James Wham

Mask off: The director of Cannes-standout Pamfir discusses the roles of myth, religion, and the carnivalesque in his artful rural crime thriller

Missing persons: in his feature debut, Vaughan subtly infuses a critique of Australia’s colonial past into free-flowing scenes of bone-dry absurdity

A flurry of metaphors: Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a profane and laugh-out-loud funny film about the open (and oft-denied) wounds of Romania’s fraught history

Tides of time: film criticism in crisis, Sarah Maldoror, and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

In the flow: Claire Denis, High Maintenance, and the ongoing streaming takeover

Shock and awe: Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales, Isiah Medina, and SXSW online

It's a new world: Kiarostami, online festivals, and arts organizations in crisis

Here’s looking at you: quarantine, streaming, and the importance of community

Alone together: how the film world is coping with COVID-19 and its consequences

Grandmaster: Bacurau, Mohammad Rasoulof, and SXSW

Outward bound: Dušan Makavejev, Wes Anderson, and David Cronenberg

Old world: Berlinale, Wes Anderson, and Khalik Allah

Shiny objects: F.X. Feeney, box office bingo, and Adam Sandler

New day rising: Spike Lee, Christian Petzold, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Hell’s Grannies forever: Uncut Gems and Judaism, Ritwik Ghatak, and Agnès Varda

Get money: trailblazing black actors, year-end complaints, and festival madness

No man is an island: Little Women, awards galore, and #NewMoma

The future is now: Syd Mead, Martin Scorsese, and Honeyland

Man on the street: Yorgos Lanthimos, Peter Wollen, and the Berlinale

Live your life: Clerks, Strand Releasing at 30, and the aesthetics of The Irishman