Park Chan-wook has followed up his brooding revenge trilogy with a whimsical, pastel-hued romantic fantasy set in a psychiatric hospital. I’m a Cyborg premiered in the UK at the Korean Film Festival in November and on that occasion Park Chan-wook told us more about the ideas behind the film and gave us a tantalising insight into his next project.
Interview by Virginie Sélavy

There are still many old-school fans in attendance but SFL also attracts cooler fashionistas looking for alternative programming. By having a variety of events that range from highbrow to lowbrow, the festival tries to be all things to all (sci-fi) men and it almost always succeeds.
Feature by Alex Fitch

Marjane Satrapi’s adaptation of her own Persepolis graphic novels deservedly won the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes festival.Full of life and irreverent spirit, this is a film that is simply impossible to dislike. The same can be said of Satrapi herself, who proved to be a wonderfully entertaining interviewee when we caught up with her during last year’s London Film Festival.
Interview by Virginie Sélavy

Director Shane O’Sullivan tells us about his new feature documentary, RFK Must Die, which explores the controversies surrounding Kennedy’s death and the possibility that his assassin may have been hypnotically programmed. The film screens as part of the East End Film Festival.
Feature by Shane O’Sullivan

A midnight movie is not just a film shown at midnight. Bridget Jones’ Diary shown at midnight would not be a midnight movie. Neither would a midnight screening of Time Regained – not unless the crowd were told to speak in French and to bash a teaspoon against a teacup when a compere gave the cue.
Feature by Lisa Williams

This year, the true beauties of the Berlinale film festival remained on the margins: in the final days of the cine-marathon, a cinema far away from the buzzing festival centre presented a late-matinee screening of Wakamatsu Koji’s stunning exploitation classic Ecstasy of the Angels (Teshi no kokotsu), a visually stunning head-on collision of explicit violence, political revolt and soft-core porn.
Review by Pamela Jahn

We talked to Catherine Breillat about her new film The Last Mistress, an unashamedly romantic costume drama adapted from a novel by Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly. The confrontational French director, best known for provocative works such as Romance and Virgin told us about the dandies and femmes fatales that inhabit her new work and about her fraught relationship with the French press.
Interview by Virginie Sélavy

Sean Conway could just as well direct the next Harry Potter film or LA alt-porn: the binding factor being his possession of an ‘agitation of the mind’.
Feature by Siouxzi Mernagh

At a Bilbao fiesta once we saw a clan of about twenty local Bravehearts. Presumably they felt the woad and tartan worked not just as a symbol of good-humoured boozing but also as an expression of solidarity with other victims of centralising governments’ historical brutalities.
Column by CJ Magnet