What do I want from a film? An ending, not a surprise cliffhanger

Just when you’re braced for emotional resolution, you get the dreaded words: ‘To be continued …’ Hollywood needs to stop this now, writes Joel Snape

‘I was careful not to exploit the tears or the drama’: the director of Oscar-tipped Once Upon a Time in Ukraine on her powerful documentary

As Donald Trump says he wants a speedy end to the war, Betsy West wonders what form that will take, as her film offers a platform to the children caught up in the conflict

An oral history of Twin Peaks by its unforgettable stars: ‘I put my waitress uniform on and began bawling’

Mystery, magic and mayhem reigned behind the scenes as well as on screen. Mädchen Amick, Joan Chen, Dana Ashbrook and others recall the making of the beloved TV series – and the genius of David Lynch

Academy says Oscars will go on as planned and ‘honor’ LA amid fires

Letter from Academy leadership also says show will ‘move away’ from live performances to celebrate songwriters

‘He made me feel I didn’t need to fit in’: readers’ tributes to David Lynch – and their most Lynchian photograph

Here are some of your tributes to the celebrated director of Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive

Calamity Jane review – mighty pretty music but this western could be wilder

A meandering musical based on the Doris Day movie delivers the sure-shot showtunes in style with a whipcracking lead in Carrie Hope Fletcher

Stray Dog/High and Low review – Kurosawa lifts crime drama to astonishing new peaks

Drawing on hardboiled US fiction, as American film had fed on his own Seven Samurai, the director brings unforgettable intensity to his anxious noir

‘I will fall over’: Judi Dench says worsening eyesight means she can’t go out alone

The actor, who was diagnosed with macular degeneration in 2012, has also struggled to see on film sets and learn lines having done so thanks to a photographic memory

I’m just Kenobi: Ryan Gosling set to join Star Wars franchise in as-yet-untitled movie

The project, which will be a standalone story similar to Rogue One or Solo will be helmed by Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy

Presence review – Soderbergh’s ghost’s-eye movie plays it cool with an unhappy family

A judging spectre watches as depression and heavy drinking befall Lucy Liu’s home in an intelligent film full of uncanny, sudden-chill moments

Rave on for the Avon review – Bristol wild swimmers lead a joyful protest campaign

Lovely documentary records the battle to protect a stretch of the polluted river and the beautiful bathing site it is defending

TV tonight: cancel all plans – it’s the final week of The Traitors

The next three nights are going to be terrifically tense with Claudia Winkleman. Plus: a corpse walks out of a morgue in Patience. Here’s watch to watch this evening

Controversial French director Bertrand Blier dies at age 85

Film-maker known for provocative works Les Valseuses and Tenue de Soirée died at home in Paris on Monday

‘The hair, the voice, the casual cruelty – they nailed it!’ Bob Dylan experts rate A Complete Unknown

Are the guitars right? Is Joan Baez sidelined? Who is this Sylvie Russo? And why is it an American shouting ‘Judas’? A Dylan tribute singer, two biographers, a superfan and more weigh in

Broadway biopic and film with Jessica Chastain among Berlinale highlights

Contenders for prestigious Golden and Silver Bear unveiled with 75th edition of festival due to open on 13 February