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The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery of DB Cooper review – a real-life Twin Peaks

This highly entertaining Storyville documentary sifts the evidence on the only unsolved case of air piracy in US history, to ask who the mysterious DB Cooper really was

The Guardian

Kate Moss delivers a killer anecdote but the subject of this documentary is reluctant to reveal much about her glory years

Towards the end of this documentary, Vivienne Westwood’s son Joe Corré describes her as Britain’s last genuine punk. There is truth in that. Punk may have effectively vanished in music, but it lives on in Westwood’s clothes, style and the poses she strikes publicly. In this film, she is reluctant to talk about punk rock or her personal life, perhaps aware of the controversy generated by her ghosted 2016 autobiography, in which she laid into various figures and made sweeping and rather startling statements – such as claiming that her first husband, airline pilot Derek Westwood, managed the Who in the early 60s.

This film takes us through her early life: when she wafts into the orbit of Malcolm McLaren, who made their fashion store Sex a punk headquarters of sorts. Their acrimonious split left Westwood to battle on alone, to raise two children and to survive the worlds of fashion and business – which she did, with no little courage, and mostly without the corporate support which was to be lavished on more mainstream designers such as Stella McCartney.

The Guardian