Film

The mythic time of comic-book narrative represents a fatal challenge to the film’s transcendent politics

From the controversial winner of the Golden Bear to Morgan Fisher's homage to Bruce Conner – to possibly the bleakest film ever made

A series of ‘magical transformations’: Tacita Dean’s new work launches across three institutions in London

Naeem Mohaiemen’s films reflect on recent histories of the global radical Left

With the arrival of the first superhero film to feature a black lead since 1998's Blade, a reading list on black comic-book culture

‘That moment, that smile’: collaborators of the filmmaker pay tribute to a force in California's film and music scenes and a vital friend and ally

How documentary filmmakers are experimenting with historical narratives to better understand the present

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film is both gorgeous and troubling in equal measure

At New York’s Metrograph, a diverse film programme addresses a ‘central problem’ of feminist filmmaking

Ahead of a show at Amsterdam’s EYE Filmmuseum, how the documentarian’s wandering gaze takes in China’s landscapes of loss

Robin Campillo’s portrait of ACT UP Paris puts militancy before mourning

Should acting awards be gender neutral? 

Arthur Jafa’s intertwining of video collage and music has the power to open up minds and bodies

Why do we love to watch people who can’t act?

Johan Grimonprez’s recent films explore the mechanisms of the arms trade

Helen Marten responds to Ed Atkins’s new work, Old Food, currently showing at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

The New York-based filmmaker has been questioning the politics of image-making for more than three decades

Despite its magic unreality, Yorgos Lanthimos’s tale of complicity reflects a brutal real-world collateral

Two films using time and repetition to question our fragile relationship to lived reality and revolutionary politics

The debut feature film by Austin Lynch and Matthew Booth is a captivating portrait of America loosely inspired by reclusive artist Forrest Bess