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Speaker 2: That is Taylor Swift Only Tay Tay could announced her

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Speaker 2: brand new album on sports podcast and still draw gazillions

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Speaker 2: going to be the title of her twelfth original record.

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Speaker 2: She joined her boyfriend Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelcey

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Speaker 2: on his podcast this week for a rare interview appearance,

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Speaker 2: and she revealed the album's cover art. I think the

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Speaker 2: album is going to come out at the start of

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Speaker 2: next month, October third. I think they're going to be

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Speaker 2: releasing Life for a Showgirl, So no doubt there will

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Speaker 2: be considerable hype leading up to that date. What were

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Speaker 2: six seven weeks away? Right now, it is twenty three

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Speaker 2: minutes to ten. Time to get your film picks for

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Speaker 2: this weekend. Francisca Radkin is here with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Koda Good Morning had two films to work through this morning.

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Speaker 2: The first stars Bill Murray and Naomi Watson. Let's have

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Speaker 2: a listen to the friend I as.

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Speaker 1: I need to talk with him. It's about the dog.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask if you could take him.

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Speaker 2: No, I can't.

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Speaker 1: No, this is what Walter wanted after he died.

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Speaker 3: Why would he say that you were his best friend?

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Speaker 2: Okay, tell us about the friend, Francisca.

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Speaker 3: So I've got a theme today, My themes authors and

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Speaker 3: both the films that we're talking about today. This is

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Speaker 3: an adaptation of Sigrid new News's twenty eighteen novel about

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Speaker 3: a woman dealing with a friend's suicide. It's very heartfelt.

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Speaker 3: It's a tender film, very gracefully acted by no Watts

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Speaker 3: as Iris. She is an author, she's also a teacher,

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Speaker 3: and she has this dear friend, Walter, who she sort

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Speaker 3: of works with and has looked after and managed quite

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Speaker 3: a lot, because Walter's had a complicated life of He's

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Speaker 3: got numerous ex wives and hidden children and like to

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Speaker 3: have affairs with his students and things. So he has

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Speaker 3: quite a complicated past and he passes away. He commits suicide,

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Speaker 3: much to everybody's surprise, and he, as you heard in

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Speaker 3: the trailer, he wishes that Iris would take Apollo, his dog,

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Speaker 3: now his dog is a great dang And this is

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Speaker 3: a very New York based film, and Iris lives in

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Speaker 3: a very small apartment which is rent controlled and no

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Speaker 3: pets are allowed, so this obviously is going to cause

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Speaker 3: a bit of an issue. And what really happens throughout

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Speaker 3: this film is we kind of watch how, you know,

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Speaker 3: dealing with this dog and what to do with the dog,

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Speaker 3: and the confusion of being sort of asked to look

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Speaker 3: after the dog works alongside just our natural grief of

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Speaker 3: dealing with the loss of someone and the confusion around

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Speaker 3: this particular situation why Walter decided to go and be

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Speaker 3: so organized as to you know, playing where his dog

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Speaker 3: was going to go anyway, So there's lots of questions,

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Speaker 3: lots to sort of do. What I liked about this

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Speaker 3: film was Naomi Watts is playing a middle aged woman,

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Speaker 3: sort of authentic kind of quality to it. Very well acted.

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Speaker 3: Apparently not as a cerber because the book apparently the

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Speaker 3: book was quite a cerbic about Walter, but I love

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Speaker 3: the New york ness of it Jack, and really it's

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Speaker 3: a book about companionship. And it's a book about support

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Speaker 3: and how we all need it in life. And you know,

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Speaker 3: Iris gets it from somewhere she didn't expect.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so pretty good. Okay, I'm interested in that.

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Speaker 2: So that is the Friend. It's showing in cinemas at

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Speaker 2: the moment. Stars Bill Murray and Naomi What's next up?

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Speaker 2: Tell us about this wonderfully titled film, Jane Austin Wrecked

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Speaker 2: My Life.

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Speaker 3: So I am loving rom coms at the moment because

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Speaker 3: I feel like a whole lot of directors are coming

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Speaker 3: rom com in the same formula that they've always been

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Speaker 3: made in. It's a great genre. Let's have some fun

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Speaker 3: And this is a French English production and it stars

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Speaker 3: Camille Rutherford as a Gut and a Gut too. Is

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Speaker 3: an author. She works in this beautiful Parisian bookshop that

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Speaker 3: She has writer's block. She's single, She's got this best friend, Felix,

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Speaker 3: so she's not sure whether actually there's something more there.

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Speaker 3: She's a little awkward, she overthinks everything a little clumsy.

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Speaker 3: She's just basically stuck in a rut. And a friend

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Speaker 3: which and she of course feels like she's very much

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Speaker 3: out of her rut. It's really charming. It's kind of

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Speaker 3: it's kind of Richard Curtis like, with sort of the

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Speaker 3: delightful kind of clumsiness that the characters have, but not

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Speaker 3: quite as outright funny. But I really grew this character,

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Speaker 3: really grew on me. At first, she's a little a

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Speaker 3: in her own little way, and I became really fond

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Speaker 3: of her and hoped for the best. So there's both

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Speaker 3: these films are sort of the lovely, kind of pleasant

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Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon watchers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this sounds great. Okay, that's Jane Austin Wrecked My Life.

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Speaker 2: That showing in cinemas now as well. Francesca's first film

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Speaker 2: is The Friend Hey Francisca. Did you see the New

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Speaker 2: York Times and their big effort to do the hundred

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Speaker 2: best films of the century so far?

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Speaker 3: I guess, But what are they up to?

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Speaker 2: Name number one? Yeah, the name number one? So for

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Speaker 2: anyone who hasn't seen it. They went through this thing

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Speaker 2: where they went and contacted heaps of filmmakers and actors

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Speaker 2: they also opened it up to public voting.

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Speaker 3: The public.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, And I think they said something like

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Speaker 2: two hundred thousand submissions in the public voting, which is amazing.

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Speaker 2: And so they've got a list of the top hundred

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Speaker 2: films of the century so far. And I went through

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Speaker 2: the list, and I've got to say I was surprised

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Speaker 2: at how it's not how few kind of arty films

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Speaker 2: they were, but I was kind of pleasantly surprised by

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Speaker 2: how mainstream some of the films were.

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Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, what was number one?

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Speaker 2: Parasite?

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, I think I have seen that list.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a good call. Parasite, I mean, not

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Speaker 2: having seen nearly like I reckon, I've probably seen a

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Speaker 2: quarter of the films on one hundred, maybe Slaying more thirty,

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Speaker 2: but I reckon, I mean Parasite. Well, Parasite was a

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Speaker 2: very good film. Yeah, a little goal for you. The

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Speaker 2: good thing is I've just got heaps of time at

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Speaker 2: the moment, just heaps and heaps of available times. So

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Speaker 2: I'm imagined in the conversation actually just getting home after

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Speaker 2: the show today saying to my wife, Look, Francesca sees

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Speaker 2: actually that I just need to spend a whole lot

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Speaker 2: less time looking after the baby and a whole lot

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Speaker 2: more time watching movies.

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Speaker 3: You can give it a whil Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, Yeah, yeah, we'll turn into another parasite going to film,

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Speaker 2: I think if we're not careful. Hey, thank you so much,

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Speaker 2: have a great weekend and we will catch you soon.

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Speaker 2: Francisca Rudkin, our film reviewer. This week's picks The Friend

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Speaker 2: and Jane Austin Wrecked My Life will have details for

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Speaker 2: both of those up on the News Talks CB website.

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