Steve Jobs, Tangerine, and The Lady in the Van The Film Review

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Welcome to the film review on BBC new, taking us through this week's

cinema releases, Mark Kermode. Have Steve Jobs, it is not a biopic, from

Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle. Tangerine, a view of street life

shot on an iPhone. And we have the lady in the van, Maggie Smith who is

in rip-roaring form. A number of people coming up that can do no

wrong, Michael Fassbender, Aaron Sorkin wrote this. Very interesting

case, first thing to say, it is not a biopic, it is basically the story

of Steve jobs as told over three product launches, from the 1980s to

the 1990s, it is not the product launches that we see, it is the

backstage shenanigans leading up to them. This is a 3 act structure,

Aaron Sorkin has used to this to create something that is tacitly

theatrical, Michael Fassbender is a brilliant actor, we have him playing

Steve Jobs. We have Seth Rogen, as Steve Wozniak, a person with whom he

falls in and fought out. And a terrific performance by Kate

Winslet, as Joanna Hoffman. Marketing manager. Over the course

of these three pre-launches, discussions recur, old rivalries

flare up, and much of it is seen in belligerent arguments. You cannot

write code. You are not an engineer, you are not a designer, you cannot

put a hammer to a nail! I built the circuit board, the graphical

interface was stolen! Jeff was the leader of the team before you throw

him off his own project! Somebody else designed the box! How come, ten

times in a day, I read, " Steve Jobs is a genius"! What do you do? ! I

play the orchestra, you are the best in your row, you are a good

musician, you sit there. I came here to clear the air, I came here

because you are going to get killed! Your computer is going to

fail. Behind all of this, a number of personal threats, one of which is

Steve Jobs's denial of his disputed daughter, Lisa, we basically see her

growing up during the course of the drama. There are many comparisons

between this and the social network, this was originally slated to be

directed by David Fincher. We have a whiz kid who is very brittle on a

personal level, seems better able to interact with machines than people.

-- The Social Network. We have a story of a close partner who is

essentially snubbed when success comes calling, we saw that with the

social network. -- The Social Network. We have a central character

failing to communicate with women in his life, is denied daughter, is

ex-partner. What we do have is a relationship between him and Joanna

Hoffman, Kate Winslet, the sort of acts as his, conscience. This film

has not performed well in America but that is not here or there, it

was terrific. I know that you are an Aaron Sorkin fan, the script

writing... The ethical in a good sense. Danny Boyle put it together

by doing two weeks of rehearsal for each section, rehearsed like a

theatre play. It has all of the visual vim and vigour you expect

from Danny Boyle, but most importantly, an ensemble cast at the

top of their game, Danny Boyle has always been great at getting the

best ever performance. Shallow, here. -- shallow Grave, and here as

well. Superb synthesis. Some people are bamboozled by the structure but

what they are looking for is a biopic and that is not this, this is

a theatrically instructed Rama, which is wearing with machine-like

efficiency. Talking about machine-like efficiency, from

Apple... To Tangerine! Arthur C Clarke predicts the rise of the home

computer at the beginning of the film, this is shot, on a modified

iPhone five, to give you a street level of these characters. A

transsexual sex worker, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, her pin has been cheating

on her, so she gets her best friend, played by Mya Taylor, to go out on

the streets and find the errant lovers. What I like about this film

is firstly, as you can see, it is vibrantly colourful. -- her pimp.

When things are shot on low-tech Digi, things are grainy and grim.

The lights being portrayed are in difficult circumstances but this

goes the other way, colourful and bright and brash, these characters

are completely authentic and believable, you absolutely invest in

a situation. You have sympathy and understanding. Most importantly, it

is frequently laugh out loud funny, there is real on-screen chemistry

between these characters which makes you root for them, makes you

understand exactly what they are going through. It is a really

enjoyable story. Would it work on the big screen? Surely just DVD.

Absolutely does work on big screen, it has a widescreen Panorama, they

have used prototype anamorphic adapters, as it happens. Often when

you say something is shot on an iPhone, that makes you think... But

this, it is the most cinematic thing I have ever seen shot on an iPhone.

The colour goes from the screen to Everything about the characters,

everything about the situation, everything about the comedy. I was

very impressed. Lady in the van, Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett. And a

van! True story, and this lady asked if she could... Alan Bennett offered

her park the van in his drive, she stayed for 15 years, it is sold as a

memoir and a play and now it is a film, Maggie Smith, again, central

role of Miss Sheppard, on the 1 hand, because it is a middle-class

community in Camden, they feel guilty... On the other hand, she is

spectacularly cantankerous and routes to absolutely everyone. --

rude to absolutely everyone. Snake... Boa constrictor... Looked

poisonous... It was keeping close to the wall, and I have a feeling that

it was headed for the van. I don't... I felt I should warn you,

to be on the safe side, I have had some close shaves with snakes. There

is no boa constrictors in Camden Town! Are you calling me a liar? ! I

know a boa constrictor when I see one. How are you doing today,

sweetheart? Don't sweetheart me, I am a sick woman, dying, possibly!

Cheer up, love, we have all got to go sometime actress at is looks like

-- smells like you already have! LAUGHTER

Who cannot laugh at Maggie Smith. The film is funny all of the way

through, but it has a poignancy, you are interested in how she got to

where she is, interested in the back story. The film is described as a

mostly true story, playful discussion... I think that what you

have here, again, a mixture of terrific performances, Maggie Smith,

Alex Jennings, Alan Bennett is a bifurcated character, we see him as

a writer and living in the house. They argue with each other, about

how they will deal with the lady. Will they use her as material? Is

she somehow a substitute for the mother from whom he is

geographically distant? All of this is going on, consistent after all of

the way through. Real humanity, real charm, it is wonderfully well

played. Directed with just the right level of fantasy invention. It is a

real pleasure to watch, and Maggie Smith tears up the screen. She is

able to do so because of supporting performances from Frances de la

Tour, Roger Allam, Alex Jennings, heart-warming. She is a stunning

actress. Just amazing, and she is on fire all of the way through. Your

Best of the week, capital at the Brooklyn. Review this last week, I

want everybody to see this, it is a wonderful story about a young woman

going from Ireland to America in the 1950s, it is a hard sell because it

is a film of small moments, small charm. To some extent it is sold as

performance by social Ronan, based than that. Extraordinary central

on a novel. It has, for me, it has what cinema used to have in the 30s

and 40s, when people talked about women's pictures. -- Saoirse Ronan.

What they meant was popular cinema, that is what they had in those days.

Great writing, terrific direction, wonderful central performance by

Saoirse Ronan, who has not put a foot wrong in getting her Oscar

nomination for atonement, all of those years ago. She is 21! I said

that the other week! Already she has a body of work under her belt which

act as three times her age would kill to have! Under milk Wood...

Why'd you say it like? LAUGHTER Cinematic treatment of this... I

know why you are worried! Putting visual to under milk Wood is always

going to be fraught, it is a radio play, so do we need visuals?

Actually, this new adaptation by Kevin Allen, it has people like Rhys

Ifans in it, and Charlotte Church, it is very much like ten Russell. He

said that he would hear music and see pictures, I get the sense that

that has happened here. -- Ken Russell. Funny, robust, bawdy,

playful. It was shot simultaneously, in English and in Welsh, I saw it in

English language, the Welsh language version has been put forward by

BAFTA, as the submission for the foreign-language film Academy award.

One of the reasons I wanted to flag this up, the collectors edition has

both versions on it. So you can choose which version you would like

to see. Now I want to see the Welsh language version having only seen

the English. Bit of a success, of the five films, one written by Dylan

Thomas, one with Alan Bennett, one with Aaron Sorkin. Very good

screenwriting talent! Please, do go to see Brooklyn, you will love it.

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