With Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson 1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason and 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Frederic March freelance critic Stephen Carty and co-director of the Glasgow Film Festival Alan Hunter were dispatched off to a dark room but before we hear what they made of the film Here's a little flavor. Personal question. You rights under. Don't feel comfortable knowing you feel comfortable almost every single person has told me they like the way it sounded like the Well look I think you know. They. Don't take another look. Just of a star is born it let's start with. You know if you just mentioned it before I was aware of the previous 2 I didn't know we had 3 versions of this dating back to the 1937 and you were a bit skeptical about whether or not you thought we needed. And if you want to be a complete film geek was in 1932 film then it's no go there shall we yeah you have that feeling of thinking oh really do we need to make this one more time. And yet by the end of the film I have to say I was a complete believer right I were in prepared to be cynical dismissive whatever I think is so well done both of them are both so sincere and selling the romance and the kind of elements of autobiography that are kind of folded and I have to I came out with a little tear in my. Eye was I was a believer in order magine you know that was going to end the ending to not surprise me. That me having previous versions yet. Still got me and I mean I think both of them are very good Bradley Cooper. You know he co-wrote the screenplay he co-produced it he directs it he sings in it and he acts and I mean that it's a fairly amazing achievement when you add all those things up and he doesn't do any of them badly you know it will get to get more to Bradley just a moment Stephen let's let's bring you in were you aware of any of the previous I mean probably we have the films I've just seen for example Streisand Kristofferson one yes I've seen Streisand and Kristofferson one which which I liked I think Kris Kristofferson is one of those guys who just has a very watchable everything he does he's got that charm and that coolness and I like Bradley Cooper as an actor but when I heard about this one I thought I'm going to be in that part but he's great he really Neil's I thought the body language of our of a rock star and I believe he he is performing these songs for real I was listening to an interview with him and he said that. They would go and perform other concerts not perform to the people in the 1st 5 rows because you're the music but no one else could so he said they would have to go get stuff done quickly then the boss would start to come on the. Worst in people you guys didn't think you had to Glastonbury in the Glastonbury that it was called off worse than yes yeah yeah came on for that I wasn't very So really good from from Bradley Cooper and there's been so much talk about this particular film over the years it was even beyond sea possibly Tom Cruise were going to be in it Clint Eastwood was possibly going to be directed at one point but Lady Gaga This was a surprise for me as a you know I thought was a big big film for us to take on how do you think she did again I think she's exceptional I mean she said that. She would want to do it but it was persuading like movie people that you know she could act and she could carry a film basically and Bradley Cooper seems to be in the one that's going to pitch for it and in some senses it's almost elements of her story yeah I mean all the stuff that you just heard of you know I was always told I didn't look good enough to be a rock star and people say. Go away and don't even get a chance and you don't fit the industry and stuff like that so you know having her is this kind of ugly duckling outsider who's never had a chance to be a star kind of thing seems like perfect casting we've been destructive for me because I just kept looking at it as Lady Gaga Lady Gaga Lady Gaga and i Phone goes on it was even more silly to go what was it like for you STILL did you were you able to separate what you know over as a star Yes very easily because I knew. I could have told you possibly one maybe 2 songs about beforehand but I know I do know what you mean because when the film started I phoned the Riverside when I saw her looking Should we see relatively normal again you know whenever you see her in magazines she has you know on 23 going or on the ship like a Jamaican pelican and all these very weird guns and things and then to see her just you know brought here with us I thought she looks like that but very very quickly I was won over by a performance and what about the relationship between the 2 of them was that was that convincing for you know Yeah absolutely because as well when she is just plain she kind of looks like a young lies and then Ellie which also has that echo of the Judy Garland question or kind of a she said you know you're always at the early part I know it's a cabaret show more so there's always kind of things going on with her but I think she's really convincing and the 2 of them you do build you buy into that relationship you do buy into the romance of what's going on between them I think because both of them make it work I mean Bradley Cooper sort of saying no you're beautiful in the way she responds to all of that and the success that comes and how that binds them together. They had me you know that's a big part of Bradley Cooper character is this successful rock star by he has issues it has with substance substances you know drinking and drugs and that's a tricky thing to get right to portray that correctly Patrice that well and there are parts where you're looking at him because you know it's obviously not drunk but he's actually he's got the bloodshot eyes and he looks and it just kind of himself off. Without going to have acting drunk does he have to convince him that the Big 3 go at you through your fingers if you want you there it also does pie eyed very well not that I was slurring my speech pretend to be drunk but just that kind of slightly blissful woozy when he goes to the drag bar at the beginning where he 1st sees her perform and he's just kind of pleasantly happy kind of drunk. So that never kind of over emphasizes anything I never does there oh this is great I'm going to be an actor playing John Corbett over the place he just seems to live in the moment and make it make it real you know it was real was that because you didn't really dislike him at any point from despite the fact that it was you know it was you know it was going soft rock yeah a very likable thing both of them were very likable and one of the things I liked was there were times when it could've went to an obvious path like for example when her fame start to pick up I thought rates are going to get resentful is he going to get better and sabotage your career but then he was happy for her and he was supportive and the thing that was hindering him was this disease that he's got and like you see you're always rooting for him when he tried to quit himself up you really can I wanted him to Queens act up and you wanted to get that happy ending we want to see what happens. I was coming into this film looking for or prepared for a film of a rise to fame so I knew that that element of it I wasn't really prepared for the whole alcohol issues and I think it sort of also touches on the pitfalls of fame and celebrity and ho when you go in if you can have these good intentions you know I want to be pure and I want to stick to this but then you get people sort of telling you well you need to change your hair you need to wear those we need to get back into the monitors and you know the compromise that comes with it and the balancing act I really liked all that stuff because that rang true to me the alcohol stuff rang true me really all rang true I thought Bradley Cooper this is his 1st film he's directed you look at a gay looks like a model He's directed the film he's done pretty much everything to do that as I was you know there he's acting and it is anything I can't do you know it's such a big you are speaking out loud. Very annoying to. Me. Even I was even surprised at his voice because he's clearly changed his voice oh yeah well that's the thing when you when you start to see him in the film it's like he's got the slightly Marlboro Man voice is kind of deepened and there's a bit of me thinking that sounds like somebody and I can't quite figure out who and then then Sam turns off as his older brother I think of course he sounds like Sam Elliot and Samuel even as a lion in the film because he didn't have the success that the brother had of you know you even store my voice kind of thing and he's like that. Fits together I think it's all those little things those little connections and those little things that have been thought through and also the Bradley Cooper characters kind of approach to fame and stardom is quite interesting and there's variation too because it's not like he's completely washed up I mean he can still fill a stadium with the old hits he's still famous he's still got an audience and things like that. So it's not like he's been thrown you know into obscurity you know but it's just like he's kind of slowly falling down on that scale of being well known and maybe it's 5 years since he had a hit maybe it's 10 years since he had a hit but you can still sort of have a career like he's not a Celebrity Big Brother yet you know not long enough maybe Strictly came along with an offer you never know of but the thing is well we talked about the start this dates back to the only 1000 families as you pointed out but they've managed to make that story very relevant in today's society and and even with the guards to manage and you touched on that Stephen about you know the pitfalls of pop music and I always manage it rains who's probably the only body. Of an unpleasant individual What would you make of his part in the film yeah I as you see he was sort of a baddie and he was representative of that say to female sadist stardom he gives the film and I slow conflict that comes and. Yeah I like how he can approach the buttons and it was nice to see your face about you know I don't want answers I'm just could be myself. It's the sort of story that I think you could probably tell. Every 1015 years if you make the rate changes and this film has us in has made the rate changes if you was relevant today it seems like I mean I've never been backstage at a concert I'm not a pop star yet but still a little time it feels real news like a good look at stardom and what happens behind the scenes and hope especially nowadays you can go from walking on stage singing a song to be an overnight sensation because that's what happens and it could be Susan Boyle So I mean that's exactly what it is that dream that so many of the women fortune and this kind of shoes you know a story of telling and it's been told as we see again back to to the 1930 S. And so for someone who perhaps didn't think we need to one you. Want to. I'm not sure if every 10 or 15 years but somebody said it's like it's strange it's almost like Dr Who You can keep your it's a story and finding different ways to tell it and it's very really doable it was interesting because. I went and see it with my wife and she loved Streisand and Kristofferson version and wasn't sure how she was going to take to this one and she thought kind of coming over it she still has a an in dealing emotional attachment to Barbra Streisand Kris Kristofferson but thinks maybe the next generation this is going to be the version for them because of the Gaga because of the music that Senate just it's just it was as you say it's bring it back but it will really strike a chord with the younger viewers Yes and it struck a definite struck a chord to me like I was you know as a younger viewers. I don't know anything of a Lady Gaga so I wasn't going by us towards her or the film but. I'm just going to destroy any street credibility I have no there's a scene in the film where she is standing in the wings and she's waiting to come on and Bradley Cooper and Kong can't come and sing with me and she's a bit hesitant you're locked in and she comes on and she starts singing us her 1st big performance and she's a club performer but this is our 1st game on a big stage a concert from a crowd it was just the way that it's filmed I actually got goosebumps when I was watching this and I know that sounds very cringe and if someone had said that to me before. And I just shook my head and selfish. Definitely definitely got goosebumps when she came out and saying just to be she acts she she portrays as someone who's making that transition because that's that moment for her that's that you've crossed over No you were just an ordinary person no you're on the path to something else. For me it was the best scene in the film it was the highlight it worked really well and there's a great figure watching film when it can do that too and have that effect on you and the flipside of that was was his kind of demise not not you know you know just when things went really ought to be wrong for him and her at the Grammy Awards and that's a scene with given in I'm not sure we mentioned it and you kind of watch it through your fingers. And it was so well done and again it's like I'm going back to the Judy Garland but the moment at the Oscars and that with James Mason where he staggers on to the stage and winds up slapping around things that you're thinking where are they going to match that these days you know could you do exactly the same thing or and it's again they just do something that's a bit different and works in modern times as well I think the other thing is it's a great romance you know in terms of a younger audience that you know are tracked into how often is there are a great big tragic melodramatic romance that you can go and see anymore I'm thinking la la land maybe you know but it's not it's not something that Hollywood does a lot of and all that and also the grittiness of his alcoholism was in the patrol of the very trying to get treatment tries to get out the door gloss on this you know the poetry as it's a horrific disease that it is and he looks a bit pickled as you know a lot of the time it's like you can see the ravages of this and what they've done to him and tears of make up and make him look a bit more by nations and all that kind of stuff so yeah I think they handle that pretty pretty truthfully as well but I'm sensing lots of boxes ticked around the table here Stephen some something you would know you maybe step in if you're in your street creds only or you don't know what's up. Tropicana to start sure that we do we recommend in your problem see this yeah absolutely I'll direct It's the sort of film I would recommend to anyone it's a bit of a quote pleaser. I imagine I have family members or maybe my wife will see to that and I'd be quite happy once again you know what we saw Yeah but I've been recommending it lots because you know people say or what you see in recent It's really good actually you should go and see a star is born don't have any prejudice at the moment go and see it because it will kind of hit you like a killer blow emotionally were they were not very quickly I would be amazed if he wasn't nominated in more than one categories and she's a possible best actress I would have thought I think I'll win a few so A Star Is Born boding well for Oscar season according to Alan Hunter and Stephen Carty and the same track might even be on with the show is where with many of the tracks written by Cooper and Gaga during filming and recorded live on set at league Agas insistence Let's hear the pit in action. To. Tired and soul. Ha. Chalo by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga from the soundtrack a star is born so you know to hear about another directorial debut as actor Rupert Everett takes the plunge a screenwriter and director in the Happy Prince which focuses on the final days of Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde as he lies dying in exile in Europe Everett Also please wild in the film but he's barely recognizable as Wilde by this point is aging ruined and destitute following a totally scandal and a prison sentence for indecency which was spent in reading jail and his final days he reflects on his life and loves and on his very public fall from grace there's no warning I was transferred to an afternoon from ones who has to reading to. Broad daylight train shackled for the Performing. That Jenny was the most exclusive the torch of the majesty contrived. Junction. To ring for a connection. That is so bad form to. Sadly my public enough to go to. This is simply to keep moving out. And a man began to shun all scuppered a day while he paced up and bank easing. Cry from studies growing spend the night we don't want any of that job but don't think it's fun to cover it up additional troops. To stay with. Us in the future. She was in peace. To see them and a moment there and quite upsetting one from the happy print starting and directed by Rupert Everett this project had a particularly long gestation and I asked him about the struggle to get the film made and why he chose and to focus on this piece in wild life I decided to focus on this period well partly because the 3 other films to be made about him always stop . When he goes to prison and for me the punishment and the exile the parts of life that most resonate with me I think as. A gay man working in a kind of aggressively heterosexual Business Like Show Business While there's always been an inspiration and I think I want to show what was done to him exactly and the fact that he was only pardoned pardoned last year is also an extraordinary thing I've heard you speak about this before you're thing that could be more done enough front Well I think being pardoned is a typical example of British hypocrisy I mean pardon for what we've established now being homosexual is not a crime so to have a part is what is just ridiculous and an apology is what is needed for these people Colin Firth your chum and costar in the film he said that writing directing and starring in your own film is very often a very lonely business would you agree with him no I didn't find it lonely everyone was really nice to me I had an amazing team of people around me and a fantastic production designer mazing costume designers an incredible director of photography and amazing actors so I felt very supported and I wanted them to be happy too so it was in that sense I didn't feel it was lonely I mean I remember him calling a ride on the 1st day and I was saying thank you CONAN So much for coming I wouldn't miss this train crash red thing and I thought well God I hope it's not going to be a train crash and it and in the end it. Wasn't actually clearly but they all helped me through it a lot don't have a you're right I am absolutely exhausted just not just watching the film but watching the backstory into you actually getting this it made I mean I thought so me that's be just a couple of these how you feel after what 10 years from well 12 nearly I'm feeling kind of life actually I think it's invigorated me this 10 years of hard work and I've realized I had more for than I met. So can you go into detail for those who perhaps too don't know the whole back story why did it take so long because something like this you would have thought would have been a nap to have got backing for and funding for particularly with your connection with Oscar well playing them on stage in London and David here is play that just because why would it take so long well independent cinema is a very very difficult thing because movies have become really hard to find finance for because for example in the U.K. There's only really 3 or 4 outlets for money and then you have to go to Europe and the Europeans are making their own movies and it's just very complicated my movie was quite expensive it's it takes place in 3 different countries and I was slightly To be honest kind of past my sell by date to the point I started trying to make it so that was another issue that made it harder and just you know basically that just went on and on and on and then the whole things little by little started coming together I'm intrigued right because you spent so much time on this film you spent so much time in this project it is finally done you're doing the rounds of the publicity the moment a film is going to come out the D.V.D. Will be out and then the project is over is that you and your relationship with Oscar Wilde done or could be me down I might actually learn from a heart attack but no it's not my relationship with wild I think I'm going to put him on the back burner but I've got tons of other things I would like to you know I would like to keep going in this new direction. And start a whole new chapter of my life on the other hand I may not be able to I'm going to you know I have to wait and see really I'm quite old. And. This business is pretty tough business and ideally you should be about 30 years old so you can keep bouncing back like you know you and. I don't know whether I have that I hope I do and I hope I'll be able to keep going but we'll see Rupert Everett talking to me back in June ahead of the release of happy prince a film about the final days of the port and playwright Oscar Wilde this was described by many as the role Everett was born to play and as an actor he's had a long association with Oscar Wilde's work freelance writer Eddie Harrison was one of my trusty reviewers when the film was released so what did he make of his performance quite astonishing and I found of ripping every He's definitely a cult actor he has small roles and big films and he has had some big roles you know as a film called there and Martin from the 1980 S. He's fantastic and it's pretty annoying you can see in you tube see somebody that you know with wanting to see a little bit more of and from the seeds that are always born to play I mean he is almost unrecognizable in this air I don't know how they do it with prophetic so I don't know what friends are have really let him go recently back when he looks like Marlon Brando in The king of late of stages he does not look like a real man but it's a very very convincing physical interpretation of Oscar Wilde and that we nor the group ever if he's been in the US like an ideal husband we know that he totally understands Wilde's dialogue and so he's just the pair fit guy to do this and he's written and directed this and he is on screen in pretty much every scene and I don't know if he's listening or not but it's definitely a triumph you know it's the kind of thing that any actor it's a kind of weird one passion project the you have all of your life that you fight to get made and he's amazing in this role I have to say that. I was not bored or saddened by it for a moment I thought it really brought the character of Oscar Wilde to life in an incredibly true I think way and it's a kind of how it felt to rip ever I thought it was a pretty astonishing film 80 Harrison singing the praises of Rupert Everett the happy prince and the 2nd of the shore going to be hearing about Scottish director Kevin MacDonald documentary Whitney So before we hear about some of the extreme highs and of course lows of our life let's remind ourselves of that voice This is from our 4th studio album My Love Is Your Love from 1998. And. And. If my. Son. And I'm Swedish then. Yes leave him. We stations to me. It's. You and. Says. It's a. Hot tub. Don't. Cut on. Just. Waiting for a. Little. Was. Lucky. Day. The voice of Whitney Houston and the documentary Whitney is one of my picks in the 2nd hour so far we've covered films in which actors step behind the camera to direct the action but my next interview is with a man who's built his reputation as a director particularly for his improvised techniques with actors to build characters and develop narratives for his films as the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre in Manchester approaches a clean screenwriter and director Mike Leigh has written and directed Peterloo starring Maxine Peake to McKinney and paths very own Alister McKenzie the massacre took place in 819 at a peaceful rally 560000 members of the working class who were demanding the right to vote the authorities stormed the gathering to arrest the speaker Henry Hunt injuring a woman and killing a child the cavalry tried to disperse the crowd killing 15 people and injuring up to 700 I spoke with so far born director Mike Leigh I hate of the films released last month and began by asking him whether this was a film he'd always wanted to meet you know in fact I only read only really dawned on me that we should make a film about Peter Massacre about 5 years ago after we'd made mistakes when. The bicentenary is next year in 2019 of the event so that's a good idea. About it quite a long time ago and I remember thinking somebody ought to make a film this but at that time I never thought I would make a period film so I did. I think that somebody would be me but once we decided to do it always on a daily basis we found ourselves saying this is really relevant you know it's really suppressed and so it's interesting because you've been if you're slightly better because I felt a little bit ashamed I didn't know such what was clearly a very important part and British history and OK I didn't study history at school but it wasn't part of our curriculum up here in Scotland and Scotland was very it's actually to say that because I went to school and I'm from Manchester sulfa Actually I went to school I lived close enough to where it all happened to get there on the bus in 15 minutes. Nobody told stories about it as were growing up we never heard about it lots of people who grew up in the north about it and I said this in up a recently in a piece in The Guardian when I said they should be taught in schools and 2 of my friends both from Glasgow. Both the same age as me up when our mid seventy's both got in touch then we learnt about it in Glasgow what's interesting is the press there was simply same in the cinema when I watched it because I said the same thing as I didn't know anything about this before come to that to see this film and she was from bridge there is a glass and she says I go to she studied higher all the way through high school so well I think apart from anything to do with my film this tells us something quite healthy about Scottish education in the 1950 well let's let's let's get the word there and talk about this film and how do you go about researching something like this because there is you know I can imagine there would be so many different aspects to the story so many different interpretations of what happened on that day yes there are I mean well 1st of all it's very researchable I mean it is only 200 years ago which is to say the Peter massacre in August 819 happened less than a century before my folks were born so it you know we see newspapers. Being produced within the action of the film there were loads of them I mean people wrote their memoirs people 300 people who are out there massacre testified the later in in court you know so it's a very well researched shrivel easily researchable subject and indeed are lots of political speeches in the film all of which come from sources on there or out that to to be topped It's not difficult. If you've got a point of view and plainly one has a point of view about these things it's about democracy and it's about people trying to put down democracy and ultimately the event itself was precisely that it's not difficult to decide what you want to show and what you don't want to show because it's about you know ship building the conflict. But it's all out there it's all there to be researched I was wondering how the script evolved I mean does it evolve reprise improvise Asians as you've done in other films do you approach this differently because it's so factually based know exactly the same way I made this from in exactly the same way as Or while the film is that all involved long periods of character work and research and improvise ation and all of our stuff finally arriving through a hearse or something very precise which we then shoot it's exactly the same because you've still got to make characters happen in maybe dramatizing people who really existed this is we did in Topsy Turvy about Gilbert and Sullivan or Mr Turner which is about the great painter but whether you're making characters up or whether you're dramatizing people and events that actually existed you still got to make them happen in front of the camera is that our lives become 3 dimensional So you still have to do all that character work and. Improvise Asian but if you're going to then you can then incorporate into that things like the speech that people actually made and edit them and integrate. I hope seamlessly enter into the action when it comes to casting then when you know with with this in mind differing Some actors are perhaps better improvising than others and not me then determine who gets the job yes of course the truth is the main characteristic of. All actors that I've ever worked with is that they are a character actors which is to say the pledge about to just play themselves either narcissistically or otherwise but that's what they do. I always work with actors who are character actors people are good at not just being themselves but can do people out there in the street enjoy doing nothing it's important to do that and I'm good at it. Also there are some very workable and decent that is around who are not particularly intelligent if you think none of them know what I mean none of those who believe my film. You know you have to are bright intelligent smart people and there are loads of them Peterloo has got a very big cast and there are 2 a man and woman they are you've got a cast of very very sorry intelligent committed people with a great sense of passion for the subject you know all that research and all that stuff that's what makes it's a very strong cast I mean you must of had your pick from I mean this was to be a bigger especially in sort of Manchester north of England. Many actually really wanted to be on this Yes I mean just about everybody was up for it and you know sadly we have to turn some don't really know I mean it's there's a great resource we have in the in these islands north of the south of the border we have great resource of actors and we're very lucky if any is armed with so much as a start on Monday and will be no meeting at which I will speak. There are large body of men Sinopec Manchester and women and children and it is them that I seek to protect I am speaking at munches students so for you all inmates are allowed body of men is signed up and weapons up be widely distributed amongst the UN It is precisely for that reason that we must give them new provocation. And you were not so only politically outburst to our cause sir but it's also personally adverse there was just a bump how exactly that we humans in our wives in our suites out into the mouth is such a threat we have means of defending them for it I understand your fears. But you have not been to a mass meeting as this promises to be I have I have spoken at meetings in London of over 100000 people and at those meetings not one blade of grass not the dust of the wind has been the recipient of a single act of violence had they been your thirty's would have taken as permission to break up not only the meeting but the entire movement I will not have my reputation and name and the virtues which I suppose this not just for the behavior of a single graphic this is one picture sure but after it is enough no regard for our reputation or anybody else's and meetings of this nature everybody actually invariably ending violence that is because they have not been addressed by me or just look at some of the numbers the cast here. To make an airy and Paris very well I was to McCain's But Maxine Peake has has a lot of the film on her shoulders and what was about her that the studio Well I mean you cannot see apart from being and you are already of course apart from being I got another great character actress I mean she's very very rooted in the Northwest She's from the northwest she lives in the northwest and of course she's a political activist herself so when she dropped me a line when she found out doing this she came to you yeah but it's no big deal I mean you know she she it's a no brainer ever I got a card from a say can I be in it so it's got a car but I would have to say yes of course no question about it here are I make conversation well you know I mean it's you can make too much of areas it's just as I say dead obvious really and of course she delivers the goods and you know when I knew she was she would be in it my 1st natural assumption is that she would play one of the very interesting women radical reformers who you see in the film. But then I thought well actually it's deploy here in a different way and she plays a working class woman who is. 1st skeptical doesn't buy these new political ideas too easily because she's practical down to earth but she has to arrive logically at understanding that they have to get out there and do this demonstration and. Money where their mouth is really and Maxine Peake Israel had experience of this pieces Dick she performed to a person show his point about the mask of the mask of Anarchy or few years ago so did that clearly obviously helped and bring in good spirits to do yes I mean she she's part of a campaign the goal of which to have a proper memorial in Manchester who are there is one of the moment is that represents a pluckers going on even that was. There was another plot which was very very euphemistic and heartless and that was in a place by a more accurate plaque which states what actually happened but there isn't an actual memorial but anyway for the last number of years on the 16th of August every year was the anniversary of the event she and a number of people stand up in recite a poem the mask of alloca Shelley's poem. And. She's part of that movement you know that strictly speaking I would have to say but didn't entirely qualify or to act in the for what we're good actually well but certainly as an added bonus of the most to be very special for you and for everyone involved in the film was over the film go to its premiere through the London Film Festival for the 1st time the relocated to Manchester and that's where the film goes very 1st screening a special moment very special moment very magical and in fact Of course there is no question that where the cinema which is called Home which is a new complex in the middle of Manchester there is no question that public be near where the event happened people would've walked right past if not over that very spot on the day on the big day in 1819 and certainly they would have run away in the room over there when it when the when it kicked off you know to a special place to be special Yeah I don't know but their actions those you saw on the night where I was great I mean you can imagine and I mean people are very real very strongly about the whole but Peterloo and everything to do with it yeah it was it was a good you know great and as you mentioned at the start of China as well when you looked into the story and you're you saw the similarities to society today it's a pretty relevant time for something like this to come out it is I mean that we've had lots of thoughts I have since finishing the film and since sharing it with people and I'm one of them which I think is as important as anything is I think the 60 to 80000. People don't forget there was only 2 percent of the population had the votes at that time so people were you know there apart from various other reasons to do with the conditions of their lives it was the folks they wanted and they would be horrified if they came forward in a time machine to now and to to learn that people have the vote and they're using people would be upset they would be. Mystified and shocked and it is shocking I think and when when you make your films I think it's been documented before that you like you like people to not necessarily know what they're going to think of the film you're into going to think about it for a while afterwards before they make up their mind of what they have just seen or what about this one what do you want people to take away from all I mean it's the same you know. There's a lot of stuff going on in this film and it plainly it's about democracy plainly it's about people having the right to be plainly it's about the wrongness of governments attacking innocent people in a gratuitous of dangerous and thoughtless. Way but. What I don't see one of the things we did are cited very definitely not. Which lots of historical films do was to have a long list on the screen of them what happened and then the vote came in this happened in the hand and they went to jail and. We decided to do none of that because without. Spoiling the end for people that is it I mean it ends in a very specific emotional place and you walk away with sadness and anger and all sorts of other stuff on the go because you've had a lot of think about it in the duration of film. So it's not for me to reduce it to say it's this I mean what this is is fairly obvious but this in itself is complex and it's a fable to go and the chest and argue about. Reflect upon and perhaps encourage those studying history and those just in the school curriculum to consume Yeah totally to understand what it meant that was Mike Lee talking to me about his film Peterloo which is a certificate 12 and the festive period is a great opportunity to spend time with family and friends but let's face it all that conversation can be exhausting so after hearing this review which my copilot Janice for sight happened with reviewers Allison wrote of the Herald and freelance critic My tip is to gather everyone around the telly for some calm you know viewing and download the Disney Pixar feature animation cocoa which was released almost a year ago back in January it's set in Mexico where we meet McGrail voiced by newcomer Anthony Gonzales a boy who dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol the late great . But he has a major obstacle his family's generations old on music he is shining in the Times Square his customer is a matter that she guitar player I mean they're setting up for tonight the music competition for them when you want to be like you are you will you should sign up my family would freak look if you're too scared then we'll have fun making. Come on what they do. Say so easy. Tell me what you got more so. I'll be your 1st audience. And we're just getting a shot I know your tricks What did he say to you he was just his guitar Shame on you. If. You keep away from. Imagine a mexican more Britain and you have an idea of her power the ground despite her at McGill still desperate to prove his talent as is the Mexican Day of the dead mysterious chain of events lead some to cross over to the other side yes to the stunning colorful land of the date although he is still alive along the way he meets a charming trickster head toward the voice by Guy I got the better of now and together they say set off an amazing journey to unlock the real story behind the girl's family history and the ban on music Allison wrote I will admit I sat at the end and the tears were flowing down my cheeks I thought I thought I was overwhelmed by this was I was for you this is a moment you won't be alone there than having a e a e something in you know I wanted this is marvelous I mean it seems such a sort of unpromising premiss you know family may be about dead people and you think well no I'm not sure this is for I was I would say you know really go with it because it's not just about it's about you know a family in Bishan and belonging in love. With everything in between all those big themes are there and I just think I was just overwhelmed with admiration for technically high stunning the says yeah I've gotta say you know I'm sure. Hear me on this or will realize I'm not necessarily the go to guy for views on Pixar films but yeah it's tremendous from from the from the word go into the very opening scenes just that this title wash it looks and I wore my eyes maybe it's because the temperature we've been exposed to last few days but the warmth you know exuded off the screen of the new the scenes in Mexico and then as you say I mean the visuals are really quite stunning in a in oh to the cross over to line the dead and what quite amazing and I want to send to the A not tainted. I always go for that option and I sort of think it's about you know about a colon shall we say that like you know a person thinks like 3 D. But I was corrected after Sgrena by your regular viewer and that's Ross McLean Actually he said he he couldn't wait to see it in 3 D. Because that the stuff the scenes the bridge and the scale ins and things you know when I saw that and actually I wasn't happy with him saying this but I've got to say one more that plank is true you know that's just so visually striken and so memorable as well and we have to just to these day the daytime is a stuff I don't know who from what we are little children will be OK you've got this is a cartoon scale an element but you know as that makes for fantastic visuals Yes I wondered about 6 I think I really enjoyed it so find it very satisfying visually and the layers of story and dealing as you say with the big issues namely death I'm not sure how this would work with with younger viewers whether they would get all of it but also be upset I thought they did that very key if really actually you know the introduced it was a sale of 3 to the D. You know the D. The date when we remember people and the come back to visit is so you know you wouldn't necessarily find that the so it's only do you know if Eely simple to understand you know you know nothing and you knew that when he crosses over to the other side that he's coming back you know quickly so as you can see the movie is shooting kids but that's always the kind of the trouble with Pixar films people always see that I don't like them better than children and I wonder like you know if that's going to be the case yeah I think it's a lot for the children as well and I do think it's a sensation because they've got the woman that they have the dead festival was like a sail of rationing no it's no more than people to celebrate and of life and remembrance of things but they do also the 6 day I want to and I'm not sure how much relates to the couch on the semi but they do have some death beyond the land of the day the next of being forgotten so there's So you also have that it's not just like. You know tale when kids oh yeah I don't want Evan is going to be fine because we just go off to a different place now he's happy that a lot extra extra elements to like a lot of major festivals it's appropriate to lots of other cultures and other things over the maybe centuries and I think of a right you know a lot of what we recognize is that the the dead face of all these days a lot of the most recognizable things that make up whatever dates back to just in the mid 20th century you know there's a lot of fun to be had to use well there's a cutting gag Allison about feature Kahlo. As one of the most famous Mexican's in the world Yeah again you want to you know I don't like going to get that in kids but the but also it does you know Jane to humor for children is whale you know and make it was funny the people who talk to him you know funny either funny slapstick a funny in what they see and you really need human because again it's a true sense of. Gauging used to do they don't want to scare the kids you know if he's going to meet somebody on the other side like hate than he's going to be you know abusing with them and things like that and this is thing where we see the dead people being really upset when they see him. In the Lunde of the day even guess we children like to be scared they're like ski tales Oh yeah and Disney has you know children being scared with the Disney films over over the years to oh yeah my and my earliest memory I've been terrified and said I was one of the 1st homes ever saw was a 101 Dalmatians I knew in Crail a developer sort of made me the mind I am known. So yeah no I think I think kids being scared I think the national scene where really freaked out some young children so parents should be aware of that but yeah but it isn't and it is as you know it is quite relaxed atmosphere is a lot of humor good music and I think you know as also last point on the whole cultural thing I traded to Pixar because the could have gone really badly with us I mean I think the national story Elaine had a young American boy so that I played as Mexican heritage Yeah exactly and. But I guess so they realize they made a mistake alien and then they start like speaking to the artists and other workers at Pixar you know with with that were Mexican or Mexican heritage and discuss and what they and what was right what was wrong what's the should and shouldn't do that that plane if test screenings I know some of them can be quite flawed but the short term to people that one of these colleagues and one of these kind of beliefs and they took notes from the and the really put the ground walk and says and Tyler what's you know cost and you know what nots why it's so I mean it's colossal box office in Mexico in South America and it's going to do agree elsewhere as well it is funny isn't it to say the idea of Trump. I mean this is really this is quite something actually a troop draw Mexican doing hit you over the head with it you know there's never any set is sayings but people you know it's somebody has a speech stolen you know the pride to make sick or it's just you know he is a terrific kids he's from a terrific family in a loving country you know that looks a good place to live and that's all they see it you know let's just hear the. Proces to the land of the day that. You're all real do good work like I don't know I don't want to be you know. That I don't still kids like I do it's. A real thing maybe could be. The lovely voice of Anthony Gonzalez there as our central character. We were not we do spoilers a whole again liers of what's going on here with the bigger sort of cultural story about the of the daters I think you know. Hollywood has become more and more Mexican eyes I think through various films a younger generation maybe will be more familiar with it than we were growing up you know the whole idea of the dead and so if you know it's very well explained here but this the specific plotting about his he to worship of the state is a great great grandfather had a great great yeah yeah yeah yes so the. So that's very interesting to do with that kind of beautiful he to worship this Lee innocently boy and then how that sort of takes off I think is very interesting Lee plotted. This beautifully told and it all comes down to the sub basic humanity and thank you not at all the models but done it out of a very very beautifully done way and I think you know it's for the adult audience. A lot of people might well suspect where Santa things are going and what Santa characters are going to do and the story by and stuff but you know feel fear much smaller kids which let's face it this film is aimed they're not going to a clue so when the twists come along they are going to be they were going to be thrown out by them as I suspected else in the might be a twist but I didn't I didn't actually get it completely so I was like oh we could there might surprise. I think that Pixie kind of mean she like you know because because you are pretty you know you start to cast off the cynicism you usually bring to things and I think as a base way to go Alison wrote and talking to the big softy there is Janice for scythe about Google. 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