Screening at London’s National Film Theatre, Wojciech J. Has’ The Saragossa Manuscript makes a rare and welcome appearance in the December schedule following a specially commissioned performance.

Whether under the illusion that they are free, or that they are actually free without realising it, Fassbinders’ early bourgeois critiques pick up the mantle that Godard abandoned after Weekend, its disaffected characters, post 68, being passed the baton of urban alienation...

So much recent French cinema has striven to carve out an identity apart from the 60s and 70s nouvelle vague that Christophe Honore’s unapologetic embrace of those traditions (or anti-traditions) seems by turns quixotic, perverse and inspiring.

Films featuring the British film director, screenwriter, actor and poet Jane Arden (1927-82) are currently – and frustratingly – hard to track down. However, one film featuring Arden did find a large and enthusiastic audience in the summer of 2007 as it was shown in daily cycles at Tate Britain...

Gravel and Stones is a new thirty-minute documentary about the challenges faced by disabled people in Cambodia. It was filmed in December 2006 by four sixth form students at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire, all members of a group called the Abingdon Film Unit (AFU).