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‘A magical being’
Shelley Duvall remembered by Woody Allen, Daryl Hannah and Michael Palin

The director of Annie Hall, and Duvall’s co-stars in Time Bandits and Roxanne, reflect on working with the actor, who died yesterday aged 75

Picks of the week

‘I saw In Bed with Madonna 50 times. I’d never seen guys kissing before’
Levan Akin on formative films, trans rights and usurping his heroes

‘Identity is more unstable than ever’
Riz Ahmed on new short film Dammi

‘I don’t think I have that in me’: what was Lena Dunham’s abandoned Polly Pocket movie actually going to involve?

Stuart Heritage

‘The catharsis was profound, but I’ll never watch it’
Alicia Witt on facing her demons on film

‘If my babysitter’s evil, I’m screwed!’
Horror director Ti West on outraging the moral majority

‘How do we stop this?’
Inuit woman unpacks trauma of being twice colonized

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Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

Sleep
Marriage unravels in gleeful Korean somnambulist psycho-chiller

Lee Sun-kyun appears posthumously in one of his best performances as an actor struggling to control his night-time excursions in this elegant and intimate horror

This week's reviews

Despicable Me 4
Gru goes into witness protection to keep Minion magic alive

Gru goes into witness protection to keep Minion magic alive

Hundreds of Beavers
Gold Rush-style spoof silent comedy fires gags at warp speed

Gold Rush-style spoof silent comedy fires gags at warp speed

The Commandant’s Shadow
Family of Auschwitz commander bring healing to death-camp survivor

Family of Auschwitz commander bring healing to death-camp survivor

Eno
Stimulating and cerebral look at the high priest of art-tech experimentalism

Stimulating and cerebral look at the high priest of art-tech experimentalism

Longlegs
Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum

Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum

We recommend

The Shining

Kubrick's magnificently capacious spooker bears the same relation to standard-issue horror as Eyes Wide Shut does to eroticism, writes Peter Bradshaw

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