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5 things to watch this weekend – 16 to 18 August
Loud to quiet as the Alien returns with a bang, while Viggo Mortensen takes his time telling an understated cowboy tale. What are you watching this weekend?
By Matthew Thrift
Alien: Romulus: a terrifying return to the visceral menace of the original
By Roger Luckhurst
Two previews: Au hasard Balthazar and Masculin Féminin
By Richard Roud
All We Imagine as Light, this year’s Cannes Grand Prix winner, to be released by BFI Distribution
All We Imagine as Light, this year’s Cannes Grand Prix winner, to be released by BFI DistributionOnly the River Flows: wonderfully bizarre Chinese noir sets a murder investigation in an empty cinema
By Tom Charity
Eight Postcards from Utopia: Radu Jude’s twisted TV guide to Romanian history
By Pamela Hutchinson
Gena Rowlands: performance from the inside out
By Lizzie Francke
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Walter Murch, the Oscar-winning film editor and sound designer, discusses his work on The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola’s thriller about our surveillance society. The Palme d’Or-winning film turns 50 this year and it continues to grow in relevance and stature.
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