Observer Film Quarterly.

"When I ask how it feels to be a living legend of male iconography, he laughs - a throaty chuckle that sounds like the crackle of tinder burning." Yes, Elizabeth Day has met Clint Eastwood.

Also in the Observer Film Quarterly: "How peculiar that the name we have given to one of cinema's most intangible appeals for our approval is 'chemistry,' when there is nothing in the least bit scientific about it," writes Ryan Gilbey. "The next few months will see studios and distributors going into overdrive as they launch the movies on which they are pinning their Oscar hopes, and a good deal of these will stand or fall on whether or not audiences warm to the partnerships at the center of them."

Killian Fox asks Miranda July about the films that have meant most to her and with Baz Luhrmann about Australia. Also, a round up of "the potential classics that fell foul of fate."

Focusing on Waltz with Bashir, Lemon Tree and To See If I'm Smiling, Gali Gold previews the UK Jewish Film Festival, running November 8 through 20.

"Whatever happened to funny at the pictures?" asks Jason Solomons. Also, a talk with Danny Boyle: "The special feeling I remember about Trainspotting was that holy grail of when your own people go to watch their own films."

A quick preview of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: "[T]he first US screenings reportedly left viewers in tears and it's already being tipped for Oscars glory."

Philip French lists his "top ten scenes in lifts."

Rachel Getting Married has Charles Gant thinking about sibling rivalries in the movies; and there's an accompanying list.

Meanwhile, in the paper, Philip French recommends Of Time and the City and Hunger, Mark Kermode celebrates the release of My Winnipeg on DVD in the UK and Jason Solomons looks back on the highlights of the London Film Festival.

James Purton reviews William S Burroughs and Jack Kerouac's And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a "barely encrypted roman à clef" which tells the story that'll be retold in Kill Your Darlings.

Anthony Holden reviews For You, an opera by Michael Berkeley with a libretto by novelist Ian McEwan.

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