pick of the week

ET - The Extra Terrestrial

Rare chance to see one of modern cinema's most spellbinding moments where it belongs - in 70mm, with you crying your heart out.

Sat 7.30pm, NFT (0171-928 3232)

The Seven Samurai

Kurosawa's still-compelling epic deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Citizen Kane and Female Trouble.

Sun 7pm, Bradford Film Theatre (01274-727488)

Withnail & I

Snapshot of the 1960s, with two unemployed luvvies (Paul McGann and Richard E Grant) bumming around on bad drugs and bad vibes. Prickly, painfully funny and oddly poignant. Opens the NFT's "Screenage Kicks" season.

Tues 8.45pm, NFT