hello from new york, and welcome to talking movies. i m tom brooks. in today s programme, the new york film festival, one of my favourite autumnal cultural events, bringing great cinema to new york city. a highlight of this year, the opening night film, a new adaptation of macbeth starring frances mcdormand and denzel washington. we hope that people enjoy it and respond to it and we ll see what happens. macbeth, the so called scottish play, has been adopted into more than 25 different movies. we look at those that made an impact. a shocking body horror thriller, titane, this year s big winner at the cannes film festival, came to new york with its director and star. i told myself, pretend you re doing a little show. this is a weird show, butjust have fun with it. there were many festival films with great performances, a real stand out, benedict cumberbatch in the power of the dog. and some great documentaries, one using animation to chronicle the plight of an afghan refugee fl
this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and main stories at the top of the hours straight after this programme. hello from new york, and welcome to talking movies. i m tom brooks. in today s programme, the new york film festival, one of my favourite autumnal cultural events, bringing great cinema to new york city. a highlight of this year, the opening night film, a new adaptation of macbeth starring frances mcdormand and denzel washington. we hope that people enjoy it and respond to it and we ll see what happens. macbeth, the so called scottish play, has been adopted into more than 25 different movies. we look at those that made an impact. a shocking body horror thriller, titane, this year s big winner at the cannes film festival, came to new york with its director and star. i told myself, pretend you re doing a little show. this is a weird show, butjust have fun with it. there were many festival films with great performances, a real stand out, benedict cumberbatch in th
could face decades in prison. our cyber correspondentjoe tidy was the last person to interview bankman fried before he was arrested in december 2022. and he takes a look back at the rise and fall of the man behind one of the biggest financial crimes in us history. one interesting thing that s been happening pretty recently is that the bitmex bitcoin perpetual futures ran up a lot in price. this was sam bankman fried in his element at his desk, talking crypto and making incredible profits. his hair and shabby look were all part of the appeal and brand. sbf, as he was known by legions of fans online, portrayed himself as a maths genius who wasn t interested in personal wealth. it was all about developing the cryptocurrency industry and giving to charities. this is big. but ftx, his cryptocurrency exchange that sold bitcoin and other virtual currencies for normal money, like pounds and dollars, grew to be the centrepiece of a sprawling business worth $32 billion. so, when it a
public, his troops also departed the city, just hours after they controlled a military building, with further wagner troops moving towards moscow. travelling north on the m4 motorway, passing the city of vuronezh and were spotted as far north as the region, which is around 300 miles south of moscow. then, in the early evening, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance. tensions had been building between mr prigozhin and russia s military leadership for some time, over their approach to the war in ukraine. sarah rainsford reports. mutineers cheered as heroes. cheering. this crowd are shouting wagner , the name of the mercenary group that vladimir putin had accused of treason only hours earlier. the fighters were clearly among friends here. just one bizarre scene in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, placing tanks on city streets and taking over a military command post for the ukraine war. there, wagner s boss was