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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

“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

Louder

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.

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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 Guardian - US

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.

The Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Louder

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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

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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

Salon

"The Man Who Fell to Earth" lifts off

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris are crack co-pilots in this continuation of the tale immortalized by David Bowie

Los Angeles Times

Review: Showtime’s ‘Man Who Fell to Earth’ sequel won’t blow your mind, but it’s solid sci-fi

Like the Walter Tevis novel on which it’s based, Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 film “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” in which an alien, played by David Bowie, travels to this planet to save his dying people, ends in failure. A sequel to that story, premiering Sunday on Showtime, seems determined…

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The Man Who Fell to Earth review – small screen sequel series crash lands

A misbegotten and poorly paced attempt to update the 1976 cult sci-fi classic wastes stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris

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