Edu. From the moment Broadcast Center this is film Welcome to our Thanksgiving Weekend Edition I'm there in Atlanta. This week our critics review plain and Slim's trying Daniel and Jodie Turner Smith the 2 pulp stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Price's pope's Benedict and Francis 2 men with very different social views and we'll hear about a new version of lemmas rock this one isn't a musical but it is French it's film Wake on 89.3 k. P.c.c. Coming your way for this Thanksgiving holiday weekend we'll get started right after n.p.r. News. Live from n.p.r. News and Washington I'm Winsor Johnston the mayor of London is praising the courage of a group of bystanders who subdued a man who carried out and deadly stabbing attack near London Bridge yesterday Mayor City Khan says public morale should be lifted by their bravery but even a break with 3 people. 3 of us should be suitably proud of the police but also. The rest of us the suspect was later shot dead by police authorities say the man was sentenced in 2012 for his role in the plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange and released on license a year ago in the Netherlands Dutch police have arrested a suspect wanted in yesterday's knife attack in a shopping district in The Hague several people were wounded but were later released from area hospitals the prime minister of Iraq is expected to tender his resignation to parliament tomorrow it's in response to 2 months of anti-government protests that have swept Baghdad and the south of Iraq but the resignation hasn't stopped the demonstrations N.P.R.'s Jane Erap reports at least 2 more protesters were killed by security forces today protesters in Baghdad danced in the street in celebration that the news that Prime Minister Abdullah Abdullah would resign he's promised to before but a message from Iraq's most revered Shia cleric saying the government had failed made it impossible for him to hang on protesters aren't going home though an estimated $400.00 protesters have been killed by security forces since the protests began and the deaths of fueled a determination to continue until wider demands are met the protesters are mostly young men many of them are jobless and in spite of Iraq's oil wealth most are poor they want to new political system without the parties they say are controlled by Iran and they want corrupt officials thrown in jail it's not clear though they'll get the refer. 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Welcome to film week I'm Larry mantel wonderful to have you with as for this Thanksgiving weekend a lot of movies out for you to enjoy over the course of these several days I'm joined by critics Tim Cobb shell of film God and God and cynic gods dot com and Amy Nicholson film critic for unschooled out the pod cast the podcast mini series room and she also writes on film for the Guardian our 1st film this week he is one the stars Daniel. And Jodie Turner Smith Queen and slim about a black couple's 1st date which takes an unexpected turn when a white police officer pulls them over. To turn city vectored for naturist about vehicle for. Peace area. Down the road Santander and. Queen and Slim is directed by Molino met suka her feature directing debut and the screen writer. He is Lino way to me want to start us on Queen a slim very entertaining this movie in a number of ways thrilling is kind of funny becomes a bit of road trip love these 2 actors 2 characters together but I'm going to poke at for 2nd even though I like the there's basically 2 movies going on here one of them is this relationship movie we see this them going on this day they end up on this road trip after this thing happens and we see this relationship bill they go to a lot of interesting places and meet interesting people who do enter a love that movie but the movie about them being on the run because of this thing that happens to sort of Bonnie and Clyde as Thelma and Louise esque movie the movie that's about the social commentary about things that are going on that that movie had been like so much and it has to do with what happens in that clip that we just heard the reason why they're on the run because as we've seen in the trailer he shoots that cop the thing of it is he was right to shoot back but they take it on the heel and toe Anyway the whole thing goes down it eventually ends up on the body camera or the police vehicle cam and then we have the vehicle the vehicle cam so it's all seen everybody can see all of what happened to my mind I project myself you know I'm going now what do I do she says we gotta run I'm like you're insane yeah we've got documentation of what happened yeah exactly and I'll take my 1st thing I would do is call my mom but a bomb definitely not going to take over the fact they weren't too sharp about what they did afterwards or got and that bothers me still that you know who he is really the rest of the moon the protagonists don't do the smart thing at always frustrates you know it makes sense you watch them and Louise if they take it on the heel and toe to they should they have to she killed him that was murder Bonnie and Clyde they were robbing banks and you're going to have not much gray hair you know where but he you know the one thing that they shouldn't have done is run. What do you think Amy I love this movie and I will say there's kind of No they when they make that decision oh they're this couple that's on a 1st date they're very different it's not going well you know she's a death row defender he's She's an attorney she's an attorney and still tells him to go on the. Guys from the g.s.t. Is more like him he's like I want to call my dad I don't want to do this but it's a very impulsive act and then they do something else impulse of it very soon after and then it continues from there you know this is William it is his 1st film and I think it is a thrilling debut and people might already know her work she's one of the more famous music video directors we have working right now she did beyond his formation that really landmark music video that was touching on things like you know Daughters of the dust beautiful artwork it was also about police brutality you might have the likes of a police officers unions protested it because they thought it was a film that you know was to proclaim a nice police even as police and you see her in this in this film Queen in some kind of recycling or kind of honoring a lot of the images from that movie you know there's a scene both in the video and here we have a young black child facing down a whole wall of police officers you know and you see that she says the steam she really loves that she's this really politically active engaging director and what impressed me here is that she can also do romance and like heart in comedy and you fall in love with this couple as the film goes on how long they've been are they a fairly new couple or if they've been together he was not to drop her off he was about to drop her off and never speak to her again and there's the 1st day of the 1st day going badly and you do see that relationship develop and how they end up in those outfits in the in that purple Bonneville when they go to New Orleans to meet her uncle who's played by the wonderful book and he's a pimp with p.t.s.d. From the Afghanistan war is that all of that's just funny an interest in a lot of commentary about men and women and and black families and all of that culture every place they go everybody knows this you you know and in the community comes around them to protect them I like all. All of that but you know you shouldn't around the film is queen and slim it's in wide release it's rated r. And the frames John Horne spoke with the director of suka us as well as the screenwriter Lena Thwaite at wait time sorry and that interview you can hear by linking on our film week page at k p c c dot org The 2 pope's directed by Fernando Morella's stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Price tells the story of a socially conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal future Pope Francis as they forge a new path for the Catholic Church. Confidential such documents were allegedly leaked to the press corruption and misconduct come out of the 31st of this issue it's just beyond the. Congress out if you do this you are Congress the papacy read the law says. Peter going to take. A kind of play this role in the. Anthony McCartan wrote the screenplay for the 2 popes Amy what do you think yes this is a film I enjoyed a lot that's based on 2 real life couple actions that we all remember the election of Benedict and then the Election Offenses shortly after and in between them something haven't had to happen in the Catholic Church for 700 years which is a Pope Benedict willingly resigned the last time that it happened was I think 1294 which shows you what a giant shock it was to this ystem and so this is a film made by an enemy or a as people from City of God He's a really socially conscious filmmaker he's also a Catholic and it's a story based on a play really that's about these 2 men coming together who have dramatically different views of what the Catholic Church is and should be about what the future of the Catholic Church should be people know that Pope Benedict was more of a traditionalist he wanted to kind of hold the line against what he saw as like the liberal in coachmen of people who are watering down. Catholicism is Pope Francis being a person pope from South America being a person who's you know very socially conscious kind of a Jimmy Carter sort of figure he feels now even today that we need to be open to things like allowing peace in the Amazon to get married you know where does the Catholic Church go from here how does it stay relevant and so the center piece is just the series of conversation some some argumentative between these 2 popes about like where the church needs to be going you know I'm half Catholic my mother is a Catholic so I grew up in the church and I really do admire watching these people go at it like talking about their ideas and their visions and also this movie has you know some fun stuff you watch pope's drinking fountain you watch them arguing over soccer you know there's a humanist in this film that I also really I really like I just kind of saying in this film I was into it says he is historical fiction right because there's no we don't have memoirs of of the 2 men document in any conversation on the quickly did not have this conversation in 2012 the 1st time they met is after Pope Benedict had resigned and Francis is at already become pope that's the 1st time they met so this didn't happen. A good chunk of this movie is about is a biography of Pope Francis we go back to his childhood his young life his life as a young man we see him. As a as a as a young Cardinal in Argentina doing the troubles of the early 2000 of the early 1970 s. And we discussed some some of the political ramifications of some of the things that he was doing then he's been criticized for some of the things that he did then he took the side of the government that. That stuff is interesting because that stuff happened it's documented now these conversations that these 2 popes are having this is written by Anthony McCartan who wrote darkest hour Churchill you know those grants b.s. It's a good thing because he really understands this material and he gives them these very individual and specific voices and ideas their thoughts how we've gleaned that these people think about religion over the period but it's all made up. All of this is just confabulation we have we should know that an immigrant that I've seen so many movies about like the weekend Marilyn Monroe spent with I don't know there's a good in that just now that I think that the idea is they're talking about are very true that well I guess I don't I don't want to come away from this thinking that I know something about what Cardinal Ratzinger actually thought about these things or the other way around because it's just not true that's not there was there was one about Malcolm x. Malcolm in Martin sort of you know the fictional meeting between Malcolm x. And I love that movie but again all made up all made up so interestingly biography is interesting we don't get as much of a biography of Pope Benedict as we do a Franciscan and they look at Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Price and I say Oh my goodness they look exactly like them it's really just a wonderful thing to do that is really for you to see and they have fans as Benedict you know it that character in this film does not start out as a very pro Benedict you see him as sort of a political campaigner negotiating to get himself elected as pope you know being really interested in like the vestments and the ceremonies and the necklaces but this movie did successfully find a bit of a heart in Pope Benedict and I was glad to see you Nancy because I want to saw vividly fun and I've given this director would probably be you know highly sympathetic. To Francis and and and make Benedict look like a very narrow minded person doesn't he starts off like that for sure and he as you as Francis learns to find what he can really love and value and respect in Benedict the movie lets us do that too it's that you really watch a person he's almost reminded me of the Mr Rogers movie that just came out you know this meeting of like a big hearted person and somebody more cynical about what life is any just watch the kind hearted person chip away and chip away and learn to love this person and then you do to as the audience conduit. The movie is the 2 pope's It's directed by Fernando Morales written by Anthony McCartan and it's going to be streaming on Netflix just prior to Christmas you can see it now though on. In the landmarks big strain in West l.a. At the Vista in Los Feliz the 2 popes rated p.g. 13 we have a new version of Les Miserables Yeah it's not a musical and it's French what do you think Tim Well it's not it's not a version of Les Miserables. They're using the title here as a reference to the Victor Hugo like birth of a nation like ours and it's all there yeah yeah the newer film with the exactly so this this this film is set in the in the district where Victor Hugo actually wrote limits Rob and looking at doing that your 150 years ago in the middle of all that strife it also references to 2005 Paris suburb riots which is when this is also set so we have this this team of tactical officers 3 of them a new guy just arrived on the team and they roll off into these sort of mostly black and Muslim extremely poor communities and they tried to keep the peace between all of these different people ostensibly there's a story about this little lion that gets stolen by this little boy and these gypsies are looking for this lion cub lion cub a little timeline copius walking around with it and they have to find this line couple there's going to be this riot that goes down a little boy gets hurt terribly bad by one of the police officers and they have does a videotape of this and they have to get this videotape back and so we have to sort of thrill restore what's going on as we follow these costs particularly one cop who is just a brutal police officer in the way that he treats all of these poor Muslim people and we watch this story and we start to understand what we're watching is sort of this reflection of the whole of society and how it's being torn apart by all of these tribal factors and how it is exactly the same as it was a 150 years ago when Victor Hugo was writing Limas Rob right in that exact same community that where the world these things are happening now it's quite fascinating I really like this movie a lot exactly of that union leaders who want to try to figure out how to keep the peace and security of their server. To start a war over things you have this film that you know that the cops a blood in here feels a lot like you just watching the French training day but I'm I'm at peace with that and there's a really interesting backstory to this film you know the director here logically he has this really iconic photograph that was taken of him by the photographer Jr who people might remember from the Agnes Varda film faces places he was the man that in 2004 the year before the suburban riots he was in Paris and he was going to this or suburbs and taking pictures of the young kids and artists and filmmakers and his committees and he took a photo of this director in 2400 in a camera like a gun and this film feels like this extension of that this artist's using art as his weapon to try to talk about the politics of his neighborhood so I really admire it for all those reasons I mean it feels also kind of a crowd pleasing easy to like movie you know this movie when they think the jury prize it can this air is there you see there are a lot of films like I've been in this terrain coming out of Europe you know like a lot of them from Scandinavia films about what are the cops doing in these neighborhoods to try to keep the peace or try to make things worse and so I appreciate this film the sort of adding to that giant conversation here I think some of the really familiar but also approachable Yeah it's much of it is a procedural but the interest in the politics I'm going to the politics of it it becomes a very interesting movie Yes Les Miserables brand new film from France it's directed by lodge Levy who also co-wrote the screenplay it's rated r. You can see it at the arena sin lounge in Hollywood it will be on Amazon sometime next year it's an Amazon Studios distributed film but great chance to see it again Rena's in a lounge in Hollywood rated r. Girls on the run a Belgium drama which is written by Mitch Wald Virginie Mel is the director Amy Yeah I didn't love love love this film but I liked its energy I would say that this is sort of a girl interrupted. That also takes place in Europe where you have here is a young girl is brought in dragging and screaming into this mental institution starts fights with her 2 roommates immediately on sight and then and pulls of Lee the 3 of them run away together when they get a distraction from the guards and they're on this mission a kind of like go to look Simberg and it's sort of this road trip movie of all of them bickering not really getting along there's a harshness to it in a brutality in the friendship that I liked a lot I don't know what is it into I did like this movie quite a lot is interesting so the lead girl is a cutter and has attempted suicide a couple times there ostensibly doing is going to find her father she wants to go find her father because her father is going to get her out of that psychiatric unit that the the middle girl is grotesquely obese and just won't stop eating and has all kinds of issues and then the and then the other girl she's a couple maniac so you have a lot of fun with all that stuff going on in the movie girls on the run from Belgium the film unrated at least Glendale theater we have many more films to talk about on film week on 89.3 and a reminder that our film week Daniel Academy Awards preview will be Sunday February 2nd theater days hotel even Levon in the morning take it's a k.p.c. See dot org slash in person. Supporters include cack u.c.l.a. Presenting Dawson City frozen time life the documentary tells the bizarre story of the discovery of lost film reels in a Yukon gold rush town presented with a life score Friday December 6th at the theater at a hotel Jeanette bra's east Hollywood Pasadena West l.a. And coming soon to Burbank custom bra fitting and cup size when where for the full busted woman featuring Lee's Sean Bell find lingerie from France Jeanette bra's the outfit that starts at. Film wake on 89.3 k p c c I'm learning that. This week because of the 4 day Thanksgiving holiday weekend it's a Wednesday and Saturday airing of film Wake so good to have you with us and give you a chance to see some of these terrific films our critics this week are in the Nicholson and Tim God shell and Tim's going to start us on My Friend of the Polish girl Tim Well this is a really hit a little film that seeped into me this strange little movie so ostensibly a documentary. But it's not it's a fictional film but since really a documentary we hear this one voiceover talking about how she's living in London she wants to make a film she's such it's going to find a character someone to interviews people eventually she picks this Polish girl about whom she's going to make a movie called Girl tells her something in the interview that she finds intriguing not long after that she finds out that the things the Polish girl told her was a lot. This is interesting to see continues to follow her documentary life she's an actress and an immigrant she has a boyfriend all kinds of things happen I'm watching this movie this documentary and I have to keep reminding myself we might not this is not a documentary this is a movie that's that's not by the time you get to the end of it though you're completely swept up into it and you're thinking of these people as the individuals who they're supposed to be in the documentary that's been way you're thinking about them and and listening to them as the director of the documentary sort of insinuate waits herself into this but then you have to remember what she's not a director of the documentary she's an actress acting in this movie there's someone else directing this movie it works and it got me and I fell for it even though I knew it was all that my friend the Polish girl Amy I loved this idea and I could not fall for it I tried to so hard but the woman playing the director who we don't really see her face very much was reportedly the headline meetings were just so phony that I could never believe that this was real and I really wanted to I've really wanted to this is nothing in her words it came out of her mouth ever felt livable to me she was just some of these kind of like a narcissistic filmmaker to me she did what she sounded like a scripted phony no. I did it Blair Witch Project This is not and I wish it was I wish it was I think the phony director and that movie is good to have it on here that this wasn't quite there although I think the actress who played the Polish actress is really great it's a it's one of those. All balled all the performances from the growth as opposed to she just comes in there's a lot of nudity there's a lot of rawness to her she really does have an electric charisma and that said Aneta happy atrocity stars in the film it's written and directed by the wife and husband filmmaking team on a sketch and. Denham Demick it's unrated my friend a Polish girl is dead Lemon lays Glendale theatre the film is set in London but follows the life of the mock Polish actress a way is a lot v.n. Animated film that has no dialogue whatsoever the director and writer of the film is Guinness Zille billowed Tim who also did the score for the film 3 d. Animation although it's streamline minimalist it's a lot of depth of field and things but almost no detail in any of the characters the characters include this young man who seems like a teenager the film opens we see him in the hanging from a parachute in the tree this is large dark sort of blob like looming figure gigantic that's approaching him it seems to be after him all the time he gets out of the tree he's on this island and he's running away from this figure every now and again this figure I decided that the figure who's looming over him is conscious or fear or perhaps of the self doubt I might not I don't know I'm not exactly sure what that is why much should it we're supposed to be sure he has one little friend this little bird and he has a motorcycle and he's riding across this island running from this looming figure into all of these absolutely beautiful vignettes of the animation is just absolutely striking that thing we do on the glass pond and you see all the reflections and everything's a double and it's just it's just beautiful the score is just him he did the score is there a number of little things throughout the film. They're just they're just really really deeply moving and breathtaking and frankly I think they take the place of the dialogue you don't need the dialogue to follow what is going on in the film we're talking about the animated film away Latvian film what do you think Amy Yes I mean to me this felt like a film for very very very young children as a gateway to like teaching about things like war and trauma and how to find a community when you've sort of been isolated like that's how I interpreted this very silent movie as like a person escaping from me that was his fate of dying in war because he's in this parachute at the beginning has landed in tree he looks like a soldier he's just like you see some figures that sort of seem like soldiers very often the distance and so it felt like kind of talking about what happens to a person they experience something traumatic like that I'll play the part of Charles Solomon and say I did not like the end of the shins to hell and all you like to hold me most 3 thing I thought it looked too much like a screen saver for me but I did enjoy that this film does kind of seem to hit these deep notes about what is a community what do we owe each other in terms of generosity in terms of empathy in terms of giving in all of his relationships he has with all the animals all over the film I mean the turtles the turtles there's this whole series of like 40 black cats you know I have a black cat in my life who means a lot to me so to see this animation sequence with 40 very uniform marching black cats. If only child were hearing the movie as a way. Like so many of the film talked about the past 2 of them Glendale theater away is unrated recorder the Marion Stokes Project documentary that's at the new art theater Matt Wolfe The director Amy Yeah this is a really fascinating documentary about a woman in Marion Stokes she was wealthy she was on her 2nd husband she was very intelligent she was very very politically engaged you know she had gone through the Socialist Party and in the communist party she considered moving to Cuba in the fifty's and sixty's instead she winds up in this giant mansion in Philadelphia married to a man who then helps her by series of mansions all of which. Fills up with videotapes and newspapers primarily videotapes because what she starts doing is during the Iran hostage affair and in $1079.00 she just starts recording everything that's on all the news channels about it and then she can keep her courting all day every day 6 to 8 V.C.R.'s going at all times recording the last 4 decades many American history and just catalog categorizing it well clumsily on these tapes that seem to freak out all of her extended relatives because her house looks like a hoarder's house of all these videotapes you know it's an archive Actually it is now if you look that's this was hoarding and there was in there was somebody should have diagnosed her situation 45 years ago but the result of it is just extraordinary archive that exists now now 1000000 stocks I knew who she was in the Midwest they used to disappear public affairs programming stuff. The sort of television that you go to it cable stations Yeah anybody got public access public access television and Marion used to pop up on those Sunday morning shows you know those public affairs talk about Stokely Carmichael and the ball the Black Panthers all kind of stuff and she was an activist and a socialist and very well spoken as in this very solid slender black woman and her 2nd husband John Stokes was this billionaire and they would appear on these shows together every now and again and they just started this relationship in the you know when he's middle age has children that graduated from college he divorced his wife to be married Marion So Marion became so like millionaire one of the things that she did and she she was very technically savvy Marian and when Apple came out she knew that that was something special she knew Steve Jobs was something special she bought Apple stock at $7.00 a share just doesn't need her husband that'll just fortune now she was a hoarder and had that and that's just the fact of matter what it is but she taped all of these things had a small staff working 24 hours a day changing tapes she would get very upset if a tape ran out to let the tape went out sometimes she would sit there changing channels like she'd be watching something and recording it would get on into. Yes and he changed channels to something else so it's just it's a haphazard mess and the going to get some of these definitions like what is the difference between calling somebody a hoarder or a collector like it in what does that really come down to it a hoarder is just something who collects things you don't want but we actually kind of want these and when the documentary really does that I love is that it just stops to like show you different parts of what she recorded on the news to show you Magic Johnson announcing he has HIV for example to show you in one of the centerpiece things the screen just divides into quadrants and you watch 4 channels slowly realize that $911.00 has happened starting with c.n.n. Which sees it 1st in the 2 hours it takes for it to be on all 4 offers towels it's really powerful when you watch this document and everything she recorded. Recorder the Marian Stokes Project documentary from Mack Wolf the director it's at the new art theater is Stokes still living there she died a couple of years ago at age 82 she was born in 1927 have felt like this documentary is almost her son's way of keeping her project alive or honoring what she accomplished this record of the Marian Stokes project is on rated the film after Parkland documentary directed by j. Clever men and Emily to Gucci any Yeah this is literally what it is it's a film about a few of the kids who survive Parkland have David Hogg in here and then you have the most primarily of the people who really loved walking Oliver who is like the basketball sired walk the people talked about and you have these people kind of wrestling with how they feel about it and just sort of kind of a newsy thing you know a lot of stories have come out of Parklane little news pieces like this person took this person the problem this person's parent is doing this these people made this memorial and this is a talk that just sort of Chronicles everything and puts it out there sort of straight forward it's almost a straight for that to me this documentary maybe feels like recorder it's like it's just more valuable as a record of what happened than it is as a film film because this film I think wants to be respectful of everybody's viewpoints and so it winds up feeling like it wants to say something more than it is you know you have these 2 parents in here. There you have the parents of the father of bucking Oliver who really channels his pain into creating art into coaching basketball and then you have the parent. Meadow and I'm playing on her last name I apologize but that father has been very he kind of went to the root of wanting more security wanting more guns everywhere like he really went kind of like that if we had more guns this wouldn't have happened route and so you have these 2 parents kind of telling the camera what they think in the film to sort of watches them tell us what they think and doesn't really take a side or put anything forward on the gauge with Doesn't the idea forward it's just there which is why I think I really fell for Victoria Gonzales use the woman who is the young girl who is walking over his girlfriend and like her just Story of like the day she feels good to the day she feels bad houses in the community her safe process is really beautiful and I think it's love it she took time to be in this film and that student you were mentioning meadow polic is the name of the student after Parkland is the documentary it's on rated You can see it at Lend-Lease Monica Film Center special one day only event on December 4th one night is brand a theater live the Winter's Tale Tim this a filmed the Atropos performance a film theatrical performance in the in the play Dame Judi Dench in the play which is still force the tale of another jealous king since the baby away from the wife who thinks was having an affair it's done very beautiful again very minimalist mostly from the proceeding him so we're kind of sitting there like the audience but they also use other cameras for close ups and cutaways sort of set in a Victorian sort of area it's kind of a multimedia thing too they use projections and all that kind of stuff you can see them changing the stages in the shadows that's the lights go down it's big straightforward Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare it's loud and bombastic the dame It's fantastic I really like a lot of the Dame Judi Dench and the cast also. And clued Kenneth Branagh himself Tom Bateman Miranda raise on Robert Ashford the director and the writer of course Mr Shakespeare himself brand of theater live the Winter's Tale is underrated You can see it at several of the Lend-Lease theaters around the greater Los Angeles area again one night only December 4th I know about the 2 of you but I love these special one night screenings whether it's Fathom Events doing a classic film or live theatrical performances because I think so many of these things there isn't an opportunity for people to communally see them on a big screen yet particularly the sort of life theatrical so I don't see this otherwise you know I love it so much when they come out of London there's so many productions we would never get to see if they were not broadcast theatres and I love that crowd like you go sometimes is that there's you can have a glass of wine or he's communicating in theater together yeah yeah and you know they already did the same stuff you do because that brought you together at the order of weirdos and I love it. Again ran a theatre live the Winter's Tale and finally a 30th anniversary screening one night only December 3rd at several of the Lem Lays of When Harry Met Sally Tim this is a film that you know there's a certain iconic clips of this that oh yeah people still love will do will love this film my wife and I you know 1st and I want to put this and I hesitated putting that in there I was thinking myself I wonder if this film is still Ok today I wonder if some of its themes might not be appropriate Billy Crystal's idea in this movie did min and women cannot be friends to will always be a sexual docile dynamic that's that's a that's a thing when they're they're not sure exactly appropriate to this day the idea that I and tell them is wrong in the 1st in the 1st scene in the 1st scene but they still end up together in all mirrored in everything so that the feces turns out to be actually true so I don't know but I do love this movie with all my heart there's some great lines in the film and the chemistry. Between the 2 stars a terrific as well absolutely I mean this is one of my favorite favorite favorite you know idea of my cousins will remember if I top 100 in this film is not on it and that breaks my heart this is I think one of the best films that's come out of my life Diane and I'm so glad it's in theaters again I mean it's just amazing it's a good community movie it's a getting out movie it is just I think it to me it's perfect I would propose to this movie and nor I have heard some of the lines she has in this are are just gems absolute gems Absolutely Rob Reiner directed chorused When Harry Met Sally 30th anniversary screening at several of the Lemley theaters December 3rd one night only the film is rated r. Probably because of the orgasms Al-Shehhi and Rush are right we have much more to talk about on film week with our critics right here on 89.3 k. P.c.c. Be back in just over and their. 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It is the year coming to a close in just over a month but the decade closing $21.00 that gives us the chance to talk with our critics today about what they're looking forward to in the remaining months of 2019 and to also look back on what they think are the most memorable the most significant films of this past decade in case you just joined us our critics Amy Nicholson and Tim Cobb shell Let's talk 1st about what you're looking forward to in the remaining month of the year you know typically December the big awards push of films a little more dispersed on the schedule than they used to be but. Any Are you looking forward to particular film coming out well you know Tim and I have already seen most of the big things because we're in laughter and we vote soon which means the main film that we're not going to get to see in time that I cannot wait to see is cats. That's oh my gosh I can't wait to see cats I don't know what to make of cats I think cats might blow my mind maybe maybe a better I'll probably see cats 5 times it just sounds like the kind of movie that I will never know if I love or hate it but I will just be there this is the Andrew Lloyd Webber cats big screen yet were played by you know Taylor Swift. A lot of amazing people who are just dressed like cats but also very odd sort of c.g.i. a Thing going on that have portions make no sense everybody's human ish but very tiny with giant chairs I don't even know it's going to have it every time I watch a trailer I just get so happy. Every time I watch the trailer I get a little creeped out yeah that's one of the for one of the few live state productions I actually left at intermission. I think you know I'm not. Sure that's how good is what are you looking forward to. Kristen Stewart I'm a big ridiculous fan of hers she has a Seeburg Jean Seberg biopic coming out which she placed in secret and I can't wait to see that mostly on the strength of the Stewart because I think that she has just become one of the most of. Stronger actors there is out there also adding I think Amy already saw I haven't seen it Adam Sandler has a film coming out called uncut uncut gems if you say. You don't you've seen it so yes perhaps you want to tell the people about a little the dynamic side to see that every now and again Adam bad movie Bad Movie bad movie Bad Movie great movie that and I think this might be one of those who is the director of the film is the stuffy brothers there was a time a few years ago that really kind of chaotic chaotic super fun movie and this is Adam Sandler as a jewelry dealer who lies to everybody in his life including the basketball player Kevin Garnett who is in this movie who is excellent and it's just a very condensed window into a few days in this jewelry designers jewelry jewelry man's life as he lies to everyone and his family and everyone he ever meets and just makes his life get worse and worse it is the tensest movie I have ever seen I saw it in Toronto not a comedy it's really funny but also you're miserable I loved it I was drinking this giant iced coffee and I was shaking by the time the movie and that's what this movie does it is if terrifically miserable wonderful. All right so Tim Here you have to see that I mean I can see that out but definitely looking forward to it all right well let's talk about the most influential films of the past decade ones that really stayed with you that you spent a lot of time on Tim you want to start with the ones that are most memorable it's interesting that you can talk you know when I was back in 2010 there's a wonderful French film called on seas which was just about to tell you can't smell it's true of life this is a film that I still think about this is a film like see a lot of other films sort of mocking a little bit or are biting a little bit in terms of style the sort of full tree of life was just a deeply moving meaningful film for me a lot of times Max films you know but this is one that hit me real hard I love the beasts of the Southern Wild that's just another one it's beautifully poetic little movie like no other film you are ever going to say yeah it's just stunningly original Yeah yeah but that little girl. That family sort of ideas that are in this beautiful movie it's another movie that I think about on the large side I have to say Mr Spielberg's Lincoln this is a film that I can still put in watch he and I love that he understood something about that period and that was the way he opened step still with that black soldier pleading for the right to fight on his own behalf only Mr Spielberg knew that this is the way you have to open this movie yeah I love that film. Framing for you your favorites of the deck yet for me what I think is really exciting is that we have a lot of people who came out in this decade with their 1st film 2nd film 3rd film that I feel like we're going to see for a long time that this is a decade to me brand new innovation I think probably my favorite thing that I think is really going to change Hollywood in the next 10 years is that little click of filmmakers who are coming out of San Francisco and Oakland you know it puts Riley who did sorry to bother you that seemed blind spot in the film came out this year last black man in San Francisco These are all 1st time filmmakers incredible artists they really have a point of view they're very political They're very funny they're bending genres they're making things that are wild and wacky and completely unique and they seem to tend gently all know each other and I'm fascinated this idea of this generation rising up and like I think they really have a tendency they have that the opening to to change film honestly like I think they might be one of the people who wind up defining who we are as film as a film in this era All right some of the other filmmakers really have come up in this year I mean we've seen Ava Du Vernay who's become a hyphen at you know producer director television mogul and you know so to see someone who in this decade become highly influential Who are some of the others did you think. Oh God. Every day the person I think taps the most directly into my psyche that we've had this decade is youngest land them of the lobster Yes the lobster the favorites I mean you're going to lead the most His films are so. Cold and so ironic and yet they said they cut so much into the worst parts of being a human being that I feel naked every time I watch a young man's land the most film and he fascinates me like he feels like he makes films that are going to reverberate for a very long time I love being alive when there's New Yorkers that most of my hand can Flanagan. You can lean on yeah right up to Manchester by the sea. I deeply powerful dramatic filmmaker Barry Jenkins that you can just in recent years both moonlight in Bill street again and again coming out of San Francisco it's in a lot or Yeah and these are so like new voices too but I mean one it's been around for a while but but he does this do something about his films I feel the same way that you what you said his films are always deeply penetrating and very very very earnest and true yeah. And assisting with the style that we see Jenkins a great example where he's so unafraid of. Quoting so much style on the screen I want to point where some critics with his last film The title of which escapes me there was some criticism that was you know more more stylish than the streak of talking heads Yeah it's strictly stylish film the color schemes in there are all fine but I like that and I appreciate it deeply Plus it's just his voice look very Jenkins is a African-American filmmaker but the regions doesn't make urban films he makes mainstream dramatic films which I think it's a very specific sort of thing for an African-American filmmaker to be allowed to do yeah well how much of this is that with the rise of independent film the ability to do movies less expensively is allowing directors even early in their career to have more control I think that's a huge part of it I mean there Jenkins 1st film medicine for melancholy a really lovely fella started the comedian Wyatt Cenac I believe he funded that by selling a car and also his job at the nano Republic I mean that is a film he made for no money and we're able to do that now because now we don't have a creation problem now we have a publicity distribution problem there's just too many good tiny independent films but for someone a 1st time filmmaker to make a film put it on You Tube or what you know did to make it with an i Phone or whatever people do it oh yeah the project tangerines the literally tangerines made with his i Phone exactly absolutely sort of striking verité sort of sort of film I think that film will definitely be one that we also really look to something that defines this decade you know Sean Baker's where yeah handwringing Yeah and also Florida project project is so good and using you know local actors and and the motel is such a star of of that production just just wonderful Exactly and you know it's interesting all the people are mentioning is these are films made by filmmakers with a conscience but not a conscience in the way of like the ninety's or even the 1st decade of this millennium where it's sort of tedious and. I think these are just interesting people who also seem to have a heart and a soul yeah I mean the Florida project I didn't take any preaching in that it's just it's just showing us a world and in and in a you know a realistic depiction of people and people aren't sort of pretty dop or made nicer than they would really be in the real world and yet you can still have an identification with something very difficult characters we'll continue our conversation with our critics about the films they think are most influential the directors who have made the biggest impression on them over the course of this decade you're listening to film week on 89.3. Film Guide dot com and. For the Guardian and host of the podcast unschooled and the podcast mini series zoom back in a minute. P.c.c. Supporters include cap u.c.l.a. 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Wonderful to have you with us on film week I'm Larry and that you're having a terrific Thanksgiving weekend just easing into it if you're listening live Wednesday or if you're listening Saturday hope you had a wonderful gathering with family and friends in or just enjoying the holiday we're continuing with our critics Amy and Tim focused on the most influential or memorable films were made in a kind of loose how to define it I don't I don't have a very refined idea here but just the movies that they maybe go back to and and think about over the course of the past decade if you have some you'd like to share with us you can do it by visiting our film week page k.p.c. Si dot org You can also call us at 866-893-5722 that if you're listening to our live Wednesday film week airing. Tator Sheridan with cardio hell or highwater Oh yeah I love I just love that that's one I could watch almost infinite number of times in such a classically produced films as a classically talked about style that now is not so much about styles about there are some great long shots of the. Real will classic stuff but that's that's an. Actor's piece and it's just it's just a fantastic movie that's I love that Foster Yeah Ben Foster so so good you know we haven't talked about the influence of the superhero comic book films but to me perhaps the pinnacle was Logan Yeah just terrific film I think that is the best one this me that felt like its own independent stand alone story its own look at sound style it's on top and it didn't have to blend into a universe I meant in adjacent it's not quite superhero but I think Mad Max Fury Road now that's going to wind up still I think that still has a lot of impact that in John wake in the fact that we are more interested again in practical effects and actual stunts and there's a hunger for that I think we are like those films almost combating the superhero c.g.i. World yeah and the Mad Max Fury Road I just had a smile the whole they're just so much that's funny and just visually. Just so light in a film that's also relentless and yeah same to yeah yeah Shelly's is particularly wonderful in that movie called Mad Max very road but it sure feels her Ville and I like that it's her film once again if you have what you think are the most influential most memorable films of this decade you can share it if you're listening live Wednesday 866-893-5722 or our film week page k.p.c. Si dot org Also want to talk about. Black Panther of course because they had a very influential and I'll throw a Wonder Woman in there because again having a woman is the lead character I thought that was a terrific film woman directed at they both managed to be you know fairly pointed about their politics in their themes while still being wildly entertaining big gigantic popcorn entertainment at the same time making some very specific statements in the context of black panther kill monger that character Michael b. Jordan character there was the he was fan. Asked I felt he should be nominated for an Academy Award for that performance myself but the ideals of these Desplat community speaking to itself you know what are you doing for your own black people that's in that big popcorn movie and I like that you can do both and I think that Ryan Coogler proved that you can do both Also we should talk about Winter's Bone generally yeah who's done a number of outstanding films over the course of the decade largely flying under that you know the general audience radar but real critical favorite Yeah yeah absolutely absolutely and you know a film like that they gave us Jennifer Lawrence I think that's why I don't film critics are supposed to grumble Billick everything's going downhill and I'm so thrilled right now with what's happening in movies and that I do feel like I grew up with a world of just like the last generations actors who are still our movie stars who are still hanging on a national going to go to the movies I see all these faces that are really making their career you know people from like Margot Robbie Caitlin Devore Tessa Thompson Cynthia review I think is one of the most exciting actors to come out recently in the period and Harriet Yeah and before that. Time is that the Royal I like I don't really enjoy that movie and Kristen Stewart who I adore and I thought you know what I'll stick up for Charlie's Angels in a few weeks behind us that she was great and I said so. 2 weeks ago I said exactly you know of course there's Jordan Peele and what he's done to reinvigorate the horror genre by and again insinuating politics and other ideas into it to get it out to me is an extraordinary film because how it can be both so funny and so chilling at the same time me striking that that tonal. Tightrope walk that isn't extraordinary are to stick accomplished Polanski has to kind of guy who would do that Yeah exactly yeah who could have that you're both just sort of you know repulsed and children at the same time you're laughing at what you see taking part exactly and Larry knows that I love watching the horror of it so much because I think it's really where some of the interesting ideas come out you know there's a film coming out and I. Daniel isn't really that's one of my favorite films of the year it's like this just really good stuff Charlie in West Minister says I tanya the funniest thing I've seen in 40 years since freebie in the being in the 1970 s. Yes Yeah I Tanya was and again it is so hard to do those kinds of films that tonal e r are playing from both ends of the themes can you on earth and week page you can share some of your favorites with us over the course of the past decade or you can call we have just couple minutes left if you're listening live Wednesday 866-893-5722 picture on the doll far. This past decade has he kept his is chops up as the director right up right up to the present moment he has a film out right now The Skin I Live In it's the one that I put on my list yeah there that was just particularly when we consider that it was just prior to the whole sort of meet to thing that happened for him to make a movie about that I guess I won't give a theme of the movie away but it's transformative I'll say it like that. It was was really just sort of an amazing sort of pressuring it sort of sort of thing to do or it you also have a Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine Yeah you know all of the part of Blue Jasmine Cate Blanchett just absolutely exquisite performs and you know what do you have a little Renaissance there for a minute which Yeah Midnight in Paris is knowledge Yeah and I have to throw out for my homie Spike black Klansmen last year a lot of people did not see shy rock they should Cyrus Iraq is a wonderful movie Nick Cannon extraordinary in that film and again social commentary. Retasking list of Strada as a black Klansman again combining the humor with social commentary and the great Terence Blanchard score that's a part of it. All right we're talking about the films that were most influential for our critics over the course. This past decade you also have the Martian on your list Damn I do I do for what it does for love of science and space in its attempt to bring a large audience to these notions and ideas I love that the guy in that movie is going to science his way Mars if he does serious science or away to a better planet now. While I had him you know you've also got hidden figures which is. Math technology. You know a revelation even to me I did not know about the I consider myself you know I did not know about these women and what they had done in this film while still being grandly entertaining telling us the story about these women all right very good quickly any back to horror films do you have a couple of of ones that. Are any others that just wrote I mean I love I asked. Fantastic I think we're just seeing that. Really explode I mean I think they're true artists coming out of their you know that they are interesting ideas about music interesting ideas about gender not the biggest fan of. Even just the fact that we live in. The which I love these All right thank you both so much. We heard from Amy Nicholson Tim Cobb shell laying out for us the most influential remember a both films over the course of the past decade as always we appreciate your joining us typically. Saturdays at noon this week with a special Thanksgiving weekend early Wednesday live broadcast the program back with you next Friday and Saturday on k.p.c. . Supporters include Center Theater group presenting poet surprise finalist Heidi what the Constitution means to me starring Maria dizzy Efrem Orange Is The New Black and featuring original Broadway cast members Mike I've seen and Rose deli Cypriani the New York Times called what the cause. Situation means to me not just the best play on Broadway but also the most important begins January 12th strictly limited engagement ticket said Mark Taper Forum dot org. This is $89.00 k. P.c.c. Pasadena Los Angeles a community service of Pasadena City College offering the p.c.c. Promise program for students who can afford tuition learned more of Pasadena. Welcome to News from the b.b.c. World Service on Julian Marshall coming up a prominent multis businessman as appeared in court charged with complicity in the car bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Cairo on a girl it's Also ahead it's a mug's that one of the victims of the attack by a convicted terrorist in London on Friday was organizing a conference on prisoner rehabilitation that the killer was attending various speaking earlier this year. In prison often have a very fast very real but also a very nuanced idea of how little plus romance back to Bethlehem a relic said to be from the crib of the infant Jesus the fact that the relic was there over 7 years. Sales since this rally. Of that and more to the. Live from n.p.r. News and in Washington I'm Windsor Johnston police in the Netherlands have arrested a suspect wanted in yesterday's stabbing attack in a busy shopping district in The Hague N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz reports authorities say it's still too early to determine whether the incident was an act of terror the incident happened Friday night in the good lock Strout shopping area which was filled with people looking for Black Friday deals a man attacks several people on the street the victims all minors were immediately taken to a local hospital and later released the attack happened hours after a similar knife attack on a London Bridge that left 2 people killed and several injured N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz reporting authorities in Britain say the man who fatally stabbed 2 people near London Bridge yesterday had previously served prison time the 28 year old was sentenced in 2012 for his role in the plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange he was released a year ago defense attorneys for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba are calling for the head of the u.s. Military court there removed N.P.R.'s Pfeifer reports that's the latest in a series of efforts to get the long delayed 911 case to trial the defense lawyers say Navy rear admiral Christian Rice Meyer cannot be impartial because of his past involvement with one tunnel prosecutors that includes attending a dinner hosted by the chief prosecutor and participating in a Guantanamo related moot court at the chief prosecutor's request the judge in the $911.00 case has ruled Rice Meyer must testify about whether that disqualifies him James Canell represents prisoner Amar it's clear that there is at least a serious question about his impartiality and the testimony will help either confirm or deny that bias maintains he can be impartial he has already recused himself from 2 other Guantanamo cases because of potential conflicts for n.p.r. News I'm Sasha Pfeiffer Georgia Republicans are spar.
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