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Last updated: 29 march, 2010 - 12:03 GMT

Editor's Choice - Film & TV

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The Social Network

You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies...

So goes the tag line to The Social Network, a 'story' about the creation of the website Facebook. Directed by David Fincher with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, it stars Jesse Eisenberg as the young Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg, who went on to create the internet phenomenon.

The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris reviewed the film.

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Sylvain Chomet

Sylvain Chomet wrote and directed the award-winning animated film Belleville Rendezvouz. His latest film, The Illusionist, is based on a never before performed script by French mime artist Jacques Tati.

Set in Edinburgh, the film explores the father daughter relationship through the story of a struggling Illusionist who meets a young girl who is convinced his powers are real. Harriett met Sylvain and asked him how he first discovered this little known script.

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Oscar-winning director Ang Lee.

After a career of hits and misses including the rapturously received Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain, as well as the panned Hulk, Ang's back.

Ang Lee

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