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performance data -- release, and the latest from UK snooker. Now on BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
News, time for the film review. Bigwig, Sunset Song, the new film by | :00:00. | :00:34. | |
Terence Davies. -- big week. From Bulgaria, tense drama, The Lesson. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
And something different for Christmas, Krampus! I have not seen | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
Sunset Song but I really want to like it, I hope you will say good | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
thing. I went into it inking the same thing, very long awaited | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
adaptation of the Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel, 15 years to get to the | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
screen, first tried to do it in the wake of the house of mirth, that was | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
2000, long time to get this done. The story follows Chris Guthrie, | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
growing up in north-east Scotland, early 20th century, discovering her | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
identity. -- The House of Mirth. Formed between the land and | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
education, which may take her away from the land, between a brutal | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
father, and her growing love for the young Euan, all overshadowed by the | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
gathering clouds of the Great War. What does it mean? They send white | :01:25. | :01:51. | |
feathers to the Coward. All of them government men, ready to die for | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
their kin, any day of the week. Twice on Sundays (!) they say that | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
Parliament will pass the conscription act. That means if we | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
do not volunteer, they will make us go anyway. Well, what will we do | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
then (!) will we both be taken? Yes, yes... But you have been excused | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
before! They do not take folk who farmed their online! -- farm their | :02:24. | :02:39. | |
own homeland. -- own land. What is interesting, how it are themes that | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
recur throughout his cinema, autobiographical films, the trilogy, | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
Long Day closes, Distant Voices, Still Lives that kind of thing. | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
First, you can tell that he has been working on this for a long time and | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
loves the source material, the second thing, the performances are | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
very strong, Agyness Deyn, we talked about her in Electricity, really | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
good. Terrific. Holding her own against Kevin Guthrie and Peter | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
Mullan, very accomplished screen performers, she does a very good | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
job. What makes this sing is the cinematography, it is a mixture of | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
digital for the interiors, the interiors sometimes have the tone of | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
a Vermeer and these last six to celluloid exteriors, which have a | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
kind of Terrence Malick sweep, there's so much of the source | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
material is about the land, and when you are making this kind of film, | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
you have got to have that sense of the rapture, the wonder of the land. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
You can smell the cows (!) when we be talking about the most recent | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
adaptation of far madding crowd, we said there was not enough dirt under | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
its fingernails, this does, this film is not scared of silence or | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
song, somebody is in love with the source material, but also understand | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
how to make it brought to a cinematic audience. I think Terence | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Davies is one of the greatest auteurs we have in this country, it | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
was in 2008 that his career was restarted, with Of Time and the City | :04:13. | :04:24. | |
in 2008, and I think that he has another one in the can,, a quiet | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
passion, and it is great. Very strange Bulgarian movie, lending | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
social unit realism of the Dardenne brothers with a jet black streak of | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
comedy, centring on a schoolteacher, schoolteacher at the beginning, we | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
see her lecturing the class on the morale at the thieving, turns out | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
her house is in danger, a reckless husband has squandered the money she | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
should have been using. -- morality of thieving. She is torn between | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
employers who will not pay back pay, unsharp adventures -- pay back pay, | :05:02. | :05:12. | |
loan sharks, thanks. It is described as a quiet rebellion of the little | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
person, and absolutely you are centred on her as a character, you | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
see somebody who is very controlling, whose life is | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
descending into chaos, and you are with her. I thought it was a very | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
fine piece of work, it is something that you need to know and understand | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
and care about the character and you really do. I thought | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
gripping. You have got to seek it out, it is not a wide release, The | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Lesson, check it out. And also, a lot of great films coming out of | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
post coming as to Eastern Europe, the obvious comment to make. Only | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
enough, quite a lot of films around at Christmas which are not just what | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
you would expect from the Christmas festive season. Not a lot of | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
yo-ho-ho! Krampus is the antidote, this is yo-ho-horror! Christmas with | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
the Coopers, the night before, this is the antidote! This is based on | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
the ancient legend of the shadow of Saint Nicholas, the dark side, we | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
begin by meeting a family who have lost the Christmas spirit, they | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
think it is a time for giving... Up! All of them are sick of the site | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
of each other! Here is a clip. Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas... Gosh, | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
I am so glad you could make it. You have no idea, accidents all over the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
freeway... Six hours... We brought you a little taste of home... Thank | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
you. Incredible... Keep the traffic jam going now... Let me help you... | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Thank you for joining us. Sarcasm, Tommy... Does your butler have the | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
night off? LAUGHTER looking cute in your matching | :06:53. | :07:08. | |
jackets. They are cranky because the Pittsburgh Steelers lost. Tell your | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
aunt about the presidential fitness award. It is a good story... Well, | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
that is a lot of -- that is not a lot of yo-ho-ho! In another movie, | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
they would work it out, they would learn to love each other... Chevy | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
Chase would turn up. In this one, a beast arrives, Krampus, the | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
touch-tone, on the 1 hand, I would say, Gremlins, Joe Dante, a touch of | :07:41. | :07:52. | |
capital at the poltergeist, and rare exports, very strange, obscure film. | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
There is a kind of Spielberg quality to the music, we feel like we are in | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
safe hands. -- Rare Exports. What is lovely about it, it is not | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
frightened to show its teeth, like Gremlins, when it needs to bite, it | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
shows its teeth. Gremlins is a work of genius. This is not that, what it | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
is aiming in the right direction. I saw this, having had a week of | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
really quite icky Christmas releases, it was a real place to see | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
something that did not mind being a little bit nasty, that was not | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
scared to be a bit scary. It does not entirely work, some of the jokes | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
do not completely come off, you need a leap of faith to get over some of | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
the cracks in the narrative logic, but there is enough predator faced | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
clown dolls (!) and scary gingerbread men in it, if you are | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
looking for a Christmas release, seek this out! It did look like two | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
different films. What is nice, gremlins is the same, people forget | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
how nasty nasty bits of Gremlins are, how much of a bite the movie it | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
is! -- how much they -- how much of a bitey movie it is. What have you | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
yet seen Carol? Have you yet seen Carol? I have not, | :09:14. | :09:25. | |
some of us have to work from time to time! What it does, it adapts this | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
for the screen from the Patricia Highsmith novel, it is a screenplay | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
which is 16, which is not overly wordy, so much is to do with gesture | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
and nuance, fantastic performances from Kate Blanchette and Rooney | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Mara, behind it all, the maestro, Todd Haynes, one of those directors | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
who has moved from the margins of arthouse experimentation into the | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
mainstream without ever selling out. -- Cate Blanchette. Without ever | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
losing the subversive edge. -- it is a screenplay which is cis inked. You | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
can tell that this is the man who made capital letter Superstar: The | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Karen Carpenter story, who made a film using Barbie dolls, you can | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
tell that he made Poison. And yet it has the mainstream appeal of | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
something like far from Heaven. You will love it. I have taken the | :10:15. | :10:27. | |
delivery of your DVD choice. Mia Madre. Indeed, I think this is | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
incredibly accessible, superb from nano Marathi -- Nanna Maretti. And | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
the American actor with him she has to work, he is utterly insufferable, | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
John Turturro. Superb performance. As with all of his best work, it is | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
very strongly personal and autobiographical but what I like | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
about it, it is a humanist movie, it is about real people in real | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
situations that you can... You understand the situation. Even if it | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
is nothing that you have experienced, you sympathise, it is | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
very low key, it is very funny but also melancholic. -- Nanni Moretti. | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
Five out of five that are hits, in various ways, incredible! That is | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
interesting. Sunset Song, I have to say, is, for me, the standout. When | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
you see at the beginning -- when you say at the beginning you want it to | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
be good, when I first saw it, I was terrified that it would let me down | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
because I'm such a fan of Terence Davies. I have seen it three times. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
It did not let me down. I have seen it three times. That is love! A | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
quick reminder before we go, Moore film use and reviews from across the | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
BBC online including all of the previous shows. -- more film news | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
online. Thank you very much for | :12:02. | :12:03. |