Episode 11 Film 2012

Hello and welcome to the last in the present series of Film 2012.

We're. If you want to get in touch the details are on the screen now.

Coming up: Jennifer Lawrence stars in the futuristic drama the Hunger

Games. We want a good show. That is all they want. There is 24, only

one come out. Aardman take to the high seas inth Pirates in an

adventure with scientists. We take a look at some of the biggest and

Best Films heading your way this summer. This is the greatest night

of my life. Plus, Terry Jones talks us to about the making of The Life

Of Brian. First Hunger Games, science fiction adventure starring

Jennifer Lawrence. Welcome, welcome. The time has come to select one

young man or woman for the honour of representing District 12 in the

Primrose Everdeen. Prim! I volunteer. I volunteer as Tribute.

Hunger Games are games that the Government of this new formed

country called Panem forces random boy and girl from these districts

they have split the country into. They go into the Hunger Games to

fight until there is one survivor remaining to show the people they

have the ultimate power over them. They want a good show. There are 24

of us, only one comes out. I heard about it from my kids. They were

the first ones who discovered the book. I had stop them from telling

me the whole book. Their enthusiasm was infectious. I went upstairs. I

started reading about 10.00pm I finished 1.30 am and put the book

down and said, "I have to make this movie, I have to". I went through

all of this in a matter of days. I thought they were incredible. It's

hard to say true about something in the future. When you look at what

is on reality television and history repeating itself it's

relevant. I thought it was a very important story to be told. This is

the time to show them everything. Make sure they remember you. I keep

wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me if

I'm going to die I want to still be me. I can't afford to think like

that. It has a lot of followers. A lot of fans of the books. If a lot

of fans of the books come out to see the movie, I think we will do

all right. 5-4-3-2-1. I want to see it again tomorrow. What did you

think? Hollywood would love this film to be a huge success. The

Twilight series is coming to an end. They could do with a teen-friendly

film. I think the Hunger Games will be popular and successful. It

deserves to be. I will stop mentioning Twilight the comparison

doesn't hold. It is a different money. It's a blockbuster. It has

roots from the Rollerball to Running Man. There is a flash of

Lord of the Flies. It's often very thrilling. Always very, very smart.

Which is very unusual for a movie of this scale. I highly recommend

it. Do you? Yes, I do. I adored. It I love Jennifer Lawrence. If it was

OK, I would like to make a small model of her so we could embrace it.

That might be slightly odd. OK. little bit. It is the last show. I

have play do. Why wouldn't I? with it. She is brilliant,

compassionate, she is hard, but she's cool. What was weird, I like

to read the book and see the film, I did it the other way round. She

is older than is played in the book. She does it fantastically. It's

very, very dark subject matter. This is about children killing each

other. So, you go... All of the kids seem older other than Pru,

this young girl. Jennifer Lawrence is fianceeal. The film is brilliant.

You will be sitting at the edge of your seat. She will be talked about

and talked about. I will mention Stanley Tucci. He is an oily TV

host you can't help thinking of other actors, maybe Robert De Niro

coming in and Lilleteing you know every second they are above this

and slumming it. Stanley Tucci plays it straight and as a result

the performance is chilling and brilliant. That is the hallmark of

the film. What makes it good is that it never insults anyone's

intelligence least of all its teen audience. Utterly brilliant.

Someone on Twitter hates when I say brilliant. Suck it up. Next The

Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!. It features the voice

of the dreamy Hugh Grant, the latest animation from the Aardman

Studios. A set of cheerful, but utterly incompetent pirates. Blast,

I'm the Pirate Captain. I'm here for your gold. This is a ghost ship.

And, they will be fine except the captain decides on no evidence at

all that this year he is going to win the ultimate prize in pirate si.

-- pirates. He fails but bumps into Charles Darwin. It's the scientific

discovery of our age. Here is the plan. We go to London. We get a

huge pile of booty. I enter Pirate of the Year. I win. Impossible odds.

It's only impossible if you think about it. The captain encounters

his evil Nemesis. In this case Queen Victoria. Steady on. And, you

know, surprising, absurdest adventure follows. It is ambitious

in scale. People always assume that we work like in a shed down in

Bristol. Everything is quite large. The boot was like 15 foot long and

20 foot high. There was a positivism about the whole

production. How wonderful to be on that set? A lot of plasticine.

big boat much I could go there and make a small Jennifer Lawrence to

worship. Let's move on. As you would exact it's Aardman, it's

absolutely knockout. It is funny, all I'm saying is Ham Night. Watch

it, it will all come together. The voices are fabulous. Amelda

Staunton is the biggest baddie on a tiny pony. Hugh Grant is brilliant.

Martin Freeman wonderful. I think adults and kids will love it.

is old school Aardman Animations. He has spent many hours wrestling

with plasticine. The sheer volume of jokes is dizzying. We live in an

era were modern animated comedies there are the jokes for the adults

and the kids. The jokes here work with everyone at the same time.

There is a monkey butler. Everyone finds a monkey butler funny, I have

no hope for you. You might as well go to Switzerland to one of those

clinics and finish the whole thing. It's how I feel. There is a

lairyness. It's unusual. Aardman got in trouble before the film came

out. They made a joke about leprosy. It upset a few people. The nudests

Hans haven't got off lightly. The Elephant Man and Charles Darwin who

is portrayed as a creepy fetishness. I think Darwin would have a good

case to Sue from beyond the dead. Hugh Grant having an obscene amount

of fun. Instead of our usual Top 5, Chris, Catherine and Antiona pick

their Top Blockbuster moments. Summer is when studios release

their most expensive movies. Some critics say they dump down the

movies there are some examples of pure cinema. To which Jurassic Park

T-recognises attack sequence. you feel that? He ramps up the

tension like this cup of water that heralds the T-Rex's terrible

approach. Then it appears. Trying to get to the screaming snacks

inside the Jeep, Spielberg doesn't let up for one second. A lot of the

success of this sequence is down to the sound. Not one note of John

William's score is heard. Next up the Joker Unveiled in The Dark

Knight. Chris if fer Nolan's fopup to Batman's Begins grossed more

that its predecessor. That can be Pretty soon he is taken out by the

surviving clown who approaches him for a very iconic unveiling. Look

at you. What do you believe in? believe whatever doesn't kill you

simply makes you stranger. Great choices. You can't talk about

blockbusters without talking about James Cameron. My top choice is

Terminator 2 Judgment Day. You can't beat the sweaty end of the

line scrappyness of Zaire Connor's attack on the T1,000 Terminator.

Only for him to recover. With think it's all over. Then Arnie saves the

day. Of course, blockbusters aren't just about shooting up the bad guys.

They can also be about movie magic. For that sheer ability to create a

sense of awe and spectacle, Steven It doesn't get much bet r than

Elliot and ET traversing the Full moon. It's the best of American

mainstream movie making distilled into a single image. In the grand

tradition of corporate Hollywood it went on to become Steven Spielberg

as's production company logo. Adrenaline, awe, escapism. Try this

one on for size. The opening moments of the 1977 Star Wars. You

are six years old and sitting in Suddenly, there is words scrolling

everywhere telling you about rebel spies and armoured space stations.

Your father drops his mini tub of ice-cream in the confusion. The

audience is totally lost and completely gripped. This is the

most confident opening to a film of all-time. When audiences first saw

Kong crushing through the jungle to sweep Faye Ray into his fists they

couldn't believe their eyes or ears. This was during the lowest point of

the American Depression. Audiences caeved the escapism of the lonely

anticipate man longing for his platinum blonde companion. The

block busting moment when Kong falls to his death from the Empire

State Building is easily one of the best cinema has ever offered us.

They got him. Oh, no. It wasn't the aeroplanes, it was beauty who

A brilliant choices. I've had a lot of tricks. Will Smith punching the

alien in Independence Day, a star is born. Back to the future. And

die hard. Inception. Jaws of. Next, Wild Bill, the directoial

debut of actor Dexter Fletcher. It stars Charlie Creed Miles as a man

who is relesed from prision after eight years and returns home to

find his sons have been abandoned I'm never going back. It nearly

killed me. It's a man who got a to prison for violent crimes. It seems

like yesterday you got sent down. Usual? 10 pints and a punch-up? No

trouble. We hear snippets of his past. By all accounts, he was a bit

of a lunatic back in the day. He comes out of prison. There's

something different about him. is that? Your old man. He goes to

find his two young sons. Where am I? Funny, I said the same thing for

the last eight years. He finds out that their mother has gone to Spain

with her new fellow. She just left you? And you didn't? I didn't have

a choice. That's not what she said. That's my mum you're talking about.

He has to go to social services. It's the story of the man who

learns to be a father. There's not enough room for both of you. What

makes you think I would listen to you, anyway? You are a joke.

are you going to sort this out? It's easy with the name and the

setting and the nature of the characters for it to be another

gangster flick. But it's really just a slice of life, a real story.

His criminal past his second to what the film is really about,

father trying to regain a relationship with his son. Do you

know Bill? Who's asking? One of the film's he has been most

associated with his with Guy Ritchie. The problem with Guy

Ritchie is that, deep down, if he encountered one of his characters

in real life, he would have one of his foot men come down and shoot

them but that's not the truth whip Dexter Fletcher. He knows this

world. His vantage point is better than just being driven through by

your dad show for. Also, Charlie Creed Miles, of casting, because

he's a big bruiser, a character. A fearsome reputation. Charlie Creed

Miles is more wiry, and do you accept him straight away as someone

with a terrifying reputation and the man trying to be a father. It's

fantastic having Charlie Creed Miles back. He starred in Nil By

Mouth, one of the best films ever made. Since then, he has

disappeared for long periods of time. It's good news to have him

back. If he was here, I was going to say I would hug him but that

sounds weird so we would have a firm handshake. It is thrilling,

thrilling. Absolutely brilliant. I think he's fantastic. I think the

boys, they are fantastic. Brilliant directing from Dexter to bring out

the best of them. The choice of music is fantastic. The best ending

of a film I have seen this year and you're watching a man transformed

in front of your eyes, but it feels incredibly real. The performances

are great. You expect that from Dexter Fletcher, an actor. There's

good performances across the board but it trickier to get the tone

right with this kind of film. It is lovely but not mushy. The Olympic

Park is in there which could have been horribly gimmicky for the time.

I have seen lots of crime movies in my time off. Next, The Kid With A

Bike, a Belgian film about a 12 year old boy living in care and the

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 117 seconds

relationship he strikes up with a I was about to start off by saying

it's not depressing but of course, that moment is incredibly hard

braking and it is a beautiful, beautiful film. The hairdresser is

a fabulous in it, and so is the young boy but you might think this

is going to be dark. There is something strangely uplifting about

it. Of course, he's a damaged, abandoned boy. But it's fabulous.

They had this mighty reputation, the directors, but it's not an art-

house film. It classically simple and a simple story of a boy trying

to pursue his father and perform a relationship with him. And trying

to make his way in the adult world. Hollywood would have filled this up

with rousing moment and big emotional speeches but the film

doesn't need that. A classically simple story and one I think, even

if people think they hate art house cinema, I defy anybody not to watch

this movie with bated breath, as much as any of the blockbusters.

And he is brilliant. The scene where he is angry, I don't want to

give too much away, but he's fabulous. Yes, the kid is called

Thomas Doret. And he has not been to stage school. He has such an

incredible character. There's something almost cartoonish about

him. There is something of Tintin about him. A Rundle -- a bundle of

energy. An endearing performance, and a weird mixture of total

naivety and cynicism at the same time. It's a lovely movie. The Kid

With A Bike is on limited nationwide release from Friday 23rd

March. Log on to our website to find out where it will be showing.

This is an impossible question. What is your film of the week?

Listen, The Kid With A Bike is a great movie. I would recommend all

of them, Wild Bill. Hunger Games is a special Blockbuster. Yes, but

Wild Bill is brilliant and so is the pirates. Next, Catherine, Chris

and Antonia tell us what movies to look out for while we're off air.

But first here's a round up of some of the films heading your way over

You are sweating like a human. Next, it will be tears. What are you

waiting for? Mirror, mirror, on the Do the deal and come back with the

money. Time's up. What kind of bird You have my permission to die.

club is totally out of control! This is the greatest night of my

We all have secrets. The ones we keep and the ones that are kept

from us. What is your name? Albert. These pages are all stuck together

again? I hate my kids right now. They are all dead. We were set

You have no right to rule the way you do. You don't say? You think

I'm going to kill myself there to make you look bad? Welcome to the

programme. Who the hell is he? is an agent. You speak American?

What are you prepared to do? bringing the party to you!

joining us, Catherine, Chris and Antonia here. Hello. There is a lot

on. Who is the most excited about street dance to? You are. I can't

help it. And I'm an old lady. What should we be looking forward to and

the big hits? What are you most excited about? I have already seen

this. I'm excited about a comedy horror called Cabin In The Woods.

It is about a cabin in the woods. It's fantastic. Bunny, scary.

the trailer and they jumped a lot. It has the balance right which a

lot of comedy horror is don't get right. This gets it absolutely

right, as you would expect from some of the creative team behind

Buffy The Vampire Slayer. OK, quite. I seriously believe something weird

What is bad thing? This isn't right. Good idea. Really? We have got to

Some body cent of those things to That is genuinely terrifying. I

will have to sleep tonight with the lights on. Have a nice hot milk and

you will be fine. It is scary and brilliant and it deconstructs the

horror genre. OK. I totally trust you. Antonia, I can only imagine

you pick something made in the 1930s, by a man wearing a beret,

not a bad way? There's not a single lousy subtitled movie to choose

from this summer for for so, in response, I'm not leaving the house

for anything less than Anna Karenina, out on 7th September. The

director did pride and prejudice. And Keira Knightley is in the lead

and I think she's shaping up to be the best actress in the country.

There was a film called last night which came out last year. Didn't

you like it? Fight! She just turns in the most sophisticated, elegant

melancholy performance. It's incredible. Then I thought she

wiped the floor with Michael Fassbender. One of the finest

actors in the world. Or so I love Joe Wright in pride and prejudice.

The only other actress who has done this before was Greta Garbo, so she

has a standard to reach but it's interesting that the 1935 film was

a small film and I have heard this is an enormous production with

millions of pounds. It may have all It takes place inside a theatre.

You have trains going through the theatre. Maybe he had to re-

calibrate quickly. I have all the inside tracks. As always. If I was

allowed I would be sitting in your lap. What film should we be excited

about? I have been banging on about The Raid. I will not go for that

one. You think I might go for The Dark Night knight Rises. But I'm

going tor Prometheus. This could well be his hat-trick. People are

Yeah, how can you not be excited about that. Is there a plot? Do you

know of one? There is. It's about expedition of scientists who

discover clues on earth that make them believe mankind was birthed.

They go out to this planet and discover things that they shouldn't

tamper with. It could possibly lead ultimately to alien. This is very

much its own basis. It has the same haunted house movie in space that

Alien had. It had this epic scale like 2001 where we tackle themes

like the dawn of mankind and, why are we here! It feels like I've

seen it. I will give you titles. A French movie, Tales Of The Night.

And We Are Poets. And The Raid, best action movie in ten years.

People have to see it. The juicy carrot is The Master. He has made

four films in his career. The idea that he will be back behind the

camera again. My breath is baited already. It's my Movie of the Year.

Dark Knight Rises my choice. I clapped the trailer. It's time for

director's cut. Terry Jones talk to us about The Life Of Brian. There

is, obviously, some strong language. I wasn't there when the idea of

Jesus Christ lust for glory came about. We are three wise men.

We are three wise men. What are you doing creeping around a cow shed at

2.00 am in the morning. That doesn't sound wie wise to me.

started reading the Bible. It wasn't Christ. Everything he says

is great, you know, so we weren't... The idea of making fun of Christ

was quickly put aside. The idea was of parallel massiah came up. They

started following me yesterday. Well, they can stop following you

right now. Now, stop following my son. You ought to be ashamed of

yourselves. Massiah, massiah. who? The massiah. There is no

massiah in here. There is a mess all right, but no massiah. Now, go

away. John was very keen to play Brian. We all that thought that was

a terrible idea. Lock off. What? Judean People Front. We are the

People Front of Judea. We persuaded him he was necessary for all the

other parts. He does it again in Brian, brilliantly. If you want to

join a PFJ you would have to have really hate the rch omans. I do.

How much? A lot. Right, you're in. I could tell you some things that

you may not have seen in the film What about you. Look for Mike with

Chris Lagham, he is pulling a very funny face. When I say the name

because... In themanger scene with the three wise men there is a large

cable with a plug on it, right in the foreground. It's so obvious.

You never see it. # Always look on the bright side of

life... # In Always Look on the Bright Side

Seymour Hoffman quens will is a man wondering about at the bottom of

the crosses. -- sequence" there is a man wondering about at the bottom

of the crosses. I have to like it now -- I have got to like it now.

Christ is playing by an actor Ken Colly. He is treated respectfully.

The camera pans away to someone who shouts, "speak up" they can't hear

him. That utterly undermines his faith in Christ. I started off by

saying this is such a tenth rate film that I don't believe it would

disturb anybody's faith. started out with an open mind.

have never seen Michael so angry really. What Mike said was that

they missed the beginning of the film. The Bishop of Southwark and

Mugridg hadn't seen the first 15 minutes. How could they have missed

it. It's a gad piece of work, I think. That's how I feel. Quite

self-satisfied about it. It's the end of the film. Incidentally, this

record is available. Brilliant. More from Terry Jones on our

website. Danny would like to say something. I'm away Paul Thomas

Anderson has made five films. will be back in October. Playing us

out it can only be The Muppets. Thank you for watching. Have a

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# I've got everything I need right in front of me

# Nothing is stopping me # Nothing I can't deal with with

you right next to me # Life it a piece of cake

# Life is a piece of pie # Life's an easy road

# With someone beside to you share the road

# Life is a high # Life is a leg of lamb