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we are grate. . "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> see you tuesday. >> im ari melber, we begin with the breaking news. we start the new week with the federal defendant, donald trump, back in florida. this is the eve of his federal arraignment tomorrow, and he made the trip from new jersey preparing to voluntarily surrender into federal custody for the first time as a defendant. that is the consequence of the indictment unsealed and briefly explained by jack smith on friday...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ robinson, apparently tired, punched fairly well and rocked jake right to his heels. >> come on, ray. >> a director and actor finds a story at the right time and the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. its like watching an animal. >> i think "raging bull" is a great title. and the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all of the black-and-white gore, the v...

It felt like life, it felt human, it felt funny. >> the winner is "terms of endearment." >> jim was into the delicate shades of humanity before it was cool. >> oh, well, that was a lifetime ago. >> you look wonderful, you do. what are you up to? >> people change. >> well, i hope youve changed. >> i hope you have, too. >> i hope so for your sake because your personality left something to be desired, namely a personality. >> you look at woodys career. in the 80s, which theoretically should have be...

Incredibly dark film about capitalism and selling out. >> for somebody with that limited a resume, to be able to kind of walk in, and actually make the complexity of the movie work, his all american boyness. you think that guy will be a huge star. >> what people dont realize about top gun, we think of it as an action movie. but the movie tom cruise was making is a very serious drama about a man wrestling with his dads legacy. phoning it in for these military guys he is trying to impress. it is r...

>> i was exhausted at the end of "back to the future." and then he makes "who framed roger rabbit?" its like he took "back to the future" and tripled it. >> eddie valiant? youre under arrest. >> theres a scene where donald duck and daffy duck are having a piano duel. at the same time, penguins are serving drinks. and if you look at the making of of that individual scene, its utter, complete, total chaos. theres real actors pretending to be drinking. theres trays moving around on these iron rods....

All your favorite people are so-called niggers. >> its a time capsule of new york in that era. at the same time, its theme is universal. everyones interacting and its funny. >> move back to massachusetts. >> i was born in brooklyn. >> its creative, its cultural, its social -- >> stay black! >> its political, and it has this edge to it. it has this provocation as a part of its core. >> get his arm, get his arm! >> thats enough! gary, thats enough, man. >> towards the end of the film, mookie is pr...

>> well, theres something you dont see every day. >> "ghostbusters" was written by dan aykroyd with harold ramis. on paper it shouldnt work. but it does work because you have bill murray and dan aykroyd and rick moranis, and theyre flawless. >> weve been going about this all wrong. this mr. stay puft is okay. hes a sailor. hes in new york. we get this guy laid, we wont have any trouble. >> bills always explored what it means to escape sort of the constraints of convention. you feel in some way t...

Healed. but as the public pronouncement is were good again, our movies are telling us, no, were not. no, we are not. >> wendy, im home. >> i play this game. all your favorite filmmakers alive or dead were opening a movie on the same day, which movie would you see first? and for me it would be stanley kubrick, because youre going to see something you never saw before. and he did that in, think about it, every genre. hes going to make a horror movie, its going to be "the" horror movie done in a wa...

Thoughts, fantasies of going back in time somewhere. and bob zemeckis put it together for the modern age. >> are you telling me that you built a time machine? out of a delorean? >> the way i see it, if youre going to build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? >> its a mystery that it was as big a hit as it was when it came out. but what the real mystery is is that its endured for decades. >> saturday night were sending you back to the future! >> a simple idea which is, what ...

Paul newman plays a kind of washed-up lawyer who was an alcoholic kind of ambulance chaser. what makes it uniquely lumet is that even when its movie stars, big movie stars, he manages to bring them down in the case of "the verdict," to the boston streets. you can see the stars in the movie, but they have not turned the movie into something glamorous, but the opposite, have entered the drudge and reality of the world that lumets painting. >> oh, god, i never should have taken it, there was no way...