Why planes make such a great setting for films

Tár is a film of moving ambiguities

Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision

Jibaro is an artistic triumph

Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill

Political thrillers from South America

The digital preservation of thousands of Polish feature films and documentaries is a gift to international film culture

The recent restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives shows that the original movie is astonishingly modern

The idea that there are multiple universes and that it might be possible to “‘versejump” is surely one way of explaining the cinematic urge

“War is the original human state,” Russian directors seem to say