:00:25. > :00:29.Hello and welcome to Film 2013 with me, Claudia Winkleman.
:00:29. > :00:32.And me, Danny Leigh. We're live and if you want to get
:00:32. > :00:36.in touch, then please tweet or e- mail, the details are on the screen
:00:36. > :00:46.now. On tonight's show:
:00:46. > :00:46.
:00:46. > :00:51.Denzel Washington is on a high in Flight. We've got to roll it!
:00:51. > :00:58.The Roosevelts meet the Royals in Hyde Park On Hudson.
:00:58. > :01:01.And Sly is back in Bullet To The Head.
:01:01. > :01:04.And we also look at horror film Antiviral.
:01:04. > :01:14.First, tonight, Flight, directed by Robert Zemeckis. It stars Oscar-
:01:14. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:26.nominated Denzel Washington. Good morning. Good morning. Here is your
:01:26. > :01:36.manifest. Let's get them tucked in. He is a pilot with some issues. He
:01:36. > :01:41.
:01:41. > :01:49.has an extreme way of relaxing and he has to face his demons. We are
:01:49. > :01:53.in a dive! Everybody in brace positions. Listen to me, trim us
:01:53. > :01:58.nose down. Their plane crashes in the first 20 minutes of the movie.
:01:58. > :02:05.Then it is about something house. Denzel Washington's character is
:02:05. > :02:12.numb. It is a character study of a man who is an alcoholic. How you
:02:12. > :02:20.feeling? Looked like you pulled some kind of move up there.
:02:20. > :02:26.plane fell apart at 30,000 feet. Why do we need a lawyer? You had
:02:26. > :02:32.alcohol in your system. That could be life in prison. It is a story of
:02:32. > :02:35.a man who has to come to terms with his humanness and his human
:02:35. > :02:41.imperfect nature and that is a universal theme. That is something
:02:41. > :02:46.that we all have to grapple with, you know. We are all in a state of
:02:46. > :02:51.having to be reborn as our life goes on. That is what the film is
:02:51. > :02:58.about. I want to talk about the days leading up to the accident.
:02:58. > :03:06.drank the night before the flight. Does he know he is going to jail?
:03:06. > :03:11.It is a lie. It was a strong script and that is rare to read a really
:03:11. > :03:16.good script with a complex character and a unique story. I
:03:16. > :03:22.hadn't read anything like this, or seen a guy like this, I definitely
:03:22. > :03:32.hadn't played one like that. It was a no-brainer. I called my agent and
:03:32. > :03:37.said, "What's next?" So when they called and said, "Robert Zemeckis
:03:37. > :03:45.is interested." I was like, "Wow!" There was a mechanical issue with
:03:45. > :03:53.the plane. What you and I know, this was an act of God. I'm going
:03:54. > :03:57.to fight to get them to add "act as God" as one of the probable causes.
:03:57. > :04:03.A really good movie is a perfect blend of truth and spectacle. I
:04:03. > :04:09.think that is true. We go to movies to be entertained. If it is
:04:09. > :04:15.entertaining, it is the perfect way to sort of allow a bit of our human
:04:15. > :04:23.truth to seep in so when a movie does both, when it entertains and
:04:23. > :04:31.is thought-provoking, they are the movies I'm most attracted to.
:04:31. > :04:35.trying to save your life. What life?! We have lost power. Brace
:04:35. > :04:40.for impact. No-one could have landed that plane like I did.
:04:40. > :04:43.is a very good shot. What did you think? If you are a nervous flyer,
:04:44. > :04:48.don't worry. The plane crash will reduce you to a wreck. It puts you
:04:48. > :04:56.in there with the screaming and the vomiting and the flying hand
:04:56. > :05:00.luggage. The film is in control of itself. It moves at its own pace.
:05:00. > :05:10.It turns into something which is fluent and powerful and grown-up.
:05:10. > :05:13.
:05:13. > :05:17.What did you think? Thank you. Denzel Washington, this is all
:05:17. > :05:21.about him. He is so magnificent in this. The supporting cast were
:05:21. > :05:26.great. If he had been off his game, it wouldn't have been the film it
:05:26. > :05:30.was. I thought it was excellent. There were a few gripes. What else
:05:30. > :05:34.did you think? It is a fine performance from Denzel Washington,
:05:34. > :05:39.not because he is magnetic and not because he is playing an alcoholic
:05:39. > :05:46.so convincingly that you can smell it on him but he is doing both at
:05:46. > :05:50.once. He's also someone who needs to have two lines of coke to get
:05:50. > :05:55.themselves started in the morning! He is the key to the movie. He
:05:55. > :06:02.holds it together. I'm pleased he is up for an Oscar. He is so good
:06:02. > :06:06.at being a film star, we forget how good an actor he can be. My gripe
:06:06. > :06:14.is that half-way through, did you feel that you knew how it was going
:06:14. > :06:20.to end? That was my only problem. Did you think, "It is going this
:06:20. > :06:24.way."? I didn't. I think what saves the movie from worthiness is you
:06:24. > :06:29.don't - maybe it is me - I didn't know what was coming next. Credit
:06:29. > :06:32.to the script for that and to Robert Zemeckis who has had an
:06:32. > :06:39.interesting career. He's made some questionable films in the last few
:06:39. > :06:47.years, but also some fine ones. The most recent being Castaway starring
:06:47. > :06:52.Tom Hanks. This Flight reminds me of that a little bit. I don't know
:06:52. > :06:56.if Robert Zemeckis has shares in a bus company! It is another big
:06:56. > :07:02.mainstream Hollywood movie that is unusually honest and smart. This is
:07:03. > :07:10.all very impressive. My only gripe is there is gratuitous use in one
:07:10. > :07:17.scene of Piers Morgan. We love you! Next, Bill Murray stars as Franklin
:07:17. > :07:21.D Roosevelt in Hyde Park On Hudson. They just left Beacon. Good. It
:07:21. > :07:27.won't be too long. No King of England had ever visited America
:07:27. > :07:33.before. So nice of you to come. Forgive me for not getting up.
:07:33. > :07:37.he invited them here to the country where we could all relax. It is
:07:37. > :07:41.about the first-ever visit by a reigning British monarch to North
:07:41. > :07:46.America and he went there 12 weeks before the outbreak of the Second
:07:46. > :07:51.World War on a mission. He was charged with a mission to tilt
:07:51. > :07:55.American public opinion towards helping us defeat Hitler. You know
:07:55. > :08:05.how important this is? You are not going to let the side down, don't
:08:05. > :08:06.
:08:06. > :08:09.worry. Our bit of it is about a state visit to Roosevelt's summer
:08:09. > :08:14.residence at Hyde Park On Hudson. Roosevelt is having an affair with
:08:14. > :08:20.his cousin and his wife is gay and his mother is cross that he is
:08:20. > :08:24.drinking and it is all a bit of a French farce. It is going to be a
:08:24. > :08:30.big success. She is obviously his mistress. Look over there.
:08:30. > :08:35.secretary. Wave. This is lovely because it is watching British
:08:35. > :08:39.formality made to look stupid in front of American informality. What
:08:39. > :08:45.was lovely about Eleanor is she didn't think anybody should be made
:08:45. > :08:53.to feel inferior for any reason. Do you mind if I call you Elizabeth?
:08:54. > :09:01.No. No. Everything ensues at the house party for the weekend, lots
:09:01. > :09:09.of door slamming, things. Is my wife behaving herself? Yes. Has my
:09:09. > :09:14.mother calmed down? She is fine. Daisy was one of several women with
:09:14. > :09:22.whom FDR had intimacy. He was subject to ridiculous pressure and
:09:22. > :09:29.she was one way of releasing it. The only surviving picture of FDR
:09:29. > :09:37.in a wheelchair was taken by Daisy. He let her see everything of him
:09:37. > :09:44.that he couldn't show to other people. The King... Inside,
:09:44. > :09:48.everyone was on their very best behaviour. When ever a member of
:09:48. > :09:52.the Royal Family goes to America, they are the last word in
:09:52. > :10:02.informality, you know, they appear to be natural and real people and
:10:02. > :10:08.they win over the populous. This visit was no exception. I now see
:10:08. > :10:13.how important this weekend was. To them. To us. To the world. To Hyde
:10:13. > :10:19.Park On Hudson. We could have sold tickets for this dinner and made
:10:19. > :10:29.ourselves a pile of money. I will start with a tweet. Bold! It's come
:10:29. > :10:30.
:10:30. > :10:36.through from Lieutenant Starbuck. "It made The King's Speech light.
:10:36. > :10:38.It was fun, but historically interesting." Go! Half the film is
:10:38. > :10:45.about the special relationship between Britain and America. That
:10:45. > :10:49.half does very much want to be the King's New Speech. The other half
:10:49. > :10:54.is about the special relationship between Franklin D Roosevelt and
:10:54. > :11:01.Daisy. It is a relationship that moves quickly from them taking tea
:11:01. > :11:04.as virtual strangers to parking up in a field. Sitting there while she
:11:04. > :11:09.delights him manually. That is a scene which hung over the rest of
:11:09. > :11:14.the movie. It is hard to get it out of your mind. But that is not the
:11:15. > :11:18.problem. The problem is that for me, a movie or a story should be about
:11:18. > :11:23.the most pivotal momentous important events in any character's
:11:23. > :11:27.life. This doesn't feel like it is about the most pivotal hand job in
:11:27. > :11:31.a car that Roosevelt ever had. It feels so slight and so flimsy that
:11:31. > :11:37.you would sneeze in the cinema and the whole thing would fall apart.
:11:37. > :11:43.Slight is a nice way of putting it. Bill Murray has had a kicking. I
:11:43. > :11:47.don't think he was bad. I love Sam West, Olivia Colman. The cast are
:11:47. > :11:52.excellent. It feels like you can't grab it. When Sam West was
:11:52. > :11:58.describing it he said, "This happens, this happens." I wish it
:11:58. > :12:03.was like a farce! It felt, if I may say so, a little dull? I think - I
:12:03. > :12:10.don't think "dull" is out of order. Bill Murray is doing what he always
:12:10. > :12:15.does. He is this wise old scroundrel and I would happily
:12:15. > :12:19.watch him in anything. -- scoundrel. There are likeable things. When the
:12:19. > :12:23.British Royals come in, there are funny scenes, Olivia Colman,
:12:23. > :12:29.playing the Queen Mother. There is one scene with Sam West and Bill
:12:29. > :12:34.Murray near the end where it all slots into place. It is this one
:12:34. > :12:39.note perfect scene and it is like going on a bad date and at the very
:12:39. > :12:43.end they tell you this fantastic joke. I don't know. That is unusual
:12:43. > :12:48.and surprising but it wasn't enough. By the end, I was surprised at how
:12:48. > :12:55.dull sex and war could be. There are some shots that are very
:12:55. > :12:59.beautiful. I thought it looked gorgeous. I said, "I want to go to
:12:59. > :13:09.upstate New York." You said? It was shot in the Cotswolds! You need
:13:09. > :13:15.
:13:15. > :13:25.more in life than being pretty. Now it's time for the Top Five.
:13:25. > :13:28.
:13:29. > :13:33.Hello and welcome, Antonia. I love all of your choices.
:13:33. > :13:38.This week, your doing Top Five drunk performances on film. This is
:13:38. > :13:41.a difficult subject. I think more than any Top 5 I have done, this is
:13:41. > :13:45.about performance. You can write a great drunk, but if your actor
:13:45. > :13:49.isn't on it, you are in serious trouble. We have all seen that,
:13:49. > :13:59.haven't we? Yes. It is a very interesting arena for a performer.
:13:59. > :13:59.
:14:00. > :14:03.You hear of real-life catastrophic drunks putting in perfectly sober
:14:03. > :14:09.performances then someone like Richard E Grant pulling out one of
:14:10. > :14:19.the greatest drunks of all time. should say that out loud! I'm very
:14:19. > :14:23.drunk now! I'm smashed. What is five? Let's start with a beautiful,
:14:23. > :14:31.highly-decorated English drunk. No harm can come to anybody hanging
:14:31. > :14:37.around Michael Caine's professor in Educating Rita. Let's have a look.
:14:37. > :14:44.I've done a fine job on you. It is true. I can see it now. You know,
:14:44. > :14:51.like you, I am going to change my name. From now on, I'm going to
:14:51. > :15:01.insist on being called Mary. Mary Shelley. Do you understand that
:15:01. > :15:09.illusion? What? Mary Shelley wrote a gothic number called Frankenstein.
:15:09. > :15:13.So brilliant. He is so contained. Yes. The idea, you would be tempted
:15:13. > :15:18.to overplay drunk? In his wonderful memoir, he talks about how this is
:15:18. > :15:23.the performance he is most proud of. He considers this to be pure
:15:23. > :15:27.performance because he thinks he is far away from the performance he is.
:15:27. > :15:34.You know how he researched the role? No. He said someone said,
:15:34. > :15:38."What Tees the research you did to play a drunk?" He said, "I'm a
:15:39. > :15:44.British actor!" Sorted. I love your number four. Let's go for a really
:15:44. > :15:48.nasty piece of work. A brilliant actress, Charlize Theron, in Young
:15:48. > :15:52.Adult. This wasn't a movie I loved but I was knocked out by her
:15:52. > :16:02.performance. This is a modern performance. Any modern girl has
:16:02. > :16:33.
:16:33. > :16:36.felt like this on the occasional The way she drinks that Diet Coke!
:16:36. > :16:41.There is something very frightening about this particular drunk. The
:16:41. > :16:46.sort of high-rise that she lives in, the way she is separate from
:16:46. > :16:51.everybody else. There is something so lost about the character. It is
:16:51. > :16:57.just pitch-perfect. Also, you have been in make-up, you have to play
:16:57. > :17:02.hungover. "But I was in bed last night." I'm feeling slightly
:17:02. > :17:07.bemused. What is three? James Dean. I have been wanting to get him into
:17:07. > :17:13.a Top 5 for three years and here he is in Giant. He was a particularly
:17:13. > :17:18.interesting actor. He suffered from nerves and in several scenes in his
:17:18. > :17:23.three movies, he's drunk and in Giant in fact a lot of what you
:17:23. > :17:27.hear is not James Dean because they were hoping to overdub some of his
:17:27. > :17:34.bad dialogue because he was drunk while he was filming it. Then he
:17:34. > :17:41.died the day after the ending of principle photography. It is one of
:17:41. > :17:47.the bit parts? Yes. In this scene, this is James Dean, the actor, who
:17:47. > :17:51.just descends - nobody smiles like him. The hair like dreams of a
:17:51. > :17:59.better world rising from a head. This guy is incredible. Here he is
:17:59. > :18:05.as... We love you! You are brilliant. This is the lovelorn
:18:05. > :18:15.redneck who has struck a will. Let's have a look. What do you
:18:15. > :18:36.
:18:36. > :18:43.That is wonderful. Everybody thought I had a duster?! I'm here
:18:43. > :18:50.to tell you it ain't, boy. It's here. And there ain't a dang thing
:18:50. > :18:58.you are going to do about it! think he was dead a few days later!
:18:58. > :19:08.Oh! I used to have a novelty bin. had Dusty Bin. Two? Drunks can be
:19:08. > :19:13.so much fun, so this is for every John Belushi fan, this is for all
:19:13. > :19:17.of us who have forgotten our cars, our keys, our lives, our houses and
:19:17. > :19:27.can't find anything when we get back, like Charlie Chaplin at 1am
:19:27. > :19:54.
:19:54. > :19:58.So funny. It is a 34-minute-long film about how he can't find his
:19:58. > :20:02.bed. How many people could pull that off? I urge anyone to go and
:20:02. > :20:09.see this. It is on YouTube. showed it to my ten-year-old
:20:09. > :20:14.tonight and he was creeping with laughter! Can you mablg how much
:20:14. > :20:19.you would have loved him pulling -- imagine how much you would have
:20:19. > :20:23.loved him pulling that off? What is number one? This is my favourite
:20:23. > :20:28.drunk of all time. It is because this particular actor nails this
:20:29. > :20:36.kind of drunk. We have all met guys like this who can drink themselves
:20:36. > :20:42.into a moment of super-articulate sobriety. Robert Shaw in Jaws is
:20:42. > :20:52.never seen without a can of beer or a suspicionly clear liquid in a
:20:52. > :20:59.
:20:59. > :21:07.china mug. He is perfection. Let's have a look. They didn't even list
:21:07. > :21:12.it. We formed ourselves into tight groups, you know, kind of like old
:21:12. > :21:18.squares in a bottle... The shark comes to the nearest man and he
:21:18. > :21:25.starts pounding and sometimes the shark goes away... Sometimes he
:21:25. > :21:33.wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark looks into you, into your
:21:33. > :21:38.eyes... Robert Shaw wrote that speech, too! He is from the Richard
:21:38. > :21:43.Burton school of acting where being pickled is what you did! You rolled
:21:43. > :21:48.through Soho and on and off set. It is as if acting itself was the
:21:48. > :21:57.grandest form of intoxication and a part of the whole game. Brilliant
:21:57. > :22:05.choices. We have to go to Twitter. Well, Richard E Grant, James
:22:05. > :22:15.Stewart in Harvey. I would say Dennis Hopper in Rumble Fish.
:22:15. > :22:17.
:22:17. > :22:20.Somebody mentioned James Mason in A Star Is Born. Richard Dreyfuss.
:22:20. > :22:23.Next, Bullet To The Head. Sylvester Stallone plays a New Orleans hitman
:22:23. > :22:29.who teams up with a Washington DC detective to track down the killer
:22:29. > :22:34.of his partner. Just don't give me any crap, I'm not in the mood right
:22:34. > :22:41.now. What is your problem? I wanted to take him out but there were too
:22:41. > :22:51.many witnesses. He is still out. he wakes up, crack him! He is
:22:51. > :23:08.
:23:08. > :23:18.totally out, plus he is drunk. What Nice going! Good call(!) I give you
:23:18. > :23:20.
:23:20. > :23:25.one thing to do. Bullet To The Head is a throwback to a time before
:23:25. > :23:31.buddy movies became bromances. It is built around bruising fight
:23:31. > :23:39.scenes and Stallone's one-liners. Every bad guy looks like a roadie
:23:39. > :23:44.in a Metallica tribute band! Dodgy lawyers go back home and have
:23:44. > :23:49.masked balls filled with bowl fulls of drugs. I have to say I have
:23:49. > :23:53.missed that world. I enjoyed Bullet To The Head. In real-life, lawyers
:23:53. > :23:59.go to farmers' markets. This version is more entertaining.
:23:59. > :24:06.The world you are talking about is the '80s! I didn't like the '80s. I
:24:06. > :24:14.was more orange then than I am now! I don't want to go back and live in
:24:14. > :24:22.a Whitesnake video. It is genuinely the most... The idea that Sylvester
:24:22. > :24:28.Stallone, who is 86 - he can't walk! If you thought Arnie... And
:24:28. > :24:34.he beats everyone. The one-liners aren't funny. The acting around him
:24:34. > :24:39.was painful. I didn't like it. is the point. I think he works
:24:39. > :24:47.perfectly. If you compare... There aren't the one-liners in between?
:24:47. > :24:55.He is working so much harder than Arnie in The Last Stand. The double
:24:55. > :24:59.act, the buddy doesn't work here. The real double act is Walter Hill,
:24:59. > :25:05.the director. Director of 48 Hours. Listen, this film is full of
:25:05. > :25:07.cliches. Walter Hill invented those. You are saying he is allowed?
:25:07. > :25:10.Next, Antiviral, the directorial debut of David Cronenberg's son,
:25:10. > :25:16.Brandon. A body horror about a company that makes a profit by
:25:16. > :25:23.infecting fans with viruses taken from their favourite celebrities.
:25:24. > :25:29.Fame, glamour, perfection. What if you could find it all at the tip of
:25:29. > :25:34.a needle? Here at the Lucas Clinic we strive to bring you closer to
:25:34. > :25:42.celebrity than ever before. With samples drawn directly from the
:25:42. > :25:45.source, you can be connected in ways you never imagined. Do you not
:25:45. > :25:49.agree the mania surrounding celebrity is reaching an unhealthy
:25:49. > :25:59.level? I don't. My clients want to feel more connected to those people
:25:59. > :25:59.
:25:59. > :26:09.that they see in the magazines and on television. Enjoy. So far, I
:26:09. > :26:10.
:26:10. > :26:18.have had all the diseases. Is there any way you could spread it? It is
:26:18. > :26:23.pretty shocking. If any other young director had
:26:23. > :26:28.made a movie which was so heavily influenced by the early body horror
:26:28. > :26:31.movies, you would be waiting for a lawyer's letter in the post! The
:26:31. > :26:36.director here is Brandon Cronenberg, the son of David Cronenberg, so
:26:36. > :26:41.there won't be a lawyer's letter in there. The trick with David
:26:41. > :26:46.Cronenberg movies was always that for all the grotesque orifices,
:26:46. > :26:51.there was a lot of satire in the mix. That is partly true with
:26:51. > :26:56.Antiviral. There are smart ideas here. The celebrity sales stake is
:26:56. > :27:00.something that will stay with me again. It is unnaturally enlarged
:27:00. > :27:05.beyond its rightful form. It started as a short a few years ago.
:27:05. > :27:10.It is one of those ideas where you think it is probably best captured
:27:10. > :27:17.in 20 minutes. Here, after an hour, you do feel it runs out of ideas.
:27:17. > :27:20.have been horrible about Sylvester Stallone. Let's move on. Here is a
:27:20. > :27:24.boy who is brilliant, Caleb Landry Jones, who is compelling. This film
:27:25. > :27:29.is long but it starts very interestingly and I couldn't take
:27:29. > :27:33.my eyes off him. Caleb Landry Jones has real presence. He is so young
:27:33. > :27:39.in this role, he feels like a vampire with a paper round! Yes.
:27:39. > :27:46.You can't take your eyes off him, even when he is jamming needles
:27:46. > :27:49.into gums. What is your film of the week? Flight. You? Mine, too.
:27:49. > :27:52.That's all for tonight. Next week, we're back on Wednesday at the
:27:52. > :27:55.earlier time of 11.05pm and we'll be reviewing I Give It A Year,
:27:55. > :27:58.Hitchcock and Warm Bodies. Playing us out tonight is Pain and
:27:58. > :28:05.Gain. It stars Mark Wahlberg and "The Rock". It's in cinemas in May.
:28:05. > :28:14.Thank you and good night. I'm a self-made man. I made a lot of
:28:14. > :28:20.money. You ought to spend some of it on a salad. You know who
:28:20. > :28:27.invented salad? Poor people. I like it here. When was the last time you
:28:27. > :28:32.paid your rent? I have a plan to change that. Where did you do your
:28:32. > :28:40.time? Up north. How you fixed for a job now? You can't kidnap a guy and
:28:40. > :28:46.take his things. That is so illegal. Sure we can. If we go through with
:28:46. > :28:51.this, nobody gets hurt, right? we snatch him. We grab him. He