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TV tonight: rags-to-riches Yorkshire period drama The Hardacres

Channel 5’s likeable version of Downton Abbey returns for a second season. Plus: a lost episode of Marecombe and Wise. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

50 Years Ago, An Enigmatic Sci-Fi Film Prompted a Rock Star’s Reinvention

Nicolas Roeg’s film ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ showcased David Bowie at his most extraterrestrial.

Inverse

‘We thought Midnight Cowboy might end everybody’s career’: the diverse, disruptive, Oscar-winning cinema of John Schlesinger

In the 60s and 70s, he pioneered kitchen-sink drama and made bisexuality mainstream. So why did the director end up making Tory ads? Those who knew him best reveal all

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5 best Roald Dahl movies to stream right now

These wondrous movies for children and adults were all adapted from books by the beloved author.

Tom’s Guide

TV tonight: on the trail of the man accused of murder by mail

A harrowing investigation into online suicide forums tracks the suspected supplier of the lethal poison used by several visitors to the sites. Plus: Poldark revisited by one of the series’ writers. Here’s what to watch today

The Guardian - UK

How Hideo Kojima created yet another weird, wonderful world in Death Stranding 2

In Kojima’s latest epic, the Australian outback becomes a shifting, spectral landscape that you can get lost in

The Guardian - UK

Oscars, eyebrows and accents: Anjelica Huston’s best roles - ranked!

From her Academy Award-winning performance in Prizzi’s Honor to the deliciously morbid Morticia Addams, we count down the Hollywood great’s top 10 turns

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Julie Christie at 85: her 20 best films – ranked!

To celebrate the Oscar-winning actor’s birthday this week, we look back at the highlights of a six-decade career, from early classics such as Doctor Zhivago and Billy Liar to later roles in Finding Neverland and Away From Her

The Guardian - UK

"Part of the genesis of Immortality was the three years I spent making a Legacy Of Kain game that got cancelled": Sam Barlow on the making of his "interactive movie"

Feature | "People kept calling these things 'interactive movies, and I was like, 'Yeah, they're not really, but okay. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's make an interactive movie!'"

GamesRadar

Donald Sutherland: Chameleonic actor and anti-war activist who combined charm with menace

The Canadian star of ‘Klute’, ‘M*A*S*H*’, ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ – who has died at the age of 88 – leaves behind a legacy of cinematic classics and progressive politics, writes Kevin E G Perry

The Independent UK

Donald Sutherland, actor whose career spanned 'Fellini’s Casanova' to 'Hunger Games,' dies at 88

Donald Sutherland, the prolific film and television actor whose long career stretched from “M.A.S.H.” to “Fellini’s Casanova” to “The Hunger Games,” has died. He was 88.

France 24

The 15 scariest horror movies ranked, from Don’t Look Now to Possession

According to critics, Russell Crowe’s new horror film ‘The Exorcism’ is a lacklustre affair. Thankfully, Adam White has curated 15 of the all-time spookiest horror movies to watch instead

The Independent UK

TV tonight: the shocking prevalence of abuse in British gymnastics

Hard-to-hear but essential accounts from former gymnasts who allege they were abused by their coaches. Plus: timeless wisdom from the Big Yin. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The big idea: why we shouldn’t shy away from sex scenes

Screen intimacy needn’t be a cringe-fest. Done well, it lays bare the characters’ deepest drives

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Louder

“Poor Iggy became a guinea pig for what I wanted to do with sound”: in 1977, David Bowie moved to Berlin to kick drugs. He emerged with five albums that changed music forever

Two Iggy Pop albums and the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ – the second half of the 1970s was David Bowie’s most groundbreaking period

Inverse

50 Years Ago, a Legendary Director Made a Terrifying Occult Thriller — And Created a New Genre

Nicolas Roeg's finest film is also one of the scariest films of all time. Fifty years later, its influence on the current wave of trauma horror cannot be understated.

The Guardian - US

Don’t Look Now at 50: Nicolas Roeg’s mesmeric horror of inescapable grief

The acclaimed adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s short story remains a visually immersive descent and a chilling portrayal of loss

The Conversation

Don't Look Now: moving, tender, haunting – and one of the best horror films of the last 50 years

Grief-stricken by the death of their daughter in a drowning accident, John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) relocate temporarily to a wintry Venice, where he has been commissioned to restore the crumbling church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli.

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The Guardian - UK

Kermode on… Nicolas Roeg: ‘Nothing is what it seems’

In the first of a new monthly Observer column on his favourite film-makers, Mark Kermode salutes the elliptical vision of the director of Don’t Look Now, Walkabout, Performance and so much more

Louder

Bowie on film: the stories behind 10 classic David Bowie movies

From The Man Who Fell To Earth to The Hunger, this is the best of David Bowie on the big screen

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The big picture: birth of the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, 1971

Fashion photographer Paul Misso attended the first festival with the now-famous stage, and captured a world of stoners, hippies and free entry

The Guardian - UK

What links Lesley Manville to Nic Roeg and Vic Reeves?

Go down the rabbit hole to discover how acting royalty meets the real thing, by way of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Verve

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield reunite for a wonderfully weird hour

The comedians’s spoof documentary sends up the history of the BBC, plus Aldi goes all Bake Off. Here’s what to watch this evening

Salon

Bill Nighy on David Bowie's alien legacy

On "Salon Talks," watch the "Love Actually" star discuss playing an alien rock star and the show's modern relevance

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