Cherry Blossoms

Doris Dörrie has made a direct homage to Ozu's masterpiece Tokyo Story

How to dance up a storm

Set in Pinochet's Chile, Tony Manero tells the tale of middle-aged social outcast Raúl Peralta who is obsessed with impersonating Tony Manero

Martyrs

This is a sadistic, religiose French horror movie, writes Philip French

Fade away

Chris Marker's La Jetée, a half-hour futuristic film that explores time and memory, seems to conjure an entire century's romance with the moving image. Brian Dillon looks at the French director and his enigmatic masterpiece

We’ll always have Paris

With its cool style and daring techniques, the French new wave revolutionised cinema. But does it still stand up today? By Joe Queenan

France’s most wanted

Since his electric breakthrough appearance in La Haine, French actor Vincent Cassel has established a distinct brand of cool. He talks to Jason Solomons

Il Divo

Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti is the corpselike figure who stalks this new film from Paolo Sorrentino. It's a macabre masterpiece, says Peter Bradshaw

Wonderful Town

It's one of those pictures in which people don't ask obvious questions or provide the kind of information that might clarify their lives

The Burning Plain

Those unacquainted with Arriaga's technique might be led into thinking that the projectionist has put the reels on in the wrong order, writes Philip French

Bad fellas

Paolo Sorrentino's stunning new film has enraged the politician it portrays. The director tells Stuart Jeffries why it was worth taking such an incendiary risk