Film

Seduction line

“What a tremendous eye he has,” said David Bowie of the film-maker Nagisa Oshima after working with him on Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Ryan Gilbey celebrates the Japanese director’s eroticism and wicked sense of humour

Fish Tank (15)

A quirky drama finds unexpected poetry in the Essex badlands

Back to mine

From Yorkshire to Somerset, the coal industry once employed a million men and was the lifeblood of hundreds of communities. A new season of films preserve the memory of a lost era

Big River Man (15) and Bustin’ Down the Door (15)

Two waterborne documentaries leave several questions floating

Broken Embraces (15)

The once searingly original Spanish auteur stoops to self-parody

The way I see it: Claire Denis, director

Inglourious Basterds (18)

Nazi hunters mix with cinema buffs in a return to form for Tarantino

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Sin nombre (15)

This immigrant tale is a flimsy but entertaining gangland thriller

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (15)

There’s life yet in the French gangster movie genre

Kambakkht Ishq (12A)

There’s no need for Bollywood to appeal to Middle England – it’s a success already