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  Five things to watch this weekend – 3-5 April

  Coen brothers, Hitchcock and the 12th “best film of the 21st century” – what are you watching this weekend?

  Samuel Wigley
  Friday 3 April 2020

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  Voodoo road: Marina Warner on David Lynch’s Lost Highway

  In this feature originally published in our August 1997 issue, Marina Warner explores Lynch’s byzantine thriller, a film whose shadow stealing and spirit doubling goes beyond Blue Velvet to the edge of identity itself.

  Marina Warner
  Friday 3 April 2020

  From our archives

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  The Whalebone Box review: Andrew Kötting journeys into his daughter’s dreams

  The filmmaker and his daughter Eden accompany Iain Sinclair on a voyage north, bearing a talisman that radiates with psychic energy, writs Ben Nicholson.

  Ben Nicholson
  Friday 3 April 2020

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  10 great British comedy films of the 1960s

  From Dr. Strangelove to Carry On Cleo: we salute the comedies keeping the British end up through the swinging 60s.

  David Parkinson
  Thursday 2 April 2020

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  A message to our readers: we’re here to stay

  How we’re planning for the Covid-19 quarantine – from special issues to a new email Weekly Film Bulletin.

  Mike Williams
  Thursday 2 April 2020

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  Dream palaces: Rian Johnson on the distinct charm of the New Beverly Cinema

  Rian Johnson, the director of Knives Out and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, recalls rats and Rita Hayworth in the dingy sanctuary of LA’s revered revival cinema owned by Quentin Tarantino, the New Beverly.

  James Mottram
  Wednesday 1 April 2020

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  Where to stream the best silent films

  Streaming tips for people who want to explore the dawn of cinema.

  Pamela Hutchinson
  Wednesday 1 April 2020

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  The numbers: the coronavirus effect on the UK box office

  With UK cinemas shut, and a nation of couch potatoes glued to Netflix and Curzon at home, the way people watch films may be changing forever.

  Charles Gant
  Wednesday 1 April 2020

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  All I desire: women watching men at the movies

  To mark the publication of Christina Newland’s new collection of women’s film writing She Found It at the Movies, here’s her manifesto for a proudly subjective, impressionistic and lusty female film criticism, from our October 2017 issue.

  Christina Newland
  Tuesday 31 March 2020

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  How the coronavirus hit cinema

  Like every other part of life, the business of making and showing films has been disrupted in extraordinary ways – and nobody knows what the future will bring, reports Guy Lodge.

  Guy Lodge
  Tuesday 31 March 2020

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