1 00:00:07,173 --> 00:00:10,493 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast 2 00:00:10,613 --> 00:00:12,893 Speaker 1: from News Talks at b It's. 3 00:00:12,813 --> 00:00:14,653 Speaker 2: Time to catch up with our film review of Francesca 4 00:00:14,733 --> 00:00:19,053 Speaker 2: Rudkin for her picks this weekend. Hey Francesca, don't mind Jack. 5 00:00:19,493 --> 00:00:21,573 Speaker 2: Let's start off with a movie that is showing in 6 00:00:21,693 --> 00:00:24,053 Speaker 2: cinemas at the moment. We'll have a listen to the 7 00:00:24,093 --> 00:00:25,253 Speaker 2: bike Riders. 8 00:00:27,653 --> 00:00:29,453 Speaker 3: I'm beIN going to start in a rating club. 9 00:00:32,893 --> 00:00:36,893 Speaker 1: Why all those clubs who are sit around talking about 10 00:00:36,933 --> 00:00:38,253 Speaker 1: motorcycles if you. 11 00:00:38,293 --> 00:00:40,533 Speaker 4: Don't belong nowhere else or they belong together? 12 00:00:40,653 --> 00:00:41,253 Speaker 3: Read are not. 13 00:00:44,173 --> 00:00:45,733 Speaker 4: Okay? Is this a comedy? 14 00:00:47,173 --> 00:00:47,213 Speaker 2: No? 15 00:00:49,533 --> 00:00:49,853 Speaker 1: No, no. 16 00:00:50,133 --> 00:00:53,213 Speaker 3: This is by Jess Nichols, who is a director of 17 00:00:53,293 --> 00:00:55,733 Speaker 3: film such as Nun Takes Shelter in Love and this 18 00:00:55,853 --> 00:00:59,133 Speaker 3: is probably hisst main screen film he's made, and he 19 00:00:59,213 --> 00:01:01,253 Speaker 3: takes a look at the change in nature of banking 20 00:01:01,333 --> 00:01:03,773 Speaker 3: games with the viewers from sort of the late sixties 21 00:01:04,533 --> 00:01:07,493 Speaker 3: through to the early seventies and it's actually depth. 22 00:01:09,133 --> 00:01:11,773 Speaker 2: Francisca, I'm really I'm really sorry to interrupt you. Are 23 00:01:11,813 --> 00:01:14,133 Speaker 2: you where are you standing right now? Can I can 24 00:01:14,213 --> 00:01:16,893 Speaker 2: we get you to just move to try and moving 25 00:01:16,933 --> 00:01:18,253 Speaker 2: around a couple of meters or something. 26 00:01:18,813 --> 00:01:27,293 Speaker 3: I can't move absolutely again, not if anything sounding. 27 00:01:29,773 --> 00:01:31,133 Speaker 4: Okay, what have you done? 28 00:01:31,133 --> 00:01:31,213 Speaker 1: Now? 29 00:01:31,253 --> 00:01:32,573 Speaker 4: What have you done? Have you moved your hand? Is 30 00:01:32,613 --> 00:01:33,613 Speaker 4: your hand on the microphone? 31 00:01:34,573 --> 00:01:34,613 Speaker 2: No? 32 00:01:34,853 --> 00:01:38,693 Speaker 3: No, I just ran across the room. It's very technical. 33 00:01:38,813 --> 00:01:42,453 Speaker 4: Does that turn be it's not going to describe as better. 34 00:01:42,653 --> 00:01:43,973 Speaker 4: I'll tell you, hey, are you there? 35 00:01:45,013 --> 00:01:45,213 Speaker 3: Yeah? 36 00:01:45,853 --> 00:01:48,013 Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that's selling a bit better. Are you there? 37 00:01:48,573 --> 00:01:49,333 Speaker 3: Okay? Hello? 38 00:01:49,613 --> 00:01:52,293 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah, that's it. Don't move, don't do not move. Okay, 39 00:01:52,653 --> 00:01:53,813 Speaker 4: tell us about the bike riders. 40 00:01:55,253 --> 00:01:57,813 Speaker 3: I'm standing underneath the toll frame. It's perfect that there's 41 00:01:57,813 --> 00:02:02,653 Speaker 3: a newsquake. Okay. So uh. This is, as I mentioned, 42 00:02:02,693 --> 00:02:04,653 Speaker 3: adapted from the photo book by a photo journalist, a 43 00:02:04,693 --> 00:02:08,293 Speaker 3: guy called Danny Live, and they've used him kind of 44 00:02:08,333 --> 00:02:11,813 Speaker 3: as a narrator in this film. So he went in 45 00:02:11,933 --> 00:02:14,213 Speaker 3: and he followed. After he finished at college, he went 46 00:02:14,333 --> 00:02:18,093 Speaker 3: and he sort of joined the Chicago Vandals and he 47 00:02:18,293 --> 00:02:20,653 Speaker 3: did interviews with them and he photographed them, and he 48 00:02:20,733 --> 00:02:23,653 Speaker 3: created this book. So the film is based on that book. 49 00:02:23,733 --> 00:02:28,933 Speaker 3: And in the film, he then he interviews Kathy, who 50 00:02:29,093 --> 00:02:32,293 Speaker 3: is the wife of one of the bikers. Benny Ben 51 00:02:32,493 --> 00:02:34,853 Speaker 3: is played by Austin Butler, and he is by far 52 00:02:35,053 --> 00:02:41,853 Speaker 3: one of the probably more self destructive and toughest, the sexiest, 53 00:02:41,973 --> 00:02:45,933 Speaker 3: and definitely the cleanest of all the bikers in this gang. 54 00:02:46,013 --> 00:02:47,933 Speaker 3: And so she sort of tells the story of meeting him, 55 00:02:48,013 --> 00:02:51,973 Speaker 3: falling in love. She was a well respected, working class 56 00:02:52,013 --> 00:02:54,573 Speaker 3: girl who didn't anticipate that she would end up kind 57 00:02:54,573 --> 00:02:57,173 Speaker 3: of in this biker land, and she talks us through 58 00:02:57,253 --> 00:02:59,693 Speaker 3: how it did start out as a group of guys 59 00:02:59,813 --> 00:03:01,733 Speaker 3: just trying to find their place in the world by 60 00:03:02,093 --> 00:03:04,893 Speaker 3: they love their motorbikes. They got together and rode their bikes, 61 00:03:04,973 --> 00:03:09,133 Speaker 3: and then how it kind of became a popular movement. 62 00:03:09,213 --> 00:03:12,173 Speaker 3: There were more franchises and then really kind of the 63 00:03:12,373 --> 00:03:15,533 Speaker 3: violence and more gangs, the aspects of it kind of 64 00:03:15,613 --> 00:03:18,253 Speaker 3: took over. So you're kind of just looking at this 65 00:03:18,773 --> 00:03:21,573 Speaker 3: the way the gang's kind of morphed into something else. 66 00:03:21,813 --> 00:03:27,093 Speaker 3: And Tom Hardy plays Johnny, who's the president, and really 67 00:03:27,173 --> 00:03:29,213 Speaker 3: it's kind of a bit of a love story, a 68 00:03:29,293 --> 00:03:32,173 Speaker 3: bit of a triangle love triangle between Johnny and Kathy 69 00:03:32,213 --> 00:03:34,893 Speaker 3: and Benny. Johnny wants Benny to take over, Kathy wants 70 00:03:34,933 --> 00:03:38,373 Speaker 3: Benny to leave the leave the gang, and to be 71 00:03:38,413 --> 00:03:40,453 Speaker 3: honest with you, Bennie doesn't say huge amount of this film. 72 00:03:40,573 --> 00:03:44,053 Speaker 3: He's a pretty emotionless kind of character who's just this 73 00:03:44,213 --> 00:03:47,733 Speaker 3: is where he fits and he just goes along for 74 00:03:47,853 --> 00:03:50,373 Speaker 3: the ride. Look, it's really interesting and I quite like 75 00:03:50,453 --> 00:03:52,453 Speaker 3: the way that they've told us from a female point 76 00:03:52,493 --> 00:03:56,053 Speaker 3: of view, but I feel like it only scratches the surface. 77 00:03:56,453 --> 00:04:00,413 Speaker 3: It's a little bit pretty. It feels like a sanitized 78 00:04:00,533 --> 00:04:03,573 Speaker 3: version of actually what was really going on. There's not 79 00:04:03,693 --> 00:04:05,533 Speaker 3: a huge amount of these guys. They like to sit 80 00:04:05,573 --> 00:04:08,733 Speaker 3: around and drink the you know, ride their bikes, being 81 00:04:08,773 --> 00:04:10,533 Speaker 3: a gang and hang out together. But I think that 82 00:04:10,693 --> 00:04:12,613 Speaker 3: it doesn't really put a touch on a lot of 83 00:04:13,373 --> 00:04:16,693 Speaker 3: that kind of beliefs and philosophies in the way they 84 00:04:16,773 --> 00:04:20,053 Speaker 3: decide to kind of grow and live their lives. So, yeah, 85 00:04:20,053 --> 00:04:24,013 Speaker 3: it looks good, sounds great fun, but I just think 86 00:04:24,053 --> 00:04:26,133 Speaker 3: it just sort of probably scratches the surface of what 87 00:04:26,333 --> 00:04:27,373 Speaker 3: really is going on. 88 00:04:27,573 --> 00:04:30,533 Speaker 2: Okay, so that's the Bike Riders also showing and cinemas 89 00:04:30,533 --> 00:04:32,213 Speaker 2: tell us about the taste of things. 90 00:04:33,333 --> 00:04:36,453 Speaker 3: Oh look, if you love foody films like The Best 91 00:04:36,613 --> 00:04:39,133 Speaker 3: Feast or Chocolat or Big Night, then you're going to 92 00:04:39,253 --> 00:04:42,373 Speaker 3: love this French film. It's by trying on Hung and 93 00:04:42,573 --> 00:04:46,693 Speaker 3: Him about thirty years ago debut with a film called 94 00:04:46,773 --> 00:04:49,893 Speaker 3: The Greenpa Part the Sink of the Green Apart of Grempapyre, 95 00:04:50,293 --> 00:04:54,413 Speaker 3: and that one The act Can and then this year 96 00:04:54,493 --> 00:04:58,293 Speaker 3: The Taste of Things one best director at Can. It 97 00:04:58,453 --> 00:05:03,693 Speaker 3: is a slow, gentle film about basically a love of 98 00:05:03,893 --> 00:05:07,973 Speaker 3: film a food. It is set around kitchen of one 99 00:05:08,013 --> 00:05:12,853 Speaker 3: of France's greatest epicure. It's eighteen eighty five and Dobana 100 00:05:13,053 --> 00:05:16,653 Speaker 3: is like the Napoleon of culinary art, but he is 101 00:05:16,693 --> 00:05:19,773 Speaker 3: the first to credit his chef, Eugene, who brings all 102 00:05:19,893 --> 00:05:23,093 Speaker 3: his ideas to life. As I mentioned, it is pretty 103 00:05:23,173 --> 00:05:25,693 Speaker 3: much set in the kitchen. The first twenty minutes you 104 00:05:25,853 --> 00:05:29,733 Speaker 3: literally just make them, You just watch them make a meal. 105 00:05:30,653 --> 00:05:33,333 Speaker 3: So you really need to be a foody. Do not 106 00:05:33,573 --> 00:05:36,333 Speaker 3: go to this film hungry. It's twenty fifteen minutes long 107 00:05:36,373 --> 00:05:40,213 Speaker 3: and you'll just sit there just salivating and refreshing the 108 00:05:40,333 --> 00:05:43,093 Speaker 3: fact that you're there. Very much a love letter to 109 00:05:43,213 --> 00:05:48,053 Speaker 3: sort of fresh ingredients and creativity and cooking from scratch 110 00:05:48,173 --> 00:05:51,613 Speaker 3: and making a meaningful moment out of a meal. So 111 00:05:52,093 --> 00:05:55,533 Speaker 3: quite divine, Juliet Binoche. Quite divine. 112 00:05:55,653 --> 00:05:56,293 Speaker 1: But it is. 113 00:05:58,213 --> 00:06:01,413 Speaker 3: Quite a slow film and it is completely focused on 114 00:06:01,533 --> 00:06:04,573 Speaker 3: film with a touch of romance, So I think you'll 115 00:06:04,653 --> 00:06:05,493 Speaker 3: know if that's for you. 116 00:06:05,773 --> 00:06:09,013 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, well okay, so that's the taste of things. 117 00:06:09,093 --> 00:06:11,533 Speaker 2: Your first film is The Bike Riders, and of course 118 00:06:11,573 --> 00:06:13,493 Speaker 2: both of those will be up on the News Talks 119 00:06:13,653 --> 00:06:15,733 Speaker 2: dB website. 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