All articles by Michael Brooke

“I’m only interested in honest stories”: people watching with Márta Mészáros

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time is a brainteasingly ambiguous surgeon-stalker chiller

Dear Comrades! uncovers a Khrushchev-era Soviet state massacre

Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts

We Are Who We Are lifts the lid on teenage identity crises

The female gaze: 100 overlooked films directed by women

The Painted Bird and the cinema of Eastern Europe’s WWII bloodlands

10 great modern black-and-white films from eastern Europe

Forgotten treasures of the multiplex

Ian Holm obituary: an actor of many facets

Where to stream the best Eastern European films

Max von Sydow obituary: Swedish star whose filmography sets him among the immortals

Terry Jones obituary: the world’s funniest medieval historian

Lakes of courage: In praise of Ken Russell’s music films

The Ear is listening: Karel Kachyna and the resurrection of a banned classic

Before Tarkovsky: the little-known original version of Solaris

Where to begin with British smut

Robby Müller obituary: a king of the quizzical image

Film of the week: That Summer, a palimpsest of Grey Gardens memories

Milos Forman obituary: the bohemian who conquered Hollywood

Károly Makk obituary: Hungarian director of subtle, incisive films

10 great films about sex

Film of the week: Graduation offers a riveting look at a rotten system

Andrzej Wajda obituary: Poland’s man of memory

10 essential Romanian directors

Where to begin with Jerzy Skolimowski

Where to begin with Agnieszka Holland

Jan Nemec, 1936–2016