Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno review – lavish samurai tale outstays welcome

The second instalment of the trilogy is padded out with superfluous characters and a plot that deprives us of swordplay, writes Mike McCahill

Jazz in Polish Cinema: Out of the Underground 1958-1967 review

Jazz helped Poland’s film-makers to deliver a hint of rebellion under communist rule in the 50s and 60s, writes John Fordham

Mohamed Husen: the black immigrant actor who carved out a career in 1930s German cinema

Sukhdev Sandhu: A new film tells the unlikely story of Mohamed Husen, the African former child soldier who emigrated to Germany and appeared alongside the biggest film stars of the Nazi era

Nuri Bilge Ceylan on Winter Sleep: ‘I don’t like comedies – I don’t like to laugh’

The Turkish director talks to Peter Bradshaw about the battles with distributors and fights with his wife in the creating of his Palme d’Or winning film

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness review – idiosyncratic and moving

This portrait of Studio Ghibli is as wistful and measured as the animation giant’s best work, writes Mike McCahill

Playtime review – Jacques Tati’s late masterpiece

The satire might be a bit genteel at times, but its recurrent brilliance can’t be doubted, writes Peter Bradshaw

Ricky Gervais and Eric Bana team up for Special Correspondents remake

Ben Child: Gervais to write and direct English-language version of Frédéric Auburtin’s comedy Envoyés Très Spéciaux, with Bana as a fake war reporter embedded in his Manhattan apartment

I Clowns review – Philip French on Fellini’s beautifully made 1970 documentary/memoir

Circuses often figured in Fellini’s films, never more so than in this beautifully made 1970 movie, writes Philip French

Margarita, with a Straw: ‘The sexuality of the disabled excited me as a film-maker’

Leslie Felperin: In London years ago, Shonali Bose was inspired to make a movie when her cousin, who has cerebral palsy, told her she wanted sex for her birthday. Now both women are back in town – at the film festival with the finished work

My Name Is Hmmm (Je m’appelle Hmmm) review – fundamentally misjudged

Agnès B speckles her movie with nouvelle vague mannerisms and Godardian flourishes, but it never comes alive, writes Peter Bradshaw

The Colour of Pomegranates: a chance to savour a poetic masterpiece

A digitally restored version of Armenian director Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 ‘cinematic Holy Grail’ is set to dazzle the London film festival 2014 this week

You and the Night review – sex, surreality and Eric Cantona

The footballer-turned-actor stars as the legendarily well-endowed Stud in this startling, savage French comedy, writes Peter Bradshaw

Violette review – fine biopic of Simone de Beauvoir’s protege

Emmanuelle Devos brings enormous charisma to this story of writerly ambition and romantic disappointment, writes Peter Bradshaw

Le Jour se Lève review – still bristling with energy

Jean Gabin is as rugged and worldly as ever in this sparkling reissue of Marcel Carné’s classic, writes Peter Bradshaw

Ida review – painful wartime truths revealed

A young nun unearths her family’s secret history in this bleak yet arresting Polish drama, writes Mark Kermode