1000 films to see before you dieFilmFilms beginning with RRadio On (Chris Petit, 1980) Perhaps the only British film of the period that captures a sense of the ennui, drift and dejection of the unlamented late 1970s. Bowing towards Wim Wenders' great German road movies, it's also a meditation of the state of the nation's cinema, and a memorable, successful attempt to make a genuine British art movie. Magnificent soundtrack.

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Theatre This article is more than 14 years oldObituaryRobert AndersonThis article is more than 14 years oldAmerican playwright made famous by the sad and poignant Tea and SympathyRobert Anderson, who has died aged 91, had a sign over his desk in his Manhattan apartment which read "nobody asked you to be a playwright", to remind him that it was pointless to complain about the problems many have in getting their plays performed.

TheatreReviewOld Vic, London This vaudeville about the Great Depression showcases Miller’s capacity to capture the state of a troubled nation The impromptu Arthur Miller festival – initiated by the transfer of Jonathan Church’s superb revival of The Price to Wyndham’s theatre – continues with a rare sighting of this panoramic 1980 play about America during the Great Depression. Described as “a vaudeville”, it shows how the nation’s built-in optimism came up against economic reality and, in a production by Rachel Chavkin, who directed Hadestown, it has an appropriately epic sweep.