Film

The Revenant to Toni Erdmann to Elle: a look back at the year's best films

Barry Jenkins's new film about growing up black and gay is raw, sincere and game-changing

The history of ‘other’ cinema stretches from the explosion of film as a popular art in America to the late 1940s, when integration began, haltingly, in Hollywood and in popular culture

Irony and honesty combine in the work of the late Ellen Cantor

On Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival

Coinciding with their current show at Carroll / Fletcher, London, John Wood and Paul Harrison share and explain four of their early films

On Robert Greene’s new meta-documentary Kate Plays Christine

This week’s Culture Digest focuses on three new film releases. First up, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey

This week’s Culture Digest rounds up some highlights from the 54th New York Film Festival

Animal cloning, police violence, and clubbing - the '90s in video by Nicolas Trembley

Ahead of Samson Kambalu's new work as part of this year's Frieze Film, a look at some of the films made under his ‘Nyau cinema rules’

The final part of this week's Culture Digest: some favourite documentaries available online

The second part of this week's Culture Digest: some of the best archival documentaries freely available online

This week's Culture Digest focuses on the power of documentaries: first up, an interview with the producer of a film profiling a Sicilian judge called ‘the most threatened man in Italy’

A major retrospective reveals Bruce Conner’s reach beyond the field of experimental cinema

Jonas Mekas to Maud Alpi to Lina Rodriguez to Júlio Bressane – highlights from the Swiss film festival

Two recent films show contrasting attitudes to the indigenous cultures of the Amazon 

The return of Pee-wee Herman’s queer carnivalesque 

Tom Morton on Ragnar Kjartansson and the eternal return

Gianfranco Rosi’s brilliant, difficult documentary addressing the migrant crisis