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As Local Hero returns to cinemas for its 40th anniversary, we revisit our review of Bill Forsyth’s Ealing-esque comedy from our Spring 1983 issue.

Celebrating 50 years of the film that helped spread the word about reggae to a global audience: the Jimmy Cliff classic The Harder They Come.

Print Every cinematographer prizes those spontaneous, magic moments — what photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called “the decisive moment” — when the essence of the film crystalizes before the lens both visually and thematically. For Quyen Tran, Tobias Schliessler Chris Menges and Ben Smithard, their favorite shots from the notable new films they photographed all capture that ineffable yet decisive scene when the actors’ performances deepen our understanding with new layers of meaning. And in more than one case, these shots seem to epitomize the heartbreaking pain, trauma or isolat...