:00:00. > :00:20.pride salvaged for the visitors. That is all coming up at 6:30pm.
:00:21. > :00:30.Hello and welcome. We have Mark Kermode.
:00:31. > :00:36.I don't think we will have another fight like we did last week. We have
:00:37. > :00:45.the new film by the Coen brothers, set in 1961, Greenwich Village.
:00:46. > :01:00.We have De Niro and Stallone. We wanted to see a boxing movie with
:01:01. > :01:05.those two. And of course August: Osage County.
:01:06. > :01:14.I would see anything by the Coen brothers. The story is 1961,
:01:15. > :01:19.Greenwich Village, this character and the Coen brothers have said the
:01:20. > :01:23.whole film spun out of a single idea, what if he got beaten up in an
:01:24. > :01:31.alleyway. At the beginning of the film we see something similar. He is
:01:32. > :01:36.attempting to, he has had a name of one part of the singing duo, that is
:01:37. > :01:42.now over his partner has thrown himself off a bridge. He is told by
:01:43. > :01:47.everybody he is a complete fool, stumbles from one carriage to
:01:48. > :01:52.another and decides he might try to make his way to Chicago and goes to
:01:53. > :01:59.see whether any of those gigs or records have made any money.
:02:00. > :02:14.How are we doing? Great. Records doing well? Not so hot. Where is
:02:15. > :02:27.Cincinnati? It is not in here. It should be in there. I got it. You
:02:28. > :02:39.have got it? You want it? Can I have it must remark do you only something
:02:40. > :02:47.was to mark --? People have got to know you. Cincinnati is not good.
:02:48. > :02:51.Nobody knew us when we were a duo, it is not like we were a big act. It
:02:52. > :03:07.is not a big re-education for the public. Mel? How are you doing, kid?
:03:08. > :03:11.I liked this, I liked the folk scene, and the difficulty, I
:03:12. > :03:21.suspect, is the EU really love a loser?
:03:22. > :03:27.-- do you really. It has the whole pallets, the colour, very cold. The
:03:28. > :03:32.music, making sure everything is authentically stop it is a very
:03:33. > :03:38.straightfaced, very door companion piece. The thing I found problematic
:03:39. > :03:44.is as much as I admire it, I have seen it twice, I find it hard to
:03:45. > :03:47.like. Part of the reason is it is a very insular film, some people say
:03:48. > :03:56.it doesn't go anywhere, the cyclical narrative. It is a film made by
:03:57. > :03:59.people in love with the millionaire, but having a conversation with
:04:00. > :04:04.themselves. There was a running in joke in which
:04:05. > :04:12.the people in the background, you have two identified Peter, Paul and
:04:13. > :04:15.Mary, and Bob Dylan. Who don't play much as a role, but if you don't
:04:16. > :04:24.know any of that stuff it is a bit tricky.
:04:25. > :04:29.The problem is it still feels oddly intuitive. The constantly crosses
:04:30. > :04:33.his path is at the same one, a different one? It feels like a rebel
:04:34. > :04:38.without a punch line. Perhaps like a song without a chorus. I don't think
:04:39. > :04:44.it is not brilliantly done, I think it is. The attention to detail is
:04:45. > :04:49.everything. Somehow I feel it has an infinite ability. I cannot pretend,
:04:50. > :04:53.I want to like it more, as it is I admire it greatly but having seen it
:04:54. > :04:58.twice it doesn't get and my skin and emotionally engage me.
:04:59. > :05:03.But it is Citizen Kane compared to the next film.
:05:04. > :05:07.I think most things would be. The story is, Sylvester Stallone, Robert
:05:08. > :05:12.De Niro, there were boxes, had a grudge. They decide to get back in
:05:13. > :05:19.the ring because of promoted health and if they do that there will be a
:05:20. > :05:29.lot of money -- a promoter tells them. Get back in the ring and you
:05:30. > :05:33.will make a bunch of money. The think about it is, you know the high
:05:34. > :05:39.concept movie, in which you can picture it in 15 words. The pitch is
:05:40. > :05:42.maybe funny, but the actual act of watching it is like wading through
:05:43. > :05:47.treacle. It is spectacularly not funny.
:05:48. > :06:01.I am not surprised by Stallone, I am surprised by Robert Dinero. -- De
:06:02. > :06:10.Niro. Look back over Robert De Niro's back catalogue, a lot of
:06:11. > :06:14.films look like this. On screen they are doing it for the money, I think
:06:15. > :06:16.of screen they are doing it for the money.
:06:17. > :06:21.That is move onto something else stop August: Osage County, an
:06:22. > :06:27.adaptation of the stage play. Meryl Streep was the poisonous and
:06:28. > :06:33.poisoned matriarch. A poet drunk husband disappears, she calls the
:06:34. > :06:39.family together, they proceed to tear each other apart. Over the
:06:40. > :06:50.course of some horrendous domestic abuse. Who are you? This is my
:06:51. > :07:04.fiance, Steve, you met him at the church. It is German. German, Irish.
:07:05. > :07:09.That is peculiar, to bring a date to your father 's funeral. I know the
:07:10. > :07:13.poetry was good but I wouldn't have considered it a date material for
:07:14. > :07:19.stop he is not a date, he is my fiance, we are getting married in
:07:20. > :07:26.new years in Miami. I would love it if you would make it. I don't really
:07:27. > :07:35.see that happening. Have you ever been married before? Yes, I have.
:07:36. > :07:44.More than once? Three times, before this. You should have it down by now
:07:45. > :07:53.then. I had that one pegged. Look at him. We love Meryl Streep.
:07:54. > :08:02.She is grateful stop she is really sticking her teeth into it. The
:08:03. > :08:08.problem is previous adaptations look like films, this looks like a stage
:08:09. > :08:14.play. When there is so much going on, fireworks, performances, Meryl
:08:15. > :08:19.Streep 's in fine performance, but it feels like a bunch of set pieces
:08:20. > :08:28.stuck together. What doesn't have is a sense of it being can hear it
:08:29. > :08:35.movie. -- being a coherent movie. There is nowhere to go, you cannot
:08:36. > :08:42.escape. It still feels like it is on stage. Previous adaptations looked
:08:43. > :08:46.like films, this looks like a stage play. Oddly enough, it has lost a
:08:47. > :08:51.lot of the stage play's running time and it seems longer. It is one of
:08:52. > :08:57.those things where less is more, but not in the right way.
:08:58. > :09:00.It is, however, we are in Tennessee Williams Territory. Oklahoma. It has
:09:01. > :09:06.got that extra very dynamic between the characters and great women
:09:07. > :09:09.characters. The performances are really good,
:09:10. > :09:14.you can see they are enjoying themselves. The writing is
:09:15. > :09:17.fantastic. That is not enough to make it a great film. A series of
:09:18. > :09:25.great performances. The best is still 12 years a Slave.
:09:26. > :09:31.Amazing performances, really troubling film.
:09:32. > :09:35.Deliberately so. I know a few people said it was too tough and felt
:09:36. > :09:41.perhaps it was exploitative. I think it is as tough as it needs to be, a
:09:42. > :09:48.brilliant job of telling the story. The performances are breast taking.
:09:49. > :09:55.-- breathtaking. It is a really profound film. In years to come
:09:56. > :10:00.people will look back on it and see it as a milestone movie. A milestone
:10:01. > :10:03.movie for society, as well. It is a brilliant piece of
:10:04. > :10:18.storytelling. And your DVD is Brush. -- Rush.
:10:19. > :10:26.An awful lot is going on with a soundtrack, the gears, the tyres. It
:10:27. > :10:30.is a wonderful soundscape. As far as the characters are concerned,
:10:31. > :10:38.slightly pantomime. One of them is a playboy, the other...
:10:39. > :10:42.But they were. Hunt genuinely did, all the stuff
:10:43. > :10:48.the trade he was doing, he really was. The thing that makes the movie
:10:49. > :10:52.work is even if you are not interested in Formula One it puts
:10:53. > :10:55.you right there in the car. It is to do with the soundtrack. Close the
:10:56. > :10:59.curtains and turn the soundtrack art. It is a great watch for a wet
:11:00. > :11:04.weekend which is what we are going to have.
:11:05. > :11:26.You will find more news and reviews online. That was it for this week.
:11:27. > :11:30.I am off to get the DVD as soon as I have finished my shift because it
:11:31. > :11:31.will be a wet