Film of the Week: Notes on an Appearance

Dossier cinema: Ricky D’Ambrose’s feature debut maps out bookish deadpan visual scheme in tracing a New York vanishing

Queer & Now & Then: 1928

Heroine worship: in Princess Mandane, the pioneering Germaine Dulac subverts the traditionally male-driven realm of derring-do

Past is future: the Bologna showcase of revivals and restorations returns triumphantly with adventurous works by Mambéty, De Toth, Dieterle, and more

Living large: avant-garde titan Michael Snow goes IMAX, Paul Verhoeven gets to a nunnery, Rebecca Hall debuts as director, and Locarno awards