Israel’s culture minister threatens national film awards after Palestinian story takes top prize

Miki Zohar says he will cancel funding for the Ophir awards after The Sea, about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who is denied entry to Tel Aviv, wins best picture

One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper

Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction

‘You think rape’s your fault’: Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker on her devastating memoir

She had a zest for life that propelled her to the heights of stage and screen – but behind all this lay a shocking story of violence, grooming and abuse. From her bed, flanked by pills and cigarettes, Ireland’s grande dame looks back

A new kind of action – how Babes With Blades are fighting for screen space for women of colour

When Jade Ang Jackman met Ayesha Hussain it was to make a film about the latter’s training as a stunt performer. With that in the bag along with Sag award nominations, they are going after bigger ambitions together

‘He should be known as a film music revolutionary’: revitalising the legacy of Czech composer Zdeněk Liška

The electroacoustic pioneer scored dozens of pictures – and communist propaganda. Too successful to be persecuted by the politburo but largely forgotten when he died, his music is being revived by a new archival series

‘A dolphin among sharks’: readers pay tribute to Robert Redford, a great movie star and decent human being

People remember the human side of the ‘dazzling’ film star, who was kind and wise and lived a dignified life

‘Every year, everybody in comedy gets blanked’: Amy Poehler criticises Oscars for snubbing comedies

Speaking to Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch on her Good Hang podcast, the star criticised the lack of credit given to comedy acting

The Boatyard review – skeezy cannibal horror picks off rich kids on a yacht ride to slaughter

Pointless and witless, this atrociously acted ripoff of The Hills Have Eyes should be cast back into the water

New Orleans church abuse documentary based on Guardian reporting wins top award

God As My Witness shares survivors’ stories and exposes church cover-ups as it returns to the scandal’s epicenter

Happyend review – Orwellian Japanese high-school drama is brilliantly mysterious

Teen romance and paranoid surveillance collide to dysfunctional effect in Neo Sora’s beguiling debut future set in an oppressive near-future

Robert Redford was ‘a principled force for good’, says All the President’s Men reporter Bob Woodward

Veteran journalist played by Redford in 1976 film version of the Watergate exposé that brought down the Nixon presidency pays tribute to a ‘fiery’ friend

Ebony & Ivory review – definitely not Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder in silly, surreal indie comedy

A pop icon and a musical legend meet on the Mull of Kintyre in 1981 and dress up as sheep in Jim Hosking’s daft, deadpan offering

‘The town poured in everything to make it happen’: how a film-making dynasty – and an entire community – celebrated an everyday hero

Inspirational teacher Stan Deen’s whole town contributed to the making of new film Brave the Dark, starring Jared Harris and directed by his brother, Damian. They also had some surprising help from Jonathan Aitken …

Girls & Boys review – intense trans romance sparks fireworks in impressive debut

First feature from director Donncha Gilmore is propelled by charismatic and natural performances by leads Adam Lunnon-Collery and Liath Hannon

American independent cinema owes much to Sundance king Robert Redford

With his Sundance film festival and institute, Robert Redford used his considerable power to bring generations of talented film-makers to a bigger audience