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A bumper Movietime this week. Jason di Rosso talks with Paul Thomas Anderson about his dark, disturbing film The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as a manipulative cult leader and Joaquin Phoenix as a brain-addled disciple. Julie Rigg talks with  Ben Lewin about his Sundance hit The Sessions: the story of a polio disabled poet and a sex surrogate.

On Movietime this week, a duo of French films. You Will be My Son is a strong family drama about succession in a French vineyard, as a formidable father chooses to pass over his own son in favour of the son of his foreman. And we meet Bouli Lanners, the delightful comic actor from Belgium who has now made a thoughtful film about two runaway teenage boys: The Giants.

This week on Movietime, we meet Amiel Courtin-Wilson, whose new film Hail is groundbreaking Australian cinema. We also meet Mark Cousins, whose monumental, 15 hour documentary series The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a seductive guide to the development of film language and aesthetics. And we review Argo, Ben Affleck’s high voltage drama about the 1980 rescue of six American hostages from Tehran, disguising them as a film crew.