Anthony Baxter so we do get to

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hear him talking. The person who does not speak to him is Alex

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Salmond. There is an interesting and the current about who is really

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responsible. Is it the people who build the golf courses or the

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officials who allow them to be built will stop this is a very timely

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story. This has less of a precise focus than the original story did

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but it broadens it out and looks at the wider issues of people building

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on really endangered sites. And money being more important than the

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rights of people who live in those areas. Golf has a completely

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different resonance in Scotland because Scotland believes it in

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vented golf and it is a game that working`class people play. There is

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wonderful footage of people saying I played golf for my life for ?3

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around and comparing it to places where it is ?150 for membership.

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Let's move on now to directors. One of the things that is really

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remarkable when you come to any part of Scotland, particularly Shetland,

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there has been a cultural relates on is over the last two years, perhaps

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connected to the political firmament `` cultural renaissance. Why did you

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come here? I was invited by the festival. I only arrived yesterday

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so I feel I have not had a proper look around yet. I am very attracted

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to islands and groups of islands. I felt immediately at home here. I am

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part Scots so it is in my blood. I have arrived here and feel like

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staying for a few months and writing my next film because it is the

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perfect place to work on ideas. It does feel like a creative place.

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Mark was saying to me that in terms of per head of population, the

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viewing figures of films are possibly the highest in the

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country. There was not a sin are here a few years ago. What are your

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thoughts about the festival `` a cinema. It is fantastic. It is

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incredibly well attended. It is the most attended cinema are in the

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country. For the first few years of the film festival, we did not have a

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cinema. The population in relation to attendance figures, it is the

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most attended seminars in the UK. One of the themes we are exploring

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is research into women in the film industry. 9% are women and 91% are

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male. Why is that? I am aware that in the beginning of cinema, in the

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20s, there were many women making films. Then things got tightened up.

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I do not know how or why things changed. Now it is partly the

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production companies and the producers and the studios do not

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trust women with the job. They do not think we are tough enough, they

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do not think we will be able to cut the mustard. It is attitudes that

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have got so entrenched but also, speaking personally, it is also

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about confidence. It took me a long time to build up confidence to make

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my own films. We have to send out more positive messages. Sex

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personally, I do not see myself as a female director, I am just a

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director. Perhaps this survey will change things.

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When I saw The Selfish Giant which you directed or when I saw the Hurt

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Locker which was directed by a woman, I did not think it was

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women's films. There does seem to be a problem with women getting on in

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the industry. A long time ago when I was working in television, I did

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feel that they were trying to push me into being a producer rather than

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a director and I stood firm. I would be a rubbish producer! Know your

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limits and your talents. I was very determined that I wanted to direct.

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I think you have to stand firm. Two although is women out there who want

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to direct films, there are many of them, just stand firm and it will

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happen. They need role models. Katherine Bigelow is the guest

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because of winning an Oscar. But it is still very rare for woman to

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direct an action film. I do not see why women cannot do that but we have

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to break down some of the preconceived ideas. It will

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encourage women not just to make personal films but get involved in

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bigger films and blockbusters and prove they can work with big

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budgets. It is astonishing that the Academy took eight years to give the

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best director award to a woman and then people said it is because she

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direct like a man which is outrageous. The answer seems to be

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to do your job which is what you are both saying. And have perseverance

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because it will not necessarily happen quickly. Let's go one to your

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pick of the week. There is a BFI reissue of a film from 1961. I

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remember being genuinely upset by the opening in which there is an

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image of a child's balloon caught in telegraph wires which is one of the

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most chillingly understated images of prewar cinema. I am really is a

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prized by just how one thing it still manages to be. The silence of

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the lambs done 70 years before? No it is really precise, really

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clinical. It is genuinely chilling. A lot of people will not know about

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your DVD pick. Blue cat macro ruin is a revenge thriller. The rest of

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the film is what happens next. It has an ineffectual performance. I

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think it is one of the hidden treats of this year. It was made with

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personal funding and it can hold its own against any multi`million dollar

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blockbuster. That shows that what you need is a great director and a

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script and someone who knows what they are doing. With a small amount

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of money, you can do great work. Indeed. Thank you to Clio, Joanna

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and Mark. There is much more on our website. Do join us again next week.

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From Shetland, goodbye. The weather looked quite decent in

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Shetland. The weather for this weekend is not looking bad. There

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are a few showers around. Not completely dry. You can

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