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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jason Solomons

Film Weekly: Benjamin Button plus the Guardian first film award

This week, Jason Solomons is joined by David Fincher, whose The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is nominated for 13 Oscars; Catherine Shoard to review the week's key releases; and director Joanna Hogg, whose feature Unrelated is picking up the Guardian First Film award this Saturday.

David Fincher, whose body of work includes such seminal films as Seven and Fight Club, tells Jason about what drew him to the F Scott Fitzgerald short story of a man with no backstory and why he loves working with Brad Pitt.

Next, Jason gets together with Catherine Shoard to review the reunion of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road (clue: it ain't Titanic), Jean-Claude van Damme's comeback film JCVD (not Charlie Kaufman) and the reissued Barry Lyndon ("extraordinarily prescient and even better now than in 1975").

And finally, Joanna Hogg tells Jason about going from working on EastEnders to directing her first feature, shooting in Tuscany and her excitement at preparing for her next film.

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