Oscar winner Kenneth Branagh has been announced as the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award recipient at the Richard Harris International Film Festival taking place in his native Limerick this weekend.
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Where’s it on? BBC1, Friday, 10.45pm
The pick of the films showing on the big five TV channels this weekend is this terrific 1980s thriller in which Harrison Ford plays a detective assigned to protect a young Amish boy who witnesses the killing of an undercover policeman. This was the first American film by Peter Weir, one of the leading lights of the 1970s Australian New Wave, who would go on to make a string of thoughtful, distinctive Hollywood projects, including Fearless (1993) and The Truman Show (1998). It becomes a fish-out-of-water drama in which Ford’s worldly Philadelphia cop finds himself adjusting to the rhythms of a Pennsylvanian Amish community where time and tradition seem to have stood still for centuries. Weir’s film generates considerable tension in the clash between this agrarian existence and the peril that threatens it when the bad guys come looking for young Samuel (Lukas Haas) and his mother (Kelly McGillis).