A roundup of the best of the month’s new releases that are sitting just under the radar. This edition includes a fat-friendly documentary, Russian performance art, Mike Leigh’s progeny taking up the mantle, tempestuous teachers and an indie horror with less than 100 Letterboxd views.

Eileen’s creative team—stars Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie, writers Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel, and director William Oldroyd—on how Katharine Hepburn, Monica Vitti and Carol Aird left their marks on Eileen.

Our festival correspondents have brought back a little something for everyone this year: the music of Maestro, high-octane Hindi-language action, “squelchy” stop-motion and so much more in their twenty best.

John Forde chats to Medusa Deluxe director Thomas Hardiman about hair epiphanies, his iration for Claire Denis and persuading the Pet Shop Boys to become a ringtone. 

John Forde chats to radical queer filmmaker Bruce LaBruce about 30 years of shocking audiences, porn as a revolutionary act, using the same title fonts as Sofia Coppola and being cursed by Kenneth Anger.

In conversation with The Lost King director Stephen Frears about true life stories, attacking (and revering) Shakespeare and which of his leading ladies he’d invite to dinner.

Leo Koziol speaks to director David Zonana about his new film Heroic, which portrays the hellish life of a young cadet at a Mexican military academy. 

Of an Age filmmaker Goran Stolevski discusses the quiet temperament and mighty ache at the heart of his new queer romance.

For Valentine’s Day, the Letterboxd crew and filmmakers reminisce about the movie characters that first gave them funny feelings.

The Letterboxd crew reminisces about our favorite first watches of 2022—from Argento to Avatar.

Director Oliver Hermanus, writer Kazuo Ishiguro and stars Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood discuss Living, a beautiful remake of Ikiru that just might change your life.

Donkeys, puppets, conductors, oh my! Our globe-trotting festival squad brings you the highlights of the jam-packed fall season.