White Material
Isabelle Huppert is superb as a a tough colonial famer in Claire Denis's fine return to Africa, writes Jason Solomons
White Material review – Isabelle Huppert is superb in a lapel-graspingly urgent tale
Claire Denis’s powerful, disturbing film about modern Africa is her best since Beau Travail
Vanessa Paradis: ‘I hope that in a past life I was hideous, horrible, evil…’
A pop star at 14, the face of Chanel, and the world's sexiest man tucked up at home… Vanessa Paradis knows she's due some bad karma sooner or later. But with a sparkling new rom-com about to hit the screens, it looks like later
Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola has made yet another film about father-son tensions – but this one is a self-indulgent mess, writes Peter Bradshaw
Breathless review – Jean-Luc Godard’s inspired cine-jazz solo
Godard’s brilliant Nouvelle Vague classic is still wonderfully fresh, even half a century on
Rashômon
Jason Solomons enjoys a beautiful restored print of Kurosawa's Rashômon
Wild Grass
Alain Resnais's latest movie does little to enhance his reputation, says Jason Solomons
Hierro
Elena Anaya, of Talk to Her and Savage Grace, stars in a supernatural thriller set in the Canary Islands. By Jason Solomons
Journey to Mecca
A respectful Imax film provides an awesome perspective on the annual hajj, writes Jason Solomons
Ajami
An Oscar-nominated thriller offers an unusually nuanced view of contemporary Israel, says Jason Solomons
Rashômon review – Akira Kurosawa’s study of justice is uniquely disturbing drama
Kurosawa's 1950 masterwork is a chilling, utterly memorable dissection of the nature of human communication, writes Peter Bradshaw
Harvey Weinstein under fire from Shanghai to Fraggle Rock
News: After Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's 'cheater' accusations, US producer arrives home to blog attack from a man claiming to be the director of the Fraggle Rock movie
Shirin Neshat: A long way from home
Exiled artist Shirin Neshat's first film is about the lives of four women in her native Iran – but it won't get past the country's censors. She talks to Homa Khaleeli
Women Without Men
Philip French enjoys an exile's magic-realist treatment of Iran's 1953 military coup