Film

With the UK film release of Jack London’s novel Martin Eden, Caitlin Quinlan speaks to the director about the adaption's themes of class, mobility and hazardous individual success

In the lead-up to her film, Bergman Island (2021), director Mia Hansen-Løve talks about the task of capturing youth and the future of cinema

At a time of enforced distancing, Sharon Hayes’s Ricerche: two examines the intimacy of women’s American football teams

Brian Dillon on the television programme’s museum of images and memories 

With preventable fires and flooding destroying many of Brazil's cultural institutions, what's at stake for the country's most significant film and television archive?

Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film about a group of middle-aged men finding happiness through the habitual consumption of alcohol is sentimental and without complexity

In his new film, White Cube, the artist – again – perpetuates the very form of exploitation he is criticizing

The most exciting works of the first online edition of the festival look at strategies of care and ways of refusing neoliberalism

Curtis’s new BBC series, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, depicts the repetitive bleakness of individualism, but how can we collectively envision an alternative?

Skaka King's film on the life and assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton exceptionally examines the ever-present interplay between race and capital

The artist’s first feature film depicts a mother-daughter pair of grifters trying to stay afloat through financial recession 

The subject of retrospective at the London Short Film Festival, Videofreex’s Guerrilla TV tactics preceded the use of citizen-shot footage in contemporary media

Silvia Lara is the recipient of the inaugural Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award. Her film comprises poetic vignettes, capturing the essence of life in her home town of Whittier, California through the perspective of its residents

Despite a brilliant performance by Carey Mulligan, the post-#MeToo thriller is an anti-climax 

The films and books that kept us afloat in a calamitous year

The much-hyped festive blockbuster staring Kristen Stewart may be sold as heart-warming seasonal tale, but it presents as a painful watch, wrapped-up in outdated clichés of the queer experience

Remi Weekes transposes the classic haunted house genre to a mouldering council flat inhabited by South Sudanese refugees

The five-film series is an epic, tender portrait of London’s West Indian community

John Kelsey on how the French iconoclast rewrites film history, one image at a time

The new Netflix documentary is a distraction from the drive to regulate tech companies, including Netflix itself