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To mark 120 years since the great director’s birth, we revisit this 1950 interview, in which Ophüls candidly appraises his talents as a filmmaker – and actor.

The unsettling close of Kim Ki-young’s delightfully unhinged 1960 film, a key work from the golden age of South Korean filmmaking, offers a subversive riposte to Hollywood norms.

Ingmar Bergman’s devastating 1969 portrait of the faltering love affair between a haunted widow and a recent divorcé strips back the layers until nothing is left but solitude.

Audrey Diwan adapts Annie Ernaux’s deeply personal book about the experience of falling pregnant in France, 1963, before the legalisation of abortion.

The director tells us how her Cannes winner digs deeply into child psychology, and how she worked to get the best out of her extraordinary young lead Maya Vanderbeque.

The world has been thrown into shock and disarray by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But alongside the military resistance, local film archivists are playing their part in saving Ukrainian culture, through film preservation and screenings in metro stations.