Episode 5 Film 2014

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Lars von Trier explores the explicit in his psycho-sexual epic,

Nymphomaniac. My name is Jo. I'm a nymphomaniac. Tilda Swinton and Tom

Hiddleston are bound for eternity in Only Lovers Left Alive. I have what

you need. Not that I need. Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson star in the

adaptation of the bestseller The Book Thief. You've kept me alive.

Don't ever forget that. Plus, we review Colin Farrell in a A New York

Winter's Tale. Danny is here and we are joined by guest critic Kevin

Kmare. That was very well done. First up, Nymphomaniac Parts One and

Two, the story of Joe, a self-confessed nymphomaniac who

looks back on her erotic encounters. If I asked you to take my virginity

would that be a problem Not a problem. You have to ask him if he

wants to have sex with me. I'm a nymphomaniac. We say sex addict. The

story of a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac. From the age of about

50, told by Charlotte Gainsbourg. I play Joe, so from 15-31. When

Charlotte comes she tells a story I come into the flakbacks. Joe is in

her self-discovery. Take them to the laboratory and you have sex with

them. What if it's nasty? You think of a bag of chocolate sweeties.

Because I was playing Joe when she was discovering herself by the time

Charlotte takes over Joe is more self-assured. She knows what she is

doing. I don't know if they'd ever have been able to cut the film in

about two hours. It would have been impossible. So that Lars can put all

the things he wanted to put in. It needed to be in two films. I mean

the sex scenes, I mean it is strange, you know. I'm not going to

lie. But it's also, you're provided with prosthetics. You are going to a

porn double, there are all these effects. Immediately you go - it's

fine. If I can stay within my comfort zone and still be able to,

you know, act in this film and work with Lars then, great. I'm going to

jump in. Would it be all right if I show the children the whoreing

built. They have a stake in this event. It was daunting. It was also

extremely fun and it was a really great challenge for me. It was my

first first role. My first job. To be surrounded by these amazing

actors, oh, my God, Uma Thurman, Christian Slater Hollywood actors

hes, these are the big guns I'm not even a pistol. Perhaps the

difference between me and other people is that I've always demanded

for more from the sunset. More spectacular colours when the sun hit

the horizon. That's about my only sin. As soon as you bring up

sexuality, immediately it creates a problem. I think maybe that's why

they see it as controversial. I don't think he's trying to say this

is what sex is, I think he's also trying to show that sex isn't always

romantic, as you see it in the movies. It doesn't have to be

romantic. You always see it with silky sheets. Then they kiss, oh,

they are done. It's like - wait a minute!

I've never met a bad human being. Well, you have now. Before we talk

about what you both think of the film we should say it's accent week.

Hence Kevin went off on one, which we loved. Will you do that the whole

time I'll try! What do you think? Is There is no end of grunting and

heaving and sweating and moaning and grinding in Nymphomaniac. There are

all kinds of sex going on, I learnt a few new things myself. It's about

everything at once, religion, families, fly-fishing, it's abouts

Lars von Trier and anyone who knows Lars von Trier in any one scene in

his films you feel about applauding and strangling him. That's true for

Nymphomaniac for the duration of the four hours. There would be moments

of boredom and where you think of writing a stern letter of

complaints. This film is intensely funny and wildly inventive and

almost heartbreaking. The world is a more interesting place for having

Nymphomaniac in it. I found someone who disagrees. I can't find out what

accent is next. Frank Lamb says, "it's dross, like a film made by an

art student trying to impress the pretty girl in the class" Is it

Frank? Yes? Is I feel we saw different films. The film I was saw

was intriguing. It's two films. The film I saw was intriguing for the

first film and a bit of the second film. It had an interesting motor

and idea which was to marry explicit sex with intellectual curiosities.

In doing so it seemed to be trying to lift the veil on humanitarian

where we all -- humanity where we live in a place where it's a battle

between mind, soul, in ellect verses the gut. Somewhere maybe, at the

point where Charlotte Gainsbourg's body double was getting their bum

whacked38 times the film anded me and Lars von Trier lost interest

interest in what they were doing. It suddenly fell apart. It became

boring. You saw, this is what he was doing. Because it was very long

Would you preferred, we should explain you watch the first one,

there is an interval, then you watch the second one. Would you prefer to

watch the first oned and be done with it? It could be a size issue.

Too big to handle. Will get into trouble! It's the repetition. I

think after four hours it's a four hour sex marathon. After that much

time the cracks start to show. I don't think it's as clever as he

thinks it. Lars von Trier makes films like he thinks he is the

cleverest person in the room. Thought most of it was supposed to

be funny. Did I... It's volatile cocktail. You have the art house

gloom and despair going on. The other half is Carry On, Frankie

Howard. I don't think he thinks he is clever. It's unfashionably

sincere. No. I think he means it. It can't be Carry On and sincere at the

same time. It's studently funny. It's the idea of - let's have a

wacky fight of about 95% of paedophiles are all great because

they don't act on their impulses and more sex - That's not played for

laughs You are being poked and prodded all the time by an Iish

student. That is Lars von Trier's whole thing. Did you not like the

marriage of this woman who was desperate to shock her audience.

She's Lars von Trier. I quite like... OK, right. Thank you. But

against him, who is unshockable? Did you not like those two... That's the

mechanics of the movie. It's not a story. It's like, without being

pretentious, like dialogue where he's just, a, verses b, put them

together am they bang about a couple of ideas. Quickly. Can we just

mention performances. Anybody stand out for you? Is Mixed performances.

Jamie Bell makes this fantastic. Shifting sadist. Uma Thurman steals

the film in five minutes. Given the film it is takes doing. Christian

Slater looks like it wasn't the career he was expecting when he was

doing Pump up the Volume. Sheila's accent comes from a country we

haven't discovered. I'm horrified - So down on it? Absolutely. Films

like this don't come along so often. The sooner or later Lars von Trier

his career is like a therapy session for him. Sooner or later he will

crack it and work out of his systemed and make Legally Blonde. At

that point we would have lost something. You say lost, I say gain.

Nymphomaniac 1 and 2 will be in cinemas for one day only this

Saturday and then on general release from Friday 28th. Next, Colin

Farrell stars as a man in search of a miracle in A New York Winter's

Tale. There is a world behind the world, where we are all connected.

What winter's tale is a fairytale for grownups. A thief who falls in

love with a dying heirest hes and hopes he can save her life with his

love. It squeaks. You have a gun? Just robbing the place, you know. Is

that still your intention? No, it isn't. Well, then, I suppose the

polite thing to do would be to offer you a cup of tea. It's a piece of

fiction. His journey through it was very much born of his... A lot of

his experience of love and loss. My My wife passed away while I was

trying to figure out how to turn it into a navigatable object. It became

a kind of love letter to her. What's the best thing you've ever stolen?

I'm beginning to think I haven't stolen it yet. They have a love

affair that transcends time and ends up kind of existing in some way

shape or form for the 100 years that the story takes place. These two

people have never believed that that would ever be part of their life.

The that they fall even quicker and even more madly. You are impossibly

beautiful. So are you. It's about the most unedgy script that I've

ever read. It's so sentimental. It's so sweet and it inspires to such

lofty notions about love. It was one of the things that scared me about

it, but one of the things I loved about it. Are you all right? I'm

Abbey. What is your name? I don't know. I've had no memory for as long

as I can remember. I appreciate the help. I hope it finds its place. It

is a utterly romantic, utterly uncynical object. The Her name was

Beverly. What's happening here? Their love is so strong it agenda

Tats the shades of light and dark manipulating the existence of all

human beings. You will not be saving anyone. Maybe there is something you

are still meant to do. It was definitely, you know, it continues

to be a very, very pro emotional experience. -- profound emotional

experience. Is What do you think? Best Film I have seen. Can we do

accents. It's indignified to carp on about accents as they are trying to

do their best. Russell Crowe's Irish accent is straight out of The Little

People. Never heard it spoke... Low pressure are corn. That for me

up-ended the film. Maybe American's don't complain about Liam Neeson's

American accent. It's Showgirl's cheese. Yeah, it's the Showgirl's

version of you know Princesses Bride of a romantic movie. Even mentioning

the Princess Bride. It's difficult to make a cult movie nowadays. To

make a cult movie it has to be accidental. Everybody know what is

they are doing. Everybody is knowing. This is a true cult movie

in waiting. I don't think anybody knew what they were doing. If you

went to see tie tantic having been force fed cough medicine and been

asked what you saw, it's kind of this film. Russell Crowe, it's

extraordinary what he is doing. The only explanation I think is that he

came off the set of Les Mis, and thought, next time I will take it up

a notch. He has. Will Smith? There is a gem of a nice idea in this.

Half way I got it, OK, it's Gangs of New York meets the mortal

instruments this is what they are doing, angels and demons in New

York. Maybe with different director, different script and cast this could

have been the film - With do you respect the sad circumstances this

came out, to have the same writer, same producer, if any film was

calling out for a producer to stride on set and say, no, no, it's this.

Will Smith and Russell Crowe are extraordinary. If you were

directoring a panto you might say "tone it down, loves" here they

don't. They think they have gold dust in the bag. Everyone in the

screening room was aghast. I can't explain what it's about. You know,

there is a horse, he's good. Other people are bad. The horse is really

a dog. Yes, there is that. Don't pull on that string.

Now, Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston team up as a pair of

vampires who have been in love for centuries in Only Lovers Left Alive.

When it first met Jim, all he said to me, he wanted to make a film

about love. And really, it was about two people, Yemen and yang, black

and white, the sun and the moon. They were very rare, sensitive,

allocate beings. And the twist was, that these two creatures were

vampires. They are vampires that lives without

reflection. But I think they reflect each other. That is the way that

they operate for one another. So there is something unique about

them. Having said that, there may be a pair of vampires living on every

corner, you don't know. I can think of some people who might very well

be described as such. 1868. I look so young. That suicidal Mt scandal.

Let's hope he is just Ron Antic. Being so reclusive and everything is

probably only going to make me more interested in your music. What a

drag back in our contemporary culture, vampires are everywhere.

Blood on a stick. Delicious. Jim was taking something that was very

popular and making it his own. Why don't think I have ever met anyone

like him. He is a poet. He is a poet of cinema and music. We're going to

have so much fun together. I don't think I did anything particularly to

prepare for the role. I hung out with Jim Jarmusch for, I don't know

how long. I have hung out with him for 15 years!

You have been pretty lucky in love. If I'm a say-so. -- if I may say so.

I have what you need. Not what I need.

Danny? I have always had certain preconceptions about the kind of

people that were sunshine to lack -- sunglasses in nightclubs. But it

turns out they were just vampires, Jim Jarmusch vampires. They are

these affable, slightly depressed and cats. I think that works. As Jim

Jarmusch movies go, this is slight and sweet. It is charming. I can

find nothing to objective. I agree totally. -- nothing to object to. It

is hard and depressing to see you do not object to anything but it is

like Jim Jarmusch is hit and miss. He made an appalling movie a few

years ago and then Broken Flowers before that. He is up and down. This

felt like his challenge was to make a vampire film after twilight. It

seems like it is such a dead genre, excuse the pun. Post Twilight, it is

so difficult to make something original. Identity was reasonable.

That was arthouse vampires. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Struggling

at the edge of the genre. Jarmusch's question seems to be, can

you make it his own a of hipster guitarists. And it is fine. It is

much better than fine! The answer is, yes. I think the casting is

great. Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, they are fun to watch and

they are having fun. It is smart casting, because they have that a of

dilapidated aristocrats, who might have been around for thousands of

years locked in a spare room in Mick Jagger's house in Performance. It

did not want to be a vampire film. I thought it was about true love and

they just happened to be vampires. It was not all about vampires. A lot

to their characters and therefore they were great together. -- I love

their characters. I would tell people to go and see this film.

There was some voluntary -esque name-dropping. Shakespeare and

Marleau... -- voluntary. It has to keep nudging you in the ribs to let

you know that it is really into the White stripes. But there are funny

moments. Jeffrey Wright, Tom Hiddleston, there was the scene

where he arrived at his hospital, covered in blood and he was the

world's least convincing Doctor. Every one of those scenes makes the

film worth it. And Detroit is a fantastic location, these skeletal

ruins. I've been waiting for a film that was not a remake of Robocop to

come and use Detroit as a location. Finally, Geoffrey Rush and Emily

Watson star in The Book Thief, adapted from the best selling young

adult novel by Markus Zusak. It is set in a small town in Germany

in a very ordinary little street, with an ordinary little family.

Everything is seen through the eyes of a young girl who arrives as a

foster child in this home. There is an archetypical mean stepmother and

an archetypical gentle woodcarver of a stepfather who teaches her to

read. There is a secretive that the family has which is that a young

Jewish boy asks for their help and they hide him in the basement for

two years. Quickly! Who seek? -- who is he. His name is Max and he needs

help. Are you hiding from Hitler? I am in. I am a Jew. If anyone saw

him, they would take you away from me and I cannot tell you what they

would do for him -- from him. No melodrama, no sentimentality.

Honest. No acting. Because we have to believe what these characters are

going through. They are checking the basement. What is this about? Max!

Max! It is an odd thing. I think if they

are wrecked decides to take on an adaptation, he doesn't because he

really the original source material. They would not do it if

they did not like the novel. Did anyone see UQ back -- see you? We

will make this our secret. It is very interesting. We are now seeing

audiences and people engaging on a strong emotional level. You have

kept me alive. Don't forget that. Words are life. If your eyes could

speak, what would they say? I wanted it to appeal to a wider audience. I

wanted 12-year-olds to go to the film got it has such a positive

message and because it deals with a part of history that should not be

forgotten. There once was a girl who had a

friend that lived in the shadows. She would remind him of how the sun

felt on his skin and Bobby air felt like to breathe. -- wanted the air.

And that reminded her that she was still alive. What did you think? It

is cuddly blanket of a film but it does that by telling you that war is

not as bad as all that. It looks lavish and lush. It has that look

that can only be achieved by sending people out to polish everything

between takes. If you want a World War II movie where even the book

burning looks nice, this is the film for you. So harsh! So harsh! They

are meant to be nice! It is a look at Germany during World War II.

Possibly a very pretty Germany, but I've thought that was great. I

thought the idea that you going into the classroom and there is a

portrait of Hitler and nobody is freaked out by it and the kids are

singing anti-Semitic songs and no one is freaked out and then they go

to the book morning and night and no one has bothered, halfway through

that I was unnerved. -- book burning. I thought this was

subversive. But you think, they are OK, they are not really Nazis.

Germany was not really full of Nazis(!) Book was number one in the

New York Best Seller list for 230 weeks. -- of the book. I love to the

first three pages so much. I thought character, Death, did not appear in

the film, so I'd got the film. -- the book. Markus Zusak is very good

year and Emily Watson is incapable of being bad. But when you think

about what they have to work with. There is a rich streak of guff in

this film. The first scene, boy is brought to Emily Watson, a stern

hausfrau. She looks at her, and she says, cannot even have her in the

house because she is filthy. And she looks like she has been in the spa

for a week. She is radiant and glowing. She looks like a friend of

Coleen Rooney. That all business runs through the whole film. You

know what that is, that is casting. -- that bogus mess. It is made by

Brian Percival, who cut his teeth on Downton Abbey. So it is going to be

traditional film-making. I believe what Truffaut used to call the

cinema to Papa. It is traditional, non-challenging. If you accept those

parameters, it is dignified storytelling. I did not find it

dignified. And there is the most crass moment of product placement I

think I have ever seen in the history of cinema at the end. It is

a pivotal moment and it is kind of out of nowhere. It is like Schindler

is list being interrupted so that Liam Neeson can have a can of juice.

The director said he wanted 12-year-olds to go and see it. Maybe

that is why it is softer? A World War II movie doesn't have to be

gut-wrenching. It doesn't have to be existentially ruined. But it was not

a nice time. Moving onto film of the week. Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac.

It has to be The Book Thief. Nymphomaniac is misogynistic, wildly

misogynistic. As a woman, how can you not notice that? I think

everything is such a mystic. But did not think that was particularly.

Now, we have to debate this for hours. That is a brilliant time to

bring that up. We will chat, off a. -- off air. And The Book Thief will

be in cinemas from February 26th. That's all from us. We'll be back

next Wednesday at 11:05, when we review Liam Neeson in Non Stop,

Danny meets Wes Anderson and we and talk all things Oscar. We're going

to play out tonight with Noah, the new film from Black Swan director,

Darren Aronofsky. It's in cinemas in April. Thank you so much for

watching. Good night.

Man corrupted this world. He polluted it with violence. So we

must be destroyed. A great flood is coming. We must make a vessel to

hold the innocent. Father! Ham! There is nothing for you here. You

define me? I am not alone. The choice is in your hands, no. --

Noah. When they come, they will be desperate and they will be many.

Take the arc!