Today’s Number One Film:

Stranger Than Fiction, 6.15pm The Film Channel. Watch this if you liked The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Pleasantville. In our cluttered modern mediascape, it is unusual to find anything that stands out at all, far less a young director original enough to be declared an auteur – but Marc Forster (b Switzerland, November 1968) is one, as his earlier films, Stay, Finding Neverland and Monster’s Ball substantiate.

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