:00:00. > :00:22.League fixtures and we will hear from the new voice of the football
:00:22. > :00:25.League fixtures and we will hear Hello, and welcome to The Film
:00:25. > :00:32.Review on BBC News. Mark Kermode joins me. Awards season is upon
:00:32. > :00:34.Review on BBC News. Mark Kermode Cate Blanchett is a frontrunner
:00:34. > :00:37.Review on BBC News. Mark Kermode Best actress in the new Woody Allen
:00:37. > :00:40.film Blue Jasmine. Ben Affleck is relaxing, the only way you can
:00:40. > :00:47.describe it, in Runner Runner with Justin Timberlake. And we have
:00:47. > :00:51.challenging thriller about child abduction. Blue Jasmine, I think we
:00:51. > :00:56.are beyond the stage of saying, abduction. Blue Jasmine, I think we
:00:56. > :01:00.this Woody Allen back on form? He has made such great movies in the
:01:00. > :01:07.last five years. The problem with saying return to form, does not
:01:07. > :01:08.last five years. The problem with in to account the fact that Midnight
:01:08. > :01:16.In Paris is his most successful international movie. The real star
:01:16. > :01:21.extraordinary. She is a character who has been used to great wealth. A
:01:21. > :01:24.terrible tragedy has happened, her husband has been arrested after
:01:24. > :01:28.terrible tragedy has happened, her kind of financial scandal, she moves
:01:28. > :01:35.in with her adoptive sister in San Francisco. She is a woman fallen
:01:35. > :01:43.see A Streetcar Named Desire, made herself upon her sister. Of course,
:01:44. > :01:47.see A Streetcar Named Desire, made all the more notable by the fact
:01:47. > :01:56.A Streetcar Named Desire, a good that Cate Blanchett played lunch
:01:56. > :02:02.A Streetcar Named Desire, a good I always wanted to do something
:02:02. > :02:06.A Streetcar Named Desire, a good my life. Not just shop and lunch and
:02:06. > :02:17.comes responsibility. I wasn't just some mindless consumer likes of
:02:17. > :02:20.comes responsibility. I wasn't just so—called friends. Although I won't
:02:20. > :02:30.say I disliked buying pretty closed. —— pretty clothes. Tip big, boys,
:02:30. > :02:33.Someday when you come into great wealth, you must remember to be
:02:33. > :02:38.generous. Mum said you'd use to wealth, you must remember to be
:02:38. > :02:44.OK, but you got crazy. And then wealth, you must remember to be
:02:44. > :02:53.You last there. As always with Woody most of them are very abrasive.
:02:53. > :02:58.People always talk about Woody Allen with the funny ones, this is one of
:02:58. > :03:01.the serious ones. Amazingly good script. She doesn't stop talking.
:03:01. > :03:06.She talks the whole time, often script. She doesn't stop talking.
:03:06. > :03:10.herself, in the manner of somebody increasingly losing the plot. The
:03:10. > :03:15.film jumps backwards and forwards between her previous life of wealth
:03:16. > :03:21.Terrific supporting performances, Sally Hawkins is wonderful. Andrew
:03:21. > :03:27.dice Clay, who in the past has been one of the most obnoxious comedians
:03:27. > :03:33.around, is really, really well cast as the big man laid low, he is
:03:34. > :03:40.fantastic. She is hard company to be in, it is quite exhausting. To play
:03:40. > :03:44.exhausting. She is a brittle and abrasive and cracked and on the
:03:44. > :03:52.verge of a nervous breakdown, she collapse. She is constantly drinking
:03:52. > :04:00.into that, she is warm and likeable and taking pills. You see somebody
:04:00. > :04:04.into that, she is warm and likeable and plays it brilliantly. There
:04:04. > :04:08.into that, she is warm and likeable Blanchett, I think Sally Hawkins
:04:08. > :04:15.deserves a best supporting actress nomination. Mark your cards. Cate
:04:15. > :04:16.Blanchett is pretty much frontrunner for best actress, I would have Sally
:04:16. > :04:32.Affleck has done the hard work for best actress, I would have Sally
:04:32. > :04:35.Affleck has done the hard work recently. He did Argo and worked
:04:35. > :04:38.with Terrence Malick. Runner Runner thinks it has a very new take on a
:04:38. > :04:42.very old idea. Justin Timberlake is trying to get to Princeton, he goes
:04:42. > :04:49.online gambling, he is led into trying to get to Princeton, he goes
:04:49. > :04:55.Affleck's character from Costa Rica. He turns out to be on the wrong
:04:55. > :04:58.Affleck's character from Costa Rica. of the law and he has an attractive
:04:58. > :05:03.other half. Do you think there is Timberlake will start to have a
:05:03. > :05:09.relationship with her? ! The premise is online gambling, the new American
:05:09. > :05:13.dream. It feels very of the moment. But you look at the film and you go
:05:13. > :05:22.oh, that is a very old film. The young guy, the old guy. This is
:05:22. > :05:26.oh, that is a very old film. The going to be sticking around us —— as
:05:27. > :05:31.long as some of those movies. It is incidental at best. One of the
:05:31. > :05:35.things about the success of Argo, having seen Ben Affleck as a greater
:05:35. > :05:41.director, I am rethinking him as an actor. I think, why bother? He is a
:05:41. > :05:50.good actor but he does not have actor. I think, why bother? He is a
:05:50. > :05:55.challenging thriller. Two young girls go missing. There is a vehicle
:05:55. > :06:01.interview a man who looks like the Gyllenhaal, the director in charge
:06:01. > :06:17.obvious prime suspect. Here is a obvious prime suspect. Here is a
:06:17. > :06:26.May I sit down. And to my questions. sleeping about in the daytime? Why
:06:26. > :06:47.girls? Two no. Have you done it were you parked outside the house? I
:06:47. > :06:49.girls? Two no. Have you done it before? Lou Mark Roe no. Did you put
:06:49. > :06:59.them somewhere? Did you put them You can see from that, the film
:06:59. > :07:00.them somewhere? Did you put them saying, look, clearly the guy is
:07:00. > :07:05.guilty and he is holding something back. They can't find any evidence
:07:05. > :07:08.and he has to be released, at which point the fathers of the missing
:07:08. > :07:13.girls take the law into their own hands. The interesting thing about
:07:13. > :07:18.the film, which is very intelligent and initially very ambitious, it
:07:18. > :07:21.deals with complicated ideas of guilt and responsibility. It is
:07:21. > :07:24.about violence begetting violence. It deals with the idea that whoever
:07:25. > :07:32.fights monsters should see to it that they do not in the process
:07:32. > :07:35.become monsters. It has particular relevance in the recent debates
:07:35. > :07:38.about water boarding and torture and whether any information that is
:07:38. > :07:41.about water boarding and torture and gained through illicit means can
:07:41. > :07:46.ever be seen as valuable. It starts off with all these ideas and very
:07:46. > :07:50.interesting examination that all evil does is produce evil, violence
:07:50. > :07:53.just produces violence. It is a evil does is produce evil, violence
:07:53. > :07:58.film and as it gets into the third acted kind of side that it has to
:07:58. > :08:05.third act, it kind of decides. In plot points. —— as it gets into
:08:05. > :08:14.third act, it kind of decides. In the first two thirds, it is a big,
:08:14. > :08:46.impressive thing. You get a sense of big—name cast but quite competent
:08:46. > :08:54.cinematographer. Your Best of the really terrible slowly unfolding,
:08:54. > :09:00.cinematographer. Your Best of the week is The Wicker Man, people will
:09:00. > :09:05.be asking which one? Longer than the shortest version, shorter than the
:09:05. > :09:09.longest version. They found a longer 35 million print, if you have not
:09:09. > :09:15.seen this in the cinema, it is great to be able to see and at least
:09:15. > :09:21.semi—intact print. All the things wrong. The ending is extraordinary.
:09:21. > :09:27.If you do not know, I will not spoil it, but the poster goes some way !
:09:27. > :09:32.Edward Woodward's performance is extraordinary, the music is really
:09:32. > :09:35.strange. I don't love that we need another version, but the fact that
:09:35. > :09:42.people can see it in the cinema makes it worthwhile. Your DVD is
:09:42. > :09:45.Stories We Tell? It is by Sarah Polley. You initially think it is a
:09:45. > :09:49.documentary simply looking back Polley. You initially think it is a
:09:49. > :09:53.her strange family life. As it unfolds, it becomes a discussion of
:09:53. > :10:01.the way in which we tell stories both narratively and amidst families
:10:02. > :10:04.engrossing. Some people actually founded cheap as it is, they were
:10:04. > :10:09.tricked at one point. I didn't, founded cheap as it is, they were
:10:09. > :10:12.analysis of the way in which we founded cheap as it is, they were
:10:12. > :10:17.the written medium. It is very stories — visually, verbally and in
:10:17. > :10:20.the written medium. It is very moving and engrossing. Thank you.
:10:20. > :10:23.A quick reminder that you can find more film news and reviews from
:10:23. > :10:27.across the BBC online, including our previous shows, at the website.