The cinematic legend died the way he lived – in a blaze of inscrutable, impossible film-making. We meet the team who helped shoot the final scene of his swansong just before his death by assisted suicideOn Friday 9 September 2022, Jean-Luc Godard had one last wish. He needed a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre to complete his film, Scénarios, but the book...

The case of a German ballet director who attacked a critic with faeces has loosely inspired a satire about the relationships between creators and criticsAmong the spikier offerings at this year’s Theatertreffen, the annual festival of drama in Berlin, is a play whose dramatis personae may ring familiar. There is an angry ballet director, a female reviewer...

Juergens had never acted before she played the fearsome but troubled Senua in Ninja Theory’s game – and won a Bafta for it. Now she’s back to battle the character’s demons in a sequel‘I hope people can relate to Senua,” says actor Melina Juergens, who plays the lead character in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, the newest game from British developer Ninja...

‘In practical terms, we were asking very big actors to suddenly slide into the background. All the biggest names – Christopher Eccleston, Sarah Lancashire, Ricky Tomlinson – absolutely got it’My mantra for Clocking Off was “extraordinary moments in ordinary people’s lives”, and seeing how realistic I could make that. It was partly inspired by Dekalog,...

The Spark, a song created by a group of nine-to-12-year-olds including refugees, has amassed 8.6m viewsIt is called The Spark and has been declared the song of the summer – a viral sensation from a group of children in Ireland who filmed the video in a day.Since launching on 15 May, the song has amassed 8.6m views and been hailed as a drum’n’bass-beat...

The Whiplash star commits himself to the role of rampage killer on a motorbike rampage that ultimately lacks forward momentumVeteran actor JK Simmons (Whiplash) is the main reason to watch this basic horror-thriller, which isn’t as horrific or thrilling as one might hope. Simmons plays Wade, a cold-as-ice killer on a rampage, who kicks off the action...