Alienation effect: why film-makers can’t get enough of Franz Kafka
A string of auteur directors – from Orson Welles to Steven Soderbergh to Lorenza Mazzetti – have fallen for Kafka’s visionary brilliance, with always-intriguing results
‘Engrossing and mysterious’: the Powell-Pressburger masterpiece that might have been
Lyon’s Lumière festival screened a fascinating footnote to the great duo’s career: Behold a Pale Horse, an adaptation of Emeric Pressburger’s novel by Fred Zinnemann
Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino review – from fish out of water to Hollywood star
The method actor traces his path to success, spending as much time on the films that flopped as the greatest hits
Robert Coover obituary
One of the leading lights of US postmodern fiction best known for his 1969 short story The Babysitter and The Public Burning
My Hero Academia: You’re Next review – old-style superhero battle anime with hint of the surreal
The fourth film spin-off from the daffy Japanese X-Men knock-off beams its dream-like action into a flying fortress where victims are turned into superfolk
What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci review – one bite too many?
The Hollywood star’s fourth food book starts well enough but quickly descends into bland anecdote, leaving his endearing charm and wit to season an empty plate
In brief: The Catchers; Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife; Every Man for Himself and God Against All – review
Xan Brooks’s second novel takes readers on a musical road trip through 1920s Appalachia; a story-packed history celebrates inspirational medieval women; and a characteristically unusual memoir from Werner Herzog
On my radar: Evan Dando’s cultural highlights
The Lemonheads musician on crazy websites, cosy restaurants and a bar where it’s always Christmas
What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci review – starry friends and tasty morsels
Slop with Ralph Fiennes and champagne with Jilly Cooper – a gastronomical actor’s escapades
‘I hope God gives me the strength to make more movies’: Scorsese addresses retirement rumours
Director tells press conference he has ‘more films to make’ after long-planned Frank Sinatra biopic and adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s A Life of Jesus both get delayed
Anwar Hussein obituary
Photographer whose work helped to transform the public image of the royal family
‘I want space for jokes’: how film-maker Iryna Tsilyk captures surreal life in Ukraine
Audiences in flak jackets queued to hear the poet and director on a tour of pounded cities. She talks about depicting life during war, from air raid alerts to hesitating between pinot or zinfandel in the supermarket
‘An impossible passion’: cinema’s long love affair with Wuthering Heights
Saltburn director Emerald Fennell has caused a stir with her project to remake Brontë’s classic – but the novel has been provocative for more than 170 years
The Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan impresses in a refreshingly unconventional recovery drama
The actor excels as an alcoholic who returns to Orkney in Nora Fingscheidt’s fine adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir
Nickel Boys review – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school
Adaptation of Whitehead’s novel about two young friends trapped by institutional abuse is told with piercing beauty by RaMell Ross