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The sci-fi weepie, released 40 years ago this month, is about more than a lost alien – it's about a director filling 'the gap in his heart'

With David Lynch, the late composer made the most gorgeously disturbing music ever set to film. And it was as comforting as apple pie

How a surreal advertising satire starring a pot-smoking dwarf as the president inspired a generation of filmmakers – and the director's son

The ultimate disaster movie had incredible stunts, impeccable design and a cast full of Oscar-winners. And Gene Hackman hated every minute

The making of the $200m epic involved mass walk-outs, giant tantrums and a terrified Kate Winslet – as recalled by cast and crew

Feuding cast members, a constantly evolving script and pricky geopolitics – how the 18th 007 film almost completely unravelled

The Oscar-winning epic made the actor a star – but he almost proved the film's undoing

Shelley Long's departure almost doomed the biggest sitcom of its time. But her volatile and eccentric replacement only made it funnier

Kevin Costner's hit thriller may have bombed without his co-star's soundtrack album – and an intervention from her mentor, Clive Davis

Robert Zemeckis’s comedy horror bombed at the box office and put Meryl Streep off CGI for good. But 30 years on, was it ahead of its time?