Ghost Elephants review – Werner Herzog embarks on a mission to track down giant jumbos
In his inimitable fashion, Herzog follows a South African naturalist’s quest to discover a new species of elephant in Angola
‘I turned down $20m to do Terminator 3. I can’t be bought, dude’: Ridley Scott on directing, Daleks and … cherry jam
The Blade Runner and Alien film-maker on his run-ins with critics, the space suits he keeps in his cellar in France – and his love of swearing
David Strathairn: ‘Authoritarianism is a very frightening concept when it comes to the arts’
Oscar-nominated actor, known for Good Night, and Good Luck and the Bourne franchise, talks about his new film
Vice Is Broke review – epic levels of hubris on show in downfall of millennial media darling
Documentary about the rise and fall of a publishing empire, from edgy magazine to billionaire-backing to bankruptcy has a ‘you had to be there’ vibe
Mother Vera review – luminous portrait of a horse-wrangling ex-heroin addict nun
A nun in a remote Orthodox monastery in Belarus invites us into her world in this beautiful black and white documentary
The big heat: what ‘sunburn cinema’ tells us about the Great British holiday
Mother-daughter meltdown in Hot Milk or losers on the lash in The Inbetweeners Movie, some films leave us feeling as foolish as their protagonists for trying to escape reality
Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?
When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs. But is there a happy ending?
Jerry Adler obituary
American actor who played Herman ‘Hesh’ Rabkin in The Sopranos and Howard Lyman in The Good Wife
Phil Mulloy obituary
Other lives: ‘Anti-animator’ whose films used simple techniques to convey dark wit and satire
La Grazia review – Paolo Sorrentino opens mighty window on Italian leader’s despair
The director has rediscovered his voice working again with actor Toni Servillo, who plays a president looking back on a career of empty rectitude
Activists hope to shift Venice film festival focus on to crisis in Gaza
Questions over biennale’s stance dominates launch, with protest planned for one of event’s big nights on Saturday
Think you actually own all those movies you’ve been buying digitally? Think again
New lawsuit aimed at Amazon questions the legitimacy of the word ‘buy’ when it comes to owning a movie on your devices
‘We are seeing a new maturity’: how ‘extended reality’ is coming of age at the Venice film festival
At the festival’s pioneering immersive section, a ‘seamless evolution’ of VR and mainstream film-making is revolutionising narrative
Isabelle Huppert to headline 2026 Adelaide festival in ‘astounding’ role as Mary, Queen of Scots
The French screen and stage legend will star in Mary Said What She Said, a one-woman show created by late theatre luminary Robert Wilson, in March
Mother review – Noomi Rapace is a fanatical Mother Teresa full of fury
Rapace plays the canonised Kolkata nun with hard-bitten intensity in a complex, lurid story that veers between faithful telling and bouts of fun