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Catch the drift: though many films seemed to be chasing the success of Get Out, a number of excellent fiction features at this year’s festival played by their own rules

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Allan Dwan & Douglas Fairbanks x 2:
The Good Bad Man, USA, 1916; The Half-Breed,…

Isao Takahata leaves behind a quietly bold legacy of emotional maturity to the sometimes infantilized realm of animation

A place in the sun: veterans from both sides of the Falklands War come together to re-enact and retrace their memories in Theatre of War

Symbol of the unconquered: the Mumbo Jumbo author discusses Personal Problems, his newly restored video collaboration with Bill Gunn (and many others)

Open season: the director of Come & Take It discusses the issues around the gun debate and the limits of our current political discourse

It me, fam: the droll and biting Wobble Palace takes on our addled digital culture

No free rides: the renowned photographer discusses her latest documentary, Generation Wealth, which traces our obsession with money and beauty over the past 25 years

(Alexander Payne, Country/Distributor: USA, Paramount, Opened December 22)

Reform following systemic abuse in the film industry requires more than outrage and token gestures

(Craig Gillespie, USA, Neon, Opening December 8)

The Return brought the radical multimedia art of David Lynch into American living rooms

(Director: Yuri Ancarani, Country/Distributor: France/Italy, Kino Lorber, Opening: September 8)

Hold still: the Japanese filmmaker delves into the uncanny once again, this time on French soil, in Daguerrotype

(Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chile/Japan/France, ABKCo Films, Opens July 14)

(Miguel Arteta, USA, 
Roadside Attractions, Opens June 9)

In the final scene of Nocturama, the state’s brutal logic is fulfilled

On international waters: this year's festival presented a wide-ranging selection of fiction and documentary films that made difficult subject matter accessible but not glib

(Bill and Turner Ross, USA, Oscilloscope, Opens March 1)

Out of touch and rehashing ideas, is American comedy simply circling the drain?