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Streaming: the best film at Cannes 2019 not to win a prize?

Diao Yinan’s dazzling The Wild Goose Lake is now available to stream – joining some of this fine director’s earlier work

Giving millionaires the boot: why Cahiers du Cinéma editors quit en masse

Staff of the magazine that kicked off the French New Wave say its new elite owners pose a threat to editorial independence

It’s about time film began representing the lesbian gaze

In Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, we finally steer away from seeing intimacy through the male gaze

DAU. Natasha review – an exquisitely sinister study of Soviet oppression

As part of a colossal art project, Ilya Khrzhanovsky has made an intimately eerie examination of the banality of evil

Lost in translation: when film-makers hit the language barrier

Making films in another language is always a risk – for every Yorgos Lanthimos-style success, there’s a Wong Kar-wai disaster lurking around the corner

Pinocchio review – wooden-puppet fairytale goes back to the sweet-sour original

Director and co-writer Matteo Garrone embraces the grotesqueness and sentimentality of Collodi’s 1883 story

End of the Century review – post-coital reverie of sex, love and memory

Two men who meet in Barcelona have an unsettling feeling of deja vu in this elegant romantic drama

First Love review – a bloody slice of Tokyo pulp fiction

A flamboyantly violent boy-meets-girl crime caper

Classics of modern South Korean cinema – ranked!

Global interest in Korean film has been piqued by Bong Joon-ho’s satirical Parasite, which has won the Palme d’Or and best picture at the Oscars. Here are 19 more Korean masterpieces

First Love review – brilliantly bizarre, ultra-violent yakuza caper

A terminally-ill boxer helps out a troubled sex worker in Takashi Miike’s strange and wildly energetic film – his 103rd

A Paris Education review – partying in Paris like it’s 1968

A bunch of attractive young people study film, quote poetry and have sex, in a black and white drama fatally lacking narrative drive and passion

Korean cinema’s global reach highlighted by Parasite’s Oscar win

Fans emphasise rich diversity of film-making, which has been thrilling audiences for years

Parasite’s best picture Oscar could kickstart a new era of internationalism

If the Academy Awards want to regain relevancy and excitement, they should reward more global success stories

Parasite review – searing satire of a family at war with the rich

Members of an unemployed family target a wealthy household in Bong Joon-ho’s superbly written, horribly fascinating comedy-drama

Fando y Lis review – Jodorowsky’s freaks-and-flesh debut

Embarking on a bizarre desert quest, a mysterious couple encounter strange scenes and lots of nudity in the Chilean director’s rereleased 60s ‘happening’

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