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we're going to e—mail the library asking to have the audubon and the illuminated manuscript on display when we arrive. they will be here, and here. please don't touch it. as i was saying, here is target priority number one, the audubon. directly behind the display case is a doorway which leads to a staff elevator that goes straight to the basement. now, once in the basement, we can access the fire exit at the side of the building. where is the librarian? thank you. the librarian is the single biggest risk to this entire operation. she needs to become a non—factor as soon as possible. so what's interesting about this is on the one hand, you have the tension between the dramatised story and the actual real—life events being told to us in ways that contradict each other, so you get that kind
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of unreliable narrator thing. the other thing is that basically, it's a character study about how it is that these boys decide to pull off this heist. their planning is that they watch a bunch of heist movies like rififi, and point break and reservoir dogs. they say all the way through no—one is going to get hurt, but they haven't figured out how no—one is going to get hurt. it is like watching a car crash unfolding in slow motion. it's got this really interesting take on the way in which they feel like their lives somehow aren't coming together and somehow, doing this is going to give them some sense of purpose. also, they all talk each other into doing it, despite the fact that it's completely haphazard. and what i liked about the film is that when it needs to get dark, it's not afraid of doing so. i mean, there is an underlying sort of growing horror about what happens and how it happens and now, looking back on it, reflecting, and also, as i said, all the way through you get this tension between the real narratives
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and the dramatised narratives. i thought it was really fascinating, but, primarily, because it's a character study. it's about them as characters and about how this completely sort of half—witted thing came together. also, about that myth of no—one will get hurt. second film, the nun. i believe your son had a very, very strong critique of it? my teenage son. he has been to seen all of the — this is from the conjuring cinematic universe. i know you are a huge fan of all of those films like annabelle. this is a prequel. i went with my son because, brilliantly, my son likes horror movies like i do. we both agreed it was the most boring horror movie we'd seen in a very long time. it's set in a remote convent. a satanic force is threatening to break out in the form of this nun that basically looks like a bad marilyn manson impersonator. we have a priest and the most irritating psychic in movie history whose catchline is "i'm french—canadian" — yes, it's that funny — and all the way through, you're waiting for these bang scares
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so that you willjump. i promise you — the only moment ago in the film when ijumped when i was watching and became so bored, i started to fall asleep. you know that thing where you're about to fall asleep and you suddenly find yourself falling asleep and you jump? and that was the only moment in the film. so, it was quite nice seeing it with someone who was absolutely target audience and has seen all the other ones and i said, "was itjust me, or was that the most dullest horror film "you've ever seen?" he said, "no, it is absolutely terrible." i would probably like it because i am a wuss. you would be bored. it's filmed in these drab grey colours. it is only half—lit and the story is really ponderous. i will tell you how bad it is — there is a sequence in it where someone is buried alive and i'm really claustrophobic. that face that you're pulling now is my reaction to somebody getting buried alive. in this scene, i literally don't care. it's that bad. at least it's set in transylvania, which is a bit...oooh, isn't it? it's set in this kind of gothic castle with people wandering around very slowly, doing sort of... it's rubbish — it's rubbish.
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i will take your word for it, but i do like the sound of puzzle. who knew that such a thing as competitive puzzling even existed? i had no idea. this takes inspiration from a 2009 argentinian film, an award winning film which i confess i have not seen. kelly macdonald plays this mousy housewife was put upon by her husband and by her family. she spends her whole life clearing up after other people. we see a party at the beginning and we don't even realise it is her party because she's clearing up after her birthday. she is given a jigsaw puzzle and it seems to be very calming and she said herfriend, "where did you get the jigsaw puzzle from?" she says it's from a shop in new york, so she goes to the shop and sees an advertisement for a partner for competitive jigsaw puzzling. she answers it on a whim and the next thing is she meets up with a strange inventor who hit it lucky once and now dedicates his life to puzzling. and it's something that they have in common. here's a clip. why are we wasting all this
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time doing puzzles? what else is there to do? it's a childish hobby for bored people. you know that's not true. tell me you're not a bored rich guy. tell me i'm not a childish housewife. no, that's not what you are. you've much more important things to do. you're a man of ideas. why do you do these stupid puzzles? it's a way to control the chaos. that's ridiculous. come on. you're missing the point. 0k. what is the point, robert? life is messy. it does not make any goddamn sense. sorry to break the news to you. life is just random. see, i love the interaction between those two characters. i love the way they are both played.
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i love how understated it is. and what happens is, when you go into it, you think, "0k, i'm not entirely sure this is going to work." you get completely drawn in. you see her start to find her feet, start to find her own, you know, her individuality and her independence. you see this relationship with them, which is played out over jigsaw puzzles. and it becomes a story of somebody breaking out of the confines of a rather suffocating life. i thought it was really, really touching. you know, the best films kind of creep up on you — i mean, not creep up on you the way that the nun creeps up on you, or doesn't — but you don't realise that involved you are until you find yourself being swept up. that was really, really touching and charming. not least because those two central performances, and the central characters — you want to know more about them. i thought it was great. i think you would really like it.
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i think i will. i'll never look at a jigsaw puzzle in the same way again. i never knew there were such a thing as competitive jigsaw! neither did i. i should look out for it. best out is cold war. it should be austere, is it not? it's basically a romance that plays out over 15 years. it was inspired by the story of the director's, pawel pawlikowski's, parents. it starts in poland in the late ‘aos and goes over 15 years and crosses boundaries — musical and personal and political. you know, it's four by three, square frame, black and white. you would think it is kind of... but it is not. it's really passionate, it has got real heart to it. it's about this relationship. they cannot be with each other, they cannot be apart from each other. i thought it was wonderful. i've seen it a couple of times. the second time around — you know, the best films, when you see them the second time around, you notice a whole lot of stuff you didn't see the first time? also, it's a long time period that it covers, but the film itself is 90 minutes. it's really compact and it's beautifully told. and it reminded me, i mean, isay this —
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it reminded me a little bit of casablanca. the story is nothing like casablanca, but it has that kind of archetypal romance thing, and i thought it was really beautiful and i loved it. and i love the fact that it was inspired by the story of his parents — although it is not the story of his parents, theyjust inspired the characters. again, you really should see it in the cinema if you have a chance. best dvd, mary shelley. yes. i picked this because it kind of got overlooked in the cinema. it is the story of mary shelley writing frankenstein. you know, some critics were kind of quite harsh on it, saying that it was taking liberties with the facts. i felt it didn't really, i thought it did a really good job. i mean, it's not perfect but what it is is interesting, it's kind of trying to reclaim the story, it's trying to tell it in a slightly different way. again, i went into it worrying that i wouldn't get on with it and i did, and it didn't do terrifically well in the cinemas but now, you can catch up on things that you missed out in cinemas with dvds, and it is definitely worth giving it
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a go because i thought it was much better than people give it credit for. thank you very much as always. thank you. a quick reminder before we go that you will find more film news and reviews online on the bbc website. and you can find all of our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that is our week. thank you for watching. bye— bye. hello. it is typical at this time of year, the transition from summary whether to come the weather that we get quite a mixture of weather features across the uk. this heat is certainly going to be one of those. a very changeable begin store with a little bit of everything in fact,
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sunshine, rain, strong winds, and in some places someone. sunshine, rain, strong winds, and in some places someone. changeable weather begins on monday, a ridge of high pressure to begin the day and the next weather system pushes into western areas bringing increasing outbreaks of rain. we start with plenty of sunshine on monday. that will hold through the south and east but it turns wet and windy across parts of scotland and northern ireland. it will be a cool day in the north, temperatures at 20, 201 degrees, typicalfor the the north, temperatures at 20, 201 degrees, typical for the time of year. for tuesday, the weatherfront is in the north—west and sinks south and eastwards and grinds to a halt through central parts of the country. this is crucial to what will go on tuesday. the scott wright is the dividing line between something cool and fresher to the north and something warmer and more humid to the south. we have three different weather is going on through the country on tuesday, the north is blustery with sunshine and showers, some heavy for the north—west of scotland. central and southern areas will see this weather front with outbreaks of rain, but to
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the south, given some sunshine and warmth tapping in from the new continent, you could get 23 or 2a celsius. tuesday looking like the warmest day of the week. it changes again as we head towards wednesday, the weather front moves south and introduces more cloud and rain to southern parts of england and pushes that warmth back to the new continent. it is a cloudy and damp tea for central and southern areas and cooler again for the north. a fresh take the sunshine for the north, blustery showers, most across the west of scotland where there will be heavy once mixed them. temperatures ranging from the mid—to high teens. especially in the south. from midweek onwards towards the end of the week it is looking cooler and fresher for all areas with a mixture of showers and sunshine. windy at times across the north and that is because on thursday we will see another area of low pressure moving to scotland. here are the ones will be touching 40, 50 miles an hour with outbreaks of rain. 0ur weather
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front across the south will be long gone into the new continent and that is where we introduced a cool and fresh air. england and wales could see more sunshine on thursday with outbreaks of rain across parts of scotla nd outbreaks of rain across parts of scotland and northern ireland. cool at 12, scotland and northern ireland. cool at12, 16 scotland and northern ireland. cool at 12, 16 degrees in the north, 1819 in the south. 0n at 12, 16 degrees in the north, 1819 in the south. on friday it looks like a messy picture, outbreaks of rain, some heavy across the north and west, but some sunshine with sunshine in the south—east, and again, temperatures quite autumnal, 14 up to 18 or 19 degrees. then they look further ahead for the weekend and beyond, the jet look further ahead for the weekend and beyond, thejet stream runs right across the united kingdom and that will bring in weather systems into our direction, but in most cases they were in direction will be towards the north of the uk. so further ahead it will remain blustery across the north with strong winds at times. sunshine and showers, not grinning all the time, any south closer to high pressure in
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the new continent, you should be generally drier and brighter. we could see one for a time this weekend before it turns cooler u nsettled weekend before it turns cooler unsettled again into the following week. this is bbc news. the headlines at eight: boris johnson attacks the prime minister's brexit plans saying she has wrapped the country in a suicide vest and handed the detonator to brussels. trade unions back calls for a new referendum on brexit, if theresa may fails to get a good enough deal. exit polls suggests sweden's anti—immigration party has made gains in the country's general election as the establishment parties appear deadlocked. also this hour: north korea stages a huge military display to celebrate it's 70th anniversary. but the country's long range missiles weren't part of the display of power. high drama at the us open as serena williams loses her cool and the final. and sir mo farah wins the great north run for a record breaking 5th consecutive time,
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