:00:00. > :00:00.different aspects of the year at 2:30pm and 8:30pm. To kick things
:00:00. > :00:00.off in style, our regular film critic Mark Kermode takes his seat
:00:07. > :00:18.and looks at the highs and lows of the year in film.
:00:19. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to the Cinema Museum in London for this film
:00:24. > :00:27.review of the year. Over the next hop Anelka we will look back at the
:00:28. > :00:32.big screen highs and lows of 2013. -- half an hour. As always, the year
:00:33. > :00:36.kicks off with the traditional media circus which surrounds the annual
:00:37. > :00:39.awards season, with stars gracing the red carpet on both sides of the
:00:40. > :00:45.Atlantic, from the freezing cold of the BAFTAs in Britain to the heat of
:00:46. > :00:50.the Oscars in Hollywood. Your time is up and your parole has begun.
:00:51. > :00:55.Flying the flag for British cinema was Les Miserables, an adaptation of
:00:56. > :00:58.the musical from The King's Speech director Tom Hooper, whose main
:00:59. > :01:05.motivation was to get the cast to sing live on set. Something which
:01:06. > :01:07.helped Anne Hathaway pick up both a BAFTA and an Oscar for Best
:01:08. > :01:13.supporting actress, one of the dead certs of the awards season. You will
:01:14. > :01:18.starve again unless you learn the meaning of the law. Co-star Russell
:01:19. > :01:22.Crowe fared less well, being largely overlooked at the awards after
:01:23. > :01:27.critics turned a deaf ear to his tuneful endeavours. Five years for
:01:28. > :01:34.what you did, the rest because you tried to run. Sacha Baron Cohen said
:01:35. > :01:39.from the stage of the Golden Globes, Russell had four months of singing
:01:40. > :01:43.lessons. That was money well spent. You can teach somebody to be a
:01:44. > :01:48.director in a day? You can teach a recess monkey to be a director in a
:01:49. > :01:56.day. In the end, Les miserable lost out in the best film category to
:01:57. > :02:01.Aga, a stranger than reality fiction film. The plot sounded crazy but was
:02:02. > :02:05.largely true, given some dramatic license, and the film went on to
:02:06. > :02:10.take some top honours on both sides of the pond, to the delight of star
:02:11. > :02:13.and writer-director Ben Affleck, who thanked Hollywood for a second
:02:14. > :02:21.chance after the catastrophes of Jersey Girl and Gigli. There are
:02:22. > :02:30.only bad options. It is about finding the best one. This is the
:02:31. > :02:34.best bad idea we have sir. By far. The United States government has
:02:35. > :02:40.just sanctioned a science fiction movie. In the best Actor category,
:02:41. > :02:45.all eyes were on Daniel Day-Lewis, who made history by winning his
:02:46. > :02:52.third best actor Oscar in Steven Speilberg's Lincoln. We will pay for
:02:53. > :02:57.the oceans of blood and the unaccountable corpses. Just this
:02:58. > :03:03.once, Mrs Lincoln, I urge you to take the liberal point of view.
:03:04. > :03:20.Robert will not forgive us if we try and stifle is very natural ambition.
:03:21. > :03:30.There were Oscar garlands to four director Ang Lee, whose adaptation
:03:31. > :03:41.of Life of Pi proved the novel was not unfilmable after all.
:03:42. > :03:48.But the real star of 2013 awards season was Jennifer Lawrence, who
:03:49. > :03:53.tripped over her dress and fell into the public's heart as she mounted
:03:54. > :03:59.the Oscar stairs to pick up a statuette for best actress for
:04:00. > :04:04.Silver Linings Playbook. How did you know when I run? I wanted to clarify
:04:05. > :04:09.something. I just want us to be friends. Did you hear what I said?
:04:10. > :04:16.Why are you giving me such a hard time? I am not giving you a hard
:04:17. > :04:22.time. Since her award success, Lawrence has gone from success to
:04:23. > :04:25.success, fronting the Hunger Games franchise, with Catching Fire
:04:26. > :04:34.becoming one of the hits of the year.
:04:35. > :04:42.Do you want to share these? Why did you order these? Why did you order
:04:43. > :04:46.tea? Because you ordered raisin brandy. The only downside of
:04:47. > :04:53.Jennifer Lawrence's Oscar victory was disappointment for Emmanuelle
:04:54. > :04:59.Riva, who celebrated her 86th birthday on the day of the Oscars,
:05:00. > :05:04.the oldest nominee for Best Actress ever, but she beat her to the BAFTAs
:05:05. > :05:10.statuette, which kind of even the score.
:05:11. > :05:17.In spring, media attention turned towards France and the Cannes film
:05:18. > :05:20.Festival, where the big story this year was Blue Is The Warmest Colour,
:05:21. > :05:33.a powerful and visually explicit story based on the graphic novel by
:05:34. > :05:37.Julie Maro. For the first time in the history of Cannes, the jury,
:05:38. > :05:42.headed by Steven Speilberg, awarded the Palme d'Or not just to the
:05:43. > :05:52.director, but also to the two leading actors, via Seydoux and
:05:53. > :05:55.Adele Exarchopoulos. It was seen as controversial, even more so when the
:05:56. > :06:00.actor said working with the director had been less than ideal. It is a
:06:01. > :06:01.good job we won the Palme d'Or, said Seydoux, because making the film was
:06:02. > :06:19.horrible. Other big hitters at Cannes this
:06:20. > :06:22.year included The Great Beauty, a sprawling Fellini at epic from
:06:23. > :06:26.director Paolo Sorrentino which some critics critics have rated among the
:06:27. > :06:43.best of the year -- British critics. Hello. I remembered to live next
:06:44. > :06:49.door. It is like an amusement park. Did you get an invitation? People
:06:50. > :06:54.are not invited to Gatsby's. I was, seems I am the only one. Who is this
:06:55. > :07:04.Gatsby? He was a German spy in the war. A German spy? He was the
:07:05. > :07:08.Kaiser's assassin. There was much hoopla surrounding Baz Luhrmann's
:07:09. > :07:12.Gatsby, where it received Biggs reviews in the US for its brash and
:07:13. > :07:18.bold updating F Scott Fitzgerald 's classic novel. -- mixed reviews. If
:07:19. > :07:25.anything is not to your liking, I will change it. It is perfect. From
:07:26. > :07:33.your perfect, irresistible imagination. But for me, the very
:07:34. > :07:37.best thing about this year Cannes festival was the return of Bruce
:07:38. > :07:40.Dern, perhaps best known to many as the start of the heartbreaking
:07:41. > :07:44.science-fiction classic Silent running, one of my favourite movies
:07:45. > :07:49.of all time. Having picked up an Oscar nomination in the 1970s for
:07:50. > :07:54.Coming Home, Bruce Dern became the toast of Cannes in 2013 when he won
:07:55. > :07:58.the prestigious Best actor award for his starring role in Alexander
:07:59. > :08:10.Payne's Nebraska. How did you and mon get married? Because she wanted
:08:11. > :08:17.to. And you didn't? Are you sorry you married her? All the time. It
:08:18. > :08:21.could have been worse. You must have been in love, at least at first?
:08:22. > :08:34.Apparently not. Goodbye, my son. My hopes and dreams
:08:35. > :08:37.travel with you. While Nebraska was a low-key trade, 2013 also had its
:08:38. > :08:44.fair share of big budget blockbusters. You will be a god to
:08:45. > :08:49.them. Once again, super heroes proved a staple of the multiplex.
:08:50. > :08:51.Having rebooted Batman with his dark Knight trilogy, British film-maker
:08:52. > :08:56.Christopher Nolan took the production reigns on Man of Steel,
:08:57. > :09:04.which attempted to take the Superman myth right back to its origins. They
:09:05. > :09:11.will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you. The movie,
:09:12. > :09:14.directed by Zack Snyder, was a moderate success, but when it comes
:09:15. > :09:20.to box office, it turns out that neither Superman or Batman can hold
:09:21. > :09:23.a candle to Iron Man. The threat is imminent and I had to protect the
:09:24. > :09:36.one thing I cannot live without. That is you. My suits, they are part
:09:37. > :09:41.of me. I am a distraction. Maybe. With Shane Black in the director's
:09:42. > :09:45.chair, Iron Man 3 took a whopping $1.2 billion worldwide. At that
:09:46. > :09:49.together with the takings of the first two Iron Man movies, and then
:09:50. > :09:54.throw in the 1.5 billion taken by Josh Weedon's Avengers Assemble in
:09:55. > :09:58.which Tony Stark, played by a motormouth Robert Downey Jr has a
:09:59. > :10:02.leading role, then it turns out that Iron Man is the most financially
:10:03. > :10:06.successful big screen comicstrip character of all time. See, when it
:10:07. > :10:17.comes to superheroes, it is all about the numbers.
:10:18. > :10:30.Ladies, children, sheep. Some people call me a terrorist. I consider
:10:31. > :10:38.myself a teacher. Lesson number 1... Heroes, there is no such thing. Here
:10:39. > :10:48.is the question. Would you like to go out on a date? No. That is not
:10:49. > :10:51.helping. Of course, the real superheroes of 2013 with a
:10:52. > :10:55.blabbermouthed bottom burping Minions of despicable me too, a
:10:56. > :11:01.whopping worldwide success to which managed to outdo its predecessor in
:11:02. > :11:04.terms of laps and box office. One of the runaway hits of the year, it was
:11:05. > :11:17.up there with Disney's Frozen as an animated treat. I like warm hugs.
:11:18. > :11:30.Olaf? That is right. Olaf. And you are? I am an hour. And who is the
:11:31. > :11:37.funky looking donkey? That is then. And the reindeer? Sven. That makes
:11:38. > :11:43.it easier. Then there were the flops. Along with the dismal sci-fi
:11:44. > :11:46.fantasy After Earth, 2013 was the year that The Lone Ranger found
:11:47. > :11:50.itself in ignominious place in the history books as one of the most
:11:51. > :11:58.expensive misfires of modern cinema. There are rumours of a man born in
:11:59. > :12:06.the desert... A ghost, some said. A masked man. A lone ranger. With a
:12:07. > :12:10.starring turn from Johnny Depp, and ever spiralling budget reported to
:12:11. > :12:14.have been around $250 million, and an unwieldy running time which
:12:15. > :12:18.clocked in at around two and a half hours, the film tanked at the box
:12:19. > :12:25.office. A failure which the film-makers naturally blamed on the
:12:26. > :12:31.critics. Yes, no. Yes, no. Shut up. Yes. Personally, I didn't think The
:12:32. > :12:37.Lone Ranger was that bad. Baggy, yes, and structurally all over the
:12:38. > :12:45.place but big, dumb fun nonetheless. I also rather like Benedict
:12:46. > :12:48.Cumberbatch's turn as Julian Assange, which was dubbed the
:12:49. > :12:52.biggest failure of the year in terms of box office to cost ratio. It cost
:12:53. > :12:57.$28 million and took only six. This is more coverage than all of the
:12:58. > :13:04.leaks we have had combined. We need that information more. And you want
:13:05. > :13:08.to throw it all away because you fear that some US government
:13:09. > :13:14.informer might come to harm? He is a human being, Julian and lives are at
:13:15. > :13:19.stake. What about the lives of the soldiers and civilians involved in
:13:20. > :13:23.these conflicts? Eight financial flop no doubt, but it was still way
:13:24. > :13:26.better than the councillor, one of the year's real disappointments, in
:13:27. > :13:29.which director Ridley Scott and writer Cormac McCarthy got an a list
:13:30. > :13:37.cast them recite B-movie dialogue with C-results. Do I remind you of
:13:38. > :13:59.someone else? Yes, I do. Someone who is dead. You don't think that is a
:14:00. > :14:06.bit cold? Doctor, this is Diana. Perhaps I can show you around. You
:14:07. > :14:13.could pop round the corner for supper with me? Or indeed Diana,
:14:14. > :14:21.which provokes perhaps the most unanimous critical Rasberry of 2013.
:14:22. > :14:31.The script was ripped straight from the pages of hello magazine. If I
:14:32. > :14:45.marry you, I have to marry the whole world as well! Diana asks if you can
:14:46. > :14:50.really die of a broken heart. Watching this film, you could
:14:51. > :15:00.probably die of boredom. What about the treats of 2013? The hidden gems?
:15:01. > :15:04.The kings of summer came and went almost unnoticed. Already a hit at
:15:05. > :15:09.the Sundance film Festival, it drew comparisons with stand by me and
:15:10. > :15:22.breaking away, timeless rights of passage movies. This is the site of
:15:23. > :15:31.our new house. A tree house? No, a real house. In this city of
:15:32. > :15:39.Belfast, the lived a boy named Terry. Then there was good
:15:40. > :15:45.vibrations, a rip-roaring account of Terry Hooley, who, in the midst of
:15:46. > :15:52.the Troubles, find it a nonstick Terry and record store and label
:15:53. > :15:59.which launched minivans. There is a knockout performance at its heart.
:16:00. > :16:09.It is one of my personal favourites of the year. What is wrong with you
:16:10. > :16:13.people? It was all going to be absolutely fine. Neither good
:16:14. > :16:19.vibrations nor the kings of summer made a splash at the box office, but
:16:20. > :16:24.cinema ticket sales are no longer the only measure of success.
:16:25. > :16:35.Released and will tenuously in theatres, on DVD, on Blu-ray, on
:16:36. > :16:40.downloads, an English Civil War film find an audience on multiple
:16:41. > :16:44.platforms. It is showing that the audiences themselves will decide
:16:45. > :17:06.where and how they will assume their films.
:17:07. > :17:11.Other standout releases of the year include the sublime before
:17:12. > :17:17.midnight, the third instalment in a romantic saga from Richard
:17:18. > :17:21.Linklater, which comes as close to any film series as creating the
:17:22. > :17:27.perfect trilogy. Before Sunrise, before sunset and my before midnight
:17:28. > :17:33.are up there with toy story. I finding myself so attracted to this
:17:34. > :17:39.woman? Other films which may have slipped in to your radar this year
:17:40. > :17:56.could be beyond the hills, bleak tale of religion and exorcism.
:17:57. > :18:06.What about the look the Japanese gem, like father, like son. It is a
:18:07. > :18:17.look the investigation of nature versus nurture. On the documentary
:18:18. > :18:20.front, the standard release was the act of killing, an extraordinarily
:18:21. > :18:25.harrowing yet poetic investigation of a legacy of murder in Indonesia
:18:26. > :18:38.in which the member of brutal death squads revisited their most
:18:39. > :18:40.appalling act. Mixing interviews with reconstructions and surreal
:18:41. > :18:46.musical sequences, the act of killing for Executive Producer
:18:47. > :18:55.Fredericks for Errol Morris and when her talk. Moving onto the autumn,
:18:56. > :18:58.and the London film Festival played host to a number of high-profile
:18:59. > :19:04.premiers, including the first film that ever made me think about 3-D
:19:05. > :19:13.might not be nonsense after all. Having long been unconvinced by
:19:14. > :19:18.its, I was surprised to find myself completely immersed by the 3-D magic
:19:19. > :19:38.of gravity. We have lost Houston, we have lost
:19:39. > :19:47.Houston! We need to get the hell out of here! Man dying!
:19:48. > :19:52.For once those stupid glasses seem to serve a purpose, putting is right
:19:53. > :19:59.there in the action as Sandra Bullock and George Clooney looted
:20:00. > :20:01.their way through space, sending the audience on a discombobulated
:20:02. > :20:16.fairground rides, wondering which way was up . . Paul
:20:17. > :20:23.Greengrass'sfilm captain Phil was also at London. It is about as ships
:20:24. > :20:44.captain being held hostage by Somali pirates. We have a problem. Nobody
:20:45. > :21:00.gets hurt if you don't play any games. Tom Hanks is hotly tipped for
:21:01. > :21:05.an Oscar nomination. He could also get the nomination for saving Mr
:21:06. > :21:07.Banks, where he plays Walt Disney who is fighting for the soul of Mary
:21:08. > :21:37.Poppins. The London film Festival also
:21:38. > :21:41.provided a platform for the selfish giant, a tale of two young boys
:21:42. > :21:48.return to the scrap trade to help those struggling families, inspired
:21:49. > :21:56.by the Oscar -- by the classic tale by Oscar Wilde. He is holding the
:21:57. > :22:03.reins too tight. He is pulling it back. Where did you learn that? I
:22:04. > :22:10.went to road racers when I was younger. This selfish giant is just
:22:11. > :22:15.one of this year 's home-grown success stories. Contrary to the
:22:16. > :22:20.tales of doom and gloom that home the newspapers, the British film
:22:21. > :22:33.industry has thrived in 2013, producing such diverse fare as
:22:34. > :22:37.rush, the Formula one affair. It is not so easy to become a champion.
:22:38. > :22:47.James, is there anything you would like to add. If he is playing mind
:22:48. > :22:58.games, I am flattered. Momentum is with me and I have never felt
:22:59. > :23:16.better. The look of love, the Paul Raymond by OPEC.
:23:17. > :23:29.Philomena, also starring Steve Coogan. We are trying to have a
:23:30. > :23:44.private conversation. My apologies, sir. There is no need to be rude.
:23:45. > :23:47.She is very nice. You should be nice to people on the way up because you
:23:48. > :23:51.will meet them again on the way down and you of all people should
:23:52. > :23:58.understand that. That insisted 12 years as slaves, currently tipped as
:23:59. > :24:05.a dead cert for a best picture contender in the Oscars. Based on
:24:06. > :24:21.their educated New York man who was kidnapped and sells -- and sold into
:24:22. > :24:28.slavery. A year has passed already. I have just the thing. Something to
:24:29. > :24:35.suit your style, yet sturdy enough for a 40 mile round trip. Children
:24:36. > :24:42.come on come on the what your father has just bought for me. Directed by
:24:43. > :24:45.Steve McQueen, 12 years as slave is a powerful and important work on
:24:46. > :25:02.challenging, provocative and fearless. Today, sir.
:25:03. > :25:14.I would say that both Steve McQueen and is the lead actor of that film
:25:15. > :25:20.will gets nominations. As will the makers of gravity. It was made here
:25:21. > :25:25.in the UK, relying on the Williamson British technicians, who remain the
:25:26. > :25:31.best in the world. Haps the future is bright, after all. -- the
:25:32. > :26:02.brilliance of British technicians. Good afternoon. Some atrocious
:26:03. > :26:08.weather conditions across the UK at the minute stop there could be more
:26:09. > :26:12.to come during this Christmas week. We have been seeing some very heavy
:26:13. > :26:13.rain coming in from the west through the day. You can see