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