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Hot The Shining Who knew the horror classic was in fact director Stanley Kubrick's veiled confession that he helped Nasa fake its moon-landing footage? Acclaimed film Room 237 chronicles this and all the other conspiracy theories that have sprung up around the movie. The recession Four years after it all began, economic apocalypse is the big theme here, taking a starring role in Killing Them Softly (about how the credit crunch has been affecting, er, those nice hitmen) and cameoing almost everywhere else. My Engine's Fragile Sound A three-hour Portuguese drama about the existential doubts of an unborn child in the body of its comatose mother. Easily scoops the prize for toughest pitch. Not Lifts In the Majestic hotel, Amour star Jean-Louis Trintignant, 81, is spotted getting firmly squeezed between the elevator doors. Minutes later, Nick Cave is seen taking the stairs, followed by one of the Dardenne brothers. Plastic roofs The Soixantième theatre used to be famed for its lack of loos. Now its plastic roof has collapsed under the weight of rainwater. Screenings have since taken on an extra frisson. Dignity Fanboys? In Cannes? At the end of each press conference, seemingly bona fide journalists have been rushing down to the front to get an autograph.