Episode 7 Film 2012

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tonight's show. A cast of national treasures seek retirement in the

sun in the best exotic marigold hotel. -- The Best Exotic Marigold

Hotel. They simply refuse to die. Woody Harrelson plays a bad cop in

Rampart. I am not a racist. The fact is, I hate all people equally.

And the winner is... We take a look at the nominee's ahead of this

Sunday's Academy Awards. First tonight, the best exotic marigold

Hotel, directed by John Madden, starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and

Maggie Smith. And this is the day. Where are you going? Why not spend

your autumn years in an Indian palace. It is a luxury development

where all of the residents are in their golden years. Like the Costa

Brava? You s, but with more elephants. I play a character

called Sonny, who has an idea to sell to old people, and they end up

in India with all these guys, but they end up finding that all is not

what they think and lots of craziness happens. Your first time

in India? This country seems more civilised than one originally

thought. Welcome The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel! Here is an Indian,

isn't he? It is primarily a comedy that has a melancholy undertow

because it deals with people at a point in their lives way you do not

know what is left and what is coming, and it is a story of

cultural collision because it is about how the people cope with the

madness of modern India. How can you bear this country? What do you

see that I don't? A light, colours, smiles. All life is here. Do you

think we will be all right? The romance of India is very much

in our history. If this film has got this magic work in it

Catalonian, if it has that word in it, it is OK. That was a gin and

tonic. I know that now! Almost every one of those actors, the key

ones you can see, they are people who have worked with each other,

often several times, and that is an incredible resource for a director.

You don't really have to do very You can read that it is like the

Guardian saying it is a festival of luvvies, but you have a tradition

of actors being on tour and spending time together and it was

sort of like that, and it was delightful. It was like a

travelling theatre company. John Madden brilliantly kept us in order.

Everything will be all right in the end. So if it is not all right, it

is not the end. High. Hello to you. I thought this storm was adorable.

I note your are horrified. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago

when the Descendants came out, and I mentioned they had booked seats,

but 12 of them are going and they have already planned their snacks.

They are going to love this film. I thought it was charming,

brilliantly played, especially by Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson. I

thought the whole thing was lovely, but I can tell you didn't. I just

think it is a chronically mixed bag. Some of it is smart and funny and

the premise of a motley crew of OAPs being outsourced to India is

funny, but I think there is a side to the film which is rather

traditional. The fact they turn up at this derelict hotel run by a

bumbling local is a plot device taken from Carry On abroad. And a

lot of the jokes were of equal vintage. The first joke in the

script has everyone getting diarrhoea and locking themselves in

the toilet. I think he has a split personality. But the film is canny

and clever. There is at huge boulder audience out there. A lot

of the stuff we talk about is an especially terribly relevant to

them. They probably went to see The King's Speech and have not seen

much since. It does a job for them. And as a way of spending the grey

pound, it could be worse. My grandma spends it on facts and

scratchcards. I like your grandma. I think the performances are good.

The masterstroke is getting the cast together. They could read it

assembly instructions for flat-pack furniture and that -- it would work.

I am not hostile, but I wish he didn't rely so much on things like

it Ain't half Hot mum. Next, Rampart stars Woody Harrelson

caught on tape abusing a suspect and defines himself entering a

The only thing that is wrong here is that a camera caught him doing

police work. You first read the script and you think this guy is an

asshole. I am not a racist. The fact is I hate all people equally.

Personally, I didn't think I could pull it off. I can't even imagine

playing a cop. It is the only profession I really cannot imagine

playing. Why are you looking to hand me? I know you are setting me

up. Answer my question. Of all the rotten cops, why are you after the

one guide who gets it? The one cop who get sick? Are you Fokine

kidding me? Let me remind you that several years ago you killed an

alleged serial date rapist primitively. -- Prix meditatively.

I can prove no shooting was dirty, like I can prove that you have done

it. As a director he creates an environment that is very safe.

There is a lot of play, improvisation, spontaneous things

and he never says cuts. I consider him a maestro. He is really a

master of his craft. It is only his second movie, but I cannot wait to

see what he does next. I hope I get to do it with him. You can't just

walk in the house like you still live here. You are a dirty cup, and

you have made us all dirty. I do not know if this character has made

-- redeemed himself or even what the Arc is. It might be like the

Paul Simon Lin, as things change, we are more a less the same. Have

you thought about retirement? you force me to retire, I will have

my own show on Fox News, and you'll be my first guest. So you have

It is a beast of a performance from Woody Harrelson, and is almost in

close-up in everyone, and he dominates there film. But it also

belongs to James Ellroy, and people will associate him with LA

Confidential and it is not a disgrace to compare Rum par with

that. La Confidential is a mystery at heart, but Rampart is two hours

in a character's head. I kind of enjoyed it. He's a true James

Ellroy policeman, and I think him and the film are the saviours

because they are repulsive and magnetic. That is my dream night.

Repulsion and cannot help myself. I know I am being keen, but I am

about not to be. I think this film was brilliant. I thought it was

mind-blowing. I do not understand why he is not up for an Oscar. I

think it is one of those films where you decide early on whether

you're getting on the train for the ride, because I think it is

beautifully directed, but there are these 360 degree shops, and there

is amazing supporting cast of Steve Buscemi, so put -- Sigourney Weaver,

Robin Wright, and I decided early on that I was with it. Like he is

falling apart, some of the shots are as well. I thought it was

brilliant. The direction is very stylised. It is a big presence in

the film. Oren Moverman's direction is a big presence. Sometimes you

are looking through a steroid pumped body, but when they pull

together it is powerful. This is Woody Harrelson's movie, but an

Mahesh has not been treated well by Hollywood, and make BT is always

perfect. Instead of our usual top five, we have people picking out

top Oscar travesties in the beer mat - Best Film nominations that

never won. Clint Eastwood With Dirty Harry once said there are a

lot of great movies that won the Academy Award and a lot of great

movies that happened. Here are my choices for the ones that got away.

Apocalypse Now, losing to Kramer vs. Kramer in 1980. I love the smell of

napalm in the morning. One time we had a bomb, 12 hours and it was all

over when I woke up. Perhaps the Academy thought it had

congratulated Francis Ford Coppola with the Godfather films, or

perhaps the fiasco surrounding the making of the film was still so

intense it was hard to see the incredible thing behind the mist.

On the other hand, Kramer vs. Kramer is an issue film and has a

very Oscar style undercurrent. came here to take my son home. And

I realise he already is home. losing to the English Patient in

You should see the other guy! was very cool, very sly, funny, but

the Academy had not learnt to embrace the directors. But the

English Patient was the first film to be really pushed by Hardy Wine

Stein -- Harvey Weinstein with his infamous campaigning. I know you

will carry me out of the Palace of winds. The English Patient changed

the way movies won an Oscar for ever. Oscar travesties go way back,

and my first choice is one of the all-time classic Callas. Citizen

Kane's 1941 lost to how Green Was My Valley. It would be one thing if

it film had beaten Citizen Kane and the Maltese Falcon and was a time

this work of genius, unfortunately, How Green Was My Valley, set in a

Welsh mining community but filmed in Malibu does not stand up well

today. Come on, lad. You can walk. Apparently the Academy preferred

John Ford's daffodils to rosebuds. Whether you agree if Citizen Kane

is the greatest film ever made, the movies to watch today because it is

great. How Green Was My Valley is a maybe watch to find out what beats

its intake. That was 1941. 70 years later The Social Network loses out

to The King's Speech in 2011 and it seems the Academy are still

favouring traditional fare over more radical story telling. David

Fincher's brilliant The Social Network is the Digital Citizen Kane.

He has security. They need a user name and a password. It betrays not

a newspaper baron, but a social networking entrepreneur. What won

the Oscar? A nice as pie biopic about a king. I am not saying The

King's Speech is not a very nice film and terribly well acted, but

come on, it does not compare. choices, but those Academy mistakes

pale in significance, shining examples of when the people's

champion was looked over and they look stupid. First up, Goodfellas

losing to Dances With Wolves at the 1991 Academy Awards. Where is my

Fokine drink? The Oscars is a cavalcade of wrong, fit only for

generating pub quiz questions. He should have won his first Oscar for

his pulsating gangster classic, Goodfellas, and the cast is top

You little flock. Now he is moving! So naturally it lost to a dull,

overlong epic. What one best picture in 1991? Dances With

I hope I never have to fight him. He seems to be honest and very

direct. Really? Next up, Pulp Fiction losing to Forrest Gump at

the 1995 Academy Awards. Everybody be cool, this is a robbery. Any of

you fuckinpricks move and I'll executed every mother fucking last

one. Forrest Gump had a great Tom Hanks performance but it's no Pulp

Fiction? Do you want to continue this in the car or in the jail

house with the cops. It's dialogue is more enduring than... My mum

always said life was like a box of chocolates. It works as a character

study, a thriller and a love letter to cinema itself. It just plain

works. I love them. They did that brilliantly. What, for you, go on?

1980 was the year of Raging Bull, The Shining, The Elephant Man. The

Oscar went to Ordinary People. I don't know if crack was invented in

1980 but they were smoking something. We had so many tweets.

Helen is with me "I will never forget Crash over Brokeback

Mountain". I was working, the cast of Crash were like "no, no" Sandra

Bullock was like... Did you not see that? Absolutely. I love this guy

"Raging Bull, fight club, Goodfellas and while we are at it

Blade Runner". There is a lot of grumpy people. People are livid, in

only a gad way. Next Black Gold a tale of greed and betrayal set in

the 19 3o's Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom. It stars Antonio

Banderas and Mark Strong. All I want is your friendship. It's a

reflection about the power corrupting the appalling power

money has in human beings in a very specific context. Get ready to be

rich. How rich? Seriously rich. a human being, you know, he's

blinded by the power of this new source of wealth. He goes from the

"us" to the "me". It's dangerous when you are talking about politics.

That is a mirror of possibly the modern Arabic world that has

suddenly come into an awful lot of money and how it's going to deal

with that wealth and which direction it will go in. Because,

you see, my son, everything you see in this room was one with either --

was won with either blood or love, never money. Because anything that

can be bought has no real value. It's amazing we have come full

circle in the Tunisian elections have just happened and the

revolution was happening during filming. Interesting to make a film

about revolution, about a new way, which is being mirrored in the

politics of the real world, in the very place that you are filming it.

That was extraordinary. I will not betray you like you betrayed me.

You were born to rule. You are the next Sultan. Follow me. Now, you

are a man. It's, basically, Pus In Boots in the dessert. Of course, it

isn't. Imagine he is wearing boots. I won't do the voice. I love

Antonio Banderas. I cannot get that character out of my head. Whenever

he speaks I think "why isn't he wearing a hat and a feather in it"?

What did you think? This was to be the start of a new era. I don't

think it work. The cast are dressed up in costumes that lack look like

they were pulled out of a storage trunk after a Turkish delight

advert. A film about Arab history have you a cast drawn from Malaga,

Mumbai and Wembley. The director takes a do your own thing approach

to accents. The thing is wobbley. Freida Pinto comes on and

disappears. She is off screen, I assume she is on the phone to her

agent. Antonio Banderas is close to Willow Twanky. I will be positive.

How? There are moments when this epic approach that Jean-Jacques

Annaud takes pays off. Between his casting and his relentless owe old

fashion quality you want Nicholas Lindhurst to arrive on a magic

carpet. That spoils the illusion for me. Tell me I'm wrong? You are

bang on it. It feels incredibly long. If people go "they are being

mean" you will go into the cinema and come out in June. You were a

bet iger fan of seven years in Tibet. I want to say is that the

landscape looks beautiful. Wonderful sand in this film and

wonderful camels. What is your Film of the Week? It's Rampart. I loved

it but I want a nod to marigold. The Oscars take place on Sunday,

here is a quick reminder of who is leading the race. Hugo leads the

Oscar race with 11 nominations with the much rewarded The Artist with

10. Six nominations, Money zs ball, and War horse. The Descendants

starring George Clooney has Fife as done the re-make of The Girl With

the Dragon Tattoo. The can The Help has four nominations alongside

Woody Allen most commercially successful film of all-time,

Midnight In Paris. Oscar has cast a wide net and made notable snubs too.

Spiel spiel spiel has been locked out of Best Director category while

their films got an impressive number of nominations. The

Adventures of Tin Tin wasn't put forward for the Best Animation. For

some Mr Oscar seems more reliable. Meryl Streep the most nominated

actress in Oscar history received her 17th nomination. Woody Allen

his 23rd. John Williams gained his 47th, almost as many as the most

nominated of all, the great Walt Disney. Gary Oldman got his first

nominations. And Best Director for The Artist. And the screenplay

Bridesmaids bucking the trend for not taking comedy seriously. Who

will go home with the Oscar on on Sunday, maybe they will surprise us.

Here with us to preview the awards ahead of Sunday night's ceremony

are Peter Bradshaw and Robbie Collin. Thank you for talking to us.

It is late. A sacrifice we will make. I was... Every year I go,

they missed out, so-and-so. I suddenly got a proper surge of

excitement. It's the Oscars. They are on Sunday. We will all stay up

and watch them. What is not to love. Sadly without Eddie Murphy. Thank

you. It's not that I wasn't looking forward to a change? I was mentally

prepared for it. Billy will do it great. Tpwho what he will do.

will do what he has done before. will pull viewers. American viewers

love Billy Crystal. He will hit it straight down the middle. Let me

state now, officially, I'm looking at you. It's bad form to always

star every Oscar's chat with, they missed out so many films, I try not

to. This year there are so many. need to We Need To Talk About Kevin

and all kind of things. Maybe the DVDs didn't get. There let's look

at the nine films nominated for Our families are just as screwed up.

Our heart aches are just as painful, but we're going to make it out OK.

My dad said, the way I saw the world was a gift. After he died, I

found this key in my dad's closet. He must have wanted me to find

something. If things were easy to find... They wouldn't be worth

finding. Every black house should have a separate bathroom for the

coloured help. I will have to kill that woman. Have you lost your mind.

It's scandalous. Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for

bringing it back to our family. are you? Hugo. Where do you live?

It's a secret. Yes. Good, I love secrets. The story is not over yet.

I want to walk around Paris with you. I keep forgeting you are just

a tourist. That's putting it mildly. What time did you get in last

night? Not that late. I'm m a perplexing situation. There are

rich teams and there are poor teams. Then are 50 feet of crap, then

there is us. We're going to shake things up. Tell him. Do you want me

to speak? If we win with this team, Unless you love, your life will

I love War Horse. Watching that makes me go,... Please. Does this

belong to The Artist? Is that piece won it? It does belong to The

Artist I spent so long banging and banging on about The Artist I can

hardly make a claim for anything else. This list is remarkable, not

that it's merely disappointing, there have two films on it which

are bad, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and War horse.

That is possibly the worst reviewed Best Picture candidate of all-time.

I bet you're right. It might well be that it's badly reviewed. It's

more than that, it is bad. War Horse is an appalling film.

you... Did you watch. It you need to watch it with me? It's made out

of plastic. I adored it. I'm grumpy on many levels. No. If it's not The

Artist. We would like it to be The Artist. There can be a shock?

Possibly the only film to take it from The Artist, one film it's The

Help. It's well liked in the academy. He shivers here. Bad news.

Bad news culturally for us all. Best Actress nominations and

supporting actress nominations. It appears to the academy voters. 94%

of them are over the age of 60. That harking back to a certain type

of film making. Both of you like The Help? I also like War Horse.

Suddenly confronted... I don't like The Help. It's well acted and well

put together. We can have that conversation about what else can

win. It's a foregone conclusion it's The Artist. The thing about

Michel Hazanavicius is whether it will be history repeating it in

1998 when Life Is beautiful Cleaned up. Maybe it is the same thing

again. Maybe this will be a one time deal. In 1998 the world fell

in love with him and then he disappeared. We have had so many

comments coming in, I feel I will only read out the admissions

tonight. Kevin, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Drive. Yes. That blew

my mind. He will be winning Oscars in five years time when the academy

gets on to what a Best Director he Moving on to Best Director, Michel

Hazanavicius. Alexander Payne. Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen,

Terence Malick for the Tree Of Life. Who would you like to win and who

do you think will? I think it would be Michelle have an assiduous, but

I would not expire if it was Martin Scorsese. Having ignored him, the

Academy decided they would like him. I think it will be Michel

Hazanavicius. Both of these songs are tributes to old film-makers. He

paid tribute to French cinema, and Michelle has no vicious is paying

tribute to all Hollywood. cannot rule out Woody Allen.

agree! A very nice film with a feel-good vibe, Midnight In Paris.

I have seen it three times, once as an honest to God paying member of

the public and everybody loves it. The crowd, they love it. I will

bang on, and I am not making eye- contact, where his Steven

Spielberg? And Lynne Ramsay. Le in Ramsey's a future mission. It is

essentially a Hollywood closing ranks. It is not a great time for

Hollywood, and this is a circling of the wagons. Something like Steve

McQueen, directing a Shame, a British film made in America, and

he has been excluded. There is a parochial, chauvinist American

films. They don't like smart-ass liberals from Britain making films

about Columbine. That does not play well. They its have a look at best

actor and Best actress. Let's have a look at this lovely video. Popper,

why did you have me? Because I love you, and you are the most important

thing in this world. That is why I love you. You're my reason to live.

Who easy? I want to know who the guy my wife was seen is. -- who

Ricky has been helping us. He has been telling us all about his

adventures. I want to milk the last man to baseball you have been you.

And you want to stay in the show. Let's do that. You won't tell them?

What is your name? Albert. You will real name. Albert. A I thought I

might write my stories down and read them to you. Did you know

growing up that you thought she would be made? You yes, I did.

to think about being something else? I have taken myself since I

was 10. She has had a rough life. Let's not make it rougher. We have

always lived alongside evil, but it has never been so efficient, so

avid for carnage. You literally when nothing in bed but perfume?

And as I am in England, I will say piously be nothing but Yardley's

Lavender. I have not seen a better life. Is it going to be George

Clooney? I think we all rather like that. George Clooney, I have gone

off him a bit. Famously Steven Spielberg watched him in the arm

and said if that man can stop waggling his head about, he will be

a star. And he has stop waggling his head about but he still keeps

doing it. There are lots of mannerisms and tics and weird

things he does. He pulls a lot of faces. If where is Brad Pitt

doesn't look like he is doing anything at all. He is an above the

title Hollywood star. He is absolutely brilliant. The this year

he has done all his best work, Tree Of Life was terrific. My issue with

the best actor race is that it becomes a competition between which

carried take you liked the most and that is why people like Gary Oldman

and can get overlooked. People are being obsessed with simpered --

being sympathetic. I think it is depressing it has come down to

George Clooney. It's a decent performance, but I think you'll be

an anti-climax, and fish on the job than his charming. What Gary Oldman

has done is the difference between favourite performance and Best

actor. Gary Oldman and carries the film without seeming to do a film.

He should have won the Oscar three or four times already. I'm not

saying it because I'm being patriotic, Gary Oldman and is the

best actor of this year, plain and simple. He won't win. Forget it.

They talk about Best actress. We didn't have fisticuffs, but we were

having a conversation where everybody sort of disagreed with

who might get it, or rather you came out with me and said it might

be the only Davies. I think that is the sort of performance the Academy

votes for. It is easy to overestimate how well the Margaret

Thatcher thing has gone down. They are familiar with it over here, and

people really bought into that, but there is a weird archness to the

performance that might turn of American voters. But for Viola.

very bland performance. I don't think the help these that well-

acted, but Octavia Spencer is much more of an interesting support

since -- more interesting performance. The would you like

Meryl Streep to win? The two is an inspired piece of mimicry. People

ask if it goes beyond mimicry, but what a piece of mimicry. I am

astonished you would say that. Why did faze Brown not win an Oscar for

her remarkable mimicry of her at the time -- face Brown. I will

breathe a sigh of relief if Viola Davies wins. What she's doing is

better than what Meryl Streep is doing. But we have to talk about

emissions. Elizabeth Olsen, Tilda Swinton. Kirsten dance.

Charlize Theron? D Denny one not watch Young adults? The very

quickly, best actor in a supporting role. Kenneth Branagh, Jonah hill,

McNulty, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow. I think you are not

allowed to put to better on Christopher Plummer, it is him.

Academy loves a plucky old man, and they don't get more plucky or Auld

than Christopher Plummer. He lost out last time he was nominated, so

every chance they will see this as a chance to redress the balance.

still like Kenneth Branagh. I would have liked to have seen Albert

Brooks will Drive. The supporting characters matter - category is

where they give some nods, so they might be some surprises. We have

literally got 18 seconds. It is going to Octavia Spencer. We will

wake up Monday morning if we haven't lost it all night long,

what is the headline? Will it be the Artist? A absolutely.

artistry of Harvey. That is all for tonight. In next week's show we

will review project X, wanderlust and this means war. Casablanca is

back in cinemas now. Maybe that is my form of the week. Thank you for

watching. Good night. -- film of the week. Play it, Sam. Play as

Times Goes By. I am a little rusty Sing it, Sam. # You must remember

this. # A kiss is just a kiss.

# A sigh is just a sigh. # The fundamental things apply.