0:00:21 > 0:00:27Hello and welcome to the show. We are live. If you want to get in
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0:00:32 > 0:00:38Childish behaviour runs wild in Roman Polanski's Carnage. Oh my
0:00:38 > 0:00:43God! Do something! Show actual mouth. Charlize Theron just won't
0:00:43 > 0:00:48grow up in Young Adult. We are meant to be together and I'm here
0:00:48 > 0:00:58to get him back. And Elizabeth Bolsun is breaking down in Martha,
0:00:58 > 0:00:59
0:00:59 > 0:01:07Marcy, May, Malene. -- Elizabeth Plus, find out why Kermit is doing
0:01:07 > 0:01:09this. It is just to jump to the left. If I do any more I have to
0:01:09 > 0:01:15pay royalties. When he and Miss piggy answer our questionnaire
0:01:15 > 0:01:19later. First tonight, Carnage directed by Roman Polanski and
0:01:19 > 0:01:26based on the play God of Carnage. It stars Jodie Foster and Kate
0:01:26 > 0:01:35Winslet. Following the dispute in Brooklyn Bridge Park, she struck a
0:01:35 > 0:01:42Lawson in the face. Armed. What else can we say? Carrying a stick?
0:01:42 > 0:01:46It is my son's he was hit in the mouth. The parents decide let's be
0:01:46 > 0:01:50civilised, let's get together and discuss what happened. Thank you.
0:01:50 > 0:01:55There is no reason for us to thank each other. Some of us still have a
0:01:55 > 0:02:00sense of community. They are in a very polite suburb and you would
0:02:00 > 0:02:04think they get on well. Do you know what they would argue about?
0:02:04 > 0:02:09would not let him be part of his gang. Did you know he had a gang?
0:02:09 > 0:02:12No, but I'm thrilled to hear it. For the first third of the story is
0:02:12 > 0:02:19very polite and everybody's trying to present the best version of
0:02:19 > 0:02:27themselves. It is a little recipe of mind. Apple and pear. It is new
0:02:27 > 0:02:31to me. It is a classic. And then one thing leads to another and
0:02:31 > 0:02:37needless to say the gloves come off. Your son is a maniac. He is not a
0:02:37 > 0:02:45maniac. Yes, he is. Why are you saying that? He is a maniac.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48starts gaining momentum. Enough with the cell phone already. The
0:02:48 > 0:02:53victim and the criminal are not the same. As you think my son is a
0:02:54 > 0:02:57snitch? I don't think anything. don't say anything. Foretell breaks
0:02:57 > 0:03:01loose and it becomes nothing to do with the boys and their fight, but
0:03:01 > 0:03:11entirely to do with these two different marriages and the cracks
0:03:11 > 0:03:13
0:03:13 > 0:03:17Oh my God. Way to go! It is a comedy of people's manners and how
0:03:17 > 0:03:22they lose them. You had better watch it. He will be on the edge.
0:03:22 > 0:03:27She's horrible. We were nice to you. If we bought tulips. My wife
0:03:27 > 0:03:32dressed me as a liberal. something! Shut your mouth.
0:03:32 > 0:03:38there's a moral to the story, it's that adults can be more childish
0:03:38 > 0:03:44than children. This is what I think. I think I'm going to vomit again.
0:03:44 > 0:03:49brilliant line. It is interesting, there's a lot of cuddly movies at
0:03:49 > 0:03:54the moment in cinemas. The artist, the descendants, warhorse. Pretty
0:03:54 > 0:03:59much everything on show tonight has a slightly different tone. We will
0:03:59 > 0:04:02get roaring with Carnage, which has a pint glass of vinegar. You have
0:04:02 > 0:04:06these two well-to-do couples and Manhattan who meet up to talk about
0:04:06 > 0:04:12their children. They progress very quickly to tearing each other limb
0:04:12 > 0:04:15from limb verbally. It is often incredibly funny. The dialogue is
0:04:15 > 0:04:20scalpel sharp. Although it is originally a French play set in
0:04:20 > 0:04:24America, for British audiences, there will be moments when you will
0:04:24 > 0:04:30be heaving with laughter. My reservation is that the play, there
0:04:30 > 0:04:33are pretences in the play. This talked about something more grand,
0:04:33 > 0:04:37controversial things about human nature. It doesn't really do that.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40You just have a lot of people saying expertly unpleasant things
0:04:40 > 0:04:44to each other, which is funny but you feel bad for laughing because
0:04:44 > 0:04:52you are realise you are watching for middle-class equivalent of a
0:04:52 > 0:04:56fight in a car-park. They are ghastly, absolutely ghastly. It
0:04:56 > 0:05:03takes umbrella parenting to the next level. I saw the play and it
0:05:03 > 0:05:07was absolutely brilliant. More claustrophobic on the stage. I
0:05:07 > 0:05:10loved this, although it is that a brilliant week for films. You have
0:05:10 > 0:05:18to use laugh carefully because on about a really love something and
0:05:18 > 0:05:23then love something but -- spectacularly. It is so contrived
0:05:23 > 0:05:31because it is a film of the play. At one point Kate Winslet and
0:05:31 > 0:05:35Christoph Waltz... I was shouting, get out! Just run! I do think it is
0:05:35 > 0:05:39a brilliant master class in performances. It has a real
0:05:40 > 0:05:44ensemble piece. It is beautiful to watch, not one of them is better
0:05:44 > 0:05:49than the other, they are all good. Kate Winslet might just enjoy it
0:05:49 > 0:05:53because she has the best scene. -- inch it. The whole thing is very
0:05:54 > 0:05:58theatrical. You can do a couple of things when you're adapting a play.
0:05:58 > 0:06:03You can turn him into a massive cinematic spectacle or you can do
0:06:03 > 0:06:07what Roman Polanski has done which his film the play. In terms of the
0:06:07 > 0:06:11performances, it is very theatrical. You can pick up your favourites,
0:06:12 > 0:06:15but it is about the ensemble. It has a good night out at the theatre
0:06:15 > 0:06:18at the cinema. I don't have a problem with that. It is a
0:06:18 > 0:06:21freakishly good week for films and there are films we are going to
0:06:21 > 0:06:25talk about which linger in the mind and a difficult to get out of your
0:06:25 > 0:06:29head. The thing about Carnage, there's one joke and it is a really
0:06:29 > 0:06:32funny joke, but once you've heard it, you've heard it and then it's
0:06:32 > 0:06:38gone. There are other films that have possibly slightly more to
0:06:39 > 0:06:42offer, but it is very, very funny. Next, Jason Reitman reunites with
0:06:42 > 0:06:47by a blow Cody for Young Adult and it stars Charlize Theron. -- Diablo
0:06:47 > 0:06:55Cody. What are you doing backwards might have you moved back? To of
0:06:55 > 0:07:04course not, grows. She is a ghost writer for a Young Adult series.
0:07:04 > 0:07:10She comes from a small town. She gets sent an e-mail. She gets an
0:07:10 > 0:07:15announcement of our unnamed child. Our little girl. She finds this out
0:07:15 > 0:07:19and then hatches a plan to come back and still me away. Body and I
0:07:19 > 0:07:24are meant to be together. I'm here to get him back. I'm pretty sure he
0:07:24 > 0:07:30is married with a kid on the way. I've got baggage, too. Keep all of
0:07:30 > 0:07:36this to yourself. I would find a therapist. She gets incredibly
0:07:37 > 0:07:43obsessive about this idea that he might be stuck in unhappiness.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Psychotic. And she will be the one that will repay him from that
0:07:47 > 0:07:51unhappiness and give him the happiness he deserves. I am going
0:07:51 > 0:07:58to a rock concert. I think there's a chance we may reconnect. Let's
0:07:58 > 0:08:04show him what he's been missing. has seen me recently, he knows. But
0:08:04 > 0:08:09his wife haven't seen me in a while. We all know somebody who seems like
0:08:09 > 0:08:12they are stuck in a certain time in their life and they can't get past
0:08:12 > 0:08:17it. They are still obsessing over mistakes they might have made for
0:08:17 > 0:08:21people they might have let go. kid -- you kids was so cute in high
0:08:21 > 0:08:24school. Funny how those initial instincts can be so right. You may
0:08:24 > 0:08:28call these mistakes along the way, but the world will make sure you
0:08:28 > 0:08:32end up with the person you're meant to be with. I wanted to make you
0:08:32 > 0:08:37laugh -- Young Adult for many reasons, mainly because I love
0:08:37 > 0:08:41Diablo. She is great at creating characters who have mixed
0:08:41 > 0:08:48intentions and yet she Najet -- never judges them. You can come to
0:08:48 > 0:08:58the City with me. I'm a married man. We can beat this thing together.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02
0:09:02 > 0:09:10you could open at a little more. No... Yes, that's perfect. Hey!
0:09:10 > 0:09:14are you? Is that book for your niece. Yes, thanks for remembering.
0:09:14 > 0:09:20I'll send it to her. There's a character in that one that is based
0:09:20 > 0:09:25on you. What? In the book. I named him Ashby but it's so blatantly you.
0:09:25 > 0:09:35It will be obvious. We are not supposed to do that, was a poster...
0:09:35 > 0:09:40
0:09:40 > 0:09:48Hey! Nice to see you again. You too. There were tears. Adorable. --
0:09:48 > 0:09:53there it is. It is so brilliant. I'm going to be very, very boring.
0:09:53 > 0:09:58Very late at night, everyone to sleep. Films that have been
0:09:58 > 0:10:03overlooked by the Oscars. Charlize Theron is so brilliant in this film.
0:10:03 > 0:10:12This film is fabulous. Diablo Cody wrote Juno, she won an Oscar for
0:10:12 > 0:10:18this. This is better. It is smart and darker. Charlize Theron... We
0:10:18 > 0:10:22are like best friends! She's amazing. She is absolutely
0:10:22 > 0:10:27brilliant in this because she just gives you a little peek into how
0:10:27 > 0:10:31tragic and how unwell and how unhinged her character is. She
0:10:31 > 0:10:37doesn't behave like any other woman you ever see at the movies. The
0:10:37 > 0:10:41supporting cast are fantastic. My favourite thing is the end. It is
0:10:41 > 0:10:46the most anti- Hollywood thing. Maybe that is why it has been
0:10:46 > 0:10:49overlooked. There's not a lot of learning. It's true. The film is
0:10:49 > 0:10:54written by Diablo Cody and her voice is all over it. She made a
0:10:54 > 0:11:00big name for herself with Juno. Juno brought me out in hives. I've
0:11:00 > 0:11:05been dreading her work ever since. Young Adult, I'm ready to declare
0:11:05 > 0:11:09it as genius. It is very different from Juno. There are similarities
0:11:09 > 0:11:11in that there's a lot of obscure indie rock references. It's very
0:11:11 > 0:11:16different from pretty much everything which comes out of
0:11:16 > 0:11:20Hollywood. In a parallel reality, there's a sweet and fluffy wrong,
0:11:20 > 0:11:23where the city girl goes back to her hometown and meets her ex-
0:11:23 > 0:11:30boyfriend and reconnect. But here he is happily married with a new
0:11:30 > 0:11:35baby and she is borderline psychotic. No learning is
0:11:35 > 0:11:41absolutely the think it reminded me off. It made me think of Seinfeld,
0:11:41 > 0:11:47which made me think no hugging, no learning. In the middle of it, you
0:11:47 > 0:11:50have this incredible creation, Mavis, and she is the girl in high
0:11:50 > 0:11:54ski -- high-school movies, the prom queen girl who gets her comeuppance
0:11:54 > 0:11:59at the end. She doesn't get her comeuppance in this. She is a piece
0:11:59 > 0:12:03of work and this is a piece of work. I can't recommend it enough. It
0:12:03 > 0:12:10makes me feel very special that I was so on call at school. You're
0:12:10 > 0:12:14right. I was incredibly popular! I pick up your point about Charlize
0:12:14 > 0:12:20Theron. It is nuts that she hasn't got an Oscar nomination. She won an
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Oscar a while ago for playing a serial killer in Monster. This is a
0:12:24 > 0:12:28better performers because she hasn't got anything physical. There
0:12:28 > 0:12:33she transformed herself. This is just Charlize Theron. Without
0:12:33 > 0:12:36giving anything away, it never copped out. A fantastic ending and
0:12:36 > 0:12:40the other interesting thing is I like this film more and more the
0:12:41 > 0:12:44more I think about it. It is a brilliant, brilliant film. This
0:12:44 > 0:12:51year it is the 200th but they have Charles Dickens and to mark that
0:12:51 > 0:12:54occasion, Antonio for Countdown her favourite Dickens moment.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58Charles Dickens stories have been adapted for the screen more than
0:12:58 > 0:13:02any other writers. Many stories were serialised and beautifully
0:13:02 > 0:13:09illustrated and act as virtual storyboards for the film-maker.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13Here are my top five dickens moments. No. 5, Oliver. Dickens was
0:13:13 > 0:13:16famously a magnificent reader of his own work and he travelled the
0:13:16 > 0:13:20world thrilling audiences. Towards the end of his life he took to
0:13:20 > 0:13:23reading Nancy's death scene from Oliver Twist and the sheer
0:13:23 > 0:13:28intensity and drama of it often meant he had to be carried from the
0:13:28 > 0:13:33stage afterwards. In fact, he died soon after such a reading in 1870.
0:13:33 > 0:13:38This moment from the 1968 musical adaptation put the fear of God into
0:13:38 > 0:13:42me as a kid. Sweet Nancy's double murder at the hands of literature's
0:13:42 > 0:13:52greatest Boogie man, Bill Sikes, played by Oliver Reed, it just
0:13:52 > 0:14:07
0:14:07 > 0:14:13feels like the worst thing It is the moment that kill Charles
0:14:14 > 0:14:18Dickens himself. And then David Copperfield. When he was 12,
0:14:18 > 0:14:24Charles Dickens was sent to work in a factory and retains enormous
0:14:24 > 0:14:31sympathy for the poor child. This moment from an early, silent movie
0:14:31 > 0:14:39from David Copperfield catchers the isolation of the Victorian urchins.
0:14:39 > 0:14:44This was filmed only 60 years after the book was written.
0:14:44 > 0:14:49Scrooge. Let's not forget Dickens was brilliant at capturing
0:14:49 > 0:14:55happiness. I thought this scene from the unbeatable 1951 adaptation
0:14:55 > 0:15:00of A Christmas Carol, where Scrooge was taken up to a knees-up to his
0:15:00 > 0:15:10old employers, looks like the best time a person can have. I have
0:15:10 > 0:15:15
0:15:15 > 0:15:22always wanted to be at this party. Was there ever a kinder man?
0:15:22 > 0:15:27A tale of two cities. This 1958 adaptation is perfection. You can
0:15:27 > 0:15:35pick any scene. I love the opening credits. Was there anything more
0:15:35 > 0:15:42romantic? The movie starts Dirk Bogarde who was thought too much of
0:15:42 > 0:15:45a lightweight in the role of the disillusioned young barrister. But
0:15:45 > 0:15:55you can see hints of the deep melancholy he brought to his
0:15:55 > 0:15:55
0:15:55 > 0:16:05greatest role in Death in Venice. The dream always ends in nothing.
0:16:05 > 0:16:06
0:16:06 > 0:16:16But a beautiful dream. You have inspired it. Have I know power of
0:16:16 > 0:16:18
0:16:18 > 0:16:23review at all? Keep my secret. Great expectations. The opening
0:16:23 > 0:16:33page of this is the best in literature. The opening scene at
0:16:33 > 0:16:35
0:16:35 > 0:16:45this immaculate adaptation is every bit as good. It is as though both
0:16:45 > 0:16:47
0:16:47 > 0:16:54Dickens and the actor are saying, anything might happen.
0:16:54 > 0:17:00SCREAMING. Keep still your little devil.
0:17:00 > 0:17:06This man says, my daughter's teacher introduced her class to
0:17:06 > 0:17:11Dickens by showing them a market Christmas Carol.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15This says, Elizabeth Olsen coming to terms with her former life as a
0:17:15 > 0:17:19member of a cult. Do you have the feeling if you
0:17:19 > 0:17:29cannot tell if something is a memory or something you have
0:17:29 > 0:17:30
0:17:30 > 0:17:36dreamed? You look like Amos C made. It is about internal struggle with
0:17:36 > 0:17:43identity, who took Trust and how to find yourself. Who you identify
0:17:43 > 0:17:47yourself with within a group. you like it here? It is great.
0:17:47 > 0:17:54People have a band in New York whole life. You can be saved here,
0:17:54 > 0:17:59I hope you do. But if you are going to live here, you need to be a part
0:17:59 > 0:18:08of things. When she leaves them, she does not belong in her blood
0:18:08 > 0:18:18family. The question is, what is your place in the world. Did she
0:18:18 > 0:18:21
0:18:22 > 0:18:30find more love in the community? It is an interesting question. CT. How
0:18:30 > 0:18:37far are we? From what? Yesterday. It is about everything that happens
0:18:37 > 0:18:43in the Lake House. Sometimes I think I should have come home and
0:18:43 > 0:18:48made sure you went to college. don't need your guidance now. I am
0:18:48 > 0:18:56a teacher and a leader, you just never let me be that. But I know
0:18:56 > 0:19:03who I am. Eight teacher and a leader? What are you talking about?
0:19:03 > 0:19:06I would describe it as a sort of paranoia. Someone struggling with
0:19:06 > 0:19:13controlling their thoughts and their mind and their actions. As an
0:19:13 > 0:19:20actor, that is what is most fun, not knowing at what point she was
0:19:20 > 0:19:28going to break. We have to leave. We all have to leave, I know him.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33You don't want to live with this. It is almost like a war against
0:19:33 > 0:19:42someone that is not tangible for something outside of herself, it is
0:19:42 > 0:19:50not tangible. You are not listening to me! Mathur, what happened to
0:19:50 > 0:19:55you? Every year, but there are a few
0:19:55 > 0:20:00movies which remind me why I fell in love us with films in the first
0:20:00 > 0:20:03place. This is one of them. It is spellbinding. Psychological
0:20:04 > 0:20:10thriller is possibly one of the most off-putting terms in cinema.
0:20:10 > 0:20:15But this is a psychological thriller in the best sense. It is
0:20:15 > 0:20:19about what is real and what isn't. You often lose track of that. You
0:20:20 > 0:20:24have her in this rural group and then this luxurious Lake House that
0:20:24 > 0:20:30they escape from. Physically, they look different. But after a while,
0:20:30 > 0:20:34you are uncertain which part of the film you are in. It is expert at
0:20:34 > 0:20:40keeping you off balance and on edge. I don't have a bad word to say
0:20:40 > 0:20:47about this. It is original, but I would compare it to, interestingly,
0:20:47 > 0:20:54it is more of a Roman Polanski film than carnage. I would mention
0:20:54 > 0:21:00picnic at Hanging Rock. It has an eeriness and calm. Anyone who has
0:21:00 > 0:21:05seen that all know what I mean. It is a fantastic film. If I was
0:21:05 > 0:21:11boring about Charlize Theron and how the Young Adult has been
0:21:11 > 0:21:19overlooked, this is a crime. You watch this, call me and you will
0:21:19 > 0:21:25agree. It is sinister. Nobody is how you think they are going to be.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29That is what is so fascinating. Nothing is explicit. Nothing is
0:21:29 > 0:21:34absolutely shown. You can only imagine what happened between her
0:21:34 > 0:21:39and her sister. You have no idea. Just piecing it together and not
0:21:39 > 0:21:49knowing what setting she is going to be in, it is fantastic. She is
0:21:49 > 0:21:50
0:21:50 > 0:21:55phenomenal. She is absolutely mesmerising. The way he shoots her,
0:21:55 > 0:22:01she looks so beautiful. There is an amazing scene when she is in a barn.
0:22:01 > 0:22:06When you see it, you will understand. This terrible figure,
0:22:06 > 0:22:11who is brilliant, Patrick, is there. You'll not get this film out of
0:22:11 > 0:22:16your head. It is an extraordinary week for film. There is nothing
0:22:16 > 0:22:22that is bad, but please go and see this. I absolutely agree with you.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26I'm glad you talked about Elizabeth Olsen. As a breakthrough
0:22:27 > 0:22:33performance, it is the first film she has been in. It is incredible.
0:22:33 > 0:22:37A lot of that is to do with how she looks. She is a very pretty person,
0:22:37 > 0:22:41but there is something alien about her. I don't know if she will ever
0:22:41 > 0:22:45give a performance as good as this, but even if she does not, she has
0:22:45 > 0:22:50made her mark. John Hawkes, the film wouldn't be the same without
0:22:50 > 0:22:54him. The script is fantastic. It lets us know maybe you don't need
0:22:54 > 0:22:58to know everything about every character all at once. And maybe
0:22:58 > 0:23:03there are some things you do not need to know at all. It is
0:23:03 > 0:23:10spellbinding. If we were living in my world, it would walk away with a
0:23:10 > 0:23:15bag full of Oscars. It has a fantastic ending. Danny asked, do
0:23:15 > 0:23:19we see the same thing when we are watching the same film? He went to
0:23:19 > 0:23:25find out. It is a strange way spending time,
0:23:25 > 0:23:29going to the cinema. Sitting in the dark and exposing ourselves to a
0:23:29 > 0:23:35kaleidoscopic barrage of sound and images, to see life through someone
0:23:35 > 0:23:41else's eyes. But film has a unique power to get under our skin and
0:23:41 > 0:23:47into our minds. I want to find out about the psychology up of the film
0:23:47 > 0:23:51experience, the process that begins the moment the lights go down.
0:23:51 > 0:23:56House cinema works on the brain is a hot topic. Edits in films are
0:23:56 > 0:24:02getting faster and faster. I want to know how much free will we have
0:24:02 > 0:24:12when we watch a film. Just compare this James Bond fight scene from
0:24:12 > 0:24:16
0:24:16 > 0:24:201971. To this one, in 2008. I have come to Birkbeck University to take
0:24:20 > 0:24:26part in the unit -- experiment to find out more about the signs to
0:24:26 > 0:24:31the art of filming. I want to watch this clip as naturally as possible.
0:24:31 > 0:24:36Reaction times are a factor in this, so please pay attention and answer
0:24:36 > 0:24:43as fast as you can. I have seen this so many times but I have never
0:24:43 > 0:24:49seen it with my head in a vice. It is fine, go with it. I want you to
0:24:49 > 0:24:55put the machine on. If the machine does not work? What was I just
0:24:55 > 0:24:59doing? I got you to put your chin Verso this strip could record your
0:24:59 > 0:25:04face. The tracker has high-speed infra-red cameras that illuminate
0:25:04 > 0:25:08your face and allow us to see where your pupils are and where you are
0:25:08 > 0:25:11looking on the screen. We are using this to see how you watch films and
0:25:11 > 0:25:17how it relates to what the film- maker is doing to manipulate your
0:25:17 > 0:25:22attention. What is manipulating my attention, what tricks do they have
0:25:22 > 0:25:27up their sleeve? You think you can take in the whole scene that is in
0:25:27 > 0:25:35front of you when you choose. But the skill of the film-maker it is
0:25:35 > 0:25:39to guide your attention, take advantage of habits you have in the
0:25:39 > 0:25:45real world to guide you to what they want you to look at in the
0:25:45 > 0:25:50Dome. It is focus, lighting and the framing. When you are hooked in,
0:25:50 > 0:25:58they can edit things to cut to the things we are interested in. I am
0:25:58 > 0:26:03Rachel's. There is lots of conventions and film, that have
0:26:03 > 0:26:07been there for decades. Cutting from long shots, as you come into a
0:26:07 > 0:26:12scene to closer shot. The film maker goes from one viewpoint to
0:26:12 > 0:26:15another that he wants you to be interested in. He has to have a way
0:26:15 > 0:26:19of doing this in a natural way, so it does not seem as though he is
0:26:19 > 0:26:24forcing the viewer to look at something. So we forget we are
0:26:24 > 0:26:30watching a film? It should be just as fluid and easy for us to watch a
0:26:30 > 0:26:36film as it is to watch a natural seen playing out in front of us.
0:26:36 > 0:26:42How does that go in Blade runner? One character is on the left and
0:26:42 > 0:26:48one is on the right. When our interests which to one character,
0:26:48 > 0:26:53the film-maker cuts to a close up. If you roll back timed to the
0:26:54 > 0:26:57beginning of film and the start of the 20th century, film-makers,
0:26:57 > 0:27:02through experimentation were getting an insight to these
0:27:02 > 0:27:07Technics. And they understand these principles before psychologists
0:27:07 > 0:27:15were able to investigate and quantify them. Have you had other
0:27:15 > 0:27:19people before me watching the same clip? I can show you the behaviour
0:27:19 > 0:27:23of eight people watching this clip. These circles is the location of
0:27:23 > 0:27:29one viewer. We have had more to put circles all looking at the same
0:27:29 > 0:27:35time. And there is this heat map which tells us how co-ordinated it
0:27:35 > 0:27:40is. What you can see is how rapidly attention moves around, but how
0:27:40 > 0:27:46focused it is on small areas of the screen. The editing is there to cut
0:27:46 > 0:27:50and focus us to new parts of the image. But what is surprising is
0:27:50 > 0:27:54viewers would generally look at the same part of the image. So we look
0:27:54 > 0:27:59at this shot and the reverse shot, it is quick, then cutting across
0:27:59 > 0:28:03and finding the face of the person who is speaking. For the first time
0:28:03 > 0:28:11we can use this experiment to show how effective these editing
0:28:11 > 0:28:14inventions really are. At your data, your gaze is these red box. And the
0:28:14 > 0:28:20lines are when you are making a sweeping movement when your eyes
0:28:20 > 0:28:24move somewhere else. Your attention is doing mostly the same thing.
0:28:24 > 0:28:28am watching presumably what Ridley Scott, the director, wants me to
0:28:29 > 0:28:33watch? He probably knows exactly what he want you to be
0:28:33 > 0:28:38concentrating on. He is setting up the shots, lighting it and staging
0:28:38 > 0:28:42it. He will know most of the time were you are looking and therefore
0:28:42 > 0:28:47were all of the viewers will be looking. It is unnerving. You ask
0:28:47 > 0:28:52yourself do we have any freewill whatsoever? For 90% of most
0:28:52 > 0:28:58Hollywood movies, we are looking at a small region of the screen, just
0:28:58 > 0:29:02about 3%. It is only these individual things we point our eyes
0:29:02 > 0:29:12at that make it into our memory. proved we are all looking at the
0:29:12 > 0:29:12
0:29:12 > 0:29:21same thing when we are watching a film. You are reading a magazine
0:29:21 > 0:29:24and you come across a full-page nude picture of a girl. Is this
0:29:24 > 0:29:29testing my resonance or that I am a lesbian. Does this mean we feel the
0:29:29 > 0:29:37same way about what we see? show it to your husband, and he
0:29:37 > 0:29:41hands it on your bedroom wall? They can make us look at whatever
0:29:41 > 0:29:44they like, but they can't control how we feel for her those images
0:29:45 > 0:29:48mesh with whatever was in our minds to start with and that is cinema's
0:29:48 > 0:29:54greatest trick and it's the one that makes sure that no matter how
0:29:54 > 0:29:58many films I see, they keep coming back for more.
0:29:58 > 0:30:08Next, Chronicle, the story of three high-school friends who suddenly
0:30:08 > 0:30:09
0:30:09 > 0:30:14develop superhuman powers. probably won't want this on camera.
0:30:14 > 0:30:24Do it. Give me a countdown. This film is about what would happen if
0:30:24 > 0:30:30
0:30:30 > 0:30:40very ordinary American teenagers We opened a movie on a kid who is
0:30:40 > 0:30:42
0:30:42 > 0:30:47dealing with a lot of problems at home. No way! The main character is
0:30:47 > 0:30:57a loner. These powers affect him kind of like a temptation. A
0:30:57 > 0:30:58
0:30:58 > 0:31:08temptation to strike back. What is wrong with you? Was it an accident?
0:31:08 > 0:31:18Andrew? That is in direct contrast to Steve Montgomerie and his cousin,
0:31:18 > 0:31:20
0:31:20 > 0:31:25Matt. I really wanted, as a big film lover, to approach the found
0:31:25 > 0:31:34footage bathetic and create a movie rather than a gimmick or just a
0:31:34 > 0:31:43one-off experience. Can you hear that? How creepy is that? A sound
0:31:43 > 0:31:46coming up. Probably. I think it reflects on what I think is the
0:31:46 > 0:31:50most self photograph generation of all time. Kids are also equipped
0:31:50 > 0:32:00with the technology to document their lives, every minute from the
0:32:00 > 0:32:02
0:32:02 > 0:32:05time they wake up to the time they From the first scene of the film to
0:32:05 > 0:32:15the last scene of the film, we didn't want any of the visual
0:32:15 > 0:32:21
0:32:21 > 0:32:27effects to take you out of that The other films we have talked
0:32:27 > 0:32:33about are very girl heavy. Even Carnage feels like a woman's film.
0:32:33 > 0:32:39This is boys. He say that like it's a bad thing. Teenage boys! It has a
0:32:39 > 0:32:45cheekiness and I think it has some great scenes high up in the sky. I
0:32:45 > 0:32:49really enjoyed it. However, and I'm just going to say this, the device,
0:32:49 > 0:32:56which is that everybody shoots everything, I think went one person
0:32:56 > 0:33:02too far with the girlfriend who was, do you mind, I've got a camera. I
0:33:02 > 0:33:05get it. I do think I'm a little old lady and I think everybody films
0:33:05 > 0:33:11everything and puts it on Facebook. I'm possibly of the wrong
0:33:11 > 0:33:14generation but I found it a bit contrived. But in general, I said
0:33:14 > 0:33:2015-year-old boys would love this. think it is an incredibly pleasant
0:33:20 > 0:33:27surprise. The found footage Bangor is what people will pick up on
0:33:27 > 0:33:31because they will think of this like Cloverfield. It is a really
0:33:31 > 0:33:34nice idea and I hear what you are saying about the script. There are
0:33:34 > 0:33:40a lot of explanations for why people last filming. But visually
0:33:40 > 0:33:45it works brilliant and without giving away too much, the finale is
0:33:45 > 0:33:49completely dependent on there found footage. I'm happy with the film, I
0:33:49 > 0:33:55won't criticise it. What is so impressive is the way it changes
0:33:55 > 0:33:59tone. To do something realistically about what it is like to grow up as
0:33:59 > 0:34:05a teenager in America, teenagers never have personalities. This
0:34:05 > 0:34:10movie gives them personalities. You move through different genres. They
0:34:10 > 0:34:14are 15, 16, they have superpowers. It is jackass. Them as they explore
0:34:14 > 0:34:18their powers, it becomes a bit more sci-fi, then it becomes darker.
0:34:18 > 0:34:23This is where the film excels and it starts to show an uglier side of
0:34:23 > 0:34:30growing up in America. Award mention that the right one in and
0:34:30 > 0:34:34carry. It is not a name to be trifled with. There's a No vote on
0:34:34 > 0:34:40March to carry. I'm very keen on this film. It will be very
0:34:40 > 0:34:43difficult to pick film of the week. Devilishly hard. There are three
0:34:43 > 0:34:48excellent film someone very good one. I will go for Martha, Marcy,
0:34:48 > 0:34:52May, Malene. Me too. If you are listening, please also see Young
0:34:52 > 0:35:01Adult. It's now time for the questionnaire. This week it is
0:35:01 > 0:35:08This sounds like a good question. What is your favourite almost
0:35:08 > 0:35:15watched film? Well, probably the market movie. That was sweet.
0:35:15 > 0:35:21Starring me. Maybe a film your Martin. Anything you ever watch?
0:35:21 > 0:35:26How about breakfast at Tiffany's? Good choice. I can really relate to
0:35:26 > 0:35:31Audrey Hepburn's character. She brought up on a farm and then went
0:35:31 > 0:35:34to the big city. Just like me. nice. I can't think of any films
0:35:34 > 0:35:41about a guy who brought up in a swamp and went to the big city, but
0:35:41 > 0:35:45I quite like vanilla sky. It is a very important one for me. It is a
0:35:45 > 0:35:50Tom Cruise film. I could have played that role. Really?
0:35:50 > 0:35:54imagine yourself playing that role? Perhaps. I can identify with the
0:35:54 > 0:35:58character. Total confusion, stuff going on he can't understand and
0:35:58 > 0:36:07then he finds out his head but chopped off. It is very dear to my
0:36:07 > 0:36:13heart. What? Remind me not to see that movie. They are a couple I
0:36:13 > 0:36:18particularly enjoyed working with. Jim Henson is wonderful. Yes!
0:36:18 > 0:36:22fellow named Frank Oz. I worked with him a couple of times. If I
0:36:22 > 0:36:26could choose a director now to work with, I liked the idea of doing a
0:36:26 > 0:36:30film with Martin Scorsese. He is a wonderful director, I love his
0:36:30 > 0:36:35style. He seems like a pretty nice guy. Mostly it's about him being a
0:36:35 > 0:36:39nice guy. He does have a movie out that is competing with The Muppets.
0:36:39 > 0:36:43I know. You're giving the competition screen time. I am.
0:36:43 > 0:36:48You're promoting him and his movie when you should be promoting our
0:36:48 > 0:36:54movie. That's true. I suppose it would be nice to eliminate the
0:36:54 > 0:37:00competition so maybe he will work for us next time! Wow! That's hard.
0:37:00 > 0:37:08A what do you think? Bogeyed and the call. We can do their life
0:37:08 > 0:37:18story. Hepburn and Tracy. We could be Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
0:37:18 > 0:37:22
0:37:22 > 0:37:26Yet! We can dance. Those are all good. I concur. I quite like the
0:37:26 > 0:37:31Rocky Horror Show. We could do that part. We could play those roles.
0:37:31 > 0:37:36That is a pretty good movie. A huge cult success which I could put my
0:37:36 > 0:37:41flippers up and watch any time. It's just to jump to the left. If I
0:37:41 > 0:37:46do any more of have to pay royalties! That is all for tonight.
0:37:46 > 0:37:51Next week's show will be back at 11:15pm and we will review The
0:37:51 > 0:37:55Muppets, The Vow and A Dangerous Method. Playing it out is this must
0:37:55 > 0:38:02be the plays starring Sean Penn. It's in cinemas this April. Thank
0:38:02 > 0:38:08you for watching. Good night. father is dying and I haven't flown
0:38:08 > 0:38:17in 30 years. Fear of flying is not your only problem. That's true.
0:38:17 > 0:38:25of the reasons I fell in love with I didn't talk to my father in 30
0:38:25 > 0:38:31years. I don't know the first thing about him. All I ever did was
0:38:31 > 0:38:38search... You know about the Holocaust? And a general way.
0:38:38 > 0:38:46father, did you know your father? In a general way. Would you like to