S02E20: Film Noir Fascination: Exploring Dark Cinema at the Italian Film Festival

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First on Film and Entertainment. Another
cavalcade of stars, well without Jackie Hamilton

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unfortunately, but we've got Greg King, We've got Peter Krauss, You've got

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me Alex first and we are going
to talk about movies. This is the

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week that the Italian Film Festival kicks
off around Australia, in fact started the

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other night. Now, I got
to ask you about film noir, both

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Greg and Peter. If you were
thinking about the greatest examples of film noir,

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what comes to mind? Gregory King? Wish I hadn't give me a

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bit of time to think about it, now I deliberately didn't. I just

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want to throw it at you.
I remember there's some of the fifties films

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like Multese, Falcon and those,
but also some later entries from a Bipaul

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John darlike Red Rock Western, that
the one with William Hurt and Kathleen Turner.

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What do you heat things like that? Now? Okay, so what

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what is film noir? If you
were to described it in a few words

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for those people who may not be
familiar with the term, usually mystery,

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often a fatile really dark and driven
by sex, seduction, money, that

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kind of thing. Yeah, So, it's got to do with ail.

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Usually crime. I would have thought
in drama those elements are there. What

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else be the ground these dark films, So it's usually that element of the

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way it split as well. That's
true. Yeah, atmospheric, is that

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right, Peter, That's true.
They're sort of darker films. The term

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was invented in America post World War
Two for any sort sort of as great

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said crime films or darker films which
were not necessarily morally very strong and dealt

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with a number of very salient issues
that people would deal in with. So,

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yeah, there was great films like
The Killers and Not in forty six

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film and and a number of other
films that will made in the forties and

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fifties, real window films like that
as well. That's true. Absolutely,

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It's it's interesting. I like the
genre. I very much like the genre.

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I find it quite compulsive. Do
you both like it or not?

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Yeah? Absolutely? Yeah. Would
Fargo have been sort of a sort of

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neo noir film, I'm just I'm
just asably possibly, Yeah. I mean

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Miller's Crossing is another one that comes
to mind. I'm not sure whether there's

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traditional Noah or neo noir The reason
I mentioned all of this is at the

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opening night film of the Italian Film
Festival last night of a more is Italian

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film noir, and I'm just thinking, have we seen much by way of

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Italian film no even though, as
you say, Beto not in forties and

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fifties United States, that's what it's
normally associated with. But it doesn't necessarily

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need to be restricted to Western films, does it. No, it doesn't.

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But any sort of darker sort of
film that deals with with issues of

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crime and corruption and so on.
Yes. Now, in terms of film

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festivals, I suppose you'd have to
say that there are film festivals that are

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on it and over there, but
most of them are on a palace and

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they do it particularly well. And
I really it's interesting because the challenge that

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you've got is you don't know whether
a film in a festival is going to

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be screened again right now? That
Greg, you used to go along too

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virtually. I don't know how you
did it, but to a hundred films

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at times for the Melbourne International Film
Festival. I think you've backed away a

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little bit in recent years. But
I've always struggled with choosing between one and

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another and how you know, especially
if something hasn't been screened necessarily in a

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lot of plays previously. I suppose
you go by a director or a writer

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and if you're interested in the genre. But how else can you choose when

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you've got a film festival with and
it's not that the Italian but say three

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oundred and fifty films, and you've
only find out time offer what you've read

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about the film online or something beforehand. Is the feedback from overseas screens and

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that kind of thing do help you
sometimes, as you said, often if

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it's what a director you admire I
like, or just it's a certain Johenre

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you pick ahead of others. That
those kind of things I always talked into

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your account. Yeah, it's interesting. I don't like reading about a movie.

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I don't like knowing about a film
at all before I go along.

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So the film festals one of the
few ways to find out. I agree.

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I totally agree, you know,
I think that I have to break

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my rule in that case. What
about you, Peter, similar to Greek

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or you've got other methods in terms
of using one over another. Well,

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I keep an eye out for other
film festival around the world and especially filmmakers

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that directors that are worth catching.
For example, in the Italian Film Festival,

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ninety year old Liliana Cavani, who
did The night Porter, has got

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a new film which I'm keen to
see the order of time. So I'm

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on the lookout for the key filmmakers. Well, I suppose that my favorite

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form of genre overall, if we
don't talk about film noir as such,

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would be psychological thrillers. I really
enjoy them. We'll talk about another one

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of those today, but I thought
i'll give a little bit of a taste

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Tempter, shall we say, for
the Italian Film Festival, and you know,

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just google it and it's it's one
of the highlights's been going for what

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twenty something is now? I think
twenty three is that my guestimate. I'm

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just pulling this out, But anyway, they let me tell you a little

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bit about like last night of a
more rate. There's a policeman in Milan.

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He's a career cop and he's on
the eve of retirement and he gets

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more than he bargained for his name
and when you say amore, you think

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love, don't you. That's what
I thought of, But no, his

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name's Franco Moore played by Pierre Franco. I'll try this again, Pierre Francesco

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for Veno, and he's always been
considered a bit of a well sake pair

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of hands. He's a straight shooto. He's always done things by the book

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and he first put on a uniform
at the age of twenty thirty five years

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later, it's about to be over
and out for this veteran. He is

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about to call it quits, and
he's got a beautiful, much younger wife

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called Viviana played by Linda card Karidi, and she is staging a surprise party

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for him the day before he's due
to call it quits. And when Franco

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arrives home, he unfortunately has little
time to celebrate because he's urgently called into

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work by his boss and he goes
to the scene of an accident slash crime.

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What greets him is quite chaotic.
His partner's lying dead in a pull

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of blood in a tunnel on a
motorway, and then we cut back to

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ten days earlier and what went down
at that time, which puts into context

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what turned out to be a very
hollow celebration of his birthday or his retirement

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rather than his birthday. So Franco
it always kept a watchful eye out for

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somebody called Cosimo played by Antonio Gerardi, is a bit of a shady,

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larger than life character and happens to
be Viviana's relatives. And Cosimo has gotten

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himself mixed up with a Chinese mafia
style gang. Once again, Franco dared

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to save the day when things get
out of hand. And now the man

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whose life Franco saved, a Chinese
guy involved in this mafia gang quite elderly,

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wants to reward him with a lucrative
security job upon his retirement. The

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only problem is that the first job
for the Chinese must be handled before Franco

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retires, and of course that's a
no no because you know, unless you've

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got authorization to do something on the
side lead Alane and something that potentially shady.

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Anyway, on his wife's urging,
Franco reluctantly takes the job, and

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there's quite a bit of money involved
in taking it. I mean, it's

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quite a sort of step up from
what he's earning in the police force.

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Now, Franco does carefully lay out
what he will not do right. These

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are the rules of engagement. But
as you can imagine, because it is

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a movie, Last Night of Amore. In that movie, everything goes pear

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shaped and right, basically all of
the deputy police chief, which is what

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this character is, Franco Amore.
All that he's worked for, all that

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he's built up to, suddenly is
set to go up in flame his life

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as well as in danger. It's
been written and directed by Andrea de Stefano,

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and it's got really strong impact from
the yet go this long breathtaking and

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it really is breathtaking aerial shot of
the city. The first shot was fantastic

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and just sort of kept on going
overlaid with heavy breathing and this powerful pulsating

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music gets to be perhaps a bit
frustrating after a while in terms of the

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sort of continuous nature of it,
but it really has impact, and that's

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sort of what happens for the rest
of the movie. It's clear of everything

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is far from right. An air
of foreboding hangs in the air like an

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unwanted visitor. I really loved the
twists and turns in plot presented to us

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as gradual reveals, which is what
the best movies do. Pier Francesco Faveni

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really measured as Franco and he's the
centerpiece of the film. And his wife

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is hardly the dutiful innocence. She
first appears to be Linda CAREDI ensures she

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really has some bite and is quite
headstrong. Antonio Gerardi has arrogance and entitlement

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written all over him, this sort
of wheeler and dealer with mafia connections.

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The Chinese and their entourage come across
as menacing and not to be crossed.

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Basically not to be crossed at all, because things are going to go pear

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shaped if you try and do that. I really admired the cinematography. I

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thought the lighting and sound of a
very strong They elevate the spectacle and it's

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quite stylish. This movie, Last
Night of a Moore, makes compelling viewing

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as the noose around Franco is tightened
and it is and was the opening night

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movie in the twenty twenty three Itadian
Film Festival, something that you could possibly

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catch, hopefully over the next few
weeks while the Itadian Film Festival is on

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at Palace Cinemas. So that is
Last Night of a Moore. Thought i'd

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throw that when in as a starting
point. But now let's turn to some

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movies that everybody seems to have seen
in this group at least, and I

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want to talk about films. I
suppose that Liam Neeson has He's now he's

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known as a bit of an action
hero, although my understanding is he's retired

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from those sorts of roles and his
retribution his last movie of that genre.

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That's what I've been hearing, Peter. Is that what you've been hearing.

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I haven't, and I'm sure he'll
be doing more films. It's like John

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John Farna blesses cotton picking socks and
hope he's doing well. You know that

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his last his last stage show isn't
never his last stage show, because they

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keep on dritting him out because they
we love him so much. I mean,

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Liam Neeson does action hero well.
I mean, he's wording on in

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the world in terms of age,
but he still does them well, doesn't

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he. What's been your favorite Leem
Neeson movie of all time? Peter?

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If we Shin does List, I
think, yeah, exactly, and that

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was a different sort of role.
But he's I mean, he's very much

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an a list or isn't it.
He's been he'd be seven. He'd be

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all of seventy seventy one by now, wouldn't he Something like that thought,

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Oh, it is so for him
to be able to do it. One

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of the things that really strikes me. If you've got a wood your hair,

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you tend to look a bit younger. I'm not sure that's my theory,

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unless sometimes you can wear bald Well
as well, but not everybody wears

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bald Well or run the fryer,
the fryer or the tack the frier tack

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type sort of characteristics of one's one
being a little bit less hair suite.

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But he seems to have retained.
I've got a mate of mine who's sort

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of nearing sixty and he's still got
a this real shock of black hair,

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quite enviable. Peter. Yes,
oh, I don't know everyone ages differently.

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Oh okay, yes, No,
I wasn't picking on you, so

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I was just, you know,
I think you were thinking I was having

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a slight. I was not having
a slice. I'm just making a general

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point, Greg in terms of Liam
Neeson movies that you've really enjoyed over the

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distance, Is there one or two
or are there one or two that's there

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taken with something meat. That's the
one I was thinking of. It a

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good one to start with. But
I remember saying him in a film called

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The Big Guy where back in the
nineties there where he played his bare knupfles

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boxer and that made good use of
his physical presence. That's a good point.

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Yeah, And he was here Are
a dark Man, the first one

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of the early sam Ramy horror Sabiro
movies. So he's had a lot of

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different varieties of films, but he's
played serious roles in a number of other

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films as well. But Yeah,
for me, Taken sort of set the

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standard for everything that followed in terms
of his active career, and he's obviously

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all doings affected. He's nowt for
it concluded the tribe for a few that

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having a naxtic movies sound on playing
sprange and automobiles. He shares, yes,

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that's true, he certainly does that. I was just trying to think

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back when when Taken came out that
he was not a young bloke. Then.

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I think it was back in the
of late two thousand, two thousand

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and eight or something of that nature
when it first came out. Now,

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okay, so we go back fifteen
years he's seventy one now, so he

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was already fifty six when he took
on that action hero status, which is

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not necessarily what always happens, you
know. I mean it was in movies

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like Kinsey and Love Actually and stuff
like that, mind you. I do

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remember Gangs of New York, which
was a striking film, which was sort

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of in the early early two thousand
and Michael Collins, of course, which

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was another movie in the late nineties, so mid nineties. Anyway, all

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of that going into Retribution, which
is a ninety minute It's an M rated

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film. It's really tense. It's
an action thriller, barely a moment's let

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up. And I like the fact
that it's an hour and a half movie.

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You get in, you get out, you appreciate it, and that's

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it. He plays Matt turn Up. He's worked as a financier for an

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organization Colden and Night Capital or yeah, I think that's how you pronounced at

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na ni te. He's he works
for them, and specifically the CEO of

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the company and as Muller, played
by Matthew Modeen, and he's worked for

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them for eighteen years and work is
what drives Matt Turner and his family.

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They live in luxury that they live
in Berlin, and he drives atop of

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the range car. He's got very
little time for his wife and family.

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Wife Heather played by Embeth Davits,
and his two children, a daughter called

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Emily ley Aspell and an oldest son, Zach Jack Champion. They're both at

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school secondary school. One of his
longest serving clients, one of Matt Turner's

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longest serving clients, is looking to
pull out of a major investment, and

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Muller knows he can rely upon Turner
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a few million dollars. So,
distracted by work as usual and reluctantly driving

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his children to school with his son
a particular handful, everything changes for Matt

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Turner. He receives a call from
a withheld number on a mobile phone that

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is not his, which has been
planted in his new Mercedes Suv, and

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at the other end of the line
is a distorted voice who indicates the financial

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guru must follow his instructions to the
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under Turner's seat in the car,
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leave the vehicle. From there,
the stakes are ratcheted up. The caller

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goes to further extremes to show that
he means business and I'm deliberately leaving out

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a lot so that people can appreciate
this movie clearly that involves implicating Turner and

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what's going down, leading to a
man hunt led by Europole. And Europole

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is the law enforcement agency of the
European Union in case you haven't burdled,

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Like Interpol, the caller is out
to expose Nanite Capital's dirty dealings and claim

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this really rich pay day which amounts
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That is a retribution. I reckon
it hits the mark from the get go

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in terms of the visuals, which
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not kind of sure what we're seeing
other than some welding and it's they're extreme

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close up shots of the car bomb
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This has been written by Chris Salempaw
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French film which translates to the same
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and twists. I reckon Neeson's really
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environment. With Turner's life and that
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must try to think and talk his
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and the angst on Neeson's face is
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expressions, let alone sound, play
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got the wives obvious frustration with the
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at Mbett Davidson plays that well.
Also impressed by Lilly Aspell as Turners keen

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to please daughter, she comes across
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her brother Channel's teen dismissive angst.
I was I was watching this, and

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I was reminded of other movies set
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this moves out of that confined space. We are talking about basically the cabin

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of a luxury car, and I
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thinking of room. There are a
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can come up with something else.
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work from Flavio Martinez Lebiano, who
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from Harry Greeks and Williams who did
House of Gucci. I Reckon. This

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is Edguca seats fair. I really
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direction from Nimrod An Tell who did
Predators. It's one of the better examples

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of the genre in my opinion.
It's called rettet, what Don't You Reckon?

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Pleader crass, I reckon. It's
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film of twenty fifteen, and yes, I had seen it was that the

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Spanish Film Festival about seven years ago
or something like that. But I also

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know of the sequels in Germany and
in Korea that also filmed the same story.

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Look there are This is a confined
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mainly really about dysfunctional families and about
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thought that was very interesting in itself. However, the story, which starts

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off really well and is a good
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action thriller, starts to disintegrate a
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film, but I won't say anymore
about that. I've found it it lacked

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credibility when it got to that section
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in Berlin, apart from obviously Germany
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been doing with a number of films
Studio Barbel's belt. Look, this is

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an okay sort of thriller confined Space, as you say, which starts off

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quite well but then starts to lose
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story develops. And I thought this
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inch of his life, so whatever
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is very carefully managed to take account
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But I don't know, I didn't
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halfway mark of the film. Wow, okay, I thought much more of

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it, Greg. I actually quite
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time there as they couldn't move out
of the car. And this one actually

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suits Lillam nursing for his actually,
but he's not beating up on men half

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his age any of that kind of
nonsense there he actually plays in you his

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angry man says he as he yelled
bellow, sound the phone and everything and

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tries it out with the unknown voice
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I thought the trick seat scaps were
quite well done there, The car

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Chasers were quite well Sage here Leiam
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two kids as well, sacking the
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what's going on there. Yeah,
I liked it quite well or as well.

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Sage action feel very claustrophobic because most
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of the car. Put a bit
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must admit I did people who done
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saw the trailer, oh really okay, well done, it didn't surprise me.

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Yes, it seemed to be fairly

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obvious who the culprit was and and
of course films like Speed and Locke also

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influencers in this film. Yeah,
I sort of like Taken, Speed in

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Wine with Taken and the best of
Liam Neeseson angry vigilanting movies. Yeah,

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I mean, look, I just
got into it. I really did from

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the get go, and I was
intrigued by it all. And yeah,

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I went along to the ride very
very readily. So I'm going to give

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it the highest score. I dare
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seven and a half out of ten. It's it's retribution, it's rated M

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and it runs for ninety minutes.
Greg, I'll give it seven. Oh

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okay, well that's not bad.
Like enjoyed it fest a lot of the

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recent Liam Neeson movies goes. It's
actually quite well done. And as I

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said, it plays into his age
this time rather than sort of the silliness

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of him being the actual Euro at
his advanced age. Maybe he signed put

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him in one of the Expendle's movies. Yee okay, that's a that's an

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interesting stretch. What about you,
Peter, I daresay you'll pass it,

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but you're not going to give it
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it. It started well and then
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As Greeg also said, it became
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Five out of ten from gee whiz, that's very us. So you are

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on J eight FM, We're just
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four seven. I mean, hopefully
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A bit of music, chatter and
yeah, stretching, a stretching the

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brain, stretching the gray matter a
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is kind of nice. So jump
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Wanted to talk about Agatha Christie murder
mysteries in popular cinema now that they've

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been various series shot and whatever the
distance, and I like Kenneth Branna.

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I think Kenneth Brennard does a good
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something that are well worth watching.
Having said that we've seen him, I

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think this is the third time,
is it not a Haunting in Venice that

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I'm talking about that we've seen him
play the Hercureole Proro character. And we

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saw Murder on the Orient Express in
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and they're sort of well, I
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out, but I don't think I've
Haunting in Venice has been being played out

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before, certainly not to my recollection. But turning christie murder mysteries into popular

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cinema is proving to be quite lucrative, so that's why they keep doing it.

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So it's not surprising that for the
third time Brannars teamed with the writer

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Michael Green to adapt Christie's work.
So it's quite an unsettling supernatural thriller based

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upon the novel Halloween Party. So
Brennard, Yes, fame Detective Acual Parrot.

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We're in Venice now. This is
where it's different from the book Venice

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in nineteen forty seven. Paro lives
there. He's retired, he's in self

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imposed exile. He's experiences in crime
and investigation and seeing the worst in humanity

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via another World war have caused him
to basically give up, and even though

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people still cue to see him try
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he refuses to acknowledge them. In
fact, he's got a bodyguard to

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ensure that others do not interfere with
his worry free lifestyle. Then he receives

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a visit from an old friend,
the world's number one mystery writer called Ariadne

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Oliver character played by Tina Faye,
and she has seen something that she simply

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can't explain. She wants Piro to
join her at a seance, and despite

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his better judgment, the celebrated Spluice
is quite intrigued and therefore reluctantly agrees to

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go along the venue while it's a
decaying, haunted palazzo owned by a famed

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opera singer called Rowin a Drake role
filled by Kelly Riley, It's where Drake's

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daughter Alicia Rowan Robinson died in mysterious
circumstances. Then when one of the guests

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is murdered, the suspicion falls on
all who are present and herkual Piro goes

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to work. Now, the first
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Venice is the atmosphere in which it's
set. There is this again, I've

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mentioned this for the second time to
Day an Air of Forebody, and it's

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clear that all is not right despite
the picturesque city in which the film's set.

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Though I can't say I particularly warmed
to the characters, I wanted to

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know more about them and I want
to know more about their backstories. I

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thought the plot needed that, but
we never received it. We simply had

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to figure out whatever we could.
So this is a bunch of people with

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issues and with agendas. Of course
all's convoluted, and figure out exactly who's

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done it and why. It's never
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I thought the pacing was a problem. It was too slow at times

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laborious. I would have liked more
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I thought the sites the sounds rather
than the shadows, as well as the

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sites inherent in the piece were good
creeks and the flapping of wings or effective

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foils as the company that's present moves
between rooms in this mansion. Kenneth Branow

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will He displays Paro's standoffish self importance
very well. Tina Fey really does know

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how to exude entitlement, and I
was also taken and by the performance of

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Leopold Ferrier. He plays this precocious
but intelligent boy and happens to be a

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troubled doctor's son, troubled doctor being
another character in the movie. Are Haunting

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in Venice. However, while it
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and it does reach a plausible conclusion. I didn't much care for the journey

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that the film took me on a
haunting in Venice. What about you,

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Greg Well? I think this is
the lesser of the three ran up poiro

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films. There lay like Peter Houston
off back into seventies. There he walks

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uping to it. This field chaps
warning to Poiro's vanity, I think,

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and also plays it a little bit
for last there. Last time it was

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screening was part of the Poiro TV
series with David Suchet. That's the only

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time it's speed screen But I agree
it's more of a horror film than traditional

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mystery setting there, with that setting
in the palazzo there, with the curtains

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waving, the lights flickering, creepy
sounds, the dark, confined, claustrophobic

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setting, and the small clock cast
of suspects there, I thought it did

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more of that unsettling atmosphere there.
Great production design from John Paul Kelly,

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but I thought the pastry was a
little bit pedestrian as well as well.

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Great cinerehotography from Harris Sambule of Blacas, who often uses that off kilter angles

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and strange anuals chat further unsettled the
audience there as well at shot and dark

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mused colors, which is also very
effective there. But again I didn't think

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think me in the cast were really
well developed there, and a set in

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Venice but nowhere near creates the same
mood and tension as something like Nicholas Rogues

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classic Don't Look Now. I thought
it felt short of the sort of sense

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of menace of that film and that
sense of destruction around Venice. Venice is

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a beautiful city and it makes were
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But unfortunately for me, this one
was a little bit ho hum.

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I've got the best of the Agatha
Christie's books, but yeah, this one's

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a little bit too ho hum for
me. Fair and reasonable, and I

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think you and I concur in that
regardably interesting to see with our scores are

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similar. What about you, Peter, I must have liked the film a

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little more than both of you did, because I found the atmospherics of the

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film and the location shooting in Venice
was very helpful to adapting a story which

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was not very popular. Agatha Christie's
novel from nineteen sixty nine didn't do particularly

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well, and it was obviously quite
a task for Brander and his team to

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adapt the General Agatha Christie's story and
turned it into something that was first time

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as a feature film. Yes,
it had been filmed before as a television

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episode. So I liked the casting
of the film as well, including Michel

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Yo who has a small but significant
role in the film, Jamie Dornan,

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and Jude Hill, who was such
a standout in Belfast Branna's previous film.

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So there is a lot to admire
about the story. The fusion of the

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supernatural into a murder mystry who Done
It? Which I thought was actually reasonably

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effective for my liking, and I
thought the story progressed quite well. I

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also liked the interchanges between Tina Fey's
character and Poirot, which I thought worked

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very well for me. I think
Branner has that touch that melds bit of

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comedy as well as the who Done
It horror thriller aspect, So overall,

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I actually quite liked the film.
I liked the way it resolved itself with

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a nice little twist at the end, and I thought it was quite clever.

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No, I quite liked it.
Okay, Well, what's your score

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for a haunting in Venice emirated that
runs for all of one hundred and three

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minutes. Sure, I gave it
seven out of ten and quite enjoyed it,

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great Greek. I can't only give
it five. I'm afraid it's just

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a boarderline pass from me. You
good pointing, Yeah, And I gave

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00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:37.440
it a six, So there we
go, five, six, seven,

404
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:43.200
average is a six, and you
know, it's sort of just an average

405
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:47.039
type film in our two out of
three opinions. But again, Peter being

406
00:32:47.079 --> 00:32:51.799
a recalcent trent, you know what
he's going to say. You're expect it

407
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:53.599
to be different from the rest of
us. So there we go. Let's

408
00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:59.519
go to a children's film, which
is sort of a family type movie but

409
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:05.119
primarily directed children are a little bit
older, perhaps PG rated, so we've

410
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.839
got to be conscious of that.
It's called poor Patrol paorl patrol capitol plea

411
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:15.440
capitol a capitol W small patrol capitol
plea for patrol with the rest in sentence

412
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:19.680
case the mighty movie. Now,
if you for those people who are not

413
00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:22.839
in the know, this is PG
rated. As I mentioned, ninety three

414
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:28.359
minutes. Poor Patrol's actually Canadian computer
animated children's TV series. It's been running

415
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:31.359
on Nickelodeon for a decade if you
can believe that. It focuses on a

416
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:36.920
ten year old boy named Rider who
leads a crew of search and rescue dogs

417
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.400
in a place called Adventure City.
And they call themselves the Paul Patrol.

418
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:46.640
And they actually did a feature Phil
back in twenty one called Paw Patrol the

419
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:51.559
Movie. And this one is paor
Patrol the Mighty Movie. So are we

420
00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:54.599
going to get another one? Peter
called Poor Patrol the Mightiest Movie? Who

421
00:33:54.680 --> 00:34:00.200
knows? Anyway? It's this is
indeed a sequel. Janet the voice of

422
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:05.440
Kristen Bell, or is it Kursten
Kristen Kursten Kursten Bell? I think I

423
00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:10.119
get confused between kr I or k
I R. But Kursten Bell plays Janet

424
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:15.840
and Hank is voiced by James Marsden. They run a scrap yard that's really

425
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:22.199
a place where cars received their last
rites before they get sort of bits taken

426
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:24.039
out of it and crushed and so
on. Now on a ruse, the

427
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:30.639
pair is locked up into their on
site office by a mad scientist named Victoria

428
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:37.440
Vants the voice of Taj p Henson, and she steals this large industrial strength

429
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:42.800
the Latro Magnetic Vehicle, hoping to
use it to rile the largest meteor shower

430
00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:46.360
to hit the city in more than
fifty years. But things go right,

431
00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:52.480
and Poor Patrol's home happens to be
a large tower and that's destroyed. Victory

432
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:58.639
Avants is giled, but she's quickly
sprung from lock up by a former mayor

433
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:02.599
who's turned bad, whose name is
Humdinger, the voice of Ron Pardo.

434
00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:08.639
When the smallest member of the Poor
Patrol, dog names Sky voiced by mckennet

435
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:15.480
Grace, inspects the fallen meteor that
caused the damage to not just their home

436
00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:20.079
but other parts of the city.
She exposes crystals, so these rocks are

437
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:24.280
rather special. When they're worn on
their dog tags, they generate superpowers for

438
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:29.840
Sky and other members of the Poor
Patrol. Vance, though, is going

439
00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:32.239
to stop at nothing to get her
hands on these crystals and forge your head

440
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:37.719
with her plans for world domination.
Where we heard that before about a thousand

441
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:40.840
and one times. It's colorful,
it's dynamic. Poor Patrol The Mighty movie

442
00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:46.079
co written alongside Bob Barlin and directed
by Cal Brunker, and it follows a

443
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:52.000
familiar good versus evil path, working
with the theme that odds can be overcome

444
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:55.280
sky. She was the runt of
the litter, always had a bit of

445
00:35:55.320 --> 00:36:00.960
a chip on her shoulders about being
the smallest and therefore the most insignificant.

446
00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:06.639
She hasn't felt worthy, and here
her will is tested. In Poor Patrol

447
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.639
The Mighty Movie, hang it All
Together as Rider, voiced by Finley Epp,

448
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:14.199
who has fate in all members of
the Poor Patrol of the Overseas.

449
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:20.119
In fact, a sub theme sees
the introduction of junior Patrollers, their pups

450
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:25.079
named Nano, Minnie and Todd,
who show their capabilities as this film unfolds.

451
00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:30.559
At the start, v Victoria Vance
is not convinced that she's actually mad,

452
00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:37.480
but she does warm to her Modica
as events unfold, the former mayor

453
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.760
Well he's keen for a slice of
the action, doesn't hesitate to bail out

454
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:45.760
Vance. Also, there is a
celebrity watch here, or at least listen.

455
00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:52.440
Former world number one tennis champion Serena
Williams voices a yoga instructor in Poor

456
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:57.639
Patrol The Mighty Movie. I saw
it with a very young audience, many

457
00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:01.079
of whom were toddlers. I was
actually pleasantly surprised there are a few climbing

458
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:07.360
the stairs with parent in tow.
But I was pleasantly surprised at how quiet

459
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.280
overall the audience was, And that
says to me they were engaged in what

460
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:14.639
they were seeing, a sure sign
that the film has hit the mark.

461
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:17.840
What did you think, Peter paor
Patrol The Money Movie PG rated, running

462
00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:22.840
for ninety three minutes. Look,
it's okay. It's very good for its

463
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:29.559
target audience. The animation is well
done, I thought, and I mean

464
00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:37.960
Bluey has obviously taken off in so
far as dogs and animation and storylines like

465
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:43.320
that. Anyway, poor Patrol,
Look it's okay. It's a nice story.

466
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:47.519
It's PG, which is unusual for
a film of this nature. Why

467
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:52.480
do you think it's PG? There
was a little bit of violence in the

468
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:58.840
film, a bit of threatening sort
of atmosphere that a few of the pups

469
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:06.880
or the dog's experience, So I
think they they opted for a slightly higher

470
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:13.559
rating in that respect. Look,
it's okay. As I said, it

471
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:16.920
meets its target audience. It has
a reasonable storyline. Obviously there's going to

472
00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:23.000
be more sequels and follow up films, and and don't forget there's another voice

473
00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:32.360
that should be mentioned of the alleged
celebrity, Kim Kardashian. Yes, it's

474
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:37.320
already follower. You're one of the
millions of followers of Kim? Are you

475
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:38.800
that? That's nice to know?
Please? Are you? Do you have

476
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:45.360
a poster behind your bed? Do
you perhaps I'm Kardashian out of here?

477
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:51.119
Out of that one? Yes,
absolutely not. But it's amazing what people

478
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:54.880
sometimes they round up for these animations
to have voices in the cast. And

479
00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:58.840
I think that that was great,
easy, great to have a legacy.

480
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:02.400
I mean, you think about what's
happened of late in the last twenty years

481
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:08.400
especially, but even before that,
to have them like Disney movies and whatever,

482
00:39:08.519 --> 00:39:12.880
to have your voice associated with one
of the characters. You can get

483
00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:15.320
a cult following just out of that. Who would have well, dunk it?

484
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:19.119
Who would have thunk it? Who
would have it? Look at Tom

485
00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:22.679
Hanks and Toy Story and all that
sort of thing. I think best example,

486
00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:27.039
right, I mean, he had
a really established career beforehand. But

487
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:30.639
if you can be a celebrity and
get on you may not be an actor,

488
00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:34.760
but suddenly your voice is being used. That's a lifelong level, beyond

489
00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:38.320
lifelong legacies. So yeah, don't
knock it. Maybe you'll be asked one

490
00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:43.559
day, Peter and Greek king as
well. Right, just send me the

491
00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:50.159
residuals now, all right, I'm
surprised how smaller residuals can be if you're

492
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.440
we're on television. I think there
was a story about that in the last

493
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:57.360
week or two where you know you
basically and music as well, where you

494
00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:01.760
drip fed something and you barely earning. You're not earning enough to sustain a

495
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:07.480
cup of coffee at times, let
alone making a decent income. But nevertheless,

496
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:12.360
score for poor patrol. The Mighty
movie from Peter Krause. Okay,

497
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:15.480
look, it's okay. It meets
its target audience and six out of ten

498
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:19.360
from me, I'm giving it six
and a half. So we're in sort

499
00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:22.280
of similar territory on that one.
Just be going to see it though,

500
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:27.960
pardon me, still the convicts me
to go see it. No, well,

501
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:30.960
yeah, that's why I avoided it. I knew that you hadn't seen

502
00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:34.039
it as yet, and I didn't
expect you to go along and see it.

503
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:39.159
Have you ever seen the even whether
it be on film or in terms

504
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:45.079
of a live theatrical event the ballets
Swan Lake, Greg, I've seen it

505
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:50.400
live once you have, okay,
and Peter who never goes to the theater.

506
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:53.760
If you're correct, I've seen the
film Black Swan if that counts well

507
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:57.400
it does. Okay, you've got
a version of it, so that's good.

508
00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:01.760
The reason I'm mentioning it is it's
on now. It's Australian Ballets reinvention

509
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:08.320
of Anne William's acclaimed nineteen seventy seven
production of What I Regan's the world's most

510
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:14.159
famous ballet. It's quite stunning.
It's at State Theater Art ser Melbourne as

511
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:17.559
we're speaking in that it's going to
tour. It's a tragically beautiful story,

512
00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:23.800
instantly recognizable score, remains an audience
favorite, and it's the centerpiece and shining

513
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:30.639
light of so many ballet companies repertoire. It really is magnificent. It's majestic.

514
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:35.039
It's quite mesmerizing as well. The
I should tell you a little bit

515
00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:39.000
about Williams, whose surname is W
double O, double L I A M.

516
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:45.119
S. And Williams. Well,
she was dancer, ballet mistress,

517
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:50.480
teacher, producer and choreographer could do
no wrong. She brought her version of

518
00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:53.679
it to the Australian Ballet while she
was the company's artistic director, and now

519
00:41:53.800 --> 00:42:00.840
the current artistic director, David Ahlberg, has used Williams production as inspiration and

520
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:07.079
then stamp his own mark on it. First major commission from Halberg for the

521
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:12.679
company in its sixty at the anniversary
year, How appropriate Boy Does He Rise

522
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:17.559
to the occasion. It features lavish
new sets and costumes, as Halberg explores

523
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:24.119
the ballet's themes, which are yearning, love and betrayal. So I'm not

524
00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:28.519
sure what you remember of it,
Greg, But deep in the forest lies

525
00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:36.400
a lake where imprisoned maidens are cruelly
transformed into swans by the malevolent von Rothbart,

526
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:40.000
and only a proclamation of true love
holds the power to undo what is

527
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:45.119
a shattering curse. So all gather
on Prince Ziegfried's name day, and the

528
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:52.679
Queen Mother extends invitations to ambassadors from
three neighboring realms, intending to orchestrate marriage

529
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:57.679
to her son, Prince Zigfried.
But he yearns for life beyond his birthright,

530
00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:00.159
and he slips away, and he
finds himself drawn to a lake he's

531
00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:06.320
never before encountered, where he sees
Adet, who's this ethereal, Queen of

532
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:12.320
the Swans. She undergoes a wondrous
transformation, leaving Sigfried spell bout. He's

533
00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:15.960
convinced she embodies the ideal that he's
long sought, but his connection to her

534
00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:22.599
is marred by a sinister warning from
von Rothbart. He cautions Sigfried that his

535
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:27.840
love is forbidden, and later,
as an opulent ball is in progress with

536
00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:34.519
princesses from hungry Spain and easily out
to capture Sigfried's I, his only thought

537
00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:38.239
is for Adebt. Suddenly, Von
Rothbart arrives, and he's accompanied by his

538
00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:46.440
beguiling daughter Odeal, whom he has
cunningly transformed into Adet's mirror image. Sigfried

539
00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:52.960
publicly declares his love for Adeal.
All is lost now. On the opening

540
00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:58.800
night, it was the principal artist, Benedict Bemmett and Joseph Cayley who assumed

541
00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:04.280
the key Rose role. And I
should say that traditionally the white squan and

542
00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:08.360
the Black Squan are played by the
same artists, and so it is here

543
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:14.400
now because of the nature of ballet
and opera, as well. I might

544
00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:17.920
add the same artists don't play the
role every night. They vary it because

545
00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:23.800
it's quite taxi. Right. So
you've got Benedict, Bemmett and Joseph Cayley.

546
00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:30.679
They are assuming the key roles of
a debt ideal for Benedict and the

547
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:36.920
Prince for Joseph Cayley. Quite captivating
display really of artistic perfection, their solos,

548
00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:42.519
their duets. I won't use the
foreign language terms for those that just

549
00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:49.480
stick to the English. Their performances
were justifyingly met with rapturous applause. I

550
00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:53.079
was also particularly taken by the performance
of Jared Madden as von Rothbart. His

551
00:44:53.599 --> 00:45:00.559
very presence sort of is very sinister. He channels evil personify, is a

552
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:04.639
puppet master extraordinaire, and every time
I hear and see it, I'm deeply

553
00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:07.880
moved by Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Little
Swans. So it is here. The

554
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:14.880
legwork of the quartet performing it superb. It really is just perfect. The

555
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:21.320
ensemble numbers of Christine White Swans so
enchanting that punctuate the piece also continue to

556
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:27.599
resonate with me. The choreographer Marius
Petipa has really excelled conductor Jonathan Lowe,

557
00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:31.599
concert Master your Pu Orchestra Victoria.
Along with the artists of the Australian Ballet,

558
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:37.760
they have turned on and turned out
a world class production running time two

559
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:44.039
twenty intervals because there's three separate acts
here basically, well there's more than that,

560
00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:47.719
but three particular acts two hours forty
five minutes in total, so two

561
00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:52.519
hours five minutes plus the forty minute
interval or intervals. It's play at State

562
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:57.920
Theater at Center Melbourne until the thirtieth
of September. Then it moves to Adelaide's

563
00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:02.159
Festival Theater, Brisbane's Lyric the and
finishes at Joan Sutherland Theater at the Sydney

564
00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:07.920
Opera House. So if you're interested, go to Australian Ballet dot com dot

565
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:12.599
au and look up Swan Lake and
you can still see it at Art Center

566
00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:16.119
Melbourne. Well worth catching it's look, I've seen a lot of it.

567
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:21.800
I saw a Ukrainian last year,
and I've seen Chinese and look, they're

568
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:28.039
all worth seeing. They're all slightly
interpreted differently, but Swan Lake quite something,

569
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:31.480
quite special, and it has been
for a long time and will continue

570
00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:36.599
to be. And I don't think
there was a spare seat in the audience

571
00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:39.679
at the State Theater. Was really
great to see a lot of excitement ahead

572
00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:45.880
of the show, and the ballet
is extremely well performed. Will round well

573
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:50.880
worth seeing. I said a few
times. Now I want to talk about

574
00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:55.760
now, have you ever done immersive
or interactive theater? Greed? No?

575
00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:00.239
Never? Okay, Well, do
you remember a few years ago I was

576
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:06.639
raving about the Owl and Pussycat at
Theater Greek. I always did that on

577
00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:09.159
your program as well, and unfortunately
it's no longer there in Richmond, but

578
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:14.199
I remember they did something that was
immersed because you could basically go from room

579
00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:16.840
to room over I think it was
three floors and it was set in a

580
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:22.000
bordello and it was very interesting and
you could either follow one character or you

581
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:28.480
could follow your nose and go to
different rooms and follow the several characters.

582
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:32.320
That's what Immercy theater is all about. And the interactive part of it is

583
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:37.440
if it breaks the fourth wall and
you interact with the actors. Were Love

584
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.960
Last Lost, which is put on
by broad Encounters at the Astral which used

585
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:45.400
to be a cinema in Collingwood has
now sort of run down. It all

586
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.920
seems to be a theater also used
to be a roller skating ring. It

587
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:52.800
sort of dates back to nineteen twenty
one. That's where this is Love Last

588
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:58.840
Lost, and it's going to go
on till at least late October. Twenty

589
00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:02.400
ninth of October is the date that
I have and it's very very different.

590
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:08.880
Forty three rooms, eight characters,
and as we've talked about, free to

591
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:15.280
go where you want over ninety minutes. The theme is a subterranean adventure on

592
00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:22.000
board the submarine EV Nautilus, piloted
by Captain Anderson played by Sandro Colarelli.

593
00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:29.119
After we're led down a thin corridor
which is littered with dozens of scuba tanks,

594
00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:32.960
and we then donned some plastic ponchos, we enter a room where the

595
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:38.599
captain's treasures are on display. Many
of these antiquities are in perspect's cases.

596
00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:45.119
We're invited into a decompression chamber ready
for our dive below the surface, complete

597
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:51.320
with suitably eerie sounds. Once we're
below, the nooks and crannies of the

598
00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:55.960
underwater craft are ours to explore.
The crew consists of this ragtag bunch of

599
00:48:57.039 --> 00:49:01.639
odd bods and reprobates. Then I've
already referenced. The captain. His only

600
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:07.480
child, a daughter called Sandy played
by Bree Emrick, has never been to

601
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:12.960
the surface or experienced life outside the
vessel. Her best friend, who Confident,

602
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who Confident and protector is a lobster
called Claude played by Chloe Tuan,

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showing more than a passing interest in
Sandy. The daughter of the captain is

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the dashing chan played by Jeremy Lloyd. Stefano is the mustachioed head chef.

605
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Christian Santic plays im And do you
remember the rock in Woolwinkle animated television series,

606
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Gentleman, Do you remember that?
Yes? Yes? Do you remember

607
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a character called Snidley Whiplash? Yes? I loved Snidley Whiplash. I loved

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I've always Have you ever had a
mustache Peter? No? Greg, No,

609
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okay, I've had a full beard, Moses like beard. Can you

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imagine that? No? Now imagine
that, Peter. And then to top

611
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it off, I had permed hair, permed afro hair. Right. Yeah.

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The seventies were good to you.
They were very good to me.

613
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I had those. I had those
the sea a sack of shirts and it

614
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was it was great. I looked
like a lion, greg because I had

615
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a red a red beard, right, so a red beard, and or

616
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you could see were my little eyes
right and my nose poking through hair everywhere

617
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that was it was large. It
was this large beard and large hair.

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So if you're can imagine that that
was me in the seventies. So it

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reminded Stefano, reminded me of snidely
whiplash. So then you've got a half

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human sea creature played by Calum Mooney. He appears menacing, but he's actually

621
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shy and Silasia meet Hickey, tantalizing
sea witch, a purveyor of the dark

622
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arts. And finally there's this lithe
and long limbed charmer and seduce it called

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Drink played by show Eba. The
ev Nautilus is a popoi of spaces.

624
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You've got food preparation areas, living
quarters, herbarium, a child's diminuity,

625
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diminutive jumping castle, a beauty parlor. There's a love swing, there's a

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room for sexual devians, plus a
decidedly nasty looking operating theater with blood spattered

627
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all over the walls and floor,
and much more beside. I've just given

628
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it. Besides I've just given you
a little bit of a tempter, I

629
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hope. And as we clamber up
and down narrow staircases, we move into

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the rooms. We interact with the
cast who perform a series of mini shows,

631
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and the captain. While he spoke
chibrish to my wife and I,

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we witnessed two disparate pole dancers.
We saw the chef and chan fighting in

633
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what was called the cage, and
we also saw musically interludes. In fact,

634
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the show culminates with a cavalcade of
music, song and dance on board

635
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the biggest and broadest wooden table I
have ever witnessed, really thick, very

636
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impressive. No I want it.
I loved it. These are very talented

637
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and versatile artists. They are undoubtedly
melodious. They sing very very well.

638
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Indeed, it's been written by Kurston
Siddle and Helen Cassidy, and Kirsten Siddle

639
00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:30.239
is also the creative director. Broad
Encounter's Love Last Lost is an experience to

640
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save it really well, designed by
Mike Finch, Josh McIntosh and James Brown,

641
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:39.199
choreographed by Joe Cottrell. It's enticing, it's imaginative. It's also esoteric

642
00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:45.559
and provocative. So think sights,
sound and smell and immersing oneself in The

643
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Magic, Mystery and Mayhem. The
alliteration of the ms the Magic, the

644
00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:54.119
Mystery, the Mayhem. Costuming by
Melanie Gilbank and Laurie Verling certainly gets pulses

645
00:52:54.280 --> 00:53:00.039
racing. Sound designs courtesy of Michael
Theoler and Perey von Sturm. Lighting by

646
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Jason Glenwright. Musical arrangements the work
of Mick Lavage. It follows the success

647
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of a gothic hit called A Midnight
Visit that ran for sixteen weeks in Melbourne

648
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prior to COVID twenty nineteen. This
promises to be another crowd favorite Love Last

649
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Lost, playing at the Astral until
the twenty ninth of October. Also good

650
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for repeat visitors insofar as get this, the team behind it, the team

651
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that's designed it. They've put together
nine hours, nine hours of content,

652
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So you know that begs you to
come back a second time and a third

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time potentially because you're there for ninety
minutes, right, So divide nine hours

654
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ninety minutes. And I'm not sure
that they are distinct shows or the elements

655
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of the shows are the same,
but it's well worth seeing. Go to

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TRIPLEW dot Love Last loost dot com, Triplewlove Last Lost dot com. And

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that is the name of this immersive
and interactive theatrical experience. Have I excited?

658
00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:07.039
You have to see that one?
Great? Perhaps not really? Oh

659
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:13.000
golly, oh, you're hard to
please, very hard to please. Well

660
00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:16.559
next week when we speak, the
Grand Final would have been run and run,

661
00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:22.719
run and rue and who would have
exited the building? Gil McLaughlin reged

662
00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:27.800
he's done a good job as CEO
of the AFL. I Reggedy as what

663
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:31.599
do you think, Greg? He's
done okay, but there's been a lot

664
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of things have to be improved on. I reckon it's a tough job to

665
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:39.960
be anything, to be honest.
And you know, if you if you

666
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:45.239
get out with your your dignity intact
and you've done a job to improve the

667
00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:49.360
organization, I think you. I
think that's what you'll you'll be counted on.

668
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And I do think AFL is in
good shape and I think he's done

669
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a marthless job over he's what decade
in charge, so it will be moved

670
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on and bring on tw twenty four
footy season. Great folks, thank you

671
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very much. Sorry frant Wade doesn't
sound like it, Peter Kraus, thank

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00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:12.079
you very much. Gregory King,
appreciate your time too. We'll do it

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again next week on First On Film
and Entertainment,