Paolo Sorrentino: ‘I never use a crude approach to showing the naked bodies of older people’

After winning an Oscar for The Great Beauty, the director had the pick of Hollywood for his next film, Youth. Why was he so keen on persuading the British veteran Michael Caine to step up?

45 Years; The Diary of a Teenage Girl; Me and Earl and the Dying Girl; Straight Outta Compton; We Are Your Friends; L’enfance nue – review

Shiver to Andrew Haigh’s portrait of a marriage rocked by secrets, while The Diary of a Teenage Girl will make you squirm

Le Mépris review – Jean-Luc Godard versus marriage and the film industry

Brigitte Bardot reminds us what all the fuss was about in this restored version of Godard’s 1963 classic

Yakuza Apocalypse review – vampire gangsters go wild in freaky, wacky Takashi Miike mashup

The Japanese horror surrealist delivers one of his strangest mashups yet, and it’s great fun, but tiresomely long

Le Mépris (Contempt) review – Godard’s poetically sour movie-making drama

It has a reputation as one of Godard’s key works, but there is an argument that it has not aged well. Still, it is fierce and uningratiating in its deconstructions of cinema and sex

Pilou Asbæk: ‘I didn’t know what I had with Borgen’

The Danish actor on regrets, his strict upbringing and how time spent with soldiers on his new film, A War, changed his views

Trainwreck; The Gift; Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation; The Man From UNCLE; Pixels; Absolutely Anything; Mia Madre; Best of Enemies – review

Judd Apatow deals a hefty blow to girl power, while Joel Edgerton gives alpha males a kicking

The Lesson (Urok) review – the jet black comedy of desperation

Poverty and morality jostle in this gallows humour-heavy Bulgarian parable

Asia Pacific floods Brisbane with art, cinema and a ‘common humanity’

A festival featuring 102 movies from 42 countries across the region brought the Asia Pacific closer to home – if only Australian audiences had been bigger

My Skinny Sister review – humour and compassion

A Swedish story of sisters bound by love, secrecy and jealousy is given insight and warmth by its director’s personal experience

Attack on Titan: Parts I and II review – live-action manga with B-movie appeal

Look past the dreadful acting and this gruesomely inventive live-action adaptation has it all – dim-witted zombies, plenty of schlock and terrific special effects

Saeed Jaffrey, Bollywood and British screen legend, dies aged 86

Death of veteran actor who starred in Gandhi and A Passage to India as well as The Chess Players, Dil and Coronation Street was announced on Sunday

Warriors review – insightful documentary tracks anti-FGM campaign in Maasai heartland

The story of how cricket has transformed the Maasai tribesmen’s views on FGM makes for an engaging documentary

Star of Morocco sex worker film flees for France after ‘beating’

Actor Loubna Abidar, who played a prostitute in the Cannes hit Much Loved, claims she was ‘received with laughter’ after trying to report an attack by unknown knife-wielding assailants at Casablanca’s main police station

On my radar: Ben Whishaw’s cultural highlights

The actor on novelist Elizabeth Harrower, Todd Haynes’s Carol, and the punk spirit of artist Maria Lassnig