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201 The Hangover (2009) #462 FILM Main
Directed by Todd Phillips. With Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms. Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.
202 Revolution (2009) #465 FILM Main
Directed by Michael Rymer. With Billy Campbell, Peter Fonda, Michael Eklund, Maiara Walsh. A drama set on a distant planet, where two families related by marriage are on opposite sides of a Revolutionary War-like conflict.
203 School of Saatchi (2009) #669 DOCUMENTARY Main
4x1 hour episodes. Charles Saatchi, the powerful art world kingmaker behind the Brit Art revolution, is looking for the next Tracey Emin or Damien Hirst. He will select six unknown artists and set them up in their own east London studio. Here they will be commissioned to make a series of ambitious artworks which will be assessed by Saatchi and a panel of experts. Ultimately Saatchi will select one artist to join his next major exhibition, Newspeak: British Art Now, at the Hermitage Gallery in St Petersburg, and offer them the additional opportunity of their own studio for three years. The series will explore the strange and controversial world of contemporary art and try to discover the substance that lies behind the hype.

An esteemed selection panel, consisting of artist Tracey Emin, critic and broadcaster Matthew Collings, art collector Frank Cohen and Barbican curator Kate Bush, whittle down thousands of applicants to 12 artists they think worthy of being seen by Charles Saatchi. In their hunt for artists with real potential, the panel are confronted by the full bizarre array of artists and artwork that constitutes contemporary art. These 12 are then invited to exhibit work for Charles Saatchi himself who, with panel's advice, will pluck six of them from obscurity to enjoy the bounties of his patronage for ten weeks in his art studio.
204 Revolutionary Road (2008) #129 FILM Main
Directed by Sam Mendes. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jonathan Roumie. A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.
205 Hamlet 2 (2008) #173 FILM Main
Directed by Andrew Fleming. With Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, Joseph Julian Soria. In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
206 The Duchess (2008) #182 FILM Main
Directed by Saul Dibb. With Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling. A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
207 Ghost Town (2008) #189 FILM Main
Directed by David Koepp. With Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni, Jordan Carlos. Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.
208 Pride and Glory (2008) #189 FILM Main
Directed by Gavin O'Connor. With Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Noah Emmerich, Jon Voight. A family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
209 Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) #191 FILM Main
Directed by Kevin Smith. With Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Gerry Bednob. Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.
210 Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (2008) #326 FILM Main
Directed by Philippe Claudel. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill. A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
aka I've Loved you so Long
211 Quantum of Solace (2008) #467 FILM Main
Directed by Marc Forster. With Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench. James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organization from eliminating a country's most valuable resource. All the while, he still tries to seek revenge over the death of his love.
212 Balck Gold (2008) #694 DOCUMENTARY Main
Channel 4. As westerners sip designer lattes and cappuccinos, Ethiopian coffee growers live in hardship. Black Gold travels from Ethiopia to Seattle to reveal the grinding poverty behind our daily cup of luxury.
213 Britain from Above (2008) #704 DOCUMENTARY Main
BBC. Episode 1 of 6 - Satellite Earth. Documentary with Andrew Marr telling the story of one satellite's journey into space and how global agencies and individuals are using satellites in all kinds of ways - farming their land from space, locating ancient water supplies hidden deep beneath the most arid desert regions and tracking ocean currents and the global mechanisms of climate change.

As every conceivable aspect of our world is being 'sensed' and recorded, from the skies above our heads to the rocks beneath our feet, here is an in-depth look at the biggest technological revolution since the invention of the steam engine.
214 The Medici: Makers of Modern Art (2008) #1005 DOCUMENTARY Main
1 hour. BBC. Documentary in which Andrew Graham-Dixon reveals how the Medici family transformed Florence through sculpture, painting and architecture and created a world where masterpieces fetch millions today.

Without the money and patronage of the Medici we might never have heard of artists such as Donatello, Michelangelo or Botticelli, and Graham-Dixon examines how a family of shadowy, corrupt businessmen, driven by greed and ambition, became the financial engine behind the Italian Renaissance.
215 Brideshead Revisited (2008) #1111 FILM Main
Directed by Julian Jarrold. With Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Thomas Morrison. A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
216 Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) #462 FILM Main
Directed by Takashi Miike. With Hideaki Itô, Kôichi Satô, Quentin Tarantino, Masanobu Andô. A revolver-wielding stranger crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth.
217 Atonement (2007) #521 FILM Main
Directed by Joe Wright. With Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan. Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
218 Catch a Fire (2006) #66 FILM Main
Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu. A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime.
219 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) #1236 FILM Main
Directed by George Lucas. With Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson. Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy.
220 Gladiator (2000) #195 FILM Main
Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

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