0:00:21 > 0:00:28Hello and welcome to Film 2011. We are live if you want to get in
0:00:28 > 0:00:33touch. The details are on the screen. Coming up tonight: Brad
0:00:33 > 0:00:42Pitt is looking for a home run in Moneyball. If we win with this team,
0:00:42 > 0:00:48we change the game for good. Everything is at stake for Rachel
0:00:48 > 0:00:55Weisz in the The Deep Blue Sea. not blaming you. There is dark
0:00:55 > 0:01:04comedy in 50/50. Me? Yes. That doesn't make any sense. I don't
0:01:04 > 0:01:07smoke. I don't drink. I recycle. Plus Stephen Frears talks about the
0:01:07 > 0:01:12making of My Beautiful Laundrette. First, Moneyball, starring and
0:01:12 > 0:01:19produced by Brad Pitt, based on the book by Michael Lewis. It is the
0:01:19 > 0:01:24story of Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland As. There
0:01:24 > 0:01:29are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap
0:01:29 > 0:01:32and then there's us. Welcome to Oakland! My job is to take this
0:01:32 > 0:01:39team to the Championship. I need more money. It is a classic
0:01:39 > 0:01:46underdog story. You have a team that has a $40 million payroll.
0:01:46 > 0:01:51It's never going to work. It is an unfair game. Billy is in the
0:01:51 > 0:01:57process of trying to figure out when the odds are stacked against
0:01:57 > 0:02:04you how do you even the playing field. Your goal should be to buy
0:02:04 > 0:02:11wins. Who are you? When I meet Brad's character I have all these
0:02:11 > 0:02:21ideas that are pretty pradical and pretty frowned upon. -- radical and
0:02:21 > 0:02:23
0:02:23 > 0:02:27pretty frowned upon. People are overlooked for a variety of biased
0:02:27 > 0:02:33reasons - age, appearance, personality. Of the 20,000 notable
0:02:33 > 0:02:38players for us to consider, there is a Championship team of 25 people
0:02:38 > 0:02:43that we could afford. Everyone else in baseball undervalues them.
0:02:43 > 0:02:48It is the saying the Earth is round instead of the Earth is flat. He
0:02:48 > 0:02:53makes me the youngest assistant GM ever. We are going to shake things
0:02:53 > 0:02:58up. Tell them. Want me to speak? When I point to you, yes. This is
0:02:58 > 0:03:03the new direction of the Oakland As. We are card counters and we are
0:03:03 > 0:03:09going to turn the odds on the casino. You don't put a team
0:03:10 > 0:03:14together with a computer. Adapt or die! Billy had the powers but the
0:03:14 > 0:03:19Peter character was the arsenal. They needed this together to pull
0:03:19 > 0:03:29this off. Billy says he will pay for him himself. When he sells him
0:03:29 > 0:03:35for more next year, he is keeping the profit. They are these two
0:03:35 > 0:03:42unlikely heroes, two Davids versus the one hundred Goliaths. We will
0:03:42 > 0:03:47call you back. Come on! They were courageous and they changed the way
0:03:47 > 0:03:51people thought about this stuff. are doing something unexpected and
0:03:51 > 0:03:56special and the whole city is feeling it. If we win with this
0:03:56 > 0:04:00team, we change the game for good. It was never a movie about baseball.
0:04:00 > 0:04:09It was about how to break people's expectations of what you are
0:04:09 > 0:04:19capable of by original thinking and courageous action. This better work.
0:04:19 > 0:04:20
0:04:20 > 0:04:25I'm kidding you. Danny, I don't understand sport.
0:04:25 > 0:04:32But I love, really love a sports film. You have a glint in your eye.
0:04:32 > 0:04:39I'm going to, if you are awake, brilliant - hi dad - if you are
0:04:39 > 0:04:45near a computer tweet in or e-mail. Let me say some sports films. Tin
0:04:45 > 0:04:51Cup. Come on. Rocky. Field of Dreams. If you build it, you know
0:04:51 > 0:04:57what is going to happen. True Blue. The Natural. There are hundreds and
0:04:57 > 0:05:07thousands. I don't know why I am talking about sports films because
0:05:07 > 0:05:07
0:05:07 > 0:05:12Moneyball is not a film about sport. Brad Pitt, it's beautiful, it's an
0:05:12 > 0:05:17exciting film. It is not a sports film but I would recommend it?
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Moneyball, whatever it is, it is not a sports movie. It is almost as
0:05:21 > 0:05:25if they had a post-it note on their head with a list of things they
0:05:25 > 0:05:29weren't going to do. There wasn't going to be the stadium clock,
0:05:29 > 0:05:34there wasn't going to be a cruel injury to the star player, there
0:05:34 > 0:05:38wasn't going to be a single moment of slow-motion. Fine, what's left?
0:05:38 > 0:05:41What we have got instead is this weirdly gripping film about the
0:05:41 > 0:05:48business of sport and the wound Rouse statistics. If anyone is
0:05:48 > 0:05:54still with us after that, it is also an excellent character study -
0:05:54 > 0:05:58- wonderous statistics. It is about Billy Beane. I think it is that, it
0:05:58 > 0:06:02is on that level that it works best. The thing about Billy Beane is that
0:06:02 > 0:06:06he doesn't like baseball either. His life has been wrapped up with
0:06:06 > 0:06:09baseball. When the passion is flowing and when the crowds are
0:06:09 > 0:06:13screaming, all the stuff that a sports movie would revel in, he
0:06:13 > 0:06:16likes to work out and he's kept up- to-date with the results on the
0:06:16 > 0:06:21phone. That is how he relates to the game. It is a business. He
0:06:21 > 0:06:26likes getting the better of people. He is not a baseball fan. It's
0:06:26 > 0:06:30about taking on the old guard, is it? That is what is so exciting.
0:06:30 > 0:06:35Brad Pitt almost said it is about taking on the old guard of
0:06:35 > 0:06:39Hollywood as well. A star is worth $20 million but it is looking at
0:06:39 > 0:06:49what people are really worth. It is worth saying Philip Seymour Hoffman
0:06:49 > 0:06:53
0:06:53 > 0:06:56is brilliant in it? Also I want to mention Aaron Sorkin. These
0:06:56 > 0:07:02individuals are symbols that are something a bit bigger. I don't
0:07:02 > 0:07:07know if it's got the same pop as The Social Network. It has got Brad
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Pitt. As a younger actor, he used to be self-conscious. He was trying
0:07:11 > 0:07:17to prove himself as an actor. It was always the hand motions. He's
0:07:17 > 0:07:21settled into his own skin a bit more. We will probably talk a lot
0:07:21 > 0:07:27about film stars on tonight's show. Moneyball wouldn't have happened
0:07:27 > 0:07:31without him. It wouldn't be half as interesting without him. I felt it
0:07:32 > 0:07:36was Sorkin-light. If you are a big fan and you love The West Wing and
0:07:36 > 0:07:41you are waiting for a "this is what it means to be American to play
0:07:41 > 0:07:48baseball" - there is none of that. You want to eat up the words?
0:07:48 > 0:07:52are right. For a confirmed Sorking fan, it's still recommended. Yes.
0:07:52 > 0:08:02Next, Terence Davies's adaptation of Terence Raligan's play The Deep
0:08:02 > 0:08:06
0:08:06 > 0:08:12It's about love. It's about three people who want different kinds of
0:08:12 > 0:08:18love from each other which is a kind of odd relationship, but that
0:08:18 > 0:08:24is what love can do and does do to you. It's about a woman who leaves
0:08:24 > 0:08:34security, she leaves her husband for a younger man who has no money
0:08:34 > 0:08:35
0:08:35 > 0:08:40and who is mentally unstable in many ways. She just falls in love.
0:08:40 > 0:08:50Freddie, darling, would you come home with me, please? No, I will
0:08:50 > 0:08:51
0:08:51 > 0:08:55not. You did not leave your husband. She finds sex at 40. It's
0:08:56 > 0:09:04overwhelming. It makes her experience a revelation and the
0:09:04 > 0:09:11revelation is that there can be sensual... I still love you. When I
0:09:11 > 0:09:16was looking for people, I saw Rachel by accident. I looked at her
0:09:16 > 0:09:26name. I Raj my manager and said, "Have you heard of someone called
0:09:26 > 0:09:27
0:09:27 > 0:09:35Rachel Weisz?" "You are the only one who hasn't." She read it, she
0:09:35 > 0:09:40rang me and she said I would do it. I read the play when Terence
0:09:40 > 0:09:44offered me this film. He did a beautiful adaptation of it. I know
0:09:44 > 0:09:52what it felt like, no primary colour for instance. Everything was
0:09:52 > 0:09:58washed out and really rather faded. I was in houses like that - dark,
0:09:58 > 0:10:08one light, that was it. I wanted to get that over more than anything
0:10:08 > 0:10:11
0:10:11 > 0:10:21else. A lot of people don't like what I do. One woman jumped up and
0:10:21 > 0:10:21
0:10:22 > 0:10:27said, "Why are you filming so slow and depressing?" I said it was a
0:10:27 > 0:10:37gift! It always leads to something ugly. What would you replace it
0:10:37 > 0:10:51
0:10:51 > 0:11:00with? A guarded enthusiasm. It's safer. But much duller. The Deep
0:11:00 > 0:11:07Blue Sea is an adaptation of the Terence Ratigan play from the 1950s.
0:11:07 > 0:11:12I think that is a bit unfair. For a start, I don't know what is wrong
0:11:12 > 0:11:17with that. It is more than very well filmed. It is beautifully
0:11:17 > 0:11:22filmed as cinema. Terence Davies, this is his territory, the early
0:11:22 > 0:11:28'50s. He's got this - he mentioned "luminous" - a good use of words.
0:11:28 > 0:11:34It was shabby as well. He brings that sense of 1950s and he brings
0:11:34 > 0:11:37the sense of London to life as well. So I think it's very wide of the
0:11:37 > 0:11:41mark to suggest that this is just a film with a play where they have
0:11:41 > 0:11:45parked the camera and let the actors do the rest. I don't think
0:11:45 > 0:11:50anyone but Terence Davies could have made this movie. More power to
0:11:50 > 0:11:52him. I thought it was beautiful, like you. I thought it was haunting.
0:11:52 > 0:11:57I thought Rachel Weisz was brilliant. That is a very difficult
0:11:57 > 0:12:00woman to pull off. Somebody who you believe because you are shouting,
0:12:00 > 0:12:07"Go for the bloke with the nice library and the fire who will love
0:12:07 > 0:12:17you forever! Are you mad?" She does it whole heartedly, she totally is
0:12:17 > 0:12:21believable. Also what I love, I have to mention this, Barbara who
0:12:21 > 0:12:26plays her mother-in-law, she might be the most terrifying character
0:12:26 > 0:12:31you will see all year? I hear you. The set is so rich and detailed
0:12:31 > 0:12:35that it almost overwhelms the play a bit. You are wrapped up in the
0:12:35 > 0:12:38creek of the leather arm share that it distracts you from what is going
0:12:38 > 0:12:46on. I will disagree with you about Rachel Weisz. It is a very
0:12:46 > 0:12:50difficult part to play. I don't quite buy it. I do... What? She
0:12:50 > 0:12:55loves him. Tom Hiddleston is incredibly well cast here. He nails
0:12:55 > 0:13:03perfectly that idea of playing the charismatic idiot. If you want to
0:13:03 > 0:13:07see a melodrama, see this instead! Top five time. This week, Chris
0:13:07 > 0:13:14picks his all-time favourite sports films which do contain some strong
0:13:15 > 0:13:19language. Movies and sport make a dream
0:13:19 > 0:13:27pairing. There is an inherent drama in sport that movies have been
0:13:27 > 0:13:33perfecting for years now. Here is my top five. At five, it's Escape
0:13:33 > 0:13:43To Victory. The Germans are powerful. Football has not been
0:13:43 > 0:13:44
0:13:44 > 0:13:51well served on the big screen. For his movie, John Huston drafted in
0:13:51 > 0:13:55some of the best players of all time - the likes of Pele and
0:13:55 > 0:14:05Sylvester Stallone! You can't helped but be swept along because
0:14:05 > 0:14:05
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Pele does stuff like this. At four, it's Any Given Sunday. I am totally
0:14:09 > 0:14:19baffled by American Football. But this three-hour epic is on this
0:14:19 > 0:14:21
0:14:21 > 0:14:30list for one reason - Al Pacino's famous locker room speech. It's a
0:14:30 > 0:14:34We claw with our finger nails to that edge, we know when we add up
0:14:34 > 0:14:39all those inches, that's going to make the difference between winning
0:14:39 > 0:14:45and losing. It's a speech that's been used by
0:14:45 > 0:14:52real life football managers, none of whom can match Al Pacino's
0:14:52 > 0:14:55delivery. Then again wo, can. At number three it's rocky VI. Why?
0:14:55 > 0:14:59Because it's the cheesiest film of all time. It's a film which dared
0:14:59 > 0:15:03at the height of the Cold War to unite America and Russia by getting
0:15:03 > 0:15:13a capitalist and Communist together and making them fight. It's a film
0:15:13 > 0:15:19
0:15:19 > 0:15:27in which Dolf Lund gren says. I must break you. At number two the
0:15:27 > 0:15:32Hustler. How much am I going to win tonight? Most sport movies aren't
0:15:32 > 0:15:38even about sport. Ten grand, I'm going win ten grand in one nights.
0:15:38 > 0:15:44OK, yes, it's about pool. But it's about overcoming personal demons
0:15:44 > 0:15:50and more besides. In this speech, Paul Newman sums up what it feels
0:15:50 > 0:15:54like to be blessed with genius. of a sudden I have will in my arm.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57The pool cue is part of me. It's a piece of wood, it's got nerves in
0:15:57 > 0:16:07it. I feel the roll of those balls, you don't have to look, you just
0:16:07 > 0:16:08
0:16:08 > 0:16:17know. I know, Paul. I know. Number one, it's Dodgeball. It propelled
0:16:17 > 0:16:25the little known sport of Dodgeball onto the global stage. It pits
0:16:25 > 0:16:29Vince Vaughn against Ben Stiller's Dwiet Goodman. There's a last
0:16:29 > 0:16:36minute winner, there's a moment of doubt before the ultimate triumph
0:16:36 > 0:16:40and a team of miss fits, while being amazingly funny.
0:16:40 > 0:16:45I'm really sorry. Are you all right? Why would you hit a girl?
0:16:45 > 0:16:54Why? I am so sorry, are you OK? my money, it's the funniest sports
0:16:54 > 0:16:59movie of all time. At the end of the day, you have to
0:16:59 > 0:17:02be pleased with that. This is going to run and run.
0:17:02 > 0:17:12yes. We've had so many tweets I can't read them all out. Chariots
0:17:12 > 0:17:16
0:17:16 > 0:17:20of fire, Gerry Maguire, quite a lot for The Big Blue. No an mall
0:17:20 > 0:17:29lympics. A comedy now about cancer, yes I just said that, starring
0:17:29 > 0:17:35Jonathan Levine and Seth Rogen. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt. A tumour?
0:17:35 > 0:17:39Yes. Me? Yes. I don't drink, I don't smoke. I recycle. How do you
0:17:39 > 0:17:44feel right now? Fine. I can't remember being so calm in a long
0:17:44 > 0:17:50time Would you describe what you're feeling as a kind of numbness?
0:17:50 > 0:17:55would describe it as fine. It's a comedy about a young guy who gets
0:17:55 > 0:18:03cancer and how it affects his life and the people around him. I think
0:18:03 > 0:18:06I'm going to throw up. Open your eyes. Look at me, all right? What
0:18:06 > 0:18:16kind of cancer snfpblts it's some rare kind of cancer. What's it
0:18:16 > 0:18:17
0:18:17 > 0:18:21called? Swanoma... I had a massive tumour in my spine, and secretary-
0:18:21 > 0:18:28general and I are long time good friends. He went through the whole
0:18:28 > 0:18:33deal with me. What are your odds? looked it up and it says 50/50, but
0:18:33 > 0:18:36that's the internet. It's not that bad. That's better than I thought.
0:18:36 > 0:18:42You're going to be fine. Young people beat cancer all the time.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46Every celebrity beats cancer. am ends up comforting the people in
0:18:46 > 0:18:51his life maybe more than they comfort him. Everyone sort of
0:18:51 > 0:19:01freaks out and he has to be like "Are you owe ka. I'm sorry this is
0:19:01 > 0:19:01
0:19:01 > 0:19:07happening to you." I'm moving in. No. No. I'm your mother Adam.
0:19:07 > 0:19:14Exactly, that's why. Mum, mum. You really think a girl's going to go
0:19:14 > 0:19:22for me because I have cancer? Help me help you get laid.
0:19:22 > 0:19:27think that would work? While he was still sick, we'd were at a bar one
0:19:27 > 0:19:31night. He was having one of the odd interactions with people when they
0:19:31 > 0:19:36found out he had cancer. It's your hook man. It's what you've got.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41that's the first thing I say, "Hello I have cancer?" That's what
0:19:41 > 0:19:46makes you different and sets you apart. You joke about a guy gets
0:19:46 > 0:19:52cancer and his best friend uses it to do all the stuff he always
0:19:52 > 0:19:55wanted to do. Great song. Totally. I have cancer. I was wrong. It was
0:19:55 > 0:20:05weird. We thought there should be a movie that showed the lighter side
0:20:05 > 0:20:09to the experience. It can be sad rbgts tragic and trying, difficult.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11But a movie that exposes the dysfunction and find a way to
0:20:11 > 0:20:19infuse humour into the cancer experience.
0:20:19 > 0:20:24I really liked it. I cried. I thought it would be very smaltzy,
0:20:24 > 0:20:28but it's not. Parts of it are properly out-loud funny. The way he
0:20:28 > 0:20:32tells his parents that he's sick is properly clever. It was a really
0:20:32 > 0:20:36good film. It's funny, a cancer comedy, it's a tight rope act from
0:20:36 > 0:20:40the start. You're thinking, is the film going to make it across? Lots
0:20:40 > 0:20:44of films wouldn't. He would topple off and either give up the comedy
0:20:44 > 0:20:49halfway through or there would be a misjudgment of taste and decency,
0:20:49 > 0:20:55which would be so horrific that it would end someone's career. No-one
0:20:55 > 0:21:01wants to see the Hangover on a cancer ward. It makes it across. A
0:21:01 > 0:21:05lot of the credit will go to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, deservedly so for a
0:21:05 > 0:21:09fine performance. The script is the star here. We saw the script writer
0:21:09 > 0:21:14talking about how he drew from real experience for the story. That
0:21:14 > 0:21:18gives the story a kind of power. Beyond that, he has a really kind
0:21:18 > 0:21:21of canny sense of when to play funny and when not. He realises
0:21:21 > 0:21:25that the funniness comes from other people's reactions and people not
0:21:25 > 0:21:30knowing what it do or say, even professionals. He also knows when
0:21:30 > 0:21:34to stop. He doesn't do it, he keeps the funny coming for an unusually
0:21:34 > 0:21:39long time, but when he stops it's a powerful moment. You end up with a
0:21:39 > 0:21:44rare beast, the feel-good movie that may make you feel good at end.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47It's worth mentioning the supporting cast, Anna Kendrick is
0:21:47 > 0:21:51fantastic and Anjelica Huston. And you like when he's having the
0:21:51 > 0:22:00treatment. There's a couple of nice scenes when Joseph Gordon-Levitt's
0:22:00 > 0:22:05character meets Philip Baker Hall. They are almost throw away scenes,
0:22:06 > 0:22:09but so beautifully handled that they're the film at its best.
0:22:09 > 0:22:15Cary Grant died 25 years ago this month and Antonia looks back on his
0:22:15 > 0:22:20life and work and what made him so special.
0:22:20 > 0:22:25Born in 1904 into a working class family in Bristol, Archibald
0:22:25 > 0:22:29Alexander Leach left home at 15 and joined a troupe of akro bats. He
0:22:29 > 0:22:34travelled to New York and then Hollywood. He starred opposite the
0:22:34 > 0:22:38likes of Mae West who said something rauk us to him in 1933.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42Why don't you come up some time and see me. I'm home every evening.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47Yeah, but I'm busy every evening. Busy? So what are you trying to do,
0:22:47 > 0:22:51insult me? He was looking for work in the early 30s. They were looking
0:22:51 > 0:22:59for faces. If there was one thing he had was a great face. They
0:22:59 > 0:23:06started to use him opposite some of their most glamorous leading ladies.
0:23:06 > 0:23:13So Marlene Dietrich for instance. Any time you have a moment to spare,
0:23:13 > 0:23:17I'd be glad to drop in. I heard you. An embryo of Cary Grant emerges,
0:23:17 > 0:23:21it's a work in progress. This is the opening paragraph in that film.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Grant was a physical comedian. As a child he was obsessed with the
0:23:24 > 0:23:29keystone cops and that combined with his early training as a
0:23:29 > 0:23:34gymnast meant he liked to move his body in a witty, graceful way.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37There's an unforgettable moment in Holiday when he did a somersault
0:23:37 > 0:23:44for the sheer pleasure of being physically gifted. You know me
0:23:44 > 0:23:49fellas, when I feel a worry coming on, you know what I do... There!
0:23:49 > 0:23:54And then the worries are over. He combined all these different
0:23:54 > 0:23:59facets of star per sown yaz that he saw when he arrived in Hollywood.
0:23:59 > 0:24:05He was a fan of Douglas Fairbanks with his dashing persona. There are
0:24:05 > 0:24:11hints of that. Throw in a kind of cheekiness and his circus
0:24:11 > 0:24:16background gives hints of it too. He's able to inject a sense of play
0:24:16 > 0:24:21into potentially staid or talky material and always seems light on
0:24:21 > 0:24:25his feet. It wasn't until the mid- 1940s that he came into his own as
0:24:25 > 0:24:33the slapstick Prince charming in screwball comedies, with his
0:24:33 > 0:24:36entirely made up transatlantic, rich Playboy voice, he was a genius
0:24:37 > 0:24:42with farcical banter, most beautifully opposite Katharine
0:24:42 > 0:24:48Hepburn. You lied to me. No... was a reduck lus story. I don't
0:24:48 > 0:24:54believe you. You have to believe me. It's part of your unbridled
0:24:54 > 0:24:57imagination once more. There's a great exchange of wise cracks and
0:24:57 > 0:25:03quips. It's a dance they do. He had the perfect rhythm for those kind
0:25:03 > 0:25:06of films that required a cha-cha- cha rhythm to it. It's almost like
0:25:06 > 0:25:12an extension of his physical dexterity and agility that he
0:25:12 > 0:25:17should be so agile with his tongue. I don't like leopards. Think of him
0:25:17 > 0:25:21as a house cat. I don't like cats either. Stand still. Don't be
0:25:22 > 0:25:26nervous. Off screen there were rumours about his sexuality. On
0:25:26 > 0:25:29screen he managed to transmit a deep affinity with his leading
0:25:29 > 0:25:34ladies. You always felt he wanted their company as much as their body.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38That made him so sexy. He was the supreme object of desire. There's a
0:25:38 > 0:25:42sense in which his female leads are kind of like playmates for him, not
0:25:42 > 0:25:48in a kind of Playboy bunny sense, but in the sense that they gently
0:25:48 > 0:25:53mock each other and the women mock his reserve. He mocks their
0:25:53 > 0:25:59overtalkiness or whatever or their overexuberance. Out of This Isn't
0:25:59 > 0:26:09Everything You Are great chemistry is born. Look at Ingrid Bergman
0:26:09 > 0:26:09
0:26:09 > 0:26:17virtually RAFish him in this scene. I have a chick anyone the ice bomb
0:26:17 > 0:26:22and you're eating it. What about the washing up afterwards? We'll
0:26:22 > 0:26:29eat it with our fingers? Don't we need any plates? Yes. One for you
0:26:29 > 0:26:34and one for me. Get in line. Even Katharine Hepburn came over in
0:26:34 > 0:26:40Charade. How about getting out of here, come on, out. Won't you come
0:26:40 > 0:26:44in for a minute? No, I won't. don't bite, you know. Unless it's
0:26:44 > 0:26:49called for. How would you like a spanking? How would you like a
0:26:49 > 0:26:53punch in the nose? If you compare him to Clark Gable. Gable's a man,
0:26:53 > 0:27:00he was a leading man would wanted to rip off your clothes and drag
0:27:00 > 0:27:04you to bed. Cary Grant wanted to stay up all noigt and talk to you.
0:27:04 > 0:27:09Alfred Hitchcock exploited the fact that Cary Grant looked like a guy
0:27:09 > 0:27:14who could do what he wanted. So droll, urban and sophisticated.
0:27:14 > 0:27:24Might he be a bad guy too? He went that way. I think he got off.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28
0:27:28 > 0:27:34Thank you. Quite all right. Seven parking tickets. Oh. I think it's
0:27:34 > 0:27:38terribly interesting that Hitchcock who didn't have a lot of use for
0:27:38 > 0:27:43actors, except they were a necessary evil, that Cary Grant was
0:27:43 > 0:27:46the only actor I ever loved. Everyone agrees that he was the
0:27:46 > 0:27:51greatest film star of all time. I think some people undervalue what a
0:27:51 > 0:27:56good actor he was. He did not really do much for the craft of
0:27:56 > 0:28:01acting in terms of innovation, however, what he did was he created
0:28:01 > 0:28:08something more than an actor. He created Cary Grant, a man, that
0:28:08 > 0:28:13people aspire to today. There's no doubt he was a complicated man. He
0:28:13 > 0:28:19binged on hallucinogenics, he married five times. At 62 he
0:28:19 > 0:28:24retired, perhaps it got too hard being carry groont -- Cary Grant.
0:28:24 > 0:28:29Because everybody wanted to be him. Even Cary Grant said he wanted to
0:28:29 > 0:28:39be Cary Grant. Brilliant. Next, Resistance
0:28:39 > 0:28:48starring Riseboroughise and Michael Sheen.
0:28:48 > 0:28:52The invasion continues to advance north and west. We have established
0:28:52 > 0:28:56an observation post in this valley. Resistance is the version of what
0:28:56 > 0:29:00might have happened had the Nazi invasion been successful in 1945 in
0:29:00 > 0:29:10Great Britain. It's told from the perspective of a small, Welsh
0:29:10 > 0:29:24
0:29:24 > 0:29:30valley. Is your husband at home? If you tell him of my visit when he
0:29:30 > 0:29:38returns, I will be most grateful. My character wakes up one day and
0:29:38 > 0:29:42her husband's gone and each man in the village is gone.
0:29:42 > 0:29:52The civilian must not do nothing which will be considered slightest
0:29:52 > 0:29:53
0:29:53 > 0:29:57help to the enemy. I appreciate that. My character is in a constant
0:29:57 > 0:30:04inner conflict between following the orders that he was given and
0:30:04 > 0:30:12doing the things that he feels are right morally. I never thanked you
0:30:12 > 0:30:17for helping me. You should hate me. Unusually heavy snow comes in
0:30:17 > 0:30:20during the winter and German soldiers help the women run the
0:30:20 > 0:30:24farms and this uneasy truce develops between the women of the
0:30:24 > 0:30:33valley and the German soldiers. know what happens to collaborators,
0:30:34 > 0:30:37do you? We must leave. I can't leave. If you stay now, you die.
0:30:37 > 0:30:41Trying to deal with the question of collaboration, the nature of those
0:30:41 > 0:30:45two, how they work hand in hand sometimes, that feels like a very
0:30:45 > 0:30:51contemporary discussion to be having at this moment in time.
0:30:51 > 0:30:57the choices that we make that will decide the nature of our resistance
0:30:57 > 0:31:07to nature, of our survival. Our choices will be the mark of who we
0:31:07 > 0:31:14Every bit as Moneyball doesn't want to be a sports movie, Resistance
0:31:14 > 0:31:21doesn't want to be a war movie. The Germans have invaded Britain in
0:31:21 > 0:31:251945, they steam into Wales. Resistance is a film of meaningful
0:31:26 > 0:31:30glances and silences and ailing livestock. It unfolds incredibly
0:31:30 > 0:31:34slowly. It is a strange criticism for me to make. The majority of my
0:31:34 > 0:31:38favourite films are films in which nothing happens very slowly. There
0:31:38 > 0:31:44is a difference between slowness and a film building to a mood and
0:31:44 > 0:31:48slowness when it is ponderous. For me, Resistance is more often than
0:31:48 > 0:31:54not ponderous. There was one scene where I thought the film had
0:31:54 > 0:31:59stopped on screen. That can't be good. I liked it much more than you.
0:32:00 > 0:32:04I found it moving and ponderous, correct, but I love Andrea
0:32:04 > 0:32:12Riseborough, so I could watch her looking sad for hours. She does a
0:32:12 > 0:32:17lot of that! I also love Wales, Danny. It is my favourite location
0:32:17 > 0:32:21for a holiday, almost. So it looks so incredibly beautiful. I was
0:32:21 > 0:32:26overwhelmed by the landscape? hear you. Wales looks fantastic.
0:32:26 > 0:32:30Not sure the point of the film should be to make Snowdonia look
0:32:30 > 0:32:34attractive even when occupied by Nazis. I hear you about Andrea
0:32:34 > 0:32:39Riseborough. She is a film star. She's not found the film yet. I
0:32:39 > 0:32:43don't know, maybe I'm a bad person, but after the 15th shot of Andrea
0:32:43 > 0:32:47Riseborough looking concerned, I wanted a load of sheep to start
0:32:47 > 0:32:54driving a clown car around! LAUGHTER This is me. OK. I don't
0:32:54 > 0:32:58think that is your film of the week. What is it? It is very difficult.
0:32:58 > 0:33:04It's always good to have Terence Davies in the cinemas. I'm going to
0:33:04 > 0:33:07say 50/50. You? Moneyball with bells on! We are covered. Now it is
0:33:07 > 0:33:17time for Director's Cut. Stephen Frears talks to us about My
0:33:17 > 0:33:24
0:33:24 > 0:33:28Nothing but a toilet in a youth club! Constant boil on my bum.
0:33:28 > 0:33:35remember the joy, the pleasure and the intelligence, you know, it was
0:33:35 > 0:33:41everything that I liked doing. It was a very, very intelligent film
0:33:41 > 0:33:51and it was everything that I love. It was enormously enjoyable. And
0:33:51 > 0:33:53
0:33:53 > 0:34:03then it changed our lives. I saw four actors - Tim Roth, Daniel,
0:34:03 > 0:34:06
0:34:06 > 0:34:10Gary Oldman and Ken Branagh. Daniel was top of the crumpet list. The
0:34:10 > 0:34:20girls squealed. I'm dead impressed by all this. You were the one at
0:34:20 > 0:34:24
0:34:24 > 0:34:29school, the one they liked? All of them liked me. I need to raise
0:34:29 > 0:34:39money to make this place good. I want you to help me with that. I
0:34:39 > 0:34:43
0:34:43 > 0:34:48want you to work here with me. funny and good characters. And told
0:34:48 > 0:34:56you something new. It was both educational as well as entertaining.
0:34:56 > 0:35:00It's everything you want. I didn't realise that the gay theme was
0:35:00 > 0:35:04going to be quite so sensational and sort of what took it around the
0:35:04 > 0:35:11world. So I didn't find that particularly original. I thought it
0:35:11 > 0:35:15was very, very good, believe it or not on Thatcherite economics. We
0:35:15 > 0:35:20made it in complete innocence and we made it with a lot of joy and
0:35:20 > 0:35:24with very little care. No, that's the wrong word - we made it with
0:35:24 > 0:35:31immense care. It was very carefree. I remember coming down to the set
0:35:31 > 0:35:36and there was a crane there, "Why was there a crane here?" "You
0:35:36 > 0:35:41ordered it." There is a shot that comes down over the launderette. I
0:35:41 > 0:35:46invented that on the spot. Some days things worked! It is all to do
0:35:46 > 0:35:52with railway lines. I will make sure he is fixed up with a good
0:35:52 > 0:36:02business future. Marriage? working on it. Is Tania a
0:36:02 > 0:36:06
0:36:06 > 0:36:11possibility? Mmm! Where the hell are you going?! We sent some boy
0:36:11 > 0:36:16out to find a house that was nearest to several railway lines. I
0:36:16 > 0:36:25said let's build a balcony so we got even nearer! The trains became
0:36:25 > 0:36:30a theme. We had a lot of trouble with the ending. I kept saying it
0:36:30 > 0:36:34had to have a happy ending because these characters, you can't turn
0:36:34 > 0:36:44the audience away depressed. It only gets happy in the last ten
0:36:44 > 0:36:47
0:36:47 > 0:36:54seconds, only in a very eccentric way. It is very interesting, he had
0:36:54 > 0:36:59working with him Hans Zimmer, the most successful composer in the
0:36:59 > 0:37:05world, and he was the boy in the backroom. Stanley used to sit in
0:37:05 > 0:37:14the front room and Hans was working out all that funny man in white
0:37:14 > 0:37:21suit sort of music. Nobody had any idea that a film this scruffy -
0:37:21 > 0:37:27there are people walking around the streets, who would go and see a
0:37:27 > 0:37:31film about a gay Pakistani in a launderette? It touched people.
0:37:31 > 0:37:35can see more from that interview on the Film 2011 website. That is all
0:37:35 > 0:37:40for tonight. Next week, we will be reviewing The Thing, Romantics
0:37:40 > 0:37:43Anonymous and Happy Feet 2. Playing us out is The Descendants, directed
0:37:43 > 0:37:52by Alexander Payne starring George Clooney. It is in cinemas January
0:37:52 > 0:37:572012. Thank you for watching and good night. My friends think I live
0:37:57 > 0:38:02in paradise. I haven't been on a surf board in 15 years. 23 days ago
0:38:02 > 0:38:07my wife was launched from a powerboat and hit her head.
0:38:07 > 0:38:12might not be able to hear this. She was lonely. Who is he? I would like
0:38:12 > 0:38:16to know who the guy is that my wife was seeing. I have always been the
0:38:16 > 0:38:20back-up parent. I don't know what to do with her! With Elizabeth in
0:38:20 > 0:38:25the hospital, my daughters are testing me. This is Sid. He will be
0:38:25 > 0:38:31with me. I will be more civil with him around. Don't ever do that to
0:38:31 > 0:38:39me again! What would you do if you were me? I would beat him with a