Film

Rarely screened for decades, Wanda, written, directed and starring Barbara Loden, is a landmark of American independent cinema

Presented at the Rubin Museum, New York, can art offer a way of viewing nature as an actor in its own right?

A new series of screenings in New York tells a bracing account of filmmaking under the Russian leader

A tender new film about the fashion icon and troubled genius whose creative vision ‘started the 21st century’

Michelle Orange traces the recent history of Iranian films, from Jafar Pahahi’s Taxi (2015) to Mani Haghighi’s Pig (2018)

Sophie Fiennes’s new film Bloodlight and Bami reveals a personal side of the singer as yet unseen 

In a year charged with politicized tensions, mastery of craft trumps truth-to-power commentary

Netflix is actively and self-servingly restricting the platforms films can occupy, but it’s not the only one grumbling about Cannes’s fussy rules

To celebrate the 30^th anniversary of the Second Summer of Love, Gucci and Frieze present new films exploring the cultural impact of acid house

Avengers: Infinity War confirms the domination of mass culture by the franchise: what ever happened to narrative closure?

Pointed in its politics and inspiringly imaginative, Empty Metal queries whether the end of the world might already have taken place

From Grave of the Fireflies to The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, the visionary director grounded fantasy with emotional force

This year’s edition of the acclaimed documentary film festival showcased an impressive combination of social realism and artistic manipulation

Filmmakers RaMell Ross and Khalik Allah elide the reductive narrative wholeness usually demanded of documentaries about black subjects

This edition of AV Festival, held in Newcastle and Gateshead, asks: can socialist concerns and agendas be rehabilitated for today’s anxious times?

In the artists’ film strand, Margaret Salmon, Basma Alsharif and Martine Syms showed a strong emphasis on people, place and storytelling

From Better Things to Motherhood and SMILF: Michelle Orange charts the turn towards nuanced representations of women in film and TV

Ahead of the Oscars the director of the art world satire talks about making the real-life Square, the Swedish monarchy and male moral failure

Lynne Tillman on Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, a tightly wrought film about a tightly controlled man

The Barbadian filmmaker, recipient of this year’s Margaret Tait Award, is intent on disrupting institutional complacency