27/09/2013 The Film Review

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Review on BBC News. Mark Kermode joins me. Awards season is upon

Review on BBC News. Mark Kermode Cate Blanchett is a frontrunner

Review on BBC News. Mark Kermode Best actress in the new Woody Allen

film Blue Jasmine. Ben Affleck is relaxing, the only way you can

describe it, in Runner Runner with Justin Timberlake. And we have

challenging thriller about child abduction. Blue Jasmine, I think we

are beyond the stage of saying, abduction. Blue Jasmine, I think we

this Woody Allen back on form? He has made such great movies in the

last five years. The problem with saying return to form, does not

last five years. The problem with in to account the fact that Midnight

In Paris is his most successful international movie. The real star

extraordinary. She is a character who has been used to great wealth. A

terrible tragedy has happened, her husband has been arrested after

terrible tragedy has happened, her kind of financial scandal, she moves

in with her adoptive sister in San Francisco. She is a woman fallen

see A Streetcar Named Desire, made herself upon her sister. Of course,

see A Streetcar Named Desire, made all the more notable by the fact

A Streetcar Named Desire, a good that Cate Blanchett played lunch

A Streetcar Named Desire, a good I always wanted to do something

A Streetcar Named Desire, a good my life. Not just shop and lunch and

comes responsibility. I wasn't just some mindless consumer likes of

comes responsibility. I wasn't just so—called friends. Although I won't

say I disliked buying pretty closed. —— pretty clothes. Tip big, boys,

Someday when you come into great wealth, you must remember to be

generous. Mum said you'd use to wealth, you must remember to be

OK, but you got crazy. And then wealth, you must remember to be

You last there. As always with Woody most of them are very abrasive.

People always talk about Woody Allen with the funny ones, this is one of

the serious ones. Amazingly good script. She doesn't stop talking.

She talks the whole time, often script. She doesn't stop talking.

herself, in the manner of somebody increasingly losing the plot. The

film jumps backwards and forwards between her previous life of wealth

Terrific supporting performances, Sally Hawkins is wonderful. Andrew

dice Clay, who in the past has been one of the most obnoxious comedians

around, is really, really well cast as the big man laid low, he is

fantastic. She is hard company to be in, it is quite exhausting. To play

exhausting. She is a brittle and abrasive and cracked and on the

verge of a nervous breakdown, she collapse. She is constantly drinking

into that, she is warm and likeable and taking pills. You see somebody

into that, she is warm and likeable and plays it brilliantly. There

into that, she is warm and likeable Blanchett, I think Sally Hawkins

deserves a best supporting actress nomination. Mark your cards. Cate

Blanchett is pretty much frontrunner for best actress, I would have Sally

Affleck has done the hard work for best actress, I would have Sally

Affleck has done the hard work recently. He did Argo and worked

with Terrence Malick. Runner Runner thinks it has a very new take on a

very old idea. Justin Timberlake is trying to get to Princeton, he goes

online gambling, he is led into trying to get to Princeton, he goes

Affleck's character from Costa Rica. He turns out to be on the wrong

Affleck's character from Costa Rica. of the law and he has an attractive

other half. Do you think there is Timberlake will start to have a

relationship with her? ! The premise is online gambling, the new American

dream. It feels very of the moment. But you look at the film and you go

oh, that is a very old film. The young guy, the old guy. This is

oh, that is a very old film. The going to be sticking around us —— as

long as some of those movies. It is incidental at best. One of the

things about the success of Argo, having seen Ben Affleck as a greater

director, I am rethinking him as an actor. I think, why bother? He is a

good actor but he does not have actor. I think, why bother? He is a

challenging thriller. Two young girls go missing. There is a vehicle

interview a man who looks like the Gyllenhaal, the director in charge

obvious prime suspect. Here is a obvious prime suspect. Here is a

May I sit down. And to my questions. sleeping about in the daytime? Why

girls? Two no. Have you done it were you parked outside the house? I

girls? Two no. Have you done it before? Lou Mark Roe no. Did you put

them somewhere? Did you put them You can see from that, the film

them somewhere? Did you put them saying, look, clearly the guy is

guilty and he is holding something back. They can't find any evidence

and he has to be released, at which point the fathers of the missing

girls take the law into their own hands. The interesting thing about

the film, which is very intelligent and initially very ambitious, it

deals with complicated ideas of guilt and responsibility. It is

about violence begetting violence. It deals with the idea that whoever

fights monsters should see to it that they do not in the process

become monsters. It has particular relevance in the recent debates

about water boarding and torture and whether any information that is

about water boarding and torture and gained through illicit means can

ever be seen as valuable. It starts off with all these ideas and very

interesting examination that all evil does is produce evil, violence

just produces violence. It is a evil does is produce evil, violence

film and as it gets into the third acted kind of side that it has to

third act, it kind of decides. In plot points. —— as it gets into

third act, it kind of decides. In the first two thirds, it is a big,

impressive thing. You get a sense of big—name cast but quite competent

cinematographer. Your Best of the really terrible slowly unfolding,

cinematographer. Your Best of the week is The Wicker Man, people will

be asking which one? Longer than the shortest version, shorter than the

longest version. They found a longer 35 million print, if you have not

seen this in the cinema, it is great to be able to see and at least

semi—intact print. All the things wrong. The ending is extraordinary.

If you do not know, I will not spoil it, but the poster goes some way !

Edward Woodward's performance is extraordinary, the music is really

strange. I don't love that we need another version, but the fact that

people can see it in the cinema makes it worthwhile. Your DVD is

Stories We Tell? It is by Sarah Polley. You initially think it is a

documentary simply looking back Polley. You initially think it is a

her strange family life. As it unfolds, it becomes a discussion of

the way in which we tell stories both narratively and amidst families

engrossing. Some people actually founded cheap as it is, they were

tricked at one point. I didn't, founded cheap as it is, they were

analysis of the way in which we founded cheap as it is, they were

the written medium. It is very stories — visually, verbally and in

the written medium. It is very moving and engrossing. Thank you.

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