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
Tanna review – volcanic South Pacific love story shot entirely in Vanuatu
With its magnetic cast and Venice award-winning cinematography, this film treads the familiar theme of star-crossed lovers with shimmering vitality
Taxi Tehran review – Jafar Panahi’s joy ride
Again thumbing his nose at the regime that has banned him, the courageous Iranian director makes his latest film in a car