Cinema

Florence Platarets’s new documentary on the late auteur inadvertently asks whether Cannes Film Festival has lost its taste for radical politics

Other highlights include a Ghanaian internet radio station rapidly taking over international airwaves and the latest novel from Nell Zink

Released in the UK this month, Caitlin Quinlan explores what Todd Field's TÁR (2022) reveals about the abuses of power and the possibilities of accountability 

The former starlet’s return to the screen is just a reminder of how far she has fallen from favour

Rafa Sales Ross, a former employee of the now-closed Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen, describes what's at stake with public funding cuts across film and culture

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker discusses how she imbues topics relating to race, class and social justice with poetic urgency

The auteur inverts Hollywood genre tropes in an alien invasion romp that questions what we see and believe

Ela Bittencourt investigates the ways in which film directors in the 1960s and '70s used surrealism as a way of interrogating unstable political moments and reimagining the future 

The novelist watches Joanna Hogg’s two recent films and muses on how they convey the lessons learned in creative practices

The director’s return to the body horror genre exposes crimes of the heart

Featuring Emma Stone, Damien Bonnard and a well-trained trip of goats, the Greek director’s silent short frees him from the pressures of the box office

Rory O’Connor watches the filmmaker’s distinctive oeuvre which brings low-budget austerity to the film festival circuit

In Does Your House Have Lions (2021), the filmmaking duo explore the meaning of friendship, community and freedom against a backdrop of inequality and state violence

Artists Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny on their multimedia project, which investigates the parallels between North American Indigenous reservations and Palestinian refugee camps

Gessica Généus’s feature film debut tells a touching story about a young woman’s struggle to find hope in a country full of despair and violence

From the red/blue pill symbolism to the trans allegory, McKenzie Wark muses on the real-life narratives surrounding the simulated world of The Matrix

In his newest hallucinatory animation, ‘Life After BOB’, the artist questions self-determination in an algorithmic age

Sasha Frere-Jones pens a letter to Todd Haynes, the director of the new documentary, which charts the band’s illustrious career

The activist and videomaker’s adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide (1928) is a production of pure absurdity in the face of mortality

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