‘A goalkeeper vomited over my typewriter’: Werner Herzog on writing his wildest film

He has made feverish films about crazed obsessives – but one idea was too excessive. The great director explains why Mexico, featuring acting frogs and fleets of ships on fire, is finding an audience at last

‘We have a good relationship … as long as he doesn’t start bitching’: why Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe’s Gladiator 2 spat has me entertained

Scott – without doubt the greatest interviewee on the planet – seems to be goading one of the most explosive actors in existence about his absence from the sequel of the film that made him

Paul and Paulette Take a Bath review – misjudged romance takes wince-inducing wrong turn

Jethro Massey’s New Wave-style feature debut about a couple who meet in Paris is quirky and well-acted but strikes some peculiar false notes with Nazi gags

Film industry ‘nowhere near’ gender parity, says London festival head

Kristy Matheson bemoans ‘alarmingly’ low number of mid-career female directors as festival lineup unveiled

Are standing ovations at film festivals getting out of hand?

The Venice premiere of Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door received 17 minutes of applause – has touting the length of clapping has become just another PR tool?

What we still do in the shadows: why film noir will never die

A Japanese heist, a Bollywood musical, London’s East End – noir has adapted and travelled the world from its 1940s Hollywood beginnings and thanks to a series of festivals and rereleases there are classics to see this autumn

Working-class parents do not see film and TV as viable career for their children

Nine in 10 working-class parents would discourage pursuit of such creative jobs in favour of traditional professions

‘We didn’t worry about a few dirty laughs!’ The Carry On women on playing nags, bra-burners and ‘crumpet’

No one could say that the Carry On movies stretched their female stars, or paid them generously. But, decades later, Amanda Barrie, Valerie Leon, Sheila Hancock and co have fond memories

Maldoror review – true-crime serial killer procedural induces stomach-turning horror

Inspired by a notorious real-life case, Fabrice Du Welz’s film starts strong but gets lost in the murky waters of conspiracy

Queer review – Daniel Craig is needy, horny and mesmeric in Guadagnino’s erotic drama

Craig plays an American expat living indolently in Mexico City in this sometimes uproarious adaptation of William Burroughs’ autobiographical novel

‘We never went down the Aardman route’: how the Brothers Quay rocked the animation world

They hate using big name voice actors and their eerie stories defy sense – yet they have seduced the likes of superfan Christopher Nolan. The identical twins explain how they have just managed to sneak out their third feature in 50 years

Harvest review – Athina Rachel Tsangari’s folk non-horror is an exasperating experience

Dastardly deeds are afoot in an imagined medieval village with unscrupulous landowners in this directionless study of inauthenticity

Go fish: Piranha 3D makes Saving Private Ryan look like an afternoon picnic

With an excellent cast – Adam Scott! Christopher Lloyd! Elisabeth Shue! – this proudly lowbrow film will have you rooting for the bloodthirsty piranhas

‘There’s nothing intimate about filming a sex scene’: Daniel Craig opens up about new film Queer

The Bond actor plays an American expat who begins an affair with a young student in the 1950s-set film from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino

The star who was left out in the cold: will Gary Oldman ever play Smiley again?

Oldman got an Oscar nomination for his turn as John le Carré’s rumpled spymaster. So what’s stopping a repeat performance?