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Only HumanDouglas Adams' surreal SF comedyHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a huge cult success as a radio series, a TV show and a novel. But does the long-awaited film adaptation work, asks Andrew Osmond. Plus its director-producer team talk to Edward Lawrenson; and Warwick Davis, the actor inside Marvin the Paranoid Android, talks to Andy Kimton-Nye.
ImpulseThe best films of Otto Preminger are like Renoir crossed with Fritz Lang. With the rerelease ofAnatomy of a Murder David Thomson rehabilitates a neglected genius.
Abbas Kiarostami's 'Koker Trilogy' is exquisitely poised between fiction and real life, opening film to new formal experiences. It's his greatest work, argues Gilberto Perez.
Invited to give his expert opinion on Ridley Scott's crusader movieKingdom of Heaven, Islamic historian Hamid Dabashi was intrigued. Shown an early cut of the movie by the director himself, Dabashi explains why it isn't anti-Islam.
In Todd Solondz'sPalindromes eight actors of different gender, age and size play the same 12-year-old heroine. Here Solondz tells Demetrios Matheou why he identifies with them all.
Malcolm McDowell has established a controversial career playing teenage thugs and psychotic tyrants with the grace of a dancer. Mark Kermode admires his moves.
Combining film history, literary criticism, and the author's love for Nicole Kidman,The Whole Equation impresses Kevin Jackson. Plus What did silent films sound like, Lindsay Anderson, and remembering Britain's film factory.
The Consequences of LoveThe hero of 'The Consequences of Love' is an emotionless middle-aged man confined to an anonymous Swiss hotel. Philip Kemp enjoys his stay.
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