Orchestral manoeuvres: some of the most interesting films at Venice this year—including TÁR, Saint Omer, and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed—featured women of extraordinary ability and ego
Courtroom drama: Roman Polanski's latest film, a Venice world premiere, surehandedly recounts the Dreyfus Affair and its story of a French army captain's anti-Semitic persecution
Before the end: the Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul broaches the underworld and upper crust of prewar Budapest in Sunset, screening February 6 in Film Comment Selects
Group therapy: the director of Charlie Says, in theaters now, delves into the manipulative world of Manson from the perspective of his female followers