Film

With preventable fires and flooding destroying many of Brazil's cultural institutions, what's at stake for the country's most significant film and television archive?

The most exciting works of the first online edition of the festival look at strategies of care and ways of refusing neoliberalism

Lara’s winning film ‘Beauty Never Lost’ comprises poetic vignettes, capturing the essence of life in her home town of Whittier, California through the perspective of its residents

The much-hyped festive blockbuster staring Kristen Stewart may be sold as heart-warming seasonal tale, but it presents as a painful watch, wrapped-up in outdated clichés of the queer experience

Remi Weekes transposes the classic haunted house genre to a mouldering council flat inhabited by South Sudanese refugees

John Kelsey on how the French iconoclast rewrites film history, one image at a time

The new Netflix documentary is a distraction from the drive to regulate tech companies, including Netflix itself

The filmmaker’s latest documentary, Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue, is an object study of the generations affected by industrialization

The gothic tales of notorious racist H.P. Lovecraft provide source material for HBO’s new show about ‘the hauntedness of Black life’

The first blockbuster to return to theatres demonstrates Hollywood’s eagerness to ‘exploit bodily presence for profit’ during the pandemic

The artist’s exhibition at Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, shows the multiple faces of resistance

‘First Cow’, the director’s seventh feature film, which began streaming 10 July, offers a humanistic alternative to the grand myths of Manifest Destiny

In the director’s sweeping new Vietnam War film, it is never clear ‘who is the colonizer and who is the colonized’ 

From his parodies of celebrity culture to his depiction of gender identities, there is still a lot to unpack on the centenary of the film director’s birth

Can Reiner Holzemer’s documentary finally lift the lid on the famously private designer? 

Steven Zultanski on the Chicago-based cult video artist

The artist’s exhibition at Centre d’art contemporain Passerelle, Brest, blends gender, race and class politics with science fiction

The most urgent works at this year’s 70th Berlinale Film Festival are about coming to terms with culture’s inherited mythologies

Figures from art and film came together for the first Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award

In the beloved Japanese anime films, childhood is a fantastic place of nightmare and wonder