18/07/2014 The Film Review


18/07/2014

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Hello and welcome. Jason, what do you have? We go ape, to see it the

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gorilla attack ticks have any effect in Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.

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We look at one of the legends of show business who used to manage

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Alice Cooper. And we uncover one of the great art mysteries, how a super

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nanny was one of the world's great street photographers. We have had

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plenty of apes, here they are again? 1968, it started with Planet Of The

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Apes with Charlton Heston. We have been recovering from it ever since.

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This is a reboot, as sea called reboot. We had Rise Of The Planet Of

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The Apes and this is a sequel to that so you with then they would

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have got it right by now. And now the actor who played Gollum in Lord

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of the rings, is the lead playing the chimp, Caesar. The world has

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been wiped out and there are pockets of civilisation around. The apes

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have taken over and they come to San Francisco to wrest control from the

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humans. In this clip, one of the rebel apes is examining what happens

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when guns get into the wrong hands. I am convinced

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by the effects already. What is interesting is it is

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about guns and it was Charlton Heston, a famous proponent

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of the National Rifle Association. It is about nature versus nurtur ,

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a scientific element. It takes it further ,

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saying what is human in nature If you give an ape a gun,

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what will happen to it? There are two societies that you

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root for, the simple ape society, but humans also go back to

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a more simple way of life. I thought that this was

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very cleverly don . I was going to ask you

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about where sympathies lie, because one critic said that some

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of the human characters were bland You do side with the apes,

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it is a natural thing to do. The humans are there through

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their own folly, so you think that the apes have a chance to be built

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that society again. And they are very good,

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they are learning languages again. They have got different names ` Ash,

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Blue Eyes, Morris, But there is such heart

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from the performances, It is about

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the movie itself being very good. It is a Yiddish word

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for an upstanding individual who behaves correctly , a jolly good

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bloke , not a person that you usually find in show business or

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the rock music side of it. It is amazing that Shep Gordon

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has become a Supermensch . This is the directorial debut

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of Mike Myers, the Austin Powers comedian, who I think was attracted

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by the starry`eyed Shep Gordon. He is larger`than`life,

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friends with everyone from Helen It does say The Legend of

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Shep Gordon . I do not know how much of it we

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should see as true, because it is That is the doubt I had, because

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if you are going to make stars big, Yes, I think he had some

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heavy boots in the past. He peddled drugs to Janis Joplin

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and Jimi Hendrix, that is how he Michael Douglas calls him a Jewish

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man and a Buddhist man. He hangs around with the Dalai Lama

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a lot. He is kind of too good to be true,

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but if he wasn't, you would have to invent him

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into this character, which I think I think that Shep Gordon is

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an interesting presence I am not sure that it is

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a skilful enough documentary to pull off this trick

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of saying that some of what you are It is not quite smart enough

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for that. I think that Mike Myers might become

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better at making documentaries The last one this week is another

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documentary. Yes, that is about image as well.

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One of the greatest artistic discoveries was boxes of

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photographic negatives. A man found a trove of Street photography. When

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you see street photography of this level, you know that you are in the

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hands of a genius. But who was Vivian Maier? This documentary looks

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at the person behind the photographs.

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She is spelt her name differently. She spelt it with a B for boy

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sometimes. Every combination of letters.

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We always called her Miss Vivian Maier.

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She is said to call me leave. I would have always called her

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Vivian. Why would you not want to tell

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someone your real name? I ask her what she did, and her and so was,

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another thing I will never forget, I am the sort of a spy. That is what

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she said. I can still remember it. It was so strange.

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You ask who was Vivian Maier. Do we get a satisfactory answer? I think

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that we get two sides. We get a lot of self portrait is of

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her from her Street photography. We also see her work, that should speak

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for itself, the quiet photographs that she takes in New York and

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Chicago, of couples, and of poverty. Really into photographs. But it is

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not enough to find out who this woman was on why she did not find

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her work published in her time. She always had her camera on when she

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was a nanny, but she never showed any one her photographs. Why would

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she not convicted of her talents when her images were breathtaking?

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Who was this mystery woman and why did she not become an artist in her

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real life? It is a mystery at the end, and in the end it is the work

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that talks about her. That is the puzzle. If you are doing

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something as compelling as this, you would surely want people to know?

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Otherwise why are you doing it? The film is good at examining do we have

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a right to look at these boxes that were kept private? Should we open

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this up? I think that we are richer for it, because her photographs are

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amongst the best I have ever seen. What is the best one out there at

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the moment? We have had a quiet a few weeks. It

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is sobering that films are not as good as football sometimes. We

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finally have some good films. The apes film is a great film. But the

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best film out there is Boyhood, which looks at the life of one boy

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from the age of six until he is 18. You watch him grow up. They filmed

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this every year for 12 years, so you are watching someone grow. It is

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time lapse photography of growing up. All life is there, it is also

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about fathers and mothers and sisters. It is three and was long,

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but for 12 years it is exciting. What is the best DVD at the moment?

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I thought I would talk about a classic. It is good to look at the

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classic films on DVD. Harold and Maud is out at the moment. When it

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was released in 1971, people said that it was disgusting, but nobody

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would want to see a love story like this. But it is still very funny. It

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does not feel edgy anymore, it seems a bit normal yet weird. It is

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American independent cinema and it is still very funny if you like.

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Humour. A reminder that you will find more

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film reviews across the BBC website, including our previous shows.

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That is it for this week. Thank you for watching. Goodbye.

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It is nearly time for the BBC News, but just a reminder that at 10:30

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p.m., we will be talking about which stories are on different pages of

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the newspapers. All the papers

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