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Clouzot’s towering inferno | A film called Hell.

Orson Welles: The most glorious film failure of them all | David Thomson on why Welles still fascinates.

Gays are being attacked – but we’re holding hands, heads held high

The first action heroine | Ellen Ripley and Alien, 30 years on.

One nation under a Moog | Synth Britannia.

Philip Pullman ranked second on US banned books list

La Roux: ‘Of course Lady Gaga’s not my thing’ | Elly Jackson on pop life, androgyny and related matters.

HG Wells anniversary ignites celebrations

Mirror, mirror | Simon Callow on The Picture of Dorian Gray.

TS Eliot revealed as defender of lesbian fiction

The Thing set on survival | Anne Billson on John Carpenter’s masterpiece.

‘It was basically freak-out music’ | Hawkwind again.

Unearthed again – golden hare that obsessed a nation | Kit Williams and Masquerade.

Faust’s blood, sweat and hell-fire | A lavish new stage production of Goethe.

Dream sleeves: John Walsh on how a 40 year old idea could save the music industry

Computers draw a new chapter in comics | Artist Dave Gibbons on comics and technology.

Ancient Cities Lost to the Seas | Dunwich and others.

Dogged by rumour: The riddles of Oz | Andrew Johnson and David Randall sift the truth from the lies surrounding the most watched film ever.

Dream and Delirium | Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo diaries reviewed.

The Wizard Of Oz at 70

Heinz Edelmann, ‘Yellow Submarine’ Artist, Dies at 75

How Amazon’s remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning’s digital future

Art of forgery: Fakes, mistakes and discoveries at the National

The sweet sound of hell | Goblin and Dario Argento.

When folk was hip | Joe Boyd on the folk revival of the 1960s.

Hope Sandoval – she went away but now she’s back | Free track available from her forthcoming album.

Heart of stone | Marina Warner on the sculpture of Peter Randall-Page.

Music sleuths seek out lost tunes | Stealing a march on the majors.

Michelangelo (by Michelangelo): Self-portrait discovered hidden in his final painting

The ugly spirit | Naked Lunch at 50.

The Untied States of America | New film and theatre projects from Adam Curtis.

Ralf Hütter: I got a new head, and I’m fine | Rare interview with Kraftwerk’s last original Man Machine.

Murder most stylish | David Thomson on directorial style. Great piece.

TS Eliot: Guru-in-chief | The poet as editor and businessman.

More sex please, you’re artists | Or less North, more South as Jon Hassell would say.

Pick and mixtape | How cassettes refuse to die.

The moon shoot: film of Apollo mission on show again after 35 years in the can

If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon’s Would Shriek | A centenary retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Cover ups: Storm Thorgerson’s iconic album artwork | From the Hipgnosis days and after.

How the West was written | Dario Argento and his work for Once Upon a Time in the West.