:00:31. > :00:36.Hello and welcome to Film 2012 with me Claudia Winkleman and Danny
:00:36. > :00:46.Leigh.. If you want to get in touch please tweet or email. The details
:00:46. > :00:47.
:00:47. > :00:52.are on the screen now. Coming up: Having a ball with Clint Eastwood
:00:52. > :00:57.and Amy Adams in Trouble with the Curve. You don't even like baseball.
:00:58. > :01:02.I love baseball. Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter do Dickens in
:01:02. > :01:10.Great Expectations. There are caravans and car carnage in black
:01:10. > :01:14.comedy, Sightseers. I've had a brilliant holiday. Plus, Thomas
:01:14. > :01:19.Vinterberg's new film The Hunt and Antiona Quirke is here with her Top
:01:19. > :01:24.Five road movies. First Trouble with the Curve, starring Clint
:01:24. > :01:34.Eastwood as an ageing baseball scout and Amy Adams as his long
:01:34. > :01:39.suffering daughter. He is one of the guys who has earnt these
:01:39. > :01:44.players. I'm not a poledancer. is an old baseball scout. He is
:01:44. > :01:48.having problems with his vision which is esession for a scout. He
:01:48. > :01:54.is very stubborn. He doesn't want anybody to help. He doesn't want
:01:54. > :01:58.anybody feeling sorry for him. His daughter, who is a lawyer in
:01:59. > :02:04.Atlanta. Trust me, I can handle it. Wants to come out and see what is
:02:04. > :02:11.the mat we are him? I'm do it for Pete. He thought you could use
:02:11. > :02:15.company. He's wrong. Wait until I see that horse's ass. It must be so
:02:15. > :02:17.rewarding one one -- being one of your close friends. Fathers and
:02:17. > :02:21.daughters can be the best relationship of your life and it
:02:22. > :02:26.can be the most challenging. Daughters want so badly the
:02:26. > :02:31.approval of their father. Why don't you go home I feel this sense of
:02:31. > :02:37.responsibility to make sure you are OK. It's not the, you know, father
:02:37. > :02:45.knows best Brady Bunch version of a relationship. I found it to be
:02:45. > :02:52.pretty identifiable. This is my daughter, mickey. Excuse us! Sorry.
:02:52. > :02:58.Hi. I play an exprobaseball player. Coming in. You are crazy. He sees
:02:58. > :03:06.the things in mickey that keeps her from connecting from Gus and vice
:03:06. > :03:11.versa. Who are you, Dr Phil? That is quality television. Yeah.
:03:11. > :03:14.did you handle that by yourself? didn't. He sent me away. Only a
:03:14. > :03:19.coward leaves her kid. You don't know half of what you think you do.
:03:19. > :03:25.I did what I felt was right. I didn't want you to have life in the
:03:25. > :03:28.cheap seats, that is all. Spending every waking moment with my dad,
:03:28. > :03:35.watching baseball eating food no good for me, playing pool and
:03:35. > :03:39.staying up too late, those were the best seats in the house. If is
:03:39. > :03:44.surprises you are after buy a kinder Egg. He plays the same
:03:44. > :03:48.character he has been playing for the last 15 years. A film no
:03:48. > :03:53.surprises. Do you feel differently? No. I think I liked it more than
:03:53. > :03:57.you, I can tell. It's predictable. If anybody else was playing these
:03:57. > :04:01.parts you would put it down to a Sunday afternoon movie that you
:04:01. > :04:04.would not feel guilty about getting up and leaving and making a toasted
:04:04. > :04:07.sandwich. However. Amy Adams is brilliant. I love Clint Eastwood in.
:04:07. > :04:11.It I like Justin Timberlake. Yes, you know what is going to happen.
:04:11. > :04:15.When she goes out there you think - she is going to wear a leather
:04:15. > :04:21.jacket, they will be in a bar with sawdust on the floor. It happens. I
:04:21. > :04:24.don't think it actually matters. I found it enjoyable. And, I think it
:04:24. > :04:31.ends well. I think you are crazy. I accept there is more to - there can
:04:31. > :04:36.be more to a movie than originality. What this film does have, this much,
:04:36. > :04:41.is proper movie star magnetism. It comes from Amy Adams who sinks her
:04:41. > :04:46.teeth into this cliched cartoonish role. She brings the movie to life.
:04:46. > :04:50.She makes it more or less watchable. It's not a quote you will see on
:04:50. > :04:56.the poster "more or less watchable". It's the Clint Eastwood character.
:04:56. > :05:01.The plot too, it is one giant celebration of doing things the old
:05:01. > :05:03.fashioned way. One middle finger to everything about the modern world.
:05:03. > :05:06.Clint's character and possibly Clint himself think that is
:05:06. > :05:11.everything in the world could be make instantly bet fer we stopped
:05:11. > :05:17.emailing each other. He is not wrong. He is not wrong. John
:05:17. > :05:23.Goodman is in it. It's not enough. OK. The script more or less
:05:23. > :05:30.watchable. The script is unwatchable. The script's idea of a
:05:30. > :05:34.cliff-hanger is when cliff and his prostate attempt to answer the call
:05:34. > :05:37.of nature. It's not a nail biter in the real world. I will not spoil it
:05:37. > :05:42.for people out there by revealing what happens there. OK. Thank you.
:05:42. > :05:52.I know what you mean. I thought the third, third, as it were was OK?
:05:52. > :05:53.
:05:53. > :05:58.It's not enough. None of this is enough. I understand. Sightseers,
:05:58. > :06:01.the latest from Kill List director Ben Wheatley. Written by and
:06:01. > :06:07.starring Alice Lowe and Steve Oram. It's a black comedy about serial
:06:07. > :06:11.killing and and caravanning. Show me your world, Chris. I thought we
:06:11. > :06:19.would start with Crich Tramway Museum. Dear mum, Yorkshire is
:06:19. > :06:24.lovely, not like you say at all. They can smile. The caravan made us
:06:24. > :06:31.quite (inaudible) but Chris is a sensitive lover. Sightseers is a
:06:31. > :06:35.serial killing road movie/comedy about a bearded man and - Angry
:06:35. > :06:41.woman. An angry woman. Who go on holiday and get carried away and a
:06:41. > :06:46.few people die. It's a romcom with some blood. Good girl. You are
:06:46. > :06:52.going to pick that up? I don't do that. If you don't pick it up
:06:52. > :06:56.immediately I have to inform the National Trust. As we were writing
:06:56. > :07:01.it we thought, we will have a murder and a bit of sightseeing and
:07:01. > :07:04.another murder and another bit of sightseeing. Pretty much. It meant
:07:04. > :07:08.each murder had to tell what you was happening between them and
:07:08. > :07:12.between their relationship. That is how we plotted that course.
:07:12. > :07:17.have to be aware of making sure there is something funny going on
:07:17. > :07:22.every minute or so to remind the audience it's meant to be funny.
:07:22. > :07:26.It's I easy to take a mis-step and they do something terrible and you
:07:26. > :07:36.lose the audience and they won't laugh after that. Say one word and
:07:36. > :07:37.
:07:37. > :07:43.it's... It's thinking outside the box. It's an American genre, the
:07:43. > :07:49.serial killer genre and road movie genre. You had to work out how you
:07:49. > :07:54.do that in Britain it's a tiny place. Have you to make a break
:07:54. > :07:58.for... Isle of Wight. I was surprised when people say - Britain
:07:58. > :08:06.looks beautiful. It was. It is beautiful. Getting outside was
:08:06. > :08:16.exciting for me. People said - comedy is never made in the wild. I
:08:16. > :08:18.
:08:18. > :08:23.disagree. Sit. You are like your mother. Has it gone wrong? Yeah, a
:08:23. > :08:28.bit. You didn't let him see you do number twos, did you, Tina? They
:08:28. > :08:35.are not happy bunnies by the end of the film. If you are a serial
:08:35. > :08:42.killer you have a limited span - Future. Limited career. Have you
:08:42. > :08:47.had a nice holiday? Yeah, I've had a brilliant holiday. There is no-
:08:47. > :08:53.one better better than Ben Wheatley of capturing the side of Britain
:08:53. > :09:00.line that is mundane and deeply sinister. Sightseers is genuinely
:09:00. > :09:10.very dark and very funny. The easy way to describe it Mike Lee's Nuts
:09:10. > :09:11.
:09:11. > :09:16.in May meets Natural Born Killers. It's so naturally British. It's a
:09:16. > :09:20.very good point. I went with all the team here. I have to say we
:09:20. > :09:28.came out of the screening room and punched the air. I have to read
:09:28. > :09:37.tweets. We had so many. B251 "it's a blast. Disagree with my opinion
:09:37. > :09:43.at your peril." another one "easily the best comedy I have seen in
:09:43. > :09:48.years, comfortably the darkest." The characters are brilliant. I'm
:09:48. > :09:52.obsessed with Ian and Janice, her mother is fantastically portrayed.
:09:52. > :09:56.I wanted to see it immediately again? I talked about Ben Wheatley.
:09:56. > :10:00.We should talk about Steve Oram and Alice Lowe who co-writ the script
:10:00. > :10:06.and star in. It it's down to them that the blackness and comedy are
:10:06. > :10:10.kept in balance the whole time. That is rare. That make it is a
:10:10. > :10:17.special film. The secret of Sightseers for all the blood being
:10:17. > :10:19.cleaned off the caravan wheels at heart it's a great romance. A
:10:19. > :10:23.horribly believable, creepy love story. That is the genius of the
:10:23. > :10:29.film. That is why it works so beautifully. To go back to Ben
:10:29. > :10:34.Wheatley, he has made three great films now. This is the third. Just
:10:34. > :10:37.Around The Corner is special. Sightseers is a great British
:10:37. > :10:44.comedy. Embrace it. You feel so bad for anybody they meet. That is all
:10:44. > :10:47.I want... You go "no, take a different turn!" There is a
:10:47. > :10:51.plausibility about this. Anyone who spent their childhood being dragged
:10:51. > :10:55.around National Trust places. This could easily be the couple across
:10:55. > :10:59.the cafe from you, across the gift shop from you in the tram museum at
:10:59. > :11:09.any moment. Please go and see. It we are begging. You must. You won't
:11:09. > :11:17.
:11:18. > :11:23.be grumpy with this. Next this Welcome Antiona. Hello. You have
:11:23. > :11:27.Road Trip, good one? Hellish. So many good road trips. Cinema was
:11:27. > :11:31.made about stories for travel. In so many ways cinema is travel. You
:11:31. > :11:36.are being shown places you have never been to before and people you
:11:36. > :11:40.have never met. You are seeing it through the windscreen of a car.
:11:40. > :11:46.The perfect medium for tales of the road. When we were told your Top
:11:46. > :11:53.Five. They save it for us they don't want us to get grumpy we both
:11:53. > :11:58.went, there was whooping. I was a happy man. I get blank faces when I
:11:58. > :12:02.tell people my Top Five. They are nervous about it. People like their
:12:02. > :12:05.Top Five. We were grinning like religious cultist. I must warn you
:12:05. > :12:13.that there is strong language in some of tonight's clips. How did
:12:13. > :12:23.you choose No Five and what is it? America in the '60s and '70s. Could
:12:23. > :12:24.
:12:24. > :12:27.you look at Bonnie and Clyde, Jules... It's a road movie. Easy
:12:28. > :12:32.Rider. You coo choose any of these and you would have had a great time.
:12:32. > :12:42.I thought let's pick one that is just as good and has been curiously
:12:42. > :12:45.overlooked. I picked Thunder bolt andlight Foot. He directed the
:12:45. > :12:54.Deerhuntser. Overlooked, when you see this clip you will notice two
:12:54. > :12:59.very familiar faces. Let's have a look. I saw that, that was really
:12:59. > :13:07.good. Where are we headed, man? I'm ready? I don't know. Sometimes when
:13:07. > :13:13.there is nothing to do, it is best to keep moving. Can you smell
:13:13. > :13:23.something up here? No. Smell that? I don't smell anything. It smells
:13:23. > :13:25.
:13:25. > :13:31.like shit. Oh... Racoon shit Hang your head out the window and let
:13:31. > :13:41.the rain get at it. Would you like a little... No, get out of here.
:13:41. > :13:42.
:13:42. > :13:46.Remember not to pick your teeth. God! For Jeff Bridges alone. At 25.
:13:46. > :13:52.What a sight. This is the incredible thing about that movie
:13:53. > :13:58.and one of the great ingredients is that you have a cynic and innocent
:13:59. > :14:04.forced together. Think about Rainman, Tom Cruise is great in
:14:04. > :14:14.that film. Change happens in a road movie more than any other genre.
:14:14. > :14:21.This nail it is. After the Deerhunter he bankrupted the
:14:21. > :14:26.company. Clint Eastwood gave him two takes. What is No Four?
:14:27. > :14:31.Steps. We went back to the 1930's to Hitchcock. I remember seeing
:14:31. > :14:35.this when I was a kid being overwhelmed with the sense of
:14:35. > :14:39.cosyness. Something to terrificically cosy and safe about
:14:39. > :14:43.the road movie. When you are young and you have seen a few you are
:14:43. > :14:46.aware of the way they do things you know what will come next. You know
:14:46. > :14:50.the people will fall in love am you know they will spend an evening
:14:50. > :14:53.sitting around the fire telling stories. In road movies there are
:14:53. > :15:00.moments when people check into motels and tell stories or spend
:15:00. > :15:03.the night in the back of a freight train in an empty car ainkdr
:15:03. > :15:13.carriage. In this clip, two wise cracking people falling in love.
:15:13. > :15:27.
:15:27. > :15:32.Must be a mile away by now. Don't do that! WHISTLING Do stop
:15:32. > :15:35.whistling. You are the white man's burden. I can't tell you what
:15:35. > :15:39.comfort that thought gives me. Those policemen will get you as
:15:39. > :15:49.soon as it is daylight. They are not police men. When did you find
:15:49. > :15:59.that out? A brilliant choice. What's next? Wizard of Australia.
:15:59. > :16:00.
:16:00. > :16:04.Go ahead. -- wizard of Oz. Go ahead. You are often on the road with
:16:04. > :16:07.friends who - you are making new friends you are never going to see
:16:07. > :16:17.again. The whole thing can feel like a dream. There is that
:16:17. > :16:18.
:16:18. > :16:21.sensation of waking up at the end of the film. Yeah. You see in this
:16:22. > :16:31.little clip how beautifully that theme creeps in here at this point
:16:31. > :16:38.in the film. Here is the clip. We know each other now, don't we?
:16:38. > :16:48.We do. That's right. To Oz. # We are off to see the wizard
:16:48. > :16:57.
:16:57. > :17:06.It is not like me to bring David Lynch into the conversation. He
:17:06. > :17:14.took a lot of that movie and put it into Wild At Heart. This is the
:17:14. > :17:21.other thing about "Road" movies, it is a place where the most crazy
:17:21. > :17:28.things happen. You were there. is your next one? Next is Red River.
:17:28. > :17:33.This is John Wayne at his best. Many of the Great Westerns are
:17:33. > :17:38."Road" movies. It could have been The Searchers. What you get in
:17:38. > :17:42.these movies is not just a sense of being on the road, it is a sense of
:17:43. > :17:46.a scale of an entire continent which is just an extraordinary
:17:46. > :17:56.thing to get across. Cinema gets the sense of motion across,
:17:56. > :18:16.
:18:16. > :18:23.particularly. Look at this clip. There they are. 14 years of hard
:18:23. > :18:33.work. They say we can't make the drive. They could be wrong. Better
:18:33. > :18:41.
:18:41. > :18:45.John Wayne and Monty Cliff didn't get on off-set. Now, I love your
:18:45. > :18:51.number one. It has to be everybody's number one. I will go
:18:51. > :18:56.to my death saying this is number one because it is THE best. It is
:18:56. > :19:00.Midnight Run. It's just - they are on the road. The two guys together
:19:00. > :19:05.are on the run. It is the definition of a road movie. We are
:19:05. > :19:09.in a car. We are in a van. We are swimming. We are walking down the
:19:09. > :19:18.street barefoot. We are in the back of a truck. It goes on and on and
:19:18. > :19:24.on. Yes. You tend to think a hundred cigarettes have been smoked,
:19:24. > :19:33.a thousand cups of coffee have been drunk, the hair is standing on end.
:19:33. > :19:39.That is the... I love it! We have to have a look at the clip.
:19:39. > :19:49.Jack, let's be fair about this. You lied to me first. What?! At the
:19:49. > :19:50.
:19:50. > :19:54.river. Get the... At the river... You lied to me first. You have some
:19:54. > :20:04.locking nerve! You lied to me first. Yes. You had no knowledge I was
:20:04. > :20:09.lying about my fear of flying. At the river, you lied to me. I can't
:20:09. > :20:16.argue with you. I don't know what you are talking about! Fantastic.
:20:16. > :20:22.The great movies must feel like a string of pearls and each bead is a
:20:22. > :20:25.sketch. That movie has it all. are brilliant. Very good. I love
:20:25. > :20:35.your... My hat is off! Next, director Mike Newell's
:20:35. > :20:37.
:20:37. > :20:44.adaptation of Great Expectations. Great Expectations is a story of a
:20:44. > :20:51.kid who is shaped by his desperate attempts to make himself worthy of
:20:51. > :20:57.this unreachable character. What do you think? She is very pretty.
:20:57. > :21:04.you wish to see Miss Havisham. Havisham lives in his local village
:21:04. > :21:09.and she is the lady of the manor. Let me look at you. Come closer.
:21:09. > :21:18.She introduced Pip into the household and wants him to play and
:21:18. > :21:27.she is not the warmest of characters. Let me see you play
:21:27. > :21:32.cards with him. He is a common boy. You can break his heart. She is the
:21:32. > :21:38.epitome of his ambition to get out of the life he is in. He is
:21:38. > :21:42.everything that is wrong. He has come into a handsome fortune and he
:21:42. > :21:52.has great expectations. It is the desire of the benefactor that he be
:21:52. > :21:57.brought up as a gentleman in London. Dickens' worlds, the characters
:21:57. > :22:02.work themselves into our awareness. Hold your nose. Magwitch receives
:22:02. > :22:09.the gift of Pip's courage and generosity in his desperation and
:22:10. > :22:14.never forgets it. You acted noble, my boy. Pip is a nice person. It is
:22:14. > :22:20.all about him becoming not a nice person in a way. You must
:22:20. > :22:23.understand... What must I understand? That I cannot renew our
:22:23. > :22:27.acquaintance. My life has changed since then. As a point of
:22:27. > :22:31.recognition for all of us in Pip's journey, I think the young person
:22:31. > :22:37.looking for meaning in the world and getting it wrong and the hard
:22:37. > :22:43.knocks of trying to get it right. How can you do it? Give your
:22:43. > :22:52.affections to that man? All sorts of ugly creatures hover above a
:22:52. > :22:57.lighted candle. Can the candle help it? You can. It's a story of
:22:57. > :23:03.ambition and obsession taking over people. I have loved you since I
:23:03. > :23:11.first saw you in this house. touches nothing. It is not natural.
:23:11. > :23:15.It is natural in me. I love you. We talked about Sightseers. Great
:23:15. > :23:25.Expectations feels like a movie which is for tourists, it is the
:23:25. > :23:25.
:23:25. > :23:31.kind of familiar Dickens' adaptation, it is filled with top
:23:31. > :23:36.hats and mutton-chop whiskers. I think it is the kind of film that
:23:36. > :23:40.belongs in some commemorative tin that you give to your gran.
:23:40. > :23:45.give it to your gran or you give it to me. I enjoyed it. It's been
:23:45. > :23:51.adapted before. I thought it was directed beautifully. I'm saying
:23:51. > :23:54.that. I thought that Ralph Fiennes is brilliant. I could watch Helena
:23:54. > :23:58.Bonham Carter talk about sausages, or maybe do an ad for home
:23:58. > :24:02.insurance - I don't know if she feels strongly about that! She is
:24:02. > :24:08.watchable. I enjoyed it. In terms of performances, they have taken
:24:08. > :24:18.half the cast of Harry Potter and imported them into this. The pick
:24:18. > :24:21.
:24:21. > :24:31.of the bunch is Ewan Bremner. Helena Bonham Carter - you can't
:24:31. > :24:33.
:24:33. > :24:38.help thinking her Miss Havisham is going to do a Kate Bush B-side!
:24:38. > :24:41.There is nothing wrong with it. going again on Sunday!
:24:41. > :24:51.Next, The Hunt starring Mads Mikkelsen as a teacher whose life
:24:51. > :24:51.
:24:51. > :26:07.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 75 seconds
:26:07. > :26:11.falls apart after he is falsely What did you think? Given its
:26:11. > :26:16.subject matter, The Hunt could have been a heavy-handed movie. It is
:26:16. > :26:20.chilling. It is one of the best films I have seen this year. It is
:26:20. > :26:25.deceptively calm at first but when the false accusation is made,
:26:25. > :26:30.everything spirals very quickly into a nightmare. It's the kind of
:26:30. > :26:35.film that I defy anyone to see this film - and people should - I defy
:26:35. > :26:40.them not to get physically caught up in it. Some of it is almost
:26:40. > :26:44.unwatchable. There is a scene in the supermarket, and in the church
:26:44. > :26:50.- I haven't spoilt it - where you will be sitting and he is
:26:50. > :26:55.outstanding in it. It is Mads Mikkelsen's vehicle. He won the
:26:55. > :26:59.Best Actor at the Cannes Festival. There is great performances all
:26:59. > :27:05.over this film. Annika Wedderkopp plays the little girl. She is great.
:27:05. > :27:12.It is such an important role. Thomas Bo Larsen is also fantastic
:27:12. > :27:16.as Mads Mikkelsen's best friend. Yes. I think after that, lots of
:27:16. > :27:21.people, me included, expected Thomas Vinterberg to have the kind
:27:21. > :27:24.of career that maybe he hasn't. This is a welcome comeback. This
:27:24. > :27:28.film feels relevant and resonant at the moment. If that prompts more
:27:28. > :27:35.people to see it, fantastic. There is something timeless about this
:27:35. > :27:41.film. It is a joy. Yeah. Flawless. Yes. It is. People need to see this
:27:41. > :27:44.movie. That's all for tonight. Next week
:27:44. > :27:46.we're back to Wednesday night at the ever so slightly earlier time
:27:46. > :27:49.of 11.15pm. We'll be reviewing Celeste and Jesse Forever, Seven
:27:50. > :27:51.Psychopaths, I Anna and Love Crime. Playing us out tonight - Tom Cruise
:27:52. > :28:00.as Jack Reacher. It's in cinemas Boxing Day.
:28:00. > :28:05.Thank you and good night. Jack Reacher is a ghost. A brilliant
:28:05. > :28:09.investigator. A troublemaker, too. And two years ago, he disappears.
:28:09. > :28:19.You don't find this guy unless he wants to be found. Excuse me, Sir.
:28:19. > :28:21.