:00:00. > :00:00.Northern Ireland and Latvia will also have the latest from the
:00:00. > :00:00.cricket as England look to level the one-day series. -- Wales play the
:00:00. > :00:09.Netherlands, Northern Ireland play Latvia, and we will also have the
:00:10. > :00:22.latest from the cricket as England look to level the one-day series.
:00:23. > :00:28.Welcome to the film review on BBC new, taking us through this week's
:00:29. > :00:38.cinema releases, Mark Kermode. Have Steve Jobs, it is not a biopic, from
:00:39. > :00:44.Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle. Tangerine, a view of street life
:00:45. > :00:50.shot on an iPhone. And we have the lady in the van, Maggie Smith who is
:00:51. > :00:54.in rip-roaring form. A number of people coming up that can do no
:00:55. > :00:59.wrong, Michael Fassbender, Aaron Sorkin wrote this. Very interesting
:01:00. > :01:04.case, first thing to say, it is not a biopic, it is basically the story
:01:05. > :01:08.of Steve jobs as told over three product launches, from the 1980s to
:01:09. > :01:11.the 1990s, it is not the product launches that we see, it is the
:01:12. > :01:18.backstage shenanigans leading up to them. This is a 3 act structure,
:01:19. > :01:23.Aaron Sorkin has used to this to create something that is tacitly
:01:24. > :01:27.theatrical, Michael Fassbender is a brilliant actor, we have him playing
:01:28. > :01:32.Steve Jobs. We have Seth Rogen, as Steve Wozniak, a person with whom he
:01:33. > :01:37.falls in and fought out. And a terrific performance by Kate
:01:38. > :01:40.Winslet, as Joanna Hoffman. Marketing manager. Over the course
:01:41. > :01:46.of these three pre-launches, discussions recur, old rivalries
:01:47. > :01:56.flare up, and much of it is seen in belligerent arguments. You cannot
:01:57. > :02:01.write code. You are not an engineer, you are not a designer, you cannot
:02:02. > :02:04.put a hammer to a nail! I built the circuit board, the graphical
:02:05. > :02:08.interface was stolen! Jeff was the leader of the team before you throw
:02:09. > :02:15.him off his own project! Somebody else designed the box! How come, ten
:02:16. > :02:21.times in a day, I read, " Steve Jobs is a genius"! What do you do? ! I
:02:22. > :02:25.play the orchestra, you are the best in your row, you are a good
:02:26. > :02:29.musician, you sit there. I came here to clear the air, I came here
:02:30. > :02:38.because you are going to get killed! Your computer is going to
:02:39. > :02:42.fail. Behind all of this, a number of personal threats, one of which is
:02:43. > :02:46.Steve Jobs's denial of his disputed daughter, Lisa, we basically see her
:02:47. > :02:50.growing up during the course of the drama. There are many comparisons
:02:51. > :02:56.between this and the social network, this was originally slated to be
:02:57. > :02:59.directed by David Fincher. We have a whiz kid who is very brittle on a
:03:00. > :03:02.personal level, seems better able to interact with machines than people.
:03:03. > :03:05.-- The Social Network. We have a story of a close partner who is
:03:06. > :03:11.essentially snubbed when success comes calling, we saw that with the
:03:12. > :03:14.social network. -- The Social Network. We have a central character
:03:15. > :03:20.failing to communicate with women in his life, is denied daughter, is
:03:21. > :03:25.ex-partner. What we do have is a relationship between him and Joanna
:03:26. > :03:35.Hoffman, Kate Winslet, the sort of acts as his, conscience. This film
:03:36. > :03:41.has not performed well in America but that is not here or there, it
:03:42. > :03:45.was terrific. I know that you are an Aaron Sorkin fan, the script
:03:46. > :03:49.writing... The ethical in a good sense. Danny Boyle put it together
:03:50. > :03:53.by doing two weeks of rehearsal for each section, rehearsed like a
:03:54. > :03:56.theatre play. It has all of the visual vim and vigour you expect
:03:57. > :04:00.from Danny Boyle, but most importantly, an ensemble cast at the
:04:01. > :04:02.top of their game, Danny Boyle has always been great at getting the
:04:03. > :04:11.best ever performance. Shallow, here. -- shallow Grave, and here as
:04:12. > :04:14.well. Superb synthesis. Some people are bamboozled by the structure but
:04:15. > :04:20.what they are looking for is a biopic and that is not this, this is
:04:21. > :04:24.a theatrically instructed Rama, which is wearing with machine-like
:04:25. > :04:28.efficiency. Talking about machine-like efficiency, from
:04:29. > :04:32.Apple... To Tangerine! Arthur C Clarke predicts the rise of the home
:04:33. > :04:36.computer at the beginning of the film, this is shot, on a modified
:04:37. > :04:43.iPhone five, to give you a street level of these characters. A
:04:44. > :04:47.transsexual sex worker, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, her pin has been cheating
:04:48. > :04:53.on her, so she gets her best friend, played by Mya Taylor, to go out on
:04:54. > :04:58.the streets and find the errant lovers. What I like about this film
:04:59. > :05:03.is firstly, as you can see, it is vibrantly colourful. -- her pimp.
:05:04. > :05:09.When things are shot on low-tech Digi, things are grainy and grim.
:05:10. > :05:12.The lights being portrayed are in difficult circumstances but this
:05:13. > :05:15.goes the other way, colourful and bright and brash, these characters
:05:16. > :05:19.are completely authentic and believable, you absolutely invest in
:05:20. > :05:24.a situation. You have sympathy and understanding. Most importantly, it
:05:25. > :05:26.is frequently laugh out loud funny, there is real on-screen chemistry
:05:27. > :05:30.between these characters which makes you root for them, makes you
:05:31. > :05:37.understand exactly what they are going through. It is a really
:05:38. > :05:41.enjoyable story. Would it work on the big screen? Surely just DVD.
:05:42. > :05:46.Absolutely does work on big screen, it has a widescreen Panorama, they
:05:47. > :05:49.have used prototype anamorphic adapters, as it happens. Often when
:05:50. > :05:53.you say something is shot on an iPhone, that makes you think... But
:05:54. > :05:57.this, it is the most cinematic thing I have ever seen shot on an iPhone.
:05:58. > :06:00.The colour goes from the screen to Everything about the characters,
:06:01. > :06:04.everything about the situation, everything about the comedy. I was
:06:05. > :06:11.very impressed. Lady in the van, Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett. And a
:06:12. > :06:18.van! True story, and this lady asked if she could... Alan Bennett offered
:06:19. > :06:22.her park the van in his drive, she stayed for 15 years, it is sold as a
:06:23. > :06:26.memoir and a play and now it is a film, Maggie Smith, again, central
:06:27. > :06:30.role of Miss Sheppard, on the 1 hand, because it is a middle-class
:06:31. > :06:35.community in Camden, they feel guilty... On the other hand, she is
:06:36. > :06:46.spectacularly cantankerous and routes to absolutely everyone. --
:06:47. > :06:53.rude to absolutely everyone. Snake... Boa constrictor... Looked
:06:54. > :06:57.poisonous... It was keeping close to the wall, and I have a feeling that
:06:58. > :07:01.it was headed for the van. I don't... I felt I should warn you,
:07:02. > :07:07.to be on the safe side, I have had some close shaves with snakes. There
:07:08. > :07:14.is no boa constrictors in Camden Town! Are you calling me a liar? ! I
:07:15. > :07:20.know a boa constrictor when I see one. How are you doing today,
:07:21. > :07:25.sweetheart? Don't sweetheart me, I am a sick woman, dying, possibly!
:07:26. > :07:29.Cheer up, love, we have all got to go sometime actress at is looks like
:07:30. > :07:34.-- smells like you already have! LAUGHTER
:07:35. > :07:40.Who cannot laugh at Maggie Smith. The film is funny all of the way
:07:41. > :07:43.through, but it has a poignancy, you are interested in how she got to
:07:44. > :07:47.where she is, interested in the back story. The film is described as a
:07:48. > :07:51.mostly true story, playful discussion... I think that what you
:07:52. > :07:57.have here, again, a mixture of terrific performances, Maggie Smith,
:07:58. > :08:00.Alex Jennings, Alan Bennett is a bifurcated character, we see him as
:08:01. > :08:05.a writer and living in the house. They argue with each other, about
:08:06. > :08:09.how they will deal with the lady. Will they use her as material? Is
:08:10. > :08:15.she somehow a substitute for the mother from whom he is
:08:16. > :08:21.geographically distant? All of this is going on, consistent after all of
:08:22. > :08:24.the way through. Real humanity, real charm, it is wonderfully well
:08:25. > :08:30.played. Directed with just the right level of fantasy invention. It is a
:08:31. > :08:35.real pleasure to watch, and Maggie Smith tears up the screen. She is
:08:36. > :08:40.able to do so because of supporting performances from Frances de la
:08:41. > :08:45.Tour, Roger Allam, Alex Jennings, heart-warming. She is a stunning
:08:46. > :08:49.actress. Just amazing, and she is on fire all of the way through. Your
:08:50. > :08:56.Best of the week, capital at the Brooklyn. Review this last week, I
:08:57. > :09:00.want everybody to see this, it is a wonderful story about a young woman
:09:01. > :09:04.going from Ireland to America in the 1950s, it is a hard sell because it
:09:05. > :09:08.is a film of small moments, small charm. To some extent it is sold as
:09:09. > :09:15.performance by social Ronan, based than that. Extraordinary central
:09:16. > :09:18.on a novel. It has, for me, it has what cinema used to have in the 30s
:09:19. > :09:22.and 40s, when people talked about women's pictures. -- Saoirse Ronan.
:09:23. > :09:28.What they meant was popular cinema, that is what they had in those days.
:09:29. > :09:30.Great writing, terrific direction, wonderful central performance by
:09:31. > :09:34.Saoirse Ronan, who has not put a foot wrong in getting her Oscar
:09:35. > :09:40.nomination for atonement, all of those years ago. She is 21! I said
:09:41. > :09:45.that the other week! Already she has a body of work under her belt which
:09:46. > :09:55.act as three times her age would kill to have! Under milk Wood...
:09:56. > :10:00.Why'd you say it like? LAUGHTER Cinematic treatment of this... I
:10:01. > :10:05.know why you are worried! Putting visual to under milk Wood is always
:10:06. > :10:08.going to be fraught, it is a radio play, so do we need visuals?
:10:09. > :10:13.Actually, this new adaptation by Kevin Allen, it has people like Rhys
:10:14. > :10:17.Ifans in it, and Charlotte Church, it is very much like ten Russell. He
:10:18. > :10:22.said that he would hear music and see pictures, I get the sense that
:10:23. > :10:30.that has happened here. -- Ken Russell. Funny, robust, bawdy,
:10:31. > :10:36.playful. It was shot simultaneously, in English and in Welsh, I saw it in
:10:37. > :10:40.English language, the Welsh language version has been put forward by
:10:41. > :10:43.BAFTA, as the submission for the foreign-language film Academy award.
:10:44. > :10:48.One of the reasons I wanted to flag this up, the collectors edition has
:10:49. > :10:52.both versions on it. So you can choose which version you would like
:10:53. > :10:56.to see. Now I want to see the Welsh language version having only seen
:10:57. > :11:02.the English. Bit of a success, of the five films, one written by Dylan
:11:03. > :11:07.Thomas, one with Alan Bennett, one with Aaron Sorkin. Very good
:11:08. > :11:11.screenwriting talent! Please, do go to see Brooklyn, you will love it.
:11:12. > :11:17.You will find more film use and reviews from across the BBC online
:11:18. > :11:21.including all the previous shows. -- more film news and reviews. Thank
:11:22. > :11:34.you for watching, enjoy the movies. been a fantastic day for weather
:11:35. > :11:35.Watchers,