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‘I have danced naked in my front room, but you need shoes to really spin’
Bill Nighy  
‘I have danced naked in my front room, but you need shoes to really spin’
The star of The First Omen takes your questions on working as a chimney sweep, finessing his perfect sandwich – and hoping to die in a hail of bullets
Picks of the week
Isabelle Huppert  
‘I was never the woman behind the man… the only place I could take was the main place’
‘I was never the woman behind the man… the only place I could take was the main place’
‘Dalí’s were unfilmable’  
The astonishing story of Hitchcock’s lost storyboards – found in a bric-a-brac sale
The astonishing story of Hitchcock’s lost storyboards – found in a bric-a-brac sale
Shirley Henderson  
‘I start off thinking: ‘How will I ever be able to do this?’
‘I start off thinking: ‘How will I ever be able to do this?’
Shameless, silly and amoral  
The new wave of horny lesbian cinema
The new wave of horny lesbian cinema
‘He was always voraciously watching’  
Scorsese’s secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist
Scorsese’s secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist
‘There was unfinished business'  
Inside the female follow-up to the hit film Boys State
Inside the female follow-up to the hit film Boys State
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Freaky trip into the heart of imperial darkness
Disco Boy  
Freaky trip into the heart of imperial darkness
Giacomo Abbruzzese’s drama follows Belarusian Aleksei on his journey into the French Foreign Legion and a very strange epiphany in the Niger Delta
This week's reviews
Downstream to Kinshasa  
War survivors set sail on mission for reparations
War survivors set sail on mission for reparations
Silver Haze  
Memory-haunted portrait of scarred, damaged lives
Memory-haunted portrait of scarred, damaged lives
The Sweet East  
High-school student’s eccentric road trip up and down the coast
High-school student’s eccentric road trip up and down the coast
Kung Fu Panda 4  
Jack Black and Awkwafina in hurricane of slapstick more miss than hit
Jack Black and Awkwafina in hurricane of slapstick more miss than hit
Cidade Rabat  
Elegant, subtle study of a daughter’s grief
Elegant, subtle study of a daughter’s grief
We recommend
Mysterious Murakami tale of erotic and creative secrets
Drive My Car  
Mysterious Murakami tale of erotic and creative secrets
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi reaches a new grandeur with this engrossing adaptation about a theatre director grappling with Chekhov and his wife’s infidelity
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