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Theo Angelopoulos: the sweep of historyAs his oeuvre is released on DVD, Theo Angelopoulos revisits his career with David Jenkins
Jean Vigo: Artist of the floating worldVigo’s sole full-length feature bridged the surrealism of 1920s French cinema and the poetic realism of the 1930s. Graham Fuller proposes it for S&S’s forthcoming ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ poll
Lost and found: The Man Who Had His Hair Cut ShortTony Rayns welcomes the revival of a forgotten Belgian classic from the 1960s
Steve McQueen’s Shame reinvents the cinematic New York loner as sex addict. He discusses sexism and racism with Nick James
PLUS Shame star Michael Fassbender talks about working off the rails and the cruelty of siblings
Kim Newman questions whether David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo does justice to the Swedish story’s icy heroine
PLUS John Wrathall on Hollywood’s love affair with all things Nordic
There’s more to Bertrand Bonello’s brothel-set House of Tolerance than sex, he tells Catherine Wheatley
John Akomfrah, director of Handsworth Songs, is back with The Nine Muses. He tells Kieron Corless about fusing Greek myth and black British experience
Following his death last November, Linda Ruth Williams and Mark Kermode celebrate the maverick exuberance of Ken Russell
As Two-Lane Blacktop celebrates its fortieth anniversary, Ian Penman hails Monte Hellman’s cult road movie
Graham Fuller proposes Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante for consideration in S&S’s ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ poll
As his oeuvre is released on DVD, Theo Angelopoulos revisits his career with David Jenkins
As Charles Dickens’s 200th birthday arrives, Matthew Sweet asks why his work isn’t seen more often on today’s screens
Film review: CarnageJust as Yasmina Reza did in her hit play ‘The God of Carnage’, Roman Polanski traps four bourgeois Brooklynites in one room and relishes their descent into conflict and misery. But Polanski’s elegant and unsettling adaptation takes full advantage of cinema’s apparatus, finds Kate Stables
Film review: CoriolanusRalph Fiennes’s bold modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s caustic late combat drama makes a strong fist of merciless material, says David Jays
Film of the month: The DescendantsAlexander Payne’s follow-up to About Schmidt and Sideways is a characteristic mix of funny and painful, with Hawaii lawyer George Clooney struggling with family baggage as his wife lies in a coma. By Philip Kemp
Film review: A Useful LifeA genial homage to a failing cinematheque and its waning artform, Federico Veiroj’s comedy also proves an ode to reinvention, says Mar Diestro-Dópido
Film review: The Iron LadyThatcher – The Biopic runs shy of politics. Philip Kemp scratches his head
DVD: The ConversationA tale of surveillance and hacking, The Conversation is uncannily relevant to our times, writes Michael Brooke