Lola

Don't overlook Jacques Demy's Lola as a glory of the French New Wave, says Philip French

Alamar

A brief, beautiful documentary follows the life of a Mexican fisherman and his son, writes Philip French

Metropolis

Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece Metropolis is greater still in this newly restored version, writes Philip French

Metropolis

Fritz Lang's sci-fi classic is restored with extra footage – and emerges as an eternally prescient and relevant film about the fetishisation of modern technology, writes Peter Bradshaw

22 Bullets

Philip French enjoys a tough French thriller about a principled gangster who survives an assassination attempt

Certified Copy

Abbas Kiarostami's new movie is a stylish and mysterious study of relationships, with powerful central performances, writes Phillip French

Certified Copy

Juliette Binoche stars in the first film Abbas Kiarostami has made outside Iran. Peter Bradshaw finds it very odd indeed

The Leopard

Visconti's 1963 classic The Leopard makes for a fitting epitaph for screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, who died last month, writes Philip French

Tokyo Story

Philip French welcome's the DVD release of Tokyo Story, Yasujiro Ozu's supreme masterpiece

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti's masterly historical epic, with stars Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale competing with magnificent period set designs, is restored in all its sumptuous glory, says Peter Bradshaw

The films that time forgot

The new wave 40 years early. The soft side of Jean-Pierre Melville. Nicole Kidman makes the unmakeable. Somewhere out there is an alternative history of film – David Thomson unearths 10 lost works of genius

The Secret in Their Eyes

Oscar-winning The Stars in Their Eyes packs emotional punch and a dazzlingly virtuosic narrative, says Philip French

First sight: Anusha Rizvi

She's an Indian film director who was the darling of the festival circuit earlier this year when her black comedy, Peepli Live, did the rounds