The lawyers told us not to expect much. You think youll lose . Well, yes. But i think its all right. We may lose the small battles but win the big war. Michael shannon there is the photojournalist grey villet, and ruth negga, brilliant as mildred loving. What i really like about this film is it is basically a love story between these two people, who are ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and they didnt really want to be part of something that became a huge nationwide case. Whatjeff nichols does and in the past he has directed take shelter and mud is he resists any form of grandstanding. As the story goes on, it becomes apparent this is a really important case which will have really significant effects. But he keeps us focused on them and their relationship. It is hard to remember the last time a film. I mean, the opportunities for grandstanding of courtroom, banging tables are so many. And yet he doesnt do that he keeps his focus on them as the central couple. And Joel Edgerton is actually terrific as richard loving. And he keeps it small scale, which means as the larger machinations happen you stay focused on the central couple and their relationship. You believe in them, you care about them and invest in them. It becomes that most brilliant of things, a very personal story that tells a much wider message, but does not feel the need to wave. It is very apparent what is going on through the detail, through a scene in which they hold hands, in the car, through a scene in which he talks about his dream for building their home. I thought it was very well played and very well made, and admirably understated. That is a rarity nowadays. Lets move on now to gold. Not understated. It has been compared to wolf of wall street. Matthew mcconaughey, great actor. Put on a load of weight, i think, for this, didnt he . And, in a way, you have basically just done the review there. Laughter. So thats it. I think the wolf of wall street or, you know, a sheep in wolf of wall streets clothing is the better way of explaining it. So Matthew Mcconaughey plays a central character who runs a mining company, on hard times. He decides to invest all his money in a dig in indonesia. They strike gold. The next thing you know Champagne Corks are popping, the stocks are going up, and this can only end one way. And there are moments in it which seem particularly to refer to wolf of wall street, but it doesnt have anything like the dazzle of that film. What you do see, yes, Matthew Mcconaughey, as you say, he seems to have put on a lot of weight and lost a lot of hair, and he looks genuinely bedraggled in certain scenes. But that is not enough for the film. For the film you need to be involved in the character, in the story, and not just thinking, i have seen this done before and better elsewhere. I did spend an awful lot of it thinking, you know, this is a kind of showcase for that performance. And that is not enough to build a film on. You keep expecting it to kick in and engage your sympathies, and it never does. It has all the potential but, in the end, it isjust a bit. And, i confess, a little bit boring. Yeah, because he was in Dallas Buyers Club and was so brilliant. No, he is a really really good performer. But itjust doesnt work in this movie . The film itself. You know, anyone is only as good as the script. Originally the script was apparently pitched as treasure of the sierra madre. To which i can only say, yeah in its dreams. Laughter. All right, so thats gold not 2a carat, i think, is what youre saying. Absolutely not. Lets move on to toni erdmann, a german comedy, which might not appeal to a lot of our viewers, but convince us. Ok, so Sandra Huller is the star and shes absolutely brilliant. A career woman with a Rather Soul Crushing Job Working for a consultancy firm, working for an oil company, and shes on business in bucharest. She is very distant from her father winfried, played by peter simonischek. He suddenly turns up on her doorstep, apparently to give her a present. She humours him, sympathises with him about the death of the dog, then says, now its time to leave. But he doesnt leave. He puts on a wig and false teeth and reappears as toni erdmann, turning up at her business meetings, amongst herfriends, insisting to her colleagues that he is a life coach, a businessman, an ambassador. Whatever he is, he is an embarrassment to her. Heres a clip. You can see from that it is a very painful form of comedy. If you think about a vintage episode of the office or abigails party, that kind of humour that is excruciating. On the one level, it is a satire about europe. On another it is a warning about globalisation, and also to some extent about a Battle Between 60s Hippy Idealism and optimism, and 21st century cynicism. But at the centre it is a tragi comedy about an estrangement between a father and a daughter, in which a father is deperately reaching out to contact her, but doing so in a way that is completely inappropriate and really awkward. And at times you laugh, at times you want to cry. At times you wants to bury your face in your jumper because it is so embarrassing. One scene involves a rendition of the song, the greatest love of all. I cannot remember having glowed with embarrassment so much. But the best thing about it is it was written and directed by maren ade, who does a brilliant job of getting exactly the right moment. As i said, she is superbly aided by these great performances. Sandra huller in particular never puts a single foot wrong. You sit there marvelling at the changes of tone, the way in which it is melancholic and poignant, it is awkward and painful, but also funny and cruel and yet tender and loving. And its nothing that you would expect from when you hear the description of it, that it is a nearly three hour comedy about a bloke with a wig and false teeth annoying his daughter. It is a really fine piece of work. I know it will not be for everybody, but i just loved it. Toni erdmann. Sold. Thank you very much. Lets go to best out, mark, which is t2 trainspotting. Yes. Danny boyle said it was the scottish star wars. He was talking about how trainspotting had become sort of an institution and how they had a lot to live up to with this sequel. I think they have done it rather brilliantly. It catches up with the characters 20 years later. It has a melancholy middle aged malaise to it. It is very well directed. I think he is a very fine director. A very good script byjohn hodge. The lovely thing about the film is it seems to be designed for people who grew up with trainspotting. My only question would be i dont know what it would be like if you werent of an age when you saw trainspotting the first time around. Is it one for the kids . Teenagers . Hey, what do i know about teenagers . Iam 78. I think if you hadnt seen the first one it wouldnt make any sense, but then why would you not want to have seen the first one . It is one of the greatest british Movies Of The Last 50 years. All right. Best dvd . De palma. A documentary about brian de palma, who made carrie, dressed to kill, body double, that kind of thing. In it, he accounts for himself and his films. What is interesting is he is pretty much the sole interview. He is accused of being a misogynist, of ripping off hitchcock, and he is a terrific speaker. He is very irascible. He says, you know, people say i rip off hitchcock i do, but i am the only director who properly rips off hitchcock. I am the only properly hitchcockian director around. It is a really interesting piece of work, made with great affection, and great authority. Because no one knows brian de palmas work better than brian de palma. Whatever you think about his films, it is a really interesting time in the company with someone who, for better or worse, is very singular and has cut their own path regardless of what anyone else has said. He is not a Household Name to many people. It depends. If you are a genre fan, which i am, then he is absolutely a Household Name. But i think he is not a name that is recognisable people Like Spielberg and kubrick. But he has an extraordinary career. He has made massive hit movies, and movies that have gone straight to dvd. Mark, thank you very much indeed, as ever. A quick reminder before we go that youll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc. Co. Uk film. And you can catch up with our previous programmes on bbc iplayer. Thats it for this week, though. Thank you very much for watching. Goodbye. This week we said goodbye to our dry january entry opened up the doors to a succession of low pressures and rainfor a succession of low pressures and rain for the start of february. Some other interesting facts about january. Where you would expect the sunniest weather we had it, the longer days across the south, but unusually our windiest weather was across the tops of the pennines. That is because we had the inversion and had whistled across the tops of the pennines. Unusually you would expect the highest averages in the south, they were in the west of scotland, which is also where we saw the wettest weather even though it was a dry january. The wettest weather even though it was a dryjanuary. But the wettest weather even though it was a dry january. But that the theme this week. The Weather Fronts we re theme this week. The Weather Fronts were lining up. Sunshine was in limited supply, but we saw many of it in the highlands of scotland. This was the down south. The low pressure has been affecting southern areas. That is all heading to the north on saturday. This next low pressure will batter parts of france, giving us some more rain in the south. But elsewhere there will be decent weather. With the Skies Clearing Ice becomes the concern for saturday and sunday. And monday morning. Colder air saturday and sunday. And monday morning. Colderairacross saturday and sunday. And monday morning. Colder air across the country. This Weather System has been giving snow. Thatll be the case on saturday across scotland. Not too bad in Northern Ireland and the bulk of england and wales. Showers in the west later. Some rain close to southern and eastern areas. And an overhang of cloud. Not a warm day, between six and seven. Into the evening and overnight, a band of showers, and sleet and snow over the hills. Itll be cold, frosty, potentially foggy on Sunday Morning with ice around. Limited showers. Lots of places seem dry and reasonably nice weather, even some sunshine. That theme should continue on monday with this ridge of High Pressure coming. But this looks ominous, taking much of the north atla ntic ominous, taking much of the North Atlantic with that huge area of low pressure. Monday starts quiet. Patchy fog and patchy ice. It will Ta Ke Patchy Fog and patchy ice. It will take its time, this rain, to come in. Because it is a slow process to the east, there could be a sizeable amount of rainfall with it. As we go through monday evening and into tuesday, some snow over the hills. Still quite chilly air. But it takes a long time to get into the east of england. East of here having the wet and windy day on tuesday. Brighter further west. But notice, were picking up this eastern wind, almost the start of a Battle Zone Entailing by tuesday. We think this east of the wind will push that Weather Front back west. A very weak feature, but it will introduce a lot of cloud. Once that happens, we are getting back into the cold continental air. This siberian High Pressure starting to nominate and block the passage of our pressures. Dominate. Are we going to be on the cold side of the battle zone . If thatis the cold side of the battle zone . If that is the case we will have frosty mornings, hopefully sunshine and settled weather because of the High Pressure over siberia. But if we are on the atlantic side of that battle zone, we will have more cloud and potentially rain, as well. All to play for next weekend. Between now and then, not too bad this weekend. But the wet and windy weather coming through the course of monday and tuesday. Then it gets colder and drier until next weekend. Then obviously, we will be looking at that in more detail. We will keep you posted of any warnings. More details on the website. 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