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different aspects of the year at 2:30pm and 8:30pm. To kick things

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off in style, our regular film critic Mark Kermode takes his seat

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and looks at the highs and lows of the year in film.

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Hello and welcome to the Cinema Museum in London for this film

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review of the year. Over the next hop Anelka we will look back at the

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big screen highs and lows of 2013. -- half an hour. As always, the year

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kicks off with the traditional media circus which surrounds the annual

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awards season, with stars gracing the red carpet on both sides of the

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Atlantic, from the freezing cold of the BAFTAs in Britain to the heat of

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the Oscars in Hollywood. Your time is up and your parole has begun.

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Flying the flag for British cinema was Les Miserables, an adaptation of

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the musical from The King's Speech director Tom Hooper, whose main

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motivation was to get the cast to sing live on set. Something which

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helped Anne Hathaway pick up both a BAFTA and an Oscar for Best

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supporting actress, one of the dead certs of the awards season. You will

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starve again unless you learn the meaning of the law. Co-star Russell

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Crowe fared less well, being largely overlooked at the awards after

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critics turned a deaf ear to his tuneful endeavours. Five years for

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what you did, the rest because you tried to run. Sacha Baron Cohen said

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from the stage of the Golden Globes, Russell had four months of singing

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lessons. That was money well spent. You can teach somebody to be a

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director in a day? You can teach a recess monkey to be a director in a

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day. In the end, Les miserable lost out in the best film category to

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Aga, a stranger than reality fiction film. The plot sounded crazy but was

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largely true, given some dramatic license, and the film went on to

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take some top honours on both sides of the pond, to the delight of star

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and writer-director Ben Affleck, who thanked Hollywood for a second

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chance after the catastrophes of Jersey Girl and Gigli. There are

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only bad options. It is about finding the best one. This is the

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best bad idea we have sir. By far. The United States government has

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just sanctioned a science fiction movie. In the best Actor category,

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all eyes were on Daniel Day-Lewis, who made history by winning his

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third best actor Oscar in Steven Speilberg's Lincoln. We will pay for

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the oceans of blood and the unaccountable corpses. Just this

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once, Mrs Lincoln, I urge you to take the liberal point of view.

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Robert will not forgive us if we try and stifle is very natural ambition.

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There were Oscar garlands to four director Ang Lee, whose adaptation

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of Life of Pi proved the novel was not unfilmable after all.

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But the real star of 2013 awards season was Jennifer Lawrence, who

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tripped over her dress and fell into the public's heart as she mounted

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the Oscar stairs to pick up a statuette for best actress for

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Silver Linings Playbook. How did you know when I run? I wanted to clarify

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something. I just want us to be friends. Did you hear what I said?

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Why are you giving me such a hard time? I am not giving you a hard

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time. Since her award success, Lawrence has gone from success to

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success, fronting the Hunger Games franchise, with Catching Fire

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becoming one of the hits of the year.

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Do you want to share these? Why did you order these? Why did you order

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tea? Because you ordered raisin brandy. The only downside of

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Jennifer Lawrence's Oscar victory was disappointment for Emmanuelle

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Riva, who celebrated her 86th birthday on the day of the Oscars,

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the oldest nominee for Best Actress ever, but she beat her to the BAFTAs

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statuette, which kind of even the score.

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In spring, media attention turned towards France and the Cannes film

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Festival, where the big story this year was Blue Is The Warmest Colour,

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a powerful and visually explicit story based on the graphic novel by

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Julie Maro. For the first time in the history of Cannes, the jury,

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headed by Steven Speilberg, awarded the Palme d'Or not just to the

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director, but also to the two leading actors, via Seydoux and

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Adele Exarchopoulos. It was seen as controversial, even more so when the

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actor said working with the director had been less than ideal. It is a

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good job we won the Palme d'Or, said Seydoux, because making the film was

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horrible. Other big hitters at Cannes this

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year included The Great Beauty, a sprawling Fellini at epic from

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director Paolo Sorrentino which some critics critics have rated among the

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best of the year -- British critics. Hello. I remembered to live next

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door. It is like an amusement park. Did you get an invitation? People

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are not invited to Gatsby's. I was, seems I am the only one. Who is this

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Gatsby? He was a German spy in the war. A German spy? He was the

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Kaiser's assassin. There was much hoopla surrounding Baz Luhrmann's

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Gatsby, where it received Biggs reviews in the US for its brash and

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bold updating F Scott Fitzgerald 's classic novel. -- mixed reviews. If

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anything is not to your liking, I will change it. It is perfect. From

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your perfect, irresistible imagination. But for me, the very

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best thing about this year Cannes festival was the return of Bruce

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Dern, perhaps best known to many as the start of the heartbreaking

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science-fiction classic Silent running, one of my favourite movies

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of all time. Having picked up an Oscar nomination in the 1970s for

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Coming Home, Bruce Dern became the toast of Cannes in 2013 when he won

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the prestigious Best actor award for his starring role in Alexander

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Payne's Nebraska. How did you and mon get married? Because she wanted

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to. And you didn't? Are you sorry you married her? All the time. It

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could have been worse. You must have been in love, at least at first?

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Apparently not. Goodbye, my son. My hopes and dreams

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travel with you. While Nebraska was a low-key trade, 2013 also had its

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fair share of big budget blockbusters. You will be a god to

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them. Once again, super heroes proved a staple of the multiplex.

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Having rebooted Batman with his dark Knight trilogy, British film-maker

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Christopher Nolan took the production reigns on Man of Steel,

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which attempted to take the Superman myth right back to its origins. They

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will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you. The movie,

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directed by Zack Snyder, was a moderate success, but when it comes

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to box office, it turns out that neither Superman or Batman can hold

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a candle to Iron Man. The threat is imminent and I had to protect the

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one thing I cannot live without. That is you. My suits, they are part

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of me. I am a distraction. Maybe. With Shane Black in the director's

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chair, Iron Man 3 took a whopping $1.2 billion worldwide. At that

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together with the takings of the first two Iron Man movies, and then

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throw in the 1.5 billion taken by Josh Weedon's Avengers Assemble in

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which Tony Stark, played by a motormouth Robert Downey Jr has a

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leading role, then it turns out that Iron Man is the most financially

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successful big screen comicstrip character of all time. See, when it

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comes to superheroes, it is all about the numbers.

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Ladies, children, sheep. Some people call me a terrorist. I consider

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myself a teacher. Lesson number 1... Heroes, there is no such thing. Here

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is the question. Would you like to go out on a date? No. That is not

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helping. Of course, the real superheroes of 2013 with a

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blabbermouthed bottom burping Minions of despicable me too, a

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whopping worldwide success to which managed to outdo its predecessor in

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terms of laps and box office. One of the runaway hits of the year, it was

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up there with Disney's Frozen as an animated treat. I like warm hugs.

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Olaf? That is right. Olaf. And you are? I am an hour. And who is the

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funky looking donkey? That is then. And the reindeer? Sven. That makes

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it easier. Then there were the flops. Along with the dismal sci-fi

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fantasy After Earth, 2013 was the year that The Lone Ranger found

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itself in ignominious place in the history books as one of the most

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expensive misfires of modern cinema. There are rumours of a man born in

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the desert... A ghost, some said. A masked man. A lone ranger. With a

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starring turn from Johnny Depp, and ever spiralling budget reported to

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have been around $250 million, and an unwieldy running time which

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clocked in at around two and a half hours, the film tanked at the box

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office. A failure which the film-makers naturally blamed on the

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critics. Yes, no. Yes, no. Shut up. Yes. Personally, I didn't think The

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Lone Ranger was that bad. Baggy, yes, and structurally all over the

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place but big, dumb fun nonetheless. I also rather like Benedict

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Cumberbatch's turn as Julian Assange, which was dubbed the

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biggest failure of the year in terms of box office to cost ratio. It cost

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$28 million and took only six. This is more coverage than all of the

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leaks we have had combined. We need that information more. And you want

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to throw it all away because you fear that some US government

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informer might come to harm? He is a human being, Julian and lives are at

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stake. What about the lives of the soldiers and civilians involved in

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these conflicts? Eight financial flop no doubt, but it was still way

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better than the councillor, one of the year's real disappointments, in

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which director Ridley Scott and writer Cormac McCarthy got an a list

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cast them recite B-movie dialogue with C-results. Do I remind you of

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someone else? Yes, I do. Someone who is dead. You don't think that is a

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bit cold? Doctor, this is Diana. Perhaps I can show you around. You

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could pop round the corner for supper with me? Or indeed Diana,

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which provokes perhaps the most unanimous critical Rasberry of 2013.

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The script was ripped straight from the pages of hello magazine. If I

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marry you, I have to marry the whole world as well! Diana asks if you can

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really die of a broken heart. Watching this film, you could

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probably die of boredom. What about the treats of 2013? The hidden gems?

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The kings of summer came and went almost unnoticed. Already a hit at

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the Sundance film Festival, it drew comparisons with stand by me and

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breaking away, timeless rights of passage movies. This is the site of

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our new house. A tree house? No, a real house. In this city of

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Belfast, the lived a boy named Terry. Then there was good

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vibrations, a rip-roaring account of Terry Hooley, who, in the midst of

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the Troubles, find it a nonstick Terry and record store and label

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which launched minivans. There is a knockout performance at its heart.

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It is one of my personal favourites of the year. What is wrong with you

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people? It was all going to be absolutely fine. Neither good

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vibrations nor the kings of summer made a splash at the box office, but

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cinema ticket sales are no longer the only measure of success.

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Released and will tenuously in theatres, on DVD, on Blu-ray, on

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downloads, an English Civil War film find an audience on multiple

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platforms. It is showing that the audiences themselves will decide

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where and how they will assume their films.

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Other standout releases of the year include the sublime before

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midnight, the third instalment in a romantic saga from Richard

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Linklater, which comes as close to any film series as creating the

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perfect trilogy. Before Sunrise, before sunset and my before midnight

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are up there with toy story. I finding myself so attracted to this

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woman? Other films which may have slipped in to your radar this year

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could be beyond the hills, bleak tale of religion and exorcism.

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What about the look the Japanese gem, like father, like son. It is a

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look the investigation of nature versus nurture. On the documentary

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front, the standard release was the act of killing, an extraordinarily

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harrowing yet poetic investigation of a legacy of murder in Indonesia

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in which the member of brutal death squads revisited their most

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appalling act. Mixing interviews with reconstructions and surreal

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musical sequences, the act of killing for Executive Producer

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Fredericks for Errol Morris and when her talk. Moving onto the autumn,

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and the London film Festival played host to a number of high-profile

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premiers, including the first film that ever made me think about 3-D

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might not be nonsense after all. Having long been unconvinced by

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its, I was surprised to find myself completely immersed by the 3-D magic

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of gravity. We have lost Houston, we have lost

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Houston! We need to get the hell out of here! Man dying!

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For once those stupid glasses seem to serve a purpose, putting is right

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there in the action as Sandra Bullock and George Clooney looted

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their way through space, sending the audience on a discombobulated

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fairground rides, wondering which way was up . . Paul

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Greengrass'sfilm captain Phil was also at London. It is about as ships

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captain being held hostage by Somali pirates. We have a problem. Nobody

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gets hurt if you don't play any games. Tom Hanks is hotly tipped for

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an Oscar nomination. He could also get the nomination for saving Mr

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Banks, where he plays Walt Disney who is fighting for the soul of Mary

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Poppins. The London film Festival also

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provided a platform for the selfish giant, a tale of two young boys

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return to the scrap trade to help those struggling families, inspired

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by the Oscar -- by the classic tale by Oscar Wilde. He is holding the

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reins too tight. He is pulling it back. Where did you learn that? I

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went to road racers when I was younger. This selfish giant is just

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one of this year 's home-grown success stories. Contrary to the

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tales of doom and gloom that home the newspapers, the British film

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industry has thrived in 2013, producing such diverse fare as

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rush, the Formula one affair. It is not so easy to become a champion.

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James, is there anything you would like to add. If he is playing mind

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games, I am flattered. Momentum is with me and I have never felt

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better. The look of love, the Paul Raymond by OPEC.

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Philomena, also starring Steve Coogan. We are trying to have a

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private conversation. My apologies, sir. There is no need to be rude.

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She is very nice. You should be nice to people on the way up because you

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will meet them again on the way down and you of all people should

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understand that. That insisted 12 years as slaves, currently tipped as

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a dead cert for a best picture contender in the Oscars. Based on

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their educated New York man who was kidnapped and sells -- and sold into

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slavery. A year has passed already. I have just the thing. Something to

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suit your style, yet sturdy enough for a 40 mile round trip. Children

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come on come on the what your father has just bought for me. Directed by

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Steve McQueen, 12 years as slave is a powerful and important work on

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challenging, provocative and fearless. Today, sir.

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I would say that both Steve McQueen and is the lead actor of that film

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will gets nominations. As will the makers of gravity. It was made here

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in the UK, relying on the Williamson British technicians, who remain the

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best in the world. Haps the future is bright, after all. -- the

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brilliance of British technicians. Good afternoon. Some atrocious

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weather conditions across the UK at the minute stop there could be more

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to come during this Christmas week. We have been seeing some very heavy

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rain coming in from the west through the day. You can see

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