Parables and paradoxes: the Czech festival marked the centenary of Franz Kafka's death with a retrospective of films exploring the writer's influence in the movies
Hands up: it’s been a feeble year for horror, and a batch of high-profile summer releases—A Quiet Place: Day One, MaXXXine, and Longlegs—offer scant remedy
Born to film: in their openness and DIY approach, Danny Lyon's films resist the streamlined, polished professionalism that The Bikeriders movie adaptation epitomizes
Sing me back home: Angela Schanelec's Music is a hypnotic reverie about hands and feet, landscapes and bodies, gazes and gestures, and people suddenly lifting their voices in song
School's out: Genevieve Yue and Isabel Stevens—both critics and parents—discuss what they watch with their children and why (with the kids themselves chiming in, too!)
