Flying into the night

Filming the unfilmable?

"George Roy Hill's marvellous adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, which switches back and forth from the bombing of Dresden, a German POW camp, post-war America and the fictional planet of Tralfamadore, where the hero Billy Pilgrim is taken by aliens and forced to mate in a glass dome with film star Montana Wildhack (the impossibly pneumatic Valerie Perrine). As adaptations of strange and "unfilmable" novels go, this is one of the finest. And, incidentally, as alien-abduction experiences go, Pilgrim's is many notches above the usual rectal-probing favoured by our intergalactic cousins."

It's all a matter of approach.