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Catch up with the last seven days in the world of filmThe big storyWhat with one thing and another, we almost forgot that this week is Cannes selection week: as Peter Bradshaw pointed out, almost as sure a fixture in the annual seasonal cycle as the first cuckoo of spring.We
had the official lineup exactly a week ago, the Directors Fortnight and Critics Week at the start of this week, and yesterday the composition of the (alarmingly star-studded) jury.As ever, there's an almost indecent amount of stuff to get excitedabout: more Gozzle, a new Coens and Baz Lurhman's Great Gatsby being personal highlights. If you like your news in picture form, here's 10 key films.In the news Reese Witherspoon arrested for disorderly conductBret Easton Ellis's tweets provoke 'ban' from gay media awardsSeth MacFarlane considering reprising his role as Oscar's hostDreamWorks Animation in Tibet controversy after China film dealGus van Sant shoots Fifty Shades of Grey sceneMichael Bay revokes Armageddon directory of ezines review blogBrief Encounter: the most romantic film ever?Iron Man 3 and Hollywood's Chinese puzzleDocumentaries are the real deal in the age of the superheroClip joint: BurgersTrailer review: Keanu Reeves' Man of Tai ChiCine-files: Cine Lumiere, South KensingtonFilm-makers, what has London done to you?Watch and listenThe Guardian Film Show: Olympus Has Fallen, Love Is All You Need, Fuck For Forest and Evil Dead - video reviewThor: The Dark World trailerBen Kingsley on playing villain, The MandarinEvil Dead - video reviewNew View: win one of 500 video streamsVideo on demandRay Harryhausen: Special Effects TitanGilles Penso's fantastic documentary on the stop-motion master's long and brilliant career that demonstrates modern cinema's debt to his painstaking work - you can watch the film on demand here.The
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The comments appeared designed to counter the criticism surrounding his earlier remarks. • Maciej Szczesny upset by treatment of his son• 'Arsène Wenger has made Szczesny a scapegoat'Arsène Wenger must take some responsibility for the drop in form of Wojciech Szczesny â€" according to the Arsenal goalkeeper's father, himself a former Poland international.Szczesny was omitted for the Champions League game against Bayern Munich last week, with Wenger claiming the 22-year-old had been "mentally affected" by the number of games played.The
Poland international was then put on the bench for the Premier League win at Swansea City, where Lukasz Fabianski kept a second consecutive clean
sheet.Maciej
Szczesny â€" who won seven caps for Poland and helped Legia Warsaw reach the quarter-finals of the 1995-96 Champions League â€" feels Wenger needs to look at how he handled his son, who has been hampered by a series of niggling injury problems.In an interview with Poland's leading sport daily paper Przeglad Sportowy, the senior Szczesny said: "Wenger already started to look for the scapegoat. It is not the way the boss should behave."Wojciech has had two serious injuries. He played with one in April and May [last year]. He shouldn't have agreed to Pregnancy Miracle time, but the coach insisted."Wojciech did not train the whole week and then had a
warm-up on Friday and played the match on Saturday. He was naturally more susceptible to minor injuries and his form was going down."Wenger was playing with the young man's good health and Wojciech agreed foolishly."In my opinion Mr Wenger messed up a lot in April and May.
I don't blame the young man who went along with
his coach, his current lack of form is a result of those two months."Then in August there was a foot [ankle] injury after which he played almost instantly.
After seven weeks out Wojciech trained for just seven days and played the match.
How on earth can he be on his highest form?"Despite taking Szczesny out of the firing line and warning no one can be guaranteed of a place in the team â€" not even captain Thomas Vermaelen â€" Wenger has said Szczesny is part of his long-term plans, having brought the youngster through the Arsenal academy after signing from hometown side Legia Warsaw in 2006.Szczesny Sr is confident his son will soon establish himself as the Arsenal No1 again. "This last period has not been successful
for Wojciech, the fact that Arsène Wenger did not take him to Munich shows something," he added."However, I think my son can be the No1 keeper over 10 years, he just needs to come back to form and then a situation where we can stop vision without-glasses who will stand between the posts."ArsenalArsène Wengerguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds New York-based architect Jeffrey Beers is a master at bringing people together, then taking their breath away.
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Click here to have the Fiver sent to your inbox every weekday at 5pm, or if your usual copy has stopped arrivingHIP-KLOPP! THE BEAT THAT JUST WON'T STOPThe Fiver has never been one to crow about its own eerie prescience or extraordinary skills as a logician, but upon being asked to sign several copies of yesterday's edition
of the world's most tea-timely email by the gang of pizza-faced fanboys congregated outside Fiver Towers this morning,
we couldn't
help but notice that we'd made what can only be described as a
Remarkable Call ahead of last night's victory for Borussia Dortmund over Real Madrid. While assorted hipsters, tactical nerds and human brains with synapses a-sparking while suspended in jars were citing false nines, inside-out wingers and upside-down pyramids as potential factors in attempting to predict the outcome of the Big Cup semi-final first leg, the Fiver had settled on the more old school trademiner review approach.Seeing as Bayern Munich had whipped Barça 4-0, we decided that when "Borussia Dortmund (a German side that are 20 points worse than Bayern) take on Real Madrid (a Spanish side that are 13 points worse than Barcelona), their comparative standings mean the outcome should be about the same." And by jiminey if 4-1 isn't about as samey a scoreline as 4-0 as we can think of, then it's no wonder we're looking
even more smug than our Lederhosen-wearing, trombone-blowing, pumpernickel-eating German cousin, Oompah! Oompah! Achtung! Schnell! Schnell! Schnell! Fünfer this afternoon."Second
half
it was like Robin Hood and arrow into
the box with our attacking players â€" it was great to see," said Sturm und Drang's Jürgen Klopp in the wake of his side's triumph, settling upon the most predictable and obvious historical metaphor to describe a well-drilled German force augmented by sympathetic Polish auxiliaries violently crushing a pocket of resistance from elsewhere in Europe.One
of those Poles was Robert Lewandowski, watched last night by Manchester United scouts, who will no doubt be hoping none of their rivals for the striker's signature will have noticed the boy showed some promise for the future.
But with
Dortmund having to decide whether or not to cash in on the striker in a month or two
or let him leave on a free at the end of next season, the player's Herr 15% has announced he'll be off sooner rather than later."We
have reached an agreement tinnitusmiracle download club and intend [him] to move this summer," said Maik Barthel, refusing to divulge the identity of the club to which his client would be moving.
"There is a very interesting offer for Robert which fulfils entirely the demands set by Dortmund and also the demands
of Robert," he continued, leaving it to your rune-reading Fiver to predict some long overdue good news for Stockport County.LIVE
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OF THE DAY"People in England are treating him different because he is Uruguayan" â€" Pepe Reina rails at Luis Suárez's 10-match ban. Too true, Pepe, it's because he's Uruguayan and the small matter of him being a fully grown man who likes to bite people.FIVER
LETTERS"Following your reference to Geoff Shreeves as a harbinger of Ivanovic-related doom (Monday's Fiver), I thought I'd look back to see how Big Website covered the incident a year ago. With the benefit of hindsight, perhaps the choice of words to describe Gary Neville's celebration when Fernando Torres scored in Barcelona were not the greatest …" â€" Mike Haines."It's
a
shame that Luis Suárez didn't win the letter o' the day (yesterday's Fiver letters) in time to receive one of the You are the Ref board games.
There could've been a special version made for him formed from cooked meat and he could've eaten all the little pictures of players to his heart's content. A much better solution Shapeshifter Yoga management in my opinion" â€" Paul Billington (and others)."Although I'm going to be late to the party given that this Fiver will most likely be about
Dortmund/Germany's shellacking of Madrid/Spain, yesterday's Fiver did take me back to a past trip to Munich. A bunch of us lads were there celebrating Oktoberfest and got friendly with a bunch
of locals.
The beers duly flowed and it came out in conversation that locals of that fair city are referred to as Mingas.
Cue much hilarity from the Brits as we informed them what one was. Who'd have thought they could suddenly lose their sense of humour, eh?" â€" Paul Dixon.• Send your
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the face has been banned for life by the country's FA. "It has tarnished the image of Indonesian football in the international community," yelped suit Fibroids Miracle "I hope this punishment will repair that."Definitely
Worse Than Suárez Department: 16 supporters and seven police officers were injured, two of them seriously, in a mass fight on Wednesday when fans of Bosnian clubs Borac Banja Luka and Zeljeznicar Sarajevo clashed
while heading to first division matches.Angrier Than Suárez Department: the Scottish PFA has proved the SPL isn't a one-team league by nominating exactly zero Queen's Celtic players in its player of the year awards.
And Neil Lennon isn't happy
about it.
Not one jot. "It beggars belief that we make a semi-final
of the [Skol Cup], final of the Scottish Cup, win the championship, ma … [he goes on like this for a while] … and I think the outcome of those votes belittles all the efforts of the players," he roared. "I think it's abysmal."More Knacked Than Ivanovic Department: hamstring-twang could rule Wigan defender Antolin Alcaraz out of the FA Cup final.
Tsk, another Twang for Wembley.
"As it stands it would be difficult to tell," said Wigan manager Roberto MartÃnez. "We are talking about three weeks since it happened.
It will be touch and go. It depends how quickly he can recover."GUARDIAN
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the most charmingly inept defending ever feature in ex girlfriend guru review YouTube Clasico.Jonathan Wilson flies in from his bijou Kiyiv dacha to join the Football Weekly Extra
pod as they discuss Big Cup, the weekend fixtures and whether Sid Lowe really lives in Spain.And
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