Kim Novak doc maker Alexandre O Philippe: ‘Hitchcock is still playing with us from beyond the grave’
The director of Kim Novak’s Vertigo and the 93-year-old film star at its centre held a seance to consult long-dead ‘master of suspense’ Alfred Hitchcock
Orwell 2+2=5 review: Scattershot portrait of late author and his ideas
Documentary illustrates continued relevance of his work but fails to ask questions about his role as informer
Below the Clouds review: Vesuvius looms large in mesmerising snapshot of Naples
Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary is the final instalment of a trilogy exploring contemporary Italian life
Ukrainian film-maker Sergei Loznitsa: ‘Once you understand the world exists in abstractions you can do whatever you want’
The Ukrainian director of Two Prosecutors, who studied maths and AI, says although a film may be about something tragic, ‘it is still a work of art, and its form has to be harmonious’
Four new films to see this week: Project Hail Mary, Dead Man’s Wire, Midwinter Break and La Grazia
Ryan Gosling, Bill Skarsgard, Al Pacino, Lesley Manville, Ciarán Hinds and Toni Servillo feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of March 20th, 2026
La Grazia review: Paolo Sorrentino gets his groove back with a compelling political drama
Toni Servillo impresses as an Italian president facing ethical and political crises
Dead Man’s Wire review: Energetic dramatisation of real-life hostage crisis
Bill Skarsgård plays struggling businessman Tony Kiritsis with a volatile mix of grievance, bravado and wounded pride
‘We said to Natalie Portman, we need you to protect the movie. And she did’
Ugo Bienvenu, director of the Oscar-nominated animated film Arco, on sticking with his creative vision
Pálmason: ‘I wasn’t interested in making a film if it wasn’t rooted in my children and surroundings’
The Love That Remains is a transportive comic crowd-pleaser about divorcing parents and their lively offspring and animals
Four new films to see this week: One Last Deal, Resurrection, Scarlet and A Pale View of Hills
Danny Dyer, Jackson Yee, Suzu Hirose and Yoh Yoshida feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of March 13th, 2026
Scarlet review: An audacious anime riff on Hamlet that never quite comes together
Mamoru Hosoda’s visual imagination remains formidable but the storytelling proves less assured
A Pale View of Hills review: visually elegant but its emotional core remains out of reach
Kei Ishikawa’s film simultaneously demonstrates the plusses and pitfalls of tackling Kazuo Ishiguro’s work
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Cillian Murphy is magnetic, but this spin-off saga’s razor has dulled
Barry Keoghan, as Duke Shelby, provides a volatility this offshoot of the TV series sorely needs
Sound of Falling director Mascha Schilinski: ‘We realised there were many repressed secrets’
German film-maker on how her Cannes-winning second feature brings women’s voices out of the margins
Báite: An absorbing, visually handsome murder mystery that never quite quickens the pulse
Ruán Magan’s Irish-language feature is adapted by Sheena Lambert from her own novel The Lake