Film

Celebrated French director Olivier Assayas used his experience of pandemic lockdown to create Suspended Time, another in a series of films that directly reflects his own life.

The 77th Cannes Film Festival was defined by a long-overdue focus on the experiences of women.

For four decades, George Miller has been a giant of Australian cinema. His latest film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, is his biggest yet.

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda is acclaimed for his films about families. His latest, Monster, breaks new ground with a soundtrack featuring the final work of Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Goran Stolevski’s latest film, Housekeeping  for Beginners, shows his trademark daring as a filmmaker but stumbles over the plot’s increasing implausibility.

The highlights of this year’s Cinema Reborn film festival include the 1939 screwball comedy Midnight, Chantal Akerman’s take on Proust and Tewfik Saleh’s The Dupes.

Up-and-coming screenwriter and director Tig Terera, creator of the new SBS series Swift Street, redefines perceptions of Black masculinity through his intimate films.

Rose Glass’s second feature film, Love Lies Bleeding, relies on the clichés of masculinity and violence that it’s supposedly interrogating.

The acclaimed Black American director Ava DuVernay has made a career of firsts – but she had to create her own ways into the film industry to do it.

The indie horror film Late Night with the Devil, directed by Australian brothers Colin and Cameron Cairnes, is a superbly judged and deeply disturbing homage to 1970s pulp.