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Alien encounter: on the set of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror
Before the world knew what had hit it, our reporter Philip Strick visited the set of Ridley Scott’s answer to Star Wars, to discuss terror, smoke and the Alien Problem. From our Winter 1978/79 issue.
By Philip Strick
The Piano Lesson: August Wilson adaptation adds to a rich tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling
By Roger Luckhurst
No Other Land: powerful documentary about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank asks questions of us all
By Nick Bradshaw
“An orgy of physical bravado”: Point Break reviewed in 1991
By Philip Strick
Stranger Eyes: unnerving Singaporean thriller interrogates contemporary surveillance culture
By Tony Rayns
Juror #2: Eastwood’s courtroom thriller is a throwback to an era of straightforwardly grown-up studio entertainment
By Guy Lodge
“The scale of any project is secondary – it’s always about the quality of the writing”: Cillian Murphy on Small Things like These
By Sinéad Gleeson
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“It was fairly anarchic…” Nick Broomfield recalls Greek cinema under the stars with all-natural extras
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Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
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Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
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