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The happy day is almost upon us: cinemas are reopening on May 17, and this time for good (we hope). To celebrate, we’ve asked a few film luminaries to share their earliest cinema-going memories. The outing where the movie bug bit for the first time – or in one case, just loomed out of the screen like an acid trip – and wax nostalgic on what made it memorable.
Ken Loach remembers a date gone wrong, Alice Lowe recalls falling hard for
The Dark Crystal, Rachel Weisz shares her
Wizard of Oz trauma, and to kick it off, Edgar Wright recounts his first moviegoing memory:
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â¶ï¸ Zana is available to stream on BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema and other digital platforms, and to buy on DVD.
A woman leads a placid cow through a drowsy summer meadow; the air thrums with clean life as they pick their way down to a stream. But when they get there, the water is foul: a bovine corpse is rotting in the mud. The woman recoils, turning back towards the living cow she has been leading. But sheâs gone â thereâs only lush summer air where the cow used to be. Most chillingly of all, the woman doesnât seem particularly surprised.Â
Rebel Wilson received some bad news relating to her fertility struggles this weekend.
The Pitch Perfect actress took to her Instagram page on Sunday to share a sombre photo of her standing on rocks on a coastline while dressed in an all-black outfit, with her looking away from the camera with a sad look on her face.
In the accompanying caption, the 41-year-old confessed she d received some bad news relating to fertility and felt the need to share it. I got some bad news today and didn’t have anyone to share it with.but I guess I gotta tell someone, she wrote. To all the women out there struggling with fertility, I feel ya. The universe works in mysterious ways and sometimes it all doesn’t make sense.but I hope there’s light about to shine through all the dark clouds.
Chosen by Nicholas Alexander
Do you ever pop on a podcast to fall asleep to? I do. Every night. If youâre anything like me, youâll be familiar with that feeling of drifting off while listening. Sentences swim around you, stripped of their meaning. Words collect in little incoherent groups at the edge of consciousness, as you tip-toe a tightrope on the outskirts of sleep.
In BBC Soundsâ comedy-horror âsleep-aidâ The Sink, writer Natasha Hodgson, producer Andy Goddard, and composer David Cumming, have somehow managed â through alchemy of language and sound â to recreate that exact feeling.
Even while trying to remember certain scenes to write this piece, I find them slipping away like dreams. I think itâs something to do with their lack of internal logic â shapes shift, locations lurch, characters change â but I canât be sure. What I do remember is that there are birds, scarecrows, fires, swimming pools, other things.