:00:00. > :00:15.That is all the sport for now. Next it is time for The Film Review.
:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.
:00:19. > :00:22.To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.
:00:23. > :00:34.A very mixed week. We have Graduation, a low-key and intense
:00:35. > :00:42.drama. We have Ghost in the Shell, controversial live adaptation of an
:00:43. > :00:49.anime. And Free Fire, the new film from Ben Wheatley. Ben Wheatley, we
:00:50. > :00:54.are both bands of Ben Graduation. It is from Cristian Mungiu, the
:00:55. > :00:57.Romanian director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which we reviewed
:00:58. > :01:01.a short while ago. This is another low-key and very intense drama. The
:01:02. > :01:05.story is a doctor, his daughter is on her way to school, attacked, she
:01:06. > :01:09.gets a broken wrist and the doctor is simply worried it will affect her
:01:10. > :01:12.exams. He is desperate for her to get great exam grades because he
:01:13. > :01:15.wants to be able to go and study in Britain. He is convinced she needs
:01:16. > :01:17.to get away because the place they live is not somewhere that he wants
:01:18. > :01:44.his daughter to grow up. All he can
:01:45. > :01:48.focus on is this desire for her to get good exam grades. As a result of
:01:49. > :01:49.it he gets drawn into a web of duplicity and corruption. Somebody
:01:50. > :01:52.knows somebody who could perhaps ensure the exam grades are OK but
:01:53. > :01:55.only in return for a favour for a deputy mayor who needs to be moved
:01:56. > :01:57.up in his wait for a transplant. The daughter, understandably, is not
:01:58. > :01:58.pleased about the idea of essentially cheating. Here is a
:01:59. > :02:47.clip. Very intense, isn't it? It is.
:02:48. > :02:50.Single shot, one at shot Perth scene. What I love about this, a
:02:51. > :02:55.perfect blend of personal and political. On one hand the story of
:02:56. > :02:59.a father and daughter, on the other hand social corruption is
:03:00. > :03:03.everywhere. Every conversation is, that building is being going on for
:03:04. > :03:07.ages, yes it will be a backroom deal, isn't everything? It's a film
:03:08. > :03:10.in which the personalities of the characters completely draw you in
:03:11. > :03:14.and you believe in their personal stories but you also understand it
:03:15. > :03:19.is telling a wider story, about what it means to grow up in a society in
:03:20. > :03:24.which everything seems to be sort of slightly on the wrong side of
:03:25. > :03:29.completely honest. As is so brilliant with this director, what
:03:30. > :03:31.he manages to do is get that point across, but never sounds hectoring,
:03:32. > :03:34.you never feel like what you're watching is a political statement.
:03:35. > :03:39.What you feel you're watching is an intense drama in which the doctor,
:03:40. > :03:42.for example, concerned about his daughter, but has a mistress. At one
:03:43. > :03:46.point he says to his wife's, everyone cheats in their final
:03:47. > :03:53.exams. She says, I didn't. And he says, but look where it got you.
:03:54. > :03:55.It's an interesting film about guilt and complicity. Some people have
:03:56. > :04:00.compared him to Michael Hanika. Because lots of bad things are
:04:01. > :04:04.happening under the surface of the superficially normal society. Yes,
:04:05. > :04:07.but personally I think there is a lot more tenderness and humanity in
:04:08. > :04:14.what is happening here. Hanika's film is a terrific but very harsh,
:04:15. > :04:24.very sharp, sometimes accusatory, I think. Ghost in the Shell. In 1995
:04:25. > :04:29.anime. Scarlett Johansson is a human ghost in the cyber Shell in the
:04:30. > :04:34.future. She's a person, a robot, a weapon. That film has become the
:04:35. > :04:38.cause of some controversy about whitewashing, that Scarlett
:04:39. > :04:42.Johansson was cast in this role. The director of the 95 anime said there
:04:43. > :04:47.is no basis for saying an Asian actor must portray that character.
:04:48. > :04:51.It a controversy that has dogged the film. Like the plot of the film
:04:52. > :04:55.itself, you can look at this thing, it's a soul of one thing
:04:56. > :04:58.transplanted into a shell which is slightly artificial and slightly
:04:59. > :05:02.more glossy. However, I was strangely impressed
:05:03. > :05:07.by it. I went in with fairly low expectations. I thought it looked
:05:08. > :05:10.terrific. It does a very good job of revoking the future world. People
:05:11. > :05:14.have talked about it looking like Blade Runner, it looks more like the
:05:15. > :05:20.fifth element. A very cluttered future. I was never bored. I found,
:05:21. > :05:24.yes it changed and simplify the narrative to some extent, and loses
:05:25. > :05:28.some of the melancholy and depth of its predecessors, but as a piece of
:05:29. > :05:33.multiplex entertainment, it was better than I expected it to be by
:05:34. > :05:39.quite some distance. Free Fire. The new film by Ben Wheatley, I'm huge
:05:40. > :05:42.fan of Ben Wheatley. The story is in Boston in the 1970s there was an
:05:43. > :05:46.arms deal going down between a group of people, all of whom are variously
:05:47. > :05:52.incompetent. The whole thing looks very volatile and looks like at any
:05:53. > :05:54.moment it could fall apart appallingly, and of course it does.
:05:55. > :06:05.Here's a clip. I don't want to get any of those
:06:06. > :06:14.burns on my new... Suit. Sorry, what was that?
:06:15. > :06:18.I do know about you guys but I think the merchandise is a real gas. Do
:06:19. > :06:55.you see what you did? Good. OK... I'll overlook it this
:06:56. > :07:00.time. LAUGHTER Is there a lot of that? There is.
:07:01. > :07:03.What I like about it is this, a tense drama about a bunch of people
:07:04. > :07:06.in a warehouse, all of whom are armed and all who are fighting each
:07:07. > :07:11.other in various different ways. However, it also has a kind of
:07:12. > :07:16.screwball comedy element. The best way of describing it, it's like a
:07:17. > :07:19.silent movie, slapstick sensibility will but with a soundtrack that
:07:20. > :07:24.reminds you of those loony Tunes cartoons, that is really really put
:07:25. > :07:28.together. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. It's tense but also
:07:29. > :07:33.very comic. It's also very near a list it. The idea is all of these
:07:34. > :07:37.people are variously untrustworthy and incompetent. They are all from
:07:38. > :07:44.their ridiculous quotes and foolish mannerisms. Vernon keeps saying
:07:45. > :07:49.watch and vern, what Chand vern. What I liked about it, what Ben
:07:50. > :07:53.Wheatley and Amy jump managed to do is make it across genre film. Yes,
:07:54. > :07:58.it's a thriller but also accommodate but a near list it comedy. It's a
:07:59. > :08:01.comedy about the fact that if you take... People have compared it to,
:08:02. > :08:08.they say it's like the last movement of Reservoir dogs stretched out...
:08:09. > :08:11.It's not. It's like that sequence in naked gun two and a half when there
:08:12. > :08:16.is a close rage gunfight with people hiding behind the straight same
:08:17. > :08:30.dustbin, it's like that that stretched over 90 minutes. It has an
:08:31. > :08:34.absurd Mr Roux. -- absurdity to it. A really terrific cast, and every
:08:35. > :08:38.single one of them clearly rising to the challenge of this, thinking it's
:08:39. > :08:43.a great script. It's beautifully mapped I know nobody ever summed
:08:44. > :08:45.comes out of the cinema and says this, but the editing is amazing.
:08:46. > :08:50.LAUGHTER Use of that quite well. The best of
:08:51. > :08:56.the week is Get Out. Out in cinemas at the moment. Have you seen it? Not
:08:57. > :09:01.yet. You should. It's described by the director as a social thriller,
:09:02. > :09:06.inspired by Rosemary's baby in Stepford wives. It also alludes to
:09:07. > :09:11.hurry horror movies like green room and films like tales from the hood
:09:12. > :09:18.and to sleep with anger. It's a sort of horrifying satire about racism in
:09:19. > :09:22.post-racial America, about liberal, rich white people with this broiling
:09:23. > :09:26.undercurrent of racism. I saw it in a packed cinema and it really play
:09:27. > :09:33.to the crowd. It's done terrifically well and I think it's great.
:09:34. > :09:36.Briefly, Edge of 17. A coming-of-age drama written and directed by
:09:37. > :09:42.someone who likes the protagonist. Smart, funny, intelligent and great
:09:43. > :09:45.performances from Hailee Steinfeld and Woody Harrelson. I thought it
:09:46. > :09:51.was really touching, very tender and very funny. Since this is our last
:09:52. > :09:55.film review and I am on holiday from tomorrow, I'm taking it with me. You
:09:56. > :09:59.will enjoy it. Go and see Free Fire at the weekend. I will do.
:10:00. > :10:02.A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news
:10:03. > :10:04.and reviews from across the BBC online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode.
:10:05. > :10:07.And you can find all our previous programmes on the BBC iPlayer.
:10:08. > :10:32.Gavin, you said this was our last show together an astonishingly
:10:33. > :10:38.you've been here for how many years? Hundreds of years. So since it's
:10:39. > :10:40.been such a pleasure and great working with you we thought we
:10:41. > :10:46.couldn't let you go without having a quick montage look back at
:10:47. > :10:54.highlights of your career. Watch and enjoy. Oh dear. 12 years of
:10:55. > :11:03.political violence, two Lawler strikes and 9497. In 1975 the close
:11:04. > :11:06.of the factory. A group of off-duty soldiers from nearby army camps were
:11:07. > :11:12.drinking in the horse and Groom public house. Minutes later there
:11:13. > :11:15.was an explosion killing five and injuring more. Some presidents like
:11:16. > :11:21.Lyndon Johnson have had their time in the White House destroyed by war.
:11:22. > :11:24.Other war leaders like Roosevelt have been the greatest president
:11:25. > :11:28.this country has ever known. Now George Bush stands poised for his
:11:29. > :11:32.place in history. Finally Mr President, you go to
:11:33. > :11:36.Europe when you are facing sleazy criticism at home and in the British
:11:37. > :11:42.papers no president has had to face before.
:11:43. > :11:45.My job is to lead this country in its own path of internal revival.
:11:46. > :11:50.The wind is gusting up to 70 miles an hour, the rain coming in the
:11:51. > :11:53.horizontally. It's a measure of the Pentagon's's commitment to the state
:11:54. > :11:56.of Alaska that they're prepared to spend so much money, time and effort
:11:57. > :12:06.on the defence of an area which is so hostile.
:12:07. > :12:12.Hello and welcome for the first time to BBC News 24. I'm Gavin Esler. I'm
:12:13. > :12:19.Sarah Montague. Would you like to shake hands? Would you? I'm prepared
:12:20. > :12:23.to. I was born in Glasgow and I spent the first few years of my life
:12:24. > :12:27.living here in Clydebank in a council house with my mother,
:12:28. > :12:31.father, two auntie 's and my grandmother. It's no exaggeration to
:12:32. > :12:34.say it's areas like this upon which the entire future of Scotland will
:12:35. > :12:40.depend. I'm Gavin Esler, in Holyrood in
:12:41. > :12:46.Scotland on the day it decided its destiny.
:12:47. > :12:50.Hello and welcome to a special edition of The Film Review from the
:12:51. > :12:56.red carpet and BFI London film Festival.
:12:57. > :13:02.Hello and welcome to dateline London's look ahead to 2017. What a
:13:03. > :13:06.joy for year it's going to be. Britain will move calmly towards
:13:07. > :13:09.Brexit, the European Union will solve all its problems with
:13:10. > :13:13.migration, unemployment and insolvent banks. This Donald Trump
:13:14. > :13:16.will begin a glorious four years as president, the Middle East will
:13:17. > :13:23.finally be at peace and we can all dream.
:13:24. > :13:30.I'm retiring from the BBC to become a clairvoyant. It is so
:13:31. > :13:34.extraordinary and except for the bit where we are on the red carpet and I
:13:35. > :13:39.look like your bouncer! Looking at all that, what are you most proud
:13:40. > :13:42.of, is it possible...? I'm very proud of a number of Bill Clinton
:13:43. > :13:47.interviews I did, including that one, because he was always late. We
:13:48. > :13:51.were due to interview him at two o'clock in the afternoon in the
:13:52. > :13:55.White House and at two minutes to two o'clock all of our lights blue
:13:56. > :13:58.because the crew plucked strings in the right way. I turned round and
:13:59. > :14:05.said guys, it's OK, don't panic, he's always late. At which point
:14:06. > :14:08.behind me a man with an Arkansas voice said, who is always right? I'm
:14:09. > :14:13.kind of proud I managed to hold it together to do that interview. And
:14:14. > :14:20.at peace for which you won the RTS award. You said they made you do
:14:21. > :14:23.that ten times? I never... Never work with producers and cameramen.
:14:24. > :14:27.They made me do it ten times and after I started to swear and say
:14:28. > :14:32.I've had enough, they said, we just wanted to see how long before you
:14:33. > :14:35.would crack. The thing I'm most impressed by how well you held it
:14:36. > :14:39.together on the red carpet. We did a couple of them at the London film
:14:40. > :14:44.Festival, one in the howling wind. And another we were interviewing Ben
:14:45. > :14:56.Wheatley for a film Tom Huddlestone within and the crowd behind, dressed
:14:57. > :14:59.as the avengers, screaming at the top of their voice. Nobody could
:15:00. > :15:01.hear what they were saying but you were unflustered. I asked questions
:15:02. > :15:04.but didn't hear a single answer. It didn't bother me whatsoever. The
:15:05. > :15:07.Film Review is great and I will miss it. We will miss you. Thank you for
:15:08. > :15:08.doing it for so long. Thank you. Before the tears, actually be a,
:15:09. > :15:18.here is the weather. Thank you Gavin, you will be missed
:15:19. > :15:20.by everyone at the weather centre. Much better weather today than Gavin