:00:00. > :00:00.third fourth place play-off between South Africa and Argentina. That is
:00:00. > :00:22.on sports day at half six. Now, it is time for the film review.
:00:23. > :00:35.Welcome to the Film Review on BBC News. Anna Smith is with me. What
:00:36. > :00:39.have we got? We have Under Milk Wood, an adaptation of a Dylan
:00:40. > :00:44.Thomas form. Charlotte Church appears in this. Next up we have
:00:45. > :00:49.Fresh Dressed. A documentary about hip-hop and its influence on fashion
:00:50. > :00:55.and culture. We have Pharrell Williams and Kanye West contributing
:00:56. > :01:02.to this one. Finally, Black Souls, a story of Mafia goings-on in southern
:01:03. > :01:08.Italy. Under Milk Wood, one of the great, great classics. What did you
:01:09. > :01:12.think on film? The last time we saw was 1972 with Elizabeth Taylor and
:01:13. > :01:17.Richard Burton. It is controversial to transit the lyrics and the poetry
:01:18. > :01:22.onto the screen and to add visuals. Think it is an interesting
:01:23. > :01:25.adaptation. Rhys Evans narrates. He has a lovely Welsh baritone that
:01:26. > :01:31.leads us through the Welsh village and shows us the goings on. There is
:01:32. > :01:45.not the characters. From a cliff there is a surreal element and Kevin
:01:46. > :02:01.Allison brings out the poetry. No good. Up to no good in the wash
:02:02. > :02:11.house. Polly Carter, end of the washing line. Nothing grows in our
:02:12. > :02:19.garden, all the washing and babies. Where is their father? Over the hill
:02:20. > :02:29.and far away. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing? What did you think?
:02:30. > :02:35.I liked it generally. It is a mixed bag. It is episodic, given the
:02:36. > :02:38.source material. You can dip in. The director to read music festivals
:02:39. > :02:42.which seems like a good fit. He had a caravan and people tumbled in and
:02:43. > :02:47.out watching bits of it. Some episodes work better than others.
:02:48. > :02:53.Charlotte Church is good. Other bits stretch it too far. He tries to get
:02:54. > :02:58.it back to the earthy, eroticism of the poetry. Also, it takes a lighter
:02:59. > :03:03.tone than some more morbid adaptations. There is a lot to do
:03:04. > :03:09.with sex and death in this. You get people longing for lost loves, but
:03:10. > :03:13.he inserts a light touch. I remember a university professor being towed
:03:14. > :03:19.by a student it would be fantastic to make films about Under Milk Wood
:03:20. > :03:24.and so on and he said it is a play for voices. What did you not get
:03:25. > :03:28.about this? The pictures will be a distraction. That is an argument. If
:03:29. > :03:34.you shut your eyes you get more from the words. You could say the same
:03:35. > :03:37.with any literary adaptation. Of course, his words were so evocative.
:03:38. > :03:42.This is a translation, but the director said he felt that if Dylan
:03:43. > :03:48.Thomas had lived longer, he would have got involved with them. He is
:03:49. > :03:52.saying, this is what he might have achieved. The other question is
:03:53. > :03:58.Richard Burton and his voice. You cannot match it. How does Rhys Evans
:03:59. > :04:03.did? He has done it very differently. He is less Anglicised.
:04:04. > :04:08.Richard Burton was former and Anglicised. Like Dylan Thomas was
:04:09. > :04:13.when he read Under Milk Wood. Now there is a lovely Welsh baritone and
:04:14. > :04:18.it adds a lighter touch. Fresh Dressed, there could be nothing more
:04:19. > :04:23.different. This is a documentary about the influence of the hip-hop
:04:24. > :04:29.scene, not so much the music but the culture that it had in the 80s and
:04:30. > :04:32.90s and the way we dress. Eventually, the catwalk, it is full
:04:33. > :04:38.of talking heads from their thoughts. It has animations breaking
:04:39. > :04:45.it down, talking about the jumpers, the shoes. Lots of commentary. It is
:04:46. > :04:49.interesting. It touches the surface, it is not exhaustive. As someone who
:04:50. > :04:56.didn't know much about that culture, I was educated. Prisons and prison
:04:57. > :05:01.culture, there is a political element which there always was in
:05:02. > :05:06.Public enemy. Going right back to the roots. I wonder whether it is
:05:07. > :05:10.aimed at those who are already interested, not something that will
:05:11. > :05:14.brighten up to a wider audience. You have to have a passing interest
:05:15. > :05:17.otherwise why would you say? The problem is because it is not
:05:18. > :05:22.exhaustive people will know it all already. For those in the scene,
:05:23. > :05:24.they will be interested because the people they enjoyed watching, and a
:05:25. > :05:28.lot of artists are featured, they talk about how the first war is not
:05:29. > :05:31.exhaustive people will know it all already. For those in the scene,
:05:32. > :05:33.they will be interested because the people they enjoyed watching, and a
:05:34. > :05:36.lot of artists are featured, they talk about how they first give their
:05:37. > :05:40.clothes away for free. They talk about branding. That is interesting
:05:41. > :05:46.because straight out of Compton which is out at the moment which is
:05:47. > :05:50.a similar kind of thing, it starts out with a revolutionary movement
:05:51. > :05:52.and ends with a row about right to music and money, which is quite
:05:53. > :05:58.interesting because that underlies this. It is a similar journey. We
:05:59. > :06:02.talk about everyone fighting over contracts for different brands and
:06:03. > :06:08.stars and how people are being mugged for their shoes and such
:06:09. > :06:16.like. Black Souls. A terrific film. Did very well at the Venice film
:06:17. > :06:21.Festival. The main focus is the Mafia in Calabria, organised crime,
:06:22. > :06:27.three brothers who move to Milan and come back to see their goat herding
:06:28. > :06:30.brother in trouble. We meet one of the main characters in this scene
:06:31. > :08:07.and he is doing a drug deal in Amsterdam with the Spanish.
:08:08. > :08:15.I guess people who have seen Gomorrah, which was also about the
:08:16. > :08:22.Mafia in Naples, this is about another branch, they will get this
:08:23. > :08:25.immediately. It is not Godfather. It is much less glamorous. This shows
:08:26. > :08:29.the authentic sound of it and the downside and when the action moves
:08:30. > :08:34.to Calabria we see how the tight-knit families are torn apart.
:08:35. > :08:37.Not in the grandiose way of the Godfather, but really horrible
:08:38. > :08:41.consequences. Most of the action takes place slaughtering goats or at
:08:42. > :08:45.funerals. It is pretty dark stuff and you have the family dinners were
:08:46. > :08:49.everyone makes connections and no one is talking about what they mean.
:08:50. > :08:54.It is a Mafia drama where everything bubbles under the surface. It is
:08:55. > :09:00.well done. If the Godfather was good Mafia versus bad Mafia, this is all
:09:01. > :09:08.terrible. It is a good film to watch. The lobster. This is one of
:09:09. > :09:13.the best films I have seen recently. Colin Pharrell plays a man who is in
:09:14. > :09:22.a strange feature where you have to live in a couple. If you do not have
:09:23. > :09:26.a partner you are turned into an animal of your choosing. It is no
:09:27. > :09:30.spoiler to the he escapes and finds a community of solo people where
:09:31. > :09:34.everything is on the flip side and you cannot be in a couple. It is
:09:35. > :09:39.absurd. The first up is much better than the second, but if you are a
:09:40. > :09:47.fan of the director and deadpan satire, it is well worth a watch. If
:09:48. > :09:53.you go in thinking it is absurd theatre from the 1950s with people
:09:54. > :09:55.saying ludicrous things but in a completely stripped conversational
:09:56. > :10:01.way like I will become a lobster because cannot find a mate, that is
:10:02. > :10:06.not a conversation most of makes it the film for you. If you have
:10:07. > :10:14.different expectations, it is not the film for you. I absolutely loved
:10:15. > :10:19.it. This is a horror movie, for Halloween. It is a low-budget film,
:10:20. > :10:24.a B-movie, unashamedly. It is werewolves on a train. It is
:10:25. > :10:29.British, so support British horror. It is about a train conductor on a
:10:30. > :10:33.train stopped outside London with a bunch of commuters all their
:10:34. > :10:36.characters developing and they are angry to be stuck but they are
:10:37. > :10:50.scared that there are werewolves outside ready to get them. I think
:10:51. > :10:54.if you take it for what it is, it is entertaining, it is a genre flick, a
:10:55. > :10:58.cult movie. It takes the time to give all the characters and look at
:10:59. > :11:01.the drama of the situation where people are trapped and starting to
:11:02. > :11:05.panic and the politics that move under that. A mixed bag. Thank you
:11:06. > :11:27.very much. We have seen rain earlier today and
:11:28. > :11:29.there is rain to come tonight. Looking ahead