The Spanish director Jonás Trueba finds humour in the ephemerality of romance with the story of a longterm couple who are planning a big party to celebrate their break-up.

Influential film theorist and filmmaker Peter Wollen was a compulsive list-maker. His notebook contains fascinating lists on many themes, including this rundown of ’diabolical doctors’.

A reel-by-reel dovetailing of two films, one from Fascist Italy and the other from Soviet Russia, Record of War shows the Italian invasion of Ethiopia from radically opposed viewpoints. From our June ...

With The Gleaners and I, Agnès Varda was liberated by her digital camera to produce a more intimate form of documentary essay, marked by a deft political approach and a remarkable lightness of touch.

One hundred years after his birth, we pick a path through the films of the melancholy maestro of Indian cinema, Guru Dutt.

Unravelling the myth and mayhem of Apocalypse Now’s troubled shoot, Hearts of Darkness is the ’making of’ movie to end them all. As it returns to cinemas in a new restoration, co-director Fax Bahr ...

Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw plays a mother and daughter at odds under the Spanish sun in the new film of Deborah Levy’s novel Hot Milk. To greet its cinema release, we recommend 10 more films exploring ...

The celebrated British game designer has gone back to his globe-trotting conspiracy game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars for a new tweaked edition. He tells us what’s changed, and why there ...

From Jaws to Jeanne Dielman, Dog Day Afternoon to Salò, 1975 was a landmark year for cinema. Here, Adam Nayman inspects 1975’s many treasures – big blockbusters, revered classics and hidden gems alike ...

German film director Andreas Dresen creates a human-sized story rather than a heroic one with his portrayal of anti-Nazi dissents Hilde and Hans Coppi, set during Hilde’s trial for treason in wartime ...

As Blondie singer Debbie Harry turns 80, we remember her coolly controlled aura and dangerous mystique in David Cronenberg’s stomach-churning psychosexual satire Videodrome.

As Shane Meadows' indie marvel TwentyFourSeven arrives on Blu-ray, we recommend 10 other monochrome masterpieces of the modern era, from directors including Christopher Nolan, Sally Potter and Isaac ...