Hail, Caesar!, London Has Fallen, Time Out of Mind The Film Review


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Championship and the Davis Cup. That is all on Sportsday at 6.30. Now it

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is time for The Film Review. Hello and welcome to

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The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's

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cinema releases is Mark Kermode. We have hail Caesar, the new movie

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by the Coen Brothers which I know vow have been looking forward to. We

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also have London has fallen, which I think you have been looking forward

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to slightly less. And time out of mind. Richard Gere on the streets of

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New York. I love the Coen Brothers. I haven't

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seen this one. I went into this with high expectations because I has seen

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the trailers and laughed like an idiot. I thought I'm going to be

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disappoint. I wasn't. The film starts, 30 seconds any am laughing

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and I laughed all the way through. It is like a breezy slip side to

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Barton Fink. He is this playwright. Goes to Hollywood to make art, he

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makes wrestling picture, this is 1950s Capitol Pictures, they have a

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prestige picture being made called hail Cesar. However, their star

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Baird Whitlock is kidnapped by a group called the future. Meanwhile

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Eddie Mannix he is a studio fixer, it is his job to go round fixing the

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problems the studio have dealing with their stars, and one of the

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problems they have is that Ralph Fiennes is this very testy British

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director, who is making a sophisticated drama, called Merrily

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We Dance he doesn't have a leading man. He has been given Hobie Doyle

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who is what they refer to as a dust actor. Here is a celeb. Say your

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line just as I am about to do. Sure. Were it so simple. Would it were so

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simple. Simple. Who do you say that? You say say it like I said it.

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I am trying to say that. We can use Christian nape, Lawrence is fine,

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just as I call you Hobie. Trippingly. Trippingly. Say the line

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trippingly, don't say trippingly. Tell us more. So that refers to the,

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I can't stand him sequence from Singin' In the Rain. The plot is

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completely all over the place. It involved red scares and herring and

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atomic bombs and people being kidnapped. It is there to string

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together a number of set pieces. There are aquatic scenes which are

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reproduced, a loving homage to 1950 Hollywood. We have this biblical

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epic, with a hint of cheese. There was an American review that said it

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is another one of the film of the Coen Brothers hating the movie

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industry. It isn't. It is a film that works because it loves the

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thing that it is dealing with. At the same time is Eddie Mannix, he

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has a better job offer from someone else who say work for us, we are

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serious, you don't have to deal with the frivolity but he has underneath

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it a belief in the frivolity. He loves the industry. I feel the same

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way about the Co-operative Bank brother, I thought the performances

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were universally terrific. Hobie Doyle is wonderful. And it is one of

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those movies which it is no just it is funny and you are laughing at the

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jokes, it is in between the jokes you are smiling. It, you know, I

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just grinned like a loon all the way through the film. It was, it was

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made for me, and I loved it. I think you will like it too. Comedy. Were

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it so simple. London Has Fallen There was Olympus and fallen and

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White House down which were the same film. This is the sequel to him puck

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has fallen. We have Gerard Butler bringing his bargain basement Bruce

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Willis impression to London. We are told sequel to him puck has fallen.

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We have Gerard Butler bringing his bargain basement Bruce Willis

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impression to London. We are told by a news report that "An attack has

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decimated most of the capital's known landmarks." OK, fine, it

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hasn't. What are unknown ones? They are fine, the decimation has

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happened by a series of kind of super imposed explosions of the kind

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most video game manufacturers would be embarrassed about. The effects

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are treble. The script is laughable but not in that good way. Do you

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remember team America world police, imagine that with all the jokes

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taken out and acting more wooden that the puppets. To call it meat

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headed would be to do a disservice to meat. Am I right that Americans

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saves a British democracy? How did you guess that? Was Donald Trump

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involved? I don't want to give away what happens but it is true that

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Americans going round kicking people is apparently the answer. Right.

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Time Out of Mind Richard Gere, last week it was a Richard Gere movie in

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which he played a millionaire with homes to give away. Now we have

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this, which I think was made in 2014 and the story is, that he is a man

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called George, he wakes up in the morning in a bath. Gets thrown out

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of an apartment and he sort of wanders the streets of New York and

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he slowly comes to the realisation that he is homeless. He has slipped

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through the crack, the movie is shot with long lens, constantly you sigh

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him through windows, across a crowded street, what this does is it

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places him in the landscape, and forget what you are watching is a

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famous movie star, you is that right to believe that what you are

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watching is somebody who has got lost in the system, and is now

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trying to redigs cover his identity. Here is a clip -- rediscover.

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Where did you live last? I... I have been moving round for while. No,

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sweetie, where did you come from, before here? Where was the last

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place you resided. Sheila's. Where is she? Queens, I don't know. Could

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you go back there and stay? No, she was evicted. She didn't say goodbye,

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she didn't do anything stupid cow, she knew I had no place to go. So no

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staying with the cow. Have you got family? If I say I have family, does

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that mean I can still is a stay here? Yes, unless they would be

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willing to take you in. I don't have family. Come on darling. You would

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much rather stay with your family than stay here. You understand what

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I am saying? Please, trust me on that one. What What happens is you

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come to trust his character, more important you come to trust the

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people round him. Ben Vereen's character who is streetwise. Richard

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Gere's character doesn't talk very much. Over the course of the running

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time of the movie, it is slow, it takes its time. You get a sense of

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the hardship of the lives they lead but the diversity of the lives they

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lead. I thought it was really well done. I thought Richard Gere was

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much more convincing, I have always liked hip: But there is that thing

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people go a Hollywood actor doing this stuff. He is slumming this. He

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is not. This is a pet project. This is something he has produced. I

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thought it was very intelligent. Very sympathetic and something which

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really, I mean you come out of it feeling you know, that need for, for

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a night's sleep and he keeps saying all I want to do is sleep. I need to

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sleep. He can't. He has been moved from place to place, train stations

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and hospitals and I thought it really got under his skin but the

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characters round him. I think this humanises it very well. Let us move

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on. Your best of the week isn't what many people would suspect. But

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actually, one of your interests. It's a documentary called Hitchcock

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triumph foe. In the early 62, triumph foe did a series of

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interviews with Hitchcock. He was trying to get him accepted as an

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auteur, the interviews made up a book which was very important to

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film-maker, this documentary uses audio tapes and photographs from the

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original interviews but speaks to people like Martin Scorsese and Wes

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Anderson, it is fascinating, as an insight into the way film-makers

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talk to other, secondly, about the idea that somehow the book becomes a

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work which is on a par with the rest of triumph foe's film catalogue. I

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think it is entertaining and anybody who is interested in cinema, anyone

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who is interested in it should watch it. You would enjoy it. And a couple

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of the biopics have portrayed Hitchcock the monstrous side of him.

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This is talking about the craft. This is two film-makers talking

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about the craft and the specifics of the craft. The specifics of visuals.

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It is really really, it is very engrossing. Your DVD is The Lady in

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the Van. It is lovely. Maggie Smith, fantastic performance at the woman

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who parks on van on Alan Bennett's drive and stays for is a years. It

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is funny, as a lot of comedy, but it is touching and move, not in a

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sentimental way but it is a really richly rounded dam what. In the

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middle this fantastic performance by Maggie Smith who is dynamite.

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A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news

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and reviews from across the BBC online, including

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That is it for this week. Enjoy the movies. And goodbye.

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The worst of the snow is now over across northern parts of the UK.

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There is still a bit of wintriness round but most is turning to sleet

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and rain. Of course across the south of UK we never really had the snow

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clear blue

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