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third fourth place play-off between South Africa and Argentina. That is | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
on sports day at half six. Now, it is time for the film review. | :00:00. | :00:22. | |
Welcome to the Film Review on BBC News. Anna Smith is with me. What | :00:23. | :00:35. | |
have we got? We have Under Milk Wood, an adaptation of a Dylan | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Thomas form. Charlotte Church appears in this. Next up we have | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Fresh Dressed. A documentary about hip-hop and its influence on fashion | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
and culture. We have Pharrell Williams and Kanye West contributing | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
to this one. Finally, Black Souls, a story of Mafia goings-on in southern | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
Italy. Under Milk Wood, one of the great, great classics. What did you | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
think on film? The last time we saw was 1972 with Elizabeth Taylor and | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Richard Burton. It is controversial to transit the lyrics and the poetry | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
onto the screen and to add visuals. Think it is an interesting | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
adaptation. Rhys Evans narrates. He has a lovely Welsh baritone that | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
leads us through the Welsh village and shows us the goings on. There is | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
not the characters. From a cliff there is a surreal element and Kevin | :01:32. | :01:45. | |
Allison brings out the poetry. No good. Up to no good in the wash | :01:46. | :02:01. | |
house. Polly Carter, end of the washing line. Nothing grows in our | :02:02. | :02:11. | |
garden, all the washing and babies. Where is their father? Over the hill | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
and far away. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing? What did you think? | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
I liked it generally. It is a mixed bag. It is episodic, given the | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
source material. You can dip in. The director to read music festivals | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
which seems like a good fit. He had a caravan and people tumbled in and | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
out watching bits of it. Some episodes work better than others. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Charlotte Church is good. Other bits stretch it too far. He tries to get | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
it back to the earthy, eroticism of the poetry. Also, it takes a lighter | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
tone than some more morbid adaptations. There is a lot to do | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
with sex and death in this. You get people longing for lost loves, but | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
he inserts a light touch. I remember a university professor being towed | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
by a student it would be fantastic to make films about Under Milk Wood | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
and so on and he said it is a play for voices. What did you not get | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
about this? The pictures will be a distraction. That is an argument. If | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
you shut your eyes you get more from the words. You could say the same | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
with any literary adaptation. Of course, his words were so evocative. | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
This is a translation, but the director said he felt that if Dylan | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Thomas had lived longer, he would have got involved with them. He is | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
saying, this is what he might have achieved. The other question is | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Richard Burton and his voice. You cannot match it. How does Rhys Evans | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
did? He has done it very differently. He is less Anglicised. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Richard Burton was former and Anglicised. Like Dylan Thomas was | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
when he read Under Milk Wood. Now there is a lovely Welsh baritone and | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
it adds a lighter touch. Fresh Dressed, there could be nothing more | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
different. This is a documentary about the influence of the hip-hop | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
scene, not so much the music but the culture that it had in the 80s and | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
90s and the way we dress. Eventually, the catwalk, it is full | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
of talking heads from their thoughts. It has animations breaking | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
it down, talking about the jumpers, the shoes. Lots of commentary. It is | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
interesting. It touches the surface, it is not exhaustive. As someone who | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
didn't know much about that culture, I was educated. Prisons and prison | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
culture, there is a political element which there always was in | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Public enemy. Going right back to the roots. I wonder whether it is | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
aimed at those who are already interested, not something that will | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
brighten up to a wider audience. You have to have a passing interest | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
otherwise why would you say? The problem is because it is not | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
exhaustive people will know it all already. For those in the scene, | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
they will be interested because the people they enjoyed watching, and a | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
lot of artists are featured, they talk about how the first war is not | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
exhaustive people will know it all already. For those in the scene, | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
they will be interested because the people they enjoyed watching, and a | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
lot of artists are featured, they talk about how they first give their | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
clothes away for free. They talk about branding. That is interesting | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
because straight out of Compton which is out at the moment which is | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
a similar kind of thing, it starts out with a revolutionary movement | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
and ends with a row about right to music and money, which is quite | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
interesting because that underlies this. It is a similar journey. We | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
talk about everyone fighting over contracts for different brands and | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
stars and how people are being mugged for their shoes and such | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
like. Black Souls. A terrific film. Did very well at the Venice film | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
Festival. The main focus is the Mafia in Calabria, organised crime, | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
three brothers who move to Milan and come back to see their goat herding | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
brother in trouble. We meet one of the main characters in this scene | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
and he is doing a drug deal in Amsterdam with the Spanish. | :06:31. | :08:07. | |
I guess people who have seen Gomorrah, which was also about the | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
Mafia in Naples, this is about another branch, they will get this | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
immediately. It is not Godfather. It is much less glamorous. This shows | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
the authentic sound of it and the downside and when the action moves | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
to Calabria we see how the tight-knit families are torn apart. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
Not in the grandiose way of the Godfather, but really horrible | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
consequences. Most of the action takes place slaughtering goats or at | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
funerals. It is pretty dark stuff and you have the family dinners were | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
everyone makes connections and no one is talking about what they mean. | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
It is a Mafia drama where everything bubbles under the surface. It is | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
well done. If the Godfather was good Mafia versus bad Mafia, this is all | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
terrible. It is a good film to watch. The lobster. This is one of | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
the best films I have seen recently. Colin Pharrell plays a man who is in | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
a strange feature where you have to live in a couple. If you do not have | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
a partner you are turned into an animal of your choosing. It is no | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
spoiler to the he escapes and finds a community of solo people where | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
everything is on the flip side and you cannot be in a couple. It is | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
absurd. The first up is much better than the second, but if you are a | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
fan of the director and deadpan satire, it is well worth a watch. If | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
you go in thinking it is absurd theatre from the 1950s with people | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
saying ludicrous things but in a completely stripped conversational | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
way like I will become a lobster because cannot find a mate, that is | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
not a conversation most of makes it the film for you. If you have | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
different expectations, it is not the film for you. I absolutely loved | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
it. This is a horror movie, for Halloween. It is a low-budget film, | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
a B-movie, unashamedly. It is werewolves on a train. It is | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
British, so support British horror. It is about a train conductor on a | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
train stopped outside London with a bunch of commuters all their | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
characters developing and they are angry to be stuck but they are | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
scared that there are werewolves outside ready to get them. I think | :10:37. | :10:50. | |
if you take it for what it is, it is entertaining, it is a genre flick, a | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
cult movie. It takes the time to give all the characters and look at | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
the drama of the situation where people are trapped and starting to | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
panic and the politics that move under that. A mixed bag. Thank you | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
very much. We have seen rain earlier today and | :11:06. | :11:27. | |
there is rain to come tonight. Looking ahead | :11:28. | :11:29. |