:00:19. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.
:00:22. > :00:25.To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.
:00:26. > :00:38.Very interesting bunch this week. We have In This Corner Of The World, a
:00:39. > :00:44.very impressive Japanese anime. "Transformers: The Last Knight", the
:00:45. > :00:45.saga rumbles on. And Hampstead, a film which does exactly what it says
:00:46. > :00:54.on the tin. So, In This Corner Of The World, a
:00:55. > :00:59.war movie with a difference? Interesting. It is an anime based on
:01:00. > :01:04.a manga of the same name. It goes from the 30s to the mid-40s, a young
:01:05. > :01:07.girl when she gets to the age of 18 marry someone she has barely met
:01:08. > :01:10.before. She goes to live in a different home and start a new life
:01:11. > :01:13.of which she makes the most, but meanwhile the spectre of war is
:01:14. > :01:15.looming in the background. But normal life carries on. Here is a
:01:16. > :02:13.clip. What is impressive about this is
:02:14. > :02:19.that like a film like Grave Of The Fireflies it talks about dark
:02:20. > :02:24.subject matter, with an innocent and universality that a live-action
:02:25. > :02:28.movie could not do. We saw from that clip the cloud moving towards
:02:29. > :02:32.Hiroshima. And our heroine is an artist, and at certain moments in
:02:33. > :02:35.the movie she looks up and sees explosion in the sky as explosions
:02:36. > :02:39.of paint. There are moments when the narrative deals with very dark stuff
:02:40. > :02:44.you would get in a war movie, but does so by the animation unravelling
:02:45. > :02:48.and becoming drawings and becoming fragments of animation, and by
:02:49. > :02:53.looking at global events and tragedies through the eyes of a
:02:54. > :02:56.particular character, it manages to watch as if from a distance or
:02:57. > :03:01.slightly sculptured, without ever looking away from harsh realities.
:03:02. > :03:05.This opens on Wednesday, and if you would like a film like Your Name,
:03:06. > :03:11.which was a big hit, and returning to cinemas soon, this is well worth
:03:12. > :03:16.checking out. It has won numerous awards and it is easy to see why it
:03:17. > :03:20.has. A real integrity to it. The triumph is it approaches difficult
:03:21. > :03:23.subject matter in a way that, to me, seems universal. And it does that
:03:24. > :03:28.thing that animation can do that a live-action film can't do, to look
:03:29. > :03:31.at the world in a different way, to make us see events in a different
:03:32. > :03:35.and personal way. I liked it very much and you will too.
:03:36. > :03:38.Thank you. And "Transformers: The Last Knight", I suspect you don't
:03:39. > :03:40.like it as much and I suspect I won't either. Let's talk
:03:41. > :03:46.about it. It is one of the least offensive of
:03:47. > :03:51.the Transformers movies, I Michael Bay, it looks back to the past two
:03:52. > :03:55.Arthurian legend and rebels around in Stonehenge. Mysticism and outer
:03:56. > :04:00.space and interplanetary conspirator in. It is Transformers meets Monty
:04:01. > :04:03.Python and spinal tap, but without the jokes. Anthony Hopkins is in it
:04:04. > :04:08.and laughing all the way to the bank. This kind of eccentric
:04:09. > :04:11.aristocrat who has a butler who is like see-through deal from Star
:04:12. > :04:17.Wars. He believes the only way to save the planet is to bring together
:04:18. > :04:20.a historian and Mark Wahlberg's junkyard king to save the world, and
:04:21. > :04:25.frankly on the evidence of the world it is not that worth saving. On the
:04:26. > :04:30.plus side, there are less leering shots with the camera looking up the
:04:31. > :04:34.skirt of its performers than we have had in previous Michael Bay movies.
:04:35. > :04:38.The pornographic sensibility is toned down slightly. The plot makes
:04:39. > :04:42.no sense whatsoever despite endless scenes of people explain the plot to
:04:43. > :04:47.each other, and indeed pointing at things happening on screen and
:04:48. > :04:51.telling us what we are looking at. It is massively incoherent and
:04:52. > :04:54.staggeringly dull. And it is a whopping li overlong, but in terms
:04:55. > :04:59.of the rest of the Transformers movies it is on the less offensive.
:05:00. > :05:04.I was not offended, I was just bored. It was like being shouted to
:05:05. > :05:08.sleep. Did you fall asleep?
:05:09. > :05:12.No, my job is to stay awake. Believe me, there were many moments in
:05:13. > :05:16.which, I was going, you have to stay awake. Something interesting might
:05:17. > :05:18.happen. No, it's OK on it is not going to.
:05:19. > :05:24.Got it. Now, Hampstead, a wrong convert the older audience?
:05:25. > :05:29.You saw the poster. That tells you everything you need to know. As does
:05:30. > :05:34.the title. Thinking about Hampstead, expensive properties and a heath and
:05:35. > :05:38.Artisan residents. Highgate Cemetery and a pond... At the centre of it,
:05:39. > :05:43.Brendan Gleeson is a purely wild man living in a shack on the heat under
:05:44. > :05:47.the radar. He is under threat of eviction from property developers,
:05:48. > :05:50.and Diane Keaton is the recently widowed Hampstead resident who tries
:05:51. > :05:52.to help him save his shack and gets very little thanks for her work.
:05:53. > :05:53.Here is a clip. It's about what happened the other
:05:54. > :05:58.day, and those people - they really wanted to help
:05:59. > :06:01.you and I do too. I'm a man who lives as he chooses
:06:02. > :06:17.to, and I'm not going to any court OK, listen, there's no reason
:06:18. > :06:25.to wake the dead here - none. How can you expect anyone to
:06:26. > :06:52.put up with all this nonsense? Here is the thing with this film, I
:06:53. > :06:55.like both of those performers and you would have to be pretty
:06:56. > :07:00.hard-hearted to get annoyed with the movie, although I have read some
:07:01. > :07:04.reviews that took up against it. It is basically... You know the movie
:07:05. > :07:09.you think it is? It is exactly that movie. In the back of it there is a
:07:10. > :07:12.true story, isn't there are? There really was a guy who had a shack and
:07:13. > :07:17.had to fight a legal battle, although I have to say this film's
:07:18. > :07:22.relationship with reality is inspired by that true story, but
:07:23. > :07:26.passing at the very best. Compared to this, Notting Hill, the richer
:07:27. > :07:32.dirt is movie, looks like a hard-hitting and tough and gritty
:07:33. > :07:37.film about urban grime. -- the film by Richard Curtis. Or Truly Madly
:07:38. > :07:41.Deeply looks like a scary Gothic horror movie in comparison. It is
:07:42. > :07:46.very twee. It does the things you expect this kind of movie to do. I
:07:47. > :07:51.did not dislike it because I like those two performers. I like the
:07:52. > :07:54.characters. I like... Despite the fact I don't believe in any of it at
:07:55. > :07:58.all, it is a film which is best summed up as perfect Wednesday
:07:59. > :08:02.afternoon viewing, which will go down well with a cup of tea and a
:08:03. > :08:07.biscuit, and that is the kind of movie it is.
:08:08. > :08:11.And it is supposed to be a wrong, -- it is what they are romantic comedy,
:08:12. > :08:15.is it romantic and funny? It is romantic and I laughed a
:08:16. > :08:18.couple of times. A lot of the scenes, you could not afford to get
:08:19. > :08:22.a cup of tea there or a parking space. There is no way that would
:08:23. > :08:25.happen in Hampstead. Now, best out at the moment.
:08:26. > :08:31.By The Time It Gets Dark, you will have two search this movie out
:08:32. > :08:34.because it is limited release and an extraordinary movie from Thailand by
:08:35. > :08:38.Anocha Suwichakornpong. It starts off as a film about an atrocity in
:08:39. > :08:43.the mid-19 70s when somebody tried to make a film about this. And what
:08:44. > :08:47.happens as it becomes a much more immoral this study of the
:08:48. > :08:53.relationship between memory and history, amorphous study, and the
:08:54. > :08:56.inability of cinema to capture history perfectly. It is a film
:08:57. > :09:02.which takes in the whole history of cinema right back to George Melly 's
:09:03. > :09:05.and digital technology. It is witty and moving and it is strange. It
:09:06. > :09:09.keeps looking back on itself and is clearly a film which cannot be
:09:10. > :09:16.described in terms of plot, but if you like the films of, say, other
:09:17. > :09:20.examples, which I know you do, it is well worth seeking out. But it is a
:09:21. > :09:24.very small release and you will need to seek it out, but I was knocked
:09:25. > :09:29.out by it. I went in with no knowledge of it at all and, although
:09:30. > :09:34.I did not understand a little bit, it was really fascinating. I really
:09:35. > :09:36.enjoyed it. It is called By The Time It Gets Dark.
:09:37. > :09:40.And best DVD is a movie you have talked a lot about. You and you will
:09:41. > :09:44.talk again, so that is fine. Touristy thing with Moonlight, you
:09:45. > :09:48.cannot say too many times how good it is. -- here is the thing with it.
:09:49. > :09:54.It was a major award winner when it was bursting. It was considered to
:09:55. > :09:56.be an arthouse movie with limited appeal, but I think it is
:09:57. > :10:00.beautifully directed and fantastically played, story of a
:10:01. > :10:03.life in three separate chapters, and it does everything that you want
:10:04. > :10:06.cinema to do. It tells a story that makes you feel involved in the
:10:07. > :10:10.characters, even if your life is nothing like there are subtle, it is
:10:11. > :10:15.compassionate and humane and thrilling in terms of its cinematic
:10:16. > :10:18.construction. And I confess I have seen it four times now, and I will
:10:19. > :10:22.probably go back and watch it again. Wow. I have seen it once.
:10:23. > :10:25.That you liked it? I did love it.
:10:26. > :10:27.See it again, you will love it even more.
:10:28. > :10:30.A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news
:10:31. > :10:32.and reviews from across the BBC online at bbc.co.uk/MarkKermode.
:10:33. > :11:03.And you can find all our previous programmes on the BBC iPlayer.
:11:04. > :11:04.Hello there. After the hit earlier this week it