Hitchcock (12)
Anthony Hopkins takes the titular role in this well-regarded biopic concentrating on the English director's fascination with a grisly murder case and his determination to turn it into a film despite the misgivings of the studio heads. The film became Psycho, of course, probably his most famous work. Scarlett Johansson takes the Janet Leigh role, while Helen Mirren is Hitch's long-suffering wife, Alma.
Weird Adventures (U)
Latest BFI release mining the gems of the Children's Film Foundation archive. Weird is right, too: contained here are the Michael Powell-directed, Emeric Pressburger-scripted 1972 oddity The Boy Who Turned Yellow; a bizarre 1961 film from Ealing Studios' Brazilian stalwart Alberto Cavalcanti about a monster in Hampstead Pond – the special effects are hilarious; and 1978's A Hitch In Time starring Patrick Troughton as an eccentric time-traveller. No stretch for him, of course: he played the second Doctor Who.
To The Wonder (15)
Probably the least successful Terrence Malick film of the last 20 years, though as the frequency of production quickens from one to three films a decade, there are bound to be one or two duds. And of course even that term is debatable where Malick is concerned: 1978 "dud" Days Of Heaven is now considered a masterpiece. Here, Ben Affleck becomes embroiled in a sort of menage a quatre with Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem as the action shifts (slowly) between Paris and Oklahoma.
Perfect Friday (12)
Starring Stanley Baker, Ursula Andress and David Warner, this British curio from 1970 has slipped out of the canon of great British crime capers. It turns on a bank heist organised by Baker, who's also the bank's manager, with Andress and Warner as the bling-crazy aristocratic couple he persuades to carry out the robbery. Directed by Sir Peter Hall, it has an appropriately cool jazz soundtrack by John Dankworth.
Barry Didcock
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