I really like "The Long Good Friday", too. "Death of the Maiden", also, but not as much.. Sigorney Weaver is one of those actresses that has something special going on. Some kind of resolve or something. Her "Ripley" really made the Alien movies work as well as they did. The first one was Ridley Scott (I know you already know that) and along with Blade Runner showed he had great imagination although after those he pretty much became just another director for hire in my opinion.