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The pride and the passion: 25 years of the London Lesbian and Gay Film FestivalAfter a groundbreaking quarter of a century, the LLGFF is still relevant, says programmer Brian Robinson
Lost and found: The Red HouseFilmmaker Charles Burnett remembers the thrills, disturbances and subdued rage of The Red House
Out of the darkness: Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten DreamsAs his first 3D film Cave of Forgotten Dreams reaches our screens, Werner Herzog talks to Samuel Wigley about primitive man, albino crocodiles and the ethics of 3D
The received opinion may be that Woody Allen is past his best as a director, but Brad Stevens finds intriguing patterns in his European-set films of the last decade
PLUS Woody Allen talks to James Bell about his latest London-set film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
All the sound and fury of this year’s Berlin festival – from Shakespeare to terrorism to 3D – was left in the shade by Béla Tarr’s minimalist The Turin Horse, says Nick James
PLUS Carmen Gray scours the Forum for hidden gems
Famously protective of his novels, Haruki Murakami has entrusted his 1987 bestseller Norwegian Wood to the Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, who tells James Bell about capturing the author’s distinctive narrative voice
The new film Patience (After Sebald) and a recent symposium in Suffolk celebrate the cult of W.G. Sebald, inspiring Mark Fisher to revisit the German-born writer’s East Anglian odyssey The Rings of Saturn
After 30 years of making films in exile in the West, Jerzy Skolimowski is back working in his native Poland – appropriately enough, on the story of a man on the run in a foreign land. The director talks to David Thompson about his new film Essential Killing
Film review: Essential KillingJerzy Skolimowski’s visceral study of an escaped jihadi’s struggle for survival in the Polish wilds makes a deft mix of involvement and estrangement, says Tony Rayns
Film of the month: SubmarineUnlike so many other British TV comedians who have made the transition to film directing, Richard Ayoade reveals a distinctive cinematic talent with his debut, the skewed teen romance Submarine. By Isabel Stevens
DVD: A Blonde in LoveGeoffrey Macnab relishes the humour and humanity of Milos Forman’s film about love in a Cold War climate
Film review: His & HersKen Wardrup’s elegantly composed portrait of 70 Irish women of all ages – in age order – puts Samuel Wigley in mind of Alan Bennett and Ozu Yasujiro
Film review: Country StrongGwyneth Paltrow battles drink and demons as a foundering honky-tonk singer in Shana Feste’s mostly glib country-music square dance. Nick Pinkerton picks out the positives