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the will remind me about it in the morning. this is duncan selby. a man i have high regard for. the thing i like about this story, he is right, of course, we shouldn't drink every day. we should have a couple of days off each week. it's no good lecturing people. if you do that, they will just ignore lecturing people. if you do that, they willjust ignore you and get rattled. he is absolutely right. he has said it had tipped, not a target. if you are a telegraph reader, you are told you only need to have one day off. if you are a times reader, its two! are not going to lie, it's a nice guy. i get fed up to lie, it's a nice guy. i get fed up by to lie, it's a nice guy. i get fed up by the conflicting advice. that is why we do not lead healthy lifestyles, they all contradict each other. icho is a lot of our
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enjoyment, alcohol. i'm not advocating drinking a great deal but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people, including me, do. don't start lecturing or wagging finger, just say it might be an idea if. start lecturing or wagging finger, just say it might be an idea ifm is the nudge theory. i know that people do enjoy a little tipple while they are watching the papers and we wouldn't want to spoil it for you. that is it the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, anne and john. next on bbc news — the film review. hello and welcome to
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the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. welcome. very interesting week. we have american animals, which is stranger—than—fiction true story. we have the nun, an un—frightening frightener. and we have puzzle, which is a romance set against the backdrop of competitive jigsaw puzzling. promising! american animals. let's start there. that to me seems like a peculiar conceit as well — trying to steal some books from a library? it's a very strange story. based on a true story of this university heist from kentucky in 2004, a group of hapless young
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men decided they were going to steal these rare books from a university library. and the film basically centres on the central introverted character spencer, played by barry keoghan, and warren, played by evan peters, who is described as being the spice, the person who brings the element of chaos. what happens is we see these youngsters who are basically dissolute, who feel that their lives aren't going anywhere, they feel they are not fulfilling their potential, suddenly decide that they're going to pull off a heist, despite the fact that they have absolutely no idea how to do it and there being very little chance of being able to pull it off. here's a clip. the cameras aren't cameras — they're motion detectors. 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.
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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 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,
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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 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.
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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 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?
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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. 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.
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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 time doing puzzles? what else is there to do? it's a childish hobby for bored people.
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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. i love how understated it is. and what happens is, when you go into it, you think,
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"ok, 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. 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?
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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 — 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
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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 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
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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. good evening. we have had a mixed weekend across the country. sunday brought some warmth towards the south and sunshine as well to beat temperatures reading 25 degrees but further north of the shower clouds have been gathering and we saw temperatures by day around north—east scotland reaching 16 degrees but look at the radar picture now. the showers have gotten going and there is heavy rain out their. not great travelling conditions across the northern and western parts of scotland,
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especially when you factor in the wind, gusting to a5, 50, 55 km/h in some spots. this unsettled weather d rifts some spots. this unsettled weather drifts through as we go on through the night. some showers continuing across parts of scotla nd some showers continuing across parts of scotland and then through the day we will see thick cloud into northern ireland, the western side of scotla nd northern ireland, the western side of scotland towards the south—east, holding on to sunshine. hears and other warm day with two temperatures reaching up to 22 degrees. not as warm as it was today but the extra rain cloud will make freckle and fresh veal. moving out of monday, warm and wet weather to come. the trailing front will set in place across central parts of the country during tuesday. to the south—east of that we will see sunshine and it will be relatively warm. further north and western sunshine as well but a cool fresh veal. that if it. that night. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore.
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