Miles Ahead, Jane Got a Gun, Louder than Bombs, The Jungle Book, The Ninth Configuration The Film Review


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first Premier League title. Also more on the race to reach the top

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flight and the latest European rugby. All that at 10:30pm. Now, The

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Film Review. Hello and welcome to

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The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's

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cinema releases is Mark Kermode. Well, we have Miles Ahead,

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which is Don Cheadle's I know you are a big

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Miles Davis fan. We have Jane Got a Gun,

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a western starring Natalie Portman. And Louder Than Bombs,

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a drama about a family coming I do love Miles Davis,

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and I like Don Cheadle. So, Miles Ahead is directed by,

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starring and co-written, and also some composition,

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by Don Cheadle. It is a film which he describes

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as being metaphorical and modal What this means is that the approach

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to facts is somewhat shall we say... It flashes backwards

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and forwards in time. At the centre of it is apparently

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Ewan McGregor as a Rolling Stone journalist, attempting to get

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an interview with Davis at the end of the 1970s - Davis

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having fallen silent. Essentially what happens

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is Ewan McGregor turns up at his door, bangs

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on the door and says, Mr Davis, I know you're in there,

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please give me an interview. Initially Miles Davis doesn't

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want to do it, but one thing leads to another and they end

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up in a sort of caper, which involves them attempting

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to find stolen tapes and going around town and getting

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involved in shoot outs and car Look, I think we just got

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off on the wrong foot. I mean, I could write some

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book out a magazine, but I'd rather hear it

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in your words, you know? Miles Davis,

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the story in my words. I was born, I moved to New York,

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met some cats, made some music, did some dope, made

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some more music, then You laugh, that is one

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of the best gags in the film. What I like about it is firstly

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I think Don Cheadle's It's clearly a film made

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by someone who is passionate I also like the idea of attempting

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to be adventurous with the format, going backwards and forwards

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in time, flipping between There are hallucinatory interludes,

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in which there is a boxing match in which the fighters turn

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into jazz musicians. There's a lot of moving backwards

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and forwards in time, in terms of the music

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and the characters What I'm less impressed

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by is the need to tie it all around this fanciful idea of the journalist

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who needs to get the story, which let's not forget is actually

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the story of Abba the movie. Don Cheadle said he wants to get

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the original gangster flavour of Miles Davis,

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to represent the dangerousness I think that on that level, the film

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somewhat falls apart. That said, it's clearly made

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with great affection There are moments

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when it's very funny. There are moments when it is splashy

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and engaging, and I admire the fact that it wants to do something other

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than just tell a straight story. At the very beginning

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we see him being interviewed, He says, don't do that -

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if you're going to tell a story, That is what the film

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attempts to do. I don't think it doesn't wholly

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successfully, but you know what, sometimes it's nice to see something

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trying to do something and failing, And also, actually, you have

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to like a film where Ewan McGregor plays a journalist called Dave

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Brill. And has a haircut which makes him

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look like Kurt Cobain. And the haircut does tell

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you which ones are the flashbacks. If you look at Miles Davis hair,

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you know which time it's in. Actually everything about the film

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is very good in placing Lets move on, because Jane Got a Gun

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with Natalie Portman. Yes, this is a very difficult film

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to review because the screenplay was on the blacklist in 2011

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of great unproduced screenplays. It was then going to be directed

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by Lynne Ramsay, who made We Need to Talk About Kevin,

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which I absolutely love. It's a western in which Natalie

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Portman stars as a woman whose husband brings trouble

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to her door, after having a run What happened was that

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Lynne Ramsay left the project. There was an awful lot of changing

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around of characters and it now comes to our screen directed

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by Gavin O'Connor, who does a job which is perfectly fine,

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but somewhat unremarkable. It's a film which all the time

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you're watching it you keep thinking, what would Lynne Ramsay

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have made of this? It's handsome and it's well played,

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if somewhat unremarkable. Some of the scenes are

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somewhat on the nose. It just feels a little bit

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like a missed opportunity. Obviously you can't spend your life

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wondering what a film would have been like if it was made by someone

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else, but this is one of those cases in which I spent most of the movie

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doing exactly that. Yes, and I was thinking this is fine

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but remarkable only Also, Bradley Cooper

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and Michael Fassbender and others were thought

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to be associated with it. Bradley Cooper came in,

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replacing Jude Law. It has been a game of musical

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chairs, but actually my main feeling is that it comes down to who's

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at the helm, the director. I'd have loved to have seen

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Lynne Ramsay make this film. Joachim Trier making his

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English-language debut. The story is about a family -

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Gabriel Byrne and his two sons coming to terms with the loss

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of mother and wife, played by Isabelle Huppert,

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who is a war photographer. The movie again moves around

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in its time structure. She is seen entirely

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in flashback and memory. As the movie opens, we are leading

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up to an exhibition of her work, and it's going to be revealed

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in a newspaper article that her death in a car crash

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actually may not have been Gabriel Byrne is worrying

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that he needs to tell His elder son, played

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by Jesse Eisenberg, doesn't He's not doing that well,

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I don't think you should tell him Don't you think he deserves

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to know the truth? Some story that Richard wants

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to write, that's not the truth. He's going to make her out to seem

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like she's some kind But she was depressed,

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you know that, right? Sometimes I think it must have been

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really hard for you. I mean, it was tough here,

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you didn't know what Actually, I did know what was going

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on, because she called me When she wouldn't talk to you,

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she would talk to me. Anyway, I guess this story suits

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you perfectly, because then you can make her out to be the negligent

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parent and you can be I don't want to argue

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about this. Just think really hard

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about what you're doing here, because even if you see her that

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way, I don't think Conrad has to. What I really like about this,

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firstly the performances. Great actors at the top

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of their game. Secondly, when it played at Cannes

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there were reviews that compared And I think it reminded me more,

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weirdly, of something like Donnie Darko, with a hint of -

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weirdly enough - of Lynne Ramsay's We Need

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to Talk About Kevin. And perhaps just a touch

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of American Beauty, I thought it was really smart

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in the way in which it It could very easily become a sort

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of trite depiction of the way And occasionally it does walk a very

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thin line, but I ended up being won over by it, because it has

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a slightly dreamy quality. Isabelle Huppert, as I said,

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appears in memory and in flashback, but actually she does haunt

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the entire film. There is one sequence

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in which the camera just looks at her face for about a minute

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and it is the most unbelievably expressive face, the symphony

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of emotions that plays out on it. It's particularly interesting,

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in a week when something like Miles Ahead is out,

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very flashy, very stylistic. It's a low key film and that might

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put some people off, And I cared about the characters,

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even when the characters are being quite annoying,

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which they can be, I cared about them, and I believed in them

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and I believed in the way the film was talking about memory,

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and the way people remember The way in which relationships can

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be misremembered and the way people And it's nice to see

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Jesse Eisenberg who can really act And turning it down,

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that's the key thing for me. But you know I am

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a big Shere Khan fan. I was thought the tiger got

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a really rough deal. The tiger says, you go out

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there, and kids grow up It's a fair point,

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if you're a tiger. I think what you have

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to remember, Gavin, I think it's really well done,

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because I think what it does is take a certain amount

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from Rudyard Kipling, it takes an equal amount

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from the Disney cartoon and it And your DVD, The Ninth

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Configuration? This is a cult movie from 1980,

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directed by and written by William Peter Blatty,

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who wrote The Exorcist. A story about an army asylum

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in which Stacy Keach is a psychiatrist who is sent

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there to figure out It is strangely intellectual,

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and also completely off the wall and it's one of those movies,

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believe me, when people say cult movies they often mean movies that

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aren't very good. In this case what they mean

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is something that is strange and weird and indefinable,

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and it's one of my favourite movies ever that's just come out

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on Blu-ray, which is You can catch up with

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all of our shows on... You can see Mark Kermode

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Uncut and his blog. Thank you for watching,

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enjoy the movies.

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