:00:28. > :00:32.This programme contains very strong Hello, and welcome to film 2012. If
:00:32. > :00:39.you want to get in touch, details on the screen. Coming up on
:00:39. > :00:45.tonight's show. A cast of national treasures seek retirement in the
:00:45. > :00:51.sun in the best exotic marigold hotel. -- The Best Exotic Marigold
:00:51. > :00:57.Hotel. They simply refuse to die. Woody Harrelson plays a bad cop in
:00:58. > :01:03.Rampart. I am not a racist. The fact is, I hate all people equally.
:01:03. > :01:09.And the winner is... We take a look at the nominee's ahead of this
:01:09. > :01:15.Sunday's Academy Awards. First tonight, the best exotic marigold
:01:15. > :01:23.Hotel, directed by John Madden, starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and
:01:23. > :01:27.Maggie Smith. And this is the day. Where are you going? Why not spend
:01:27. > :01:32.your autumn years in an Indian palace. It is a luxury development
:01:32. > :01:38.where all of the residents are in their golden years. Like the Costa
:01:38. > :01:45.Brava? You s, but with more elephants. I play a character
:01:45. > :01:48.called Sonny, who has an idea to sell to old people, and they end up
:01:48. > :01:52.in India with all these guys, but they end up finding that all is not
:01:52. > :01:57.what they think and lots of craziness happens. Your first time
:01:57. > :02:05.in India? This country seems more civilised than one originally
:02:05. > :02:10.thought. Welcome The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel! Here is an Indian,
:02:10. > :02:14.isn't he? It is primarily a comedy that has a melancholy undertow
:02:14. > :02:18.because it deals with people at a point in their lives way you do not
:02:18. > :02:22.know what is left and what is coming, and it is a story of
:02:22. > :02:26.cultural collision because it is about how the people cope with the
:02:26. > :02:33.madness of modern India. How can you bear this country? What do you
:02:33. > :02:42.see that I don't? A light, colours, smiles. All life is here. Do you
:02:42. > :02:52.think we will be all right? The romance of India is very much
:02:52. > :02:53.
:02:53. > :03:02.in our history. If this film has got this magic work in it
:03:02. > :03:10.Catalonian, if it has that word in it, it is OK. That was a gin and
:03:10. > :03:13.tonic. I know that now! Almost every one of those actors, the key
:03:13. > :03:17.ones you can see, they are people who have worked with each other,
:03:17. > :03:27.often several times, and that is an incredible resource for a director.
:03:27. > :03:31.
:03:31. > :03:34.You don't really have to do very You can read that it is like the
:03:34. > :03:37.Guardian saying it is a festival of luvvies, but you have a tradition
:03:37. > :03:42.of actors being on tour and spending time together and it was
:03:42. > :03:47.sort of like that, and it was delightful. It was like a
:03:47. > :03:52.travelling theatre company. John Madden brilliantly kept us in order.
:03:52. > :03:59.Everything will be all right in the end. So if it is not all right, it
:03:59. > :04:02.is not the end. High. Hello to you. I thought this storm was adorable.
:04:03. > :04:12.I note your are horrified. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago
:04:12. > :04:16.when the Descendants came out, and I mentioned they had booked seats,
:04:16. > :04:22.but 12 of them are going and they have already planned their snacks.
:04:22. > :04:30.They are going to love this film. I thought it was charming,
:04:30. > :04:34.brilliantly played, especially by Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson. I
:04:34. > :04:39.thought the whole thing was lovely, but I can tell you didn't. I just
:04:39. > :04:45.think it is a chronically mixed bag. Some of it is smart and funny and
:04:45. > :04:49.the premise of a motley crew of OAPs being outsourced to India is
:04:49. > :04:53.funny, but I think there is a side to the film which is rather
:04:53. > :04:59.traditional. The fact they turn up at this derelict hotel run by a
:04:59. > :05:08.bumbling local is a plot device taken from Carry On abroad. And a
:05:08. > :05:10.lot of the jokes were of equal vintage. The first joke in the
:05:10. > :05:15.script has everyone getting diarrhoea and locking themselves in
:05:15. > :05:21.the toilet. I think he has a split personality. But the film is canny
:05:21. > :05:25.and clever. There is at huge boulder audience out there. A lot
:05:25. > :05:28.of the stuff we talk about is an especially terribly relevant to
:05:28. > :05:33.them. They probably went to see The King's Speech and have not seen
:05:33. > :05:38.much since. It does a job for them. And as a way of spending the grey
:05:38. > :05:44.pound, it could be worse. My grandma spends it on facts and
:05:44. > :05:49.scratchcards. I like your grandma. I think the performances are good.
:05:49. > :05:53.The masterstroke is getting the cast together. They could read it
:05:53. > :05:57.assembly instructions for flat-pack furniture and that -- it would work.
:05:57. > :06:03.I am not hostile, but I wish he didn't rely so much on things like
:06:03. > :06:07.it Ain't half Hot mum. Next, Rampart stars Woody Harrelson
:06:07. > :06:17.caught on tape abusing a suspect and defines himself entering a
:06:17. > :06:31.
:06:31. > :06:39.The only thing that is wrong here is that a camera caught him doing
:06:39. > :06:48.police work. You first read the script and you think this guy is an
:06:49. > :06:53.asshole. I am not a racist. The fact is I hate all people equally.
:06:53. > :06:56.Personally, I didn't think I could pull it off. I can't even imagine
:06:56. > :07:02.playing a cop. It is the only profession I really cannot imagine
:07:02. > :07:09.playing. Why are you looking to hand me? I know you are setting me
:07:09. > :07:14.up. Answer my question. Of all the rotten cops, why are you after the
:07:14. > :07:19.one guide who gets it? The one cop who get sick? Are you Fokine
:07:19. > :07:28.kidding me? Let me remind you that several years ago you killed an
:07:28. > :07:32.alleged serial date rapist primitively. -- Prix meditatively.
:07:32. > :07:35.I can prove no shooting was dirty, like I can prove that you have done
:07:35. > :07:41.it. As a director he creates an environment that is very safe.
:07:41. > :07:48.There is a lot of play, improvisation, spontaneous things
:07:48. > :07:52.and he never says cuts. I consider him a maestro. He is really a
:07:52. > :07:57.master of his craft. It is only his second movie, but I cannot wait to
:07:57. > :08:02.see what he does next. I hope I get to do it with him. You can't just
:08:02. > :08:07.walk in the house like you still live here. You are a dirty cup, and
:08:07. > :08:13.you have made us all dirty. I do not know if this character has made
:08:13. > :08:19.-- redeemed himself or even what the Arc is. It might be like the
:08:19. > :08:26.Paul Simon Lin, as things change, we are more a less the same. Have
:08:26. > :08:31.you thought about retirement? you force me to retire, I will have
:08:31. > :08:39.my own show on Fox News, and you'll be my first guest. So you have
:08:39. > :08:46.It is a beast of a performance from Woody Harrelson, and is almost in
:08:46. > :08:49.close-up in everyone, and he dominates there film. But it also
:08:49. > :08:52.belongs to James Ellroy, and people will associate him with LA
:08:52. > :08:58.Confidential and it is not a disgrace to compare Rum par with
:08:58. > :09:03.that. La Confidential is a mystery at heart, but Rampart is two hours
:09:03. > :09:07.in a character's head. I kind of enjoyed it. He's a true James
:09:07. > :09:12.Ellroy policeman, and I think him and the film are the saviours
:09:12. > :09:18.because they are repulsive and magnetic. That is my dream night.
:09:18. > :09:23.Repulsion and cannot help myself. I know I am being keen, but I am
:09:23. > :09:28.about not to be. I think this film was brilliant. I thought it was
:09:28. > :09:31.mind-blowing. I do not understand why he is not up for an Oscar. I
:09:31. > :09:35.think it is one of those films where you decide early on whether
:09:35. > :09:42.you're getting on the train for the ride, because I think it is
:09:42. > :09:47.beautifully directed, but there are these 360 degree shops, and there
:09:47. > :09:53.is amazing supporting cast of Steve Buscemi, so put -- Sigourney Weaver,
:09:53. > :09:56.Robin Wright, and I decided early on that I was with it. Like he is
:09:56. > :10:01.falling apart, some of the shots are as well. I thought it was
:10:01. > :10:08.brilliant. The direction is very stylised. It is a big presence in
:10:08. > :10:13.the film. Oren Moverman's direction is a big presence. Sometimes you
:10:13. > :10:19.are looking through a steroid pumped body, but when they pull
:10:19. > :10:23.together it is powerful. This is Woody Harrelson's movie, but an
:10:23. > :10:31.Mahesh has not been treated well by Hollywood, and make BT is always
:10:31. > :10:35.perfect. Instead of our usual top five, we have people picking out
:10:35. > :10:42.top Oscar travesties in the beer mat - Best Film nominations that
:10:42. > :10:45.never won. Clint Eastwood With Dirty Harry once said there are a
:10:45. > :10:51.lot of great movies that won the Academy Award and a lot of great
:10:51. > :10:55.movies that happened. Here are my choices for the ones that got away.
:10:55. > :11:00.Apocalypse Now, losing to Kramer vs. Kramer in 1980. I love the smell of
:11:00. > :11:05.napalm in the morning. One time we had a bomb, 12 hours and it was all
:11:05. > :11:08.over when I woke up. Perhaps the Academy thought it had
:11:08. > :11:11.congratulated Francis Ford Coppola with the Godfather films, or
:11:11. > :11:17.perhaps the fiasco surrounding the making of the film was still so
:11:17. > :11:21.intense it was hard to see the incredible thing behind the mist.
:11:21. > :11:31.On the other hand, Kramer vs. Kramer is an issue film and has a
:11:31. > :11:32.
:11:32. > :11:37.very Oscar style undercurrent. came here to take my son home. And
:11:37. > :11:47.I realise he already is home. losing to the English Patient in
:11:47. > :11:52.
:11:52. > :11:57.You should see the other guy! was very cool, very sly, funny, but
:11:57. > :12:02.the Academy had not learnt to embrace the directors. But the
:12:02. > :12:07.English Patient was the first film to be really pushed by Hardy Wine
:12:07. > :12:12.Stein -- Harvey Weinstein with his infamous campaigning. I know you
:12:12. > :12:17.will carry me out of the Palace of winds. The English Patient changed
:12:17. > :12:23.the way movies won an Oscar for ever. Oscar travesties go way back,
:12:23. > :12:28.and my first choice is one of the all-time classic Callas. Citizen
:12:28. > :12:33.Kane's 1941 lost to how Green Was My Valley. It would be one thing if
:12:33. > :12:36.it film had beaten Citizen Kane and the Maltese Falcon and was a time
:12:36. > :12:40.this work of genius, unfortunately, How Green Was My Valley, set in a
:12:40. > :12:49.Welsh mining community but filmed in Malibu does not stand up well
:12:49. > :12:54.today. Come on, lad. You can walk. Apparently the Academy preferred
:12:54. > :12:58.John Ford's daffodils to rosebuds. Whether you agree if Citizen Kane
:12:58. > :13:03.is the greatest film ever made, the movies to watch today because it is
:13:03. > :13:08.great. How Green Was My Valley is a maybe watch to find out what beats
:13:08. > :13:11.its intake. That was 1941. 70 years later The Social Network loses out
:13:11. > :13:16.to The King's Speech in 2011 and it seems the Academy are still
:13:16. > :13:22.favouring traditional fare over more radical story telling. David
:13:22. > :13:28.Fincher's brilliant The Social Network is the Digital Citizen Kane.
:13:28. > :13:32.He has security. They need a user name and a password. It betrays not
:13:32. > :13:38.a newspaper baron, but a social networking entrepreneur. What won
:13:38. > :13:41.the Oscar? A nice as pie biopic about a king. I am not saying The
:13:41. > :13:50.King's Speech is not a very nice film and terribly well acted, but
:13:50. > :13:54.come on, it does not compare. choices, but those Academy mistakes
:13:54. > :13:57.pale in significance, shining examples of when the people's
:13:58. > :14:02.champion was looked over and they look stupid. First up, Goodfellas
:14:02. > :14:09.losing to Dances With Wolves at the 1991 Academy Awards. Where is my
:14:09. > :14:13.Fokine drink? The Oscars is a cavalcade of wrong, fit only for
:14:13. > :14:17.generating pub quiz questions. He should have won his first Oscar for
:14:17. > :14:27.his pulsating gangster classic, Goodfellas, and the cast is top
:14:27. > :14:32.
:14:32. > :14:36.You little flock. Now he is moving! So naturally it lost to a dull,
:14:36. > :14:45.overlong epic. What one best picture in 1991? Dances With
:14:45. > :14:52.I hope I never have to fight him. He seems to be honest and very
:14:52. > :15:01.direct. Really? Next up, Pulp Fiction losing to Forrest Gump at
:15:01. > :15:08.the 1995 Academy Awards. Everybody be cool, this is a robbery. Any of
:15:08. > :15:14.you fuckinpricks move and I'll executed every mother fucking last
:15:14. > :15:18.one. Forrest Gump had a great Tom Hanks performance but it's no Pulp
:15:18. > :15:27.Fiction? Do you want to continue this in the car or in the jail
:15:27. > :15:31.house with the cops. It's dialogue is more enduring than... My mum
:15:31. > :15:37.always said life was like a box of chocolates. It works as a character
:15:37. > :15:43.study, a thriller and a love letter to cinema itself. It just plain
:15:43. > :15:50.works. I love them. They did that brilliantly. What, for you, go on?
:15:50. > :15:55.1980 was the year of Raging Bull, The Shining, The Elephant Man. The
:15:55. > :16:01.Oscar went to Ordinary People. I don't know if crack was invented in
:16:01. > :16:06.1980 but they were smoking something. We had so many tweets.
:16:06. > :16:13.Helen is with me "I will never forget Crash over Brokeback
:16:13. > :16:20.Mountain". I was working, the cast of Crash were like "no, no" Sandra
:16:20. > :16:24.Bullock was like... Did you not see that? Absolutely. I love this guy
:16:24. > :16:28."Raging Bull, fight club, Goodfellas and while we are at it
:16:28. > :16:38.Blade Runner". There is a lot of grumpy people. People are livid, in
:16:38. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:45.only a gad way. Next Black Gold a tale of greed and betrayal set in
:16:45. > :16:51.the 19 3o's Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom. It stars Antonio
:16:51. > :17:00.Banderas and Mark Strong. All I want is your friendship. It's a
:17:00. > :17:05.reflection about the power corrupting the appalling power
:17:05. > :17:12.money has in human beings in a very specific context. Get ready to be
:17:12. > :17:22.rich. How rich? Seriously rich. a human being, you know, he's
:17:22. > :17:29.blinded by the power of this new source of wealth. He goes from the
:17:29. > :17:33."us" to the "me". It's dangerous when you are talking about politics.
:17:33. > :17:36.That is a mirror of possibly the modern Arabic world that has
:17:36. > :17:42.suddenly come into an awful lot of money and how it's going to deal
:17:42. > :17:48.with that wealth and which direction it will go in. Because,
:17:48. > :17:53.you see, my son, everything you see in this room was one with either --
:17:53. > :18:01.was won with either blood or love, never money. Because anything that
:18:01. > :18:05.can be bought has no real value. It's amazing we have come full
:18:05. > :18:08.circle in the Tunisian elections have just happened and the
:18:08. > :18:12.revolution was happening during filming. Interesting to make a film
:18:12. > :18:16.about revolution, about a new way, which is being mirrored in the
:18:16. > :18:23.politics of the real world, in the very place that you are filming it.
:18:23. > :18:31.That was extraordinary. I will not betray you like you betrayed me.
:18:31. > :18:39.You were born to rule. You are the next Sultan. Follow me. Now, you
:18:39. > :18:44.are a man. It's, basically, Pus In Boots in the dessert. Of course, it
:18:44. > :18:47.isn't. Imagine he is wearing boots. I won't do the voice. I love
:18:47. > :18:52.Antonio Banderas. I cannot get that character out of my head. Whenever
:18:52. > :18:59.he speaks I think "why isn't he wearing a hat and a feather in it"?
:18:59. > :19:03.What did you think? This was to be the start of a new era. I don't
:19:03. > :19:10.think it work. The cast are dressed up in costumes that lack look like
:19:10. > :19:15.they were pulled out of a storage trunk after a Turkish delight
:19:15. > :19:21.advert. A film about Arab history have you a cast drawn from Malaga,
:19:21. > :19:28.Mumbai and Wembley. The director takes a do your own thing approach
:19:28. > :19:32.to accents. The thing is wobbley. Freida Pinto comes on and
:19:32. > :19:38.disappears. She is off screen, I assume she is on the phone to her
:19:38. > :19:47.agent. Antonio Banderas is close to Willow Twanky. I will be positive.
:19:47. > :19:55.How? There are moments when this epic approach that Jean-Jacques
:19:55. > :20:00.Annaud takes pays off. Between his casting and his relentless owe old
:20:00. > :20:05.fashion quality you want Nicholas Lindhurst to arrive on a magic
:20:05. > :20:11.carpet. That spoils the illusion for me. Tell me I'm wrong? You are
:20:11. > :20:18.bang on it. It feels incredibly long. If people go "they are being
:20:18. > :20:23.mean" you will go into the cinema and come out in June. You were a
:20:23. > :20:28.bet iger fan of seven years in Tibet. I want to say is that the
:20:28. > :20:35.landscape looks beautiful. Wonderful sand in this film and
:20:35. > :20:42.wonderful camels. What is your Film of the Week? It's Rampart. I loved
:20:42. > :20:49.it but I want a nod to marigold. The Oscars take place on Sunday,
:20:49. > :20:55.here is a quick reminder of who is leading the race. Hugo leads the
:20:55. > :21:05.Oscar race with 11 nominations with the much rewarded The Artist with
:21:05. > :21:11.10. Six nominations, Money zs ball, and War horse. The Descendants
:21:11. > :21:18.starring George Clooney has Fife as done the re-make of The Girl With
:21:18. > :21:22.the Dragon Tattoo. The can The Help has four nominations alongside
:21:22. > :21:31.Woody Allen most commercially successful film of all-time,
:21:31. > :21:37.Midnight In Paris. Oscar has cast a wide net and made notable snubs too.
:21:37. > :21:42.Spiel spiel spiel has been locked out of Best Director category while
:21:42. > :21:52.their films got an impressive number of nominations. The
:21:52. > :21:58.
:21:58. > :22:03.Adventures of Tin Tin wasn't put forward for the Best Animation. For
:22:03. > :22:09.some Mr Oscar seems more reliable. Meryl Streep the most nominated
:22:09. > :22:15.actress in Oscar history received her 17th nomination. Woody Allen
:22:15. > :22:25.his 23rd. John Williams gained his 47th, almost as many as the most
:22:25. > :22:26.
:22:26. > :22:36.nominated of all, the great Walt Disney. Gary Oldman got his first
:22:36. > :22:39.
:22:39. > :22:44.nominations. And Best Director for The Artist. And the screenplay
:22:44. > :22:48.Bridesmaids bucking the trend for not taking comedy seriously. Who
:22:48. > :22:53.will go home with the Oscar on on Sunday, maybe they will surprise us.
:22:53. > :22:57.Here with us to preview the awards ahead of Sunday night's ceremony
:22:57. > :23:02.are Peter Bradshaw and Robbie Collin. Thank you for talking to us.
:23:02. > :23:07.It is late. A sacrifice we will make. I was... Every year I go,
:23:07. > :23:11.they missed out, so-and-so. I suddenly got a proper surge of
:23:11. > :23:18.excitement. It's the Oscars. They are on Sunday. We will all stay up
:23:18. > :23:25.and watch them. What is not to love. Sadly without Eddie Murphy. Thank
:23:25. > :23:31.you. It's not that I wasn't looking forward to a change? I was mentally
:23:31. > :23:36.prepared for it. Billy will do it great. Tpwho what he will do.
:23:36. > :23:41.will do what he has done before. will pull viewers. American viewers
:23:41. > :23:46.love Billy Crystal. He will hit it straight down the middle. Let me
:23:46. > :23:52.state now, officially, I'm looking at you. It's bad form to always
:23:52. > :24:00.star every Oscar's chat with, they missed out so many films, I try not
:24:00. > :24:06.to. This year there are so many. need to We Need To Talk About Kevin
:24:06. > :24:16.and all kind of things. Maybe the DVDs didn't get. There let's look
:24:16. > :24:31.
:24:31. > :24:39.at the nine films nominated for Our families are just as screwed up.
:24:39. > :24:44.Our heart aches are just as painful, but we're going to make it out OK.
:24:44. > :24:48.My dad said, the way I saw the world was a gift. After he died, I
:24:48. > :24:53.found this key in my dad's closet. He must have wanted me to find
:24:53. > :24:58.something. If things were easy to find... They wouldn't be worth
:24:58. > :25:07.finding. Every black house should have a separate bathroom for the
:25:07. > :25:09.coloured help. I will have to kill that woman. Have you lost your mind.
:25:09. > :25:18.It's scandalous. Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for
:25:18. > :25:28.bringing it back to our family. are you? Hugo. Where do you live?
:25:28. > :25:38.It's a secret. Yes. Good, I love secrets. The story is not over yet.
:25:38. > :25:39.
:25:39. > :25:49.I want to walk around Paris with you. I keep forgeting you are just
:25:49. > :25:50.
:25:50. > :25:59.a tourist. That's putting it mildly. What time did you get in last
:25:59. > :26:04.night? Not that late. I'm m a perplexing situation. There are
:26:04. > :26:12.rich teams and there are poor teams. Then are 50 feet of crap, then
:26:12. > :26:22.there is us. We're going to shake things up. Tell him. Do you want me
:26:22. > :26:36.
:26:36. > :26:46.to speak? If we win with this team, Unless you love, your life will
:26:46. > :27:06.
:27:06. > :27:11.I love War Horse. Watching that makes me go,... Please. Does this
:27:11. > :27:16.belong to The Artist? Is that piece won it? It does belong to The
:27:16. > :27:21.Artist I spent so long banging and banging on about The Artist I can
:27:21. > :27:26.hardly make a claim for anything else. This list is remarkable, not
:27:26. > :27:34.that it's merely disappointing, there have two films on it which
:27:34. > :27:39.are bad, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and War horse.
:27:39. > :27:43.That is possibly the worst reviewed Best Picture candidate of all-time.
:27:44. > :27:51.I bet you're right. It might well be that it's badly reviewed. It's
:27:51. > :27:56.more than that, it is bad. War Horse is an appalling film.
:27:56. > :28:03.you... Did you watch. It you need to watch it with me? It's made out
:28:03. > :28:08.of plastic. I adored it. I'm grumpy on many levels. No. If it's not The
:28:08. > :28:14.Artist. We would like it to be The Artist. There can be a shock?
:28:14. > :28:20.Possibly the only film to take it from The Artist, one film it's The
:28:20. > :28:25.Help. It's well liked in the academy. He shivers here. Bad news.
:28:25. > :28:30.Bad news culturally for us all. Best Actress nominations and
:28:30. > :28:34.supporting actress nominations. It appears to the academy voters. 94%
:28:34. > :28:44.of them are over the age of 60. That harking back to a certain type
:28:44. > :28:46.
:28:46. > :28:52.of film making. Both of you like The Help? I also like War Horse.
:28:52. > :28:56.Suddenly confronted... I don't like The Help. It's well acted and well
:28:56. > :29:01.put together. We can have that conversation about what else can
:29:01. > :29:05.win. It's a foregone conclusion it's The Artist. The thing about
:29:05. > :29:10.Michel Hazanavicius is whether it will be history repeating it in
:29:10. > :29:17.1998 when Life Is beautiful Cleaned up. Maybe it is the same thing
:29:17. > :29:22.again. Maybe this will be a one time deal. In 1998 the world fell
:29:22. > :29:28.in love with him and then he disappeared. We have had so many
:29:28. > :29:34.comments coming in, I feel I will only read out the admissions
:29:34. > :29:40.tonight. Kevin, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Drive. Yes. That blew
:29:40. > :29:50.my mind. He will be winning Oscars in five years time when the academy
:29:50. > :29:56.
:29:56. > :30:00.gets on to what a Best Director he Moving on to Best Director, Michel
:30:00. > :30:04.Hazanavicius. Alexander Payne. Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen,
:30:04. > :30:10.Terence Malick for the Tree Of Life. Who would you like to win and who
:30:10. > :30:15.do you think will? I think it would be Michelle have an assiduous, but
:30:15. > :30:21.I would not expire if it was Martin Scorsese. Having ignored him, the
:30:21. > :30:26.Academy decided they would like him. I think it will be Michel
:30:26. > :30:31.Hazanavicius. Both of these songs are tributes to old film-makers. He
:30:31. > :30:36.paid tribute to French cinema, and Michelle has no vicious is paying
:30:36. > :30:42.tribute to all Hollywood. cannot rule out Woody Allen.
:30:42. > :30:46.agree! A very nice film with a feel-good vibe, Midnight In Paris.
:30:46. > :30:51.I have seen it three times, once as an honest to God paying member of
:30:51. > :30:56.the public and everybody loves it. The crowd, they love it. I will
:30:56. > :31:04.bang on, and I am not making eye- contact, where his Steven
:31:04. > :31:09.Spielberg? And Lynne Ramsay. Le in Ramsey's a future mission. It is
:31:09. > :31:16.essentially a Hollywood closing ranks. It is not a great time for
:31:16. > :31:21.Hollywood, and this is a circling of the wagons. Something like Steve
:31:21. > :31:25.McQueen, directing a Shame, a British film made in America, and
:31:25. > :31:30.he has been excluded. There is a parochial, chauvinist American
:31:30. > :31:35.films. They don't like smart-ass liberals from Britain making films
:31:35. > :31:39.about Columbine. That does not play well. They its have a look at best
:31:39. > :31:44.actor and Best actress. Let's have a look at this lovely video. Popper,
:31:44. > :31:51.why did you have me? Because I love you, and you are the most important
:31:51. > :31:57.thing in this world. That is why I love you. You're my reason to live.
:31:57. > :32:07.Who easy? I want to know who the guy my wife was seen is. -- who
:32:07. > :32:14.
:32:14. > :32:23.Ricky has been helping us. He has been telling us all about his
:32:23. > :32:31.adventures. I want to milk the last man to baseball you have been you.
:32:31. > :32:37.And you want to stay in the show. Let's do that. You won't tell them?
:32:37. > :32:41.What is your name? Albert. You will real name. Albert. A I thought I
:32:41. > :32:45.might write my stories down and read them to you. Did you know
:32:45. > :32:50.growing up that you thought she would be made? You yes, I did.
:32:50. > :32:56.to think about being something else? I have taken myself since I
:32:56. > :33:02.was 10. She has had a rough life. Let's not make it rougher. We have
:33:02. > :33:11.always lived alongside evil, but it has never been so efficient, so
:33:11. > :33:14.avid for carnage. You literally when nothing in bed but perfume?
:33:14. > :33:21.And as I am in England, I will say piously be nothing but Yardley's
:33:21. > :33:28.Lavender. I have not seen a better life. Is it going to be George
:33:28. > :33:33.Clooney? I think we all rather like that. George Clooney, I have gone
:33:33. > :33:37.off him a bit. Famously Steven Spielberg watched him in the arm
:33:37. > :33:41.and said if that man can stop waggling his head about, he will be
:33:41. > :33:45.a star. And he has stop waggling his head about but he still keeps
:33:45. > :33:53.doing it. There are lots of mannerisms and tics and weird
:33:53. > :33:57.things he does. He pulls a lot of faces. If where is Brad Pitt
:33:57. > :34:01.doesn't look like he is doing anything at all. He is an above the
:34:01. > :34:06.title Hollywood star. He is absolutely brilliant. The this year
:34:06. > :34:10.he has done all his best work, Tree Of Life was terrific. My issue with
:34:10. > :34:14.the best actor race is that it becomes a competition between which
:34:14. > :34:20.carried take you liked the most and that is why people like Gary Oldman
:34:20. > :34:25.and can get overlooked. People are being obsessed with simpered --
:34:25. > :34:29.being sympathetic. I think it is depressing it has come down to
:34:29. > :34:36.George Clooney. It's a decent performance, but I think you'll be
:34:36. > :34:40.an anti-climax, and fish on the job than his charming. What Gary Oldman
:34:40. > :34:45.has done is the difference between favourite performance and Best
:34:45. > :34:49.actor. Gary Oldman and carries the film without seeming to do a film.
:34:49. > :34:54.He should have won the Oscar three or four times already. I'm not
:34:54. > :35:01.saying it because I'm being patriotic, Gary Oldman and is the
:35:02. > :35:08.best actor of this year, plain and simple. He won't win. Forget it.
:35:08. > :35:11.They talk about Best actress. We didn't have fisticuffs, but we were
:35:11. > :35:15.having a conversation where everybody sort of disagreed with
:35:15. > :35:20.who might get it, or rather you came out with me and said it might
:35:20. > :35:26.be the only Davies. I think that is the sort of performance the Academy
:35:26. > :35:32.votes for. It is easy to overestimate how well the Margaret
:35:32. > :35:35.Thatcher thing has gone down. They are familiar with it over here, and
:35:35. > :35:45.people really bought into that, but there is a weird archness to the
:35:45. > :35:49.
:35:49. > :35:52.performance that might turn of American voters. But for Viola.
:35:52. > :35:58.very bland performance. I don't think the help these that well-
:35:58. > :36:03.acted, but Octavia Spencer is much more of an interesting support
:36:03. > :36:07.since -- more interesting performance. The would you like
:36:07. > :36:13.Meryl Streep to win? The two is an inspired piece of mimicry. People
:36:13. > :36:18.ask if it goes beyond mimicry, but what a piece of mimicry. I am
:36:18. > :36:23.astonished you would say that. Why did faze Brown not win an Oscar for
:36:23. > :36:28.her remarkable mimicry of her at the time -- face Brown. I will
:36:28. > :36:33.breathe a sigh of relief if Viola Davies wins. What she's doing is
:36:33. > :36:39.better than what Meryl Streep is doing. But we have to talk about
:36:39. > :36:47.emissions. Elizabeth Olsen, Tilda Swinton. Kirsten dance.
:36:47. > :36:54.Charlize Theron? D Denny one not watch Young adults? The very
:36:54. > :37:00.quickly, best actor in a supporting role. Kenneth Branagh, Jonah hill,
:37:00. > :37:05.McNulty, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow. I think you are not
:37:05. > :37:11.allowed to put to better on Christopher Plummer, it is him.
:37:11. > :37:15.Academy loves a plucky old man, and they don't get more plucky or Auld
:37:15. > :37:20.than Christopher Plummer. He lost out last time he was nominated, so
:37:20. > :37:25.every chance they will see this as a chance to redress the balance.
:37:26. > :37:31.still like Kenneth Branagh. I would have liked to have seen Albert
:37:31. > :37:35.Brooks will Drive. The supporting characters matter - category is
:37:35. > :37:40.where they give some nods, so they might be some surprises. We have
:37:40. > :37:43.literally got 18 seconds. It is going to Octavia Spencer. We will
:37:43. > :37:52.wake up Monday morning if we haven't lost it all night long,
:37:52. > :37:58.what is the headline? Will it be the Artist? A absolutely.
:37:58. > :38:03.artistry of Harvey. That is all for tonight. In next week's show we
:38:03. > :38:07.will review project X, wanderlust and this means war. Casablanca is
:38:07. > :38:13.back in cinemas now. Maybe that is my form of the week. Thank you for
:38:13. > :38:23.watching. Good night. -- film of the week. Play it, Sam. Play as
:38:23. > :38:36.
:38:36. > :38:46.Times Goes By. I am a little rusty Sing it, Sam. # You must remember
:38:46. > :38:48.
:38:48. > :38:51.this. # A kiss is just a kiss.
:38:51. > :39:00.# A sigh is just a sigh. # The fundamental things apply.