Review

A new book tells the story of a German film-maker who tried to break with the country’s past

When the artist died in Rome in 1564, he had one more remarkable journey still to make

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, television and books

The Bleeding Tree is startling and compelling

A sublime look at a hidden musical prodigy

Tom Holland is let down by a bizarre staging of Romeo & Juliet

A stage revival of the TV classic still packs a punch

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, television and books

Born an East Berliner, Jenny Erpenbeck has won the International Booker for her sensitive insight on life behind and beyond borders

Just when cinema really needs a bit of sunshine and uplift, along comes a Megaflopolis

A dreamlike lost masterpiece about a writer’s fixation with Dostoevsky – a man who would have hated him

Amsterdam prepares for Art Week against a backdrop of a new government keen to end culture funding

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s television, cinema and books

The art that brought Paris back from the dead

A new book charts the surprising passion in Ukraine for cricket, the country’s fastest-growing sport – until the Russians invaded

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, television and books

On a warm evening, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is the best in the capital

Provocative and dramatic work from Turkey is among the highlights of this year’s Photo London

How one night of music inspired Kandinsky’s Blue Rider movement

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, theatre and television

The Donmar’s Cherry Orchard is modern, radical and exquisitely boring

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, exhibitions and books

Tell your more pretentious friends you loved this nihilistic drama - but don’t bother watching it

A new exhibition of Hetherington’s greatest photographs is not of guns and bombs – but of the men who use them

London Tide meanders along without knowing what it wants to say

An exhibition of 150 objects found in the river opens at the Archaeological Crypt on Île de la Cité, Paris

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s books, television and cinema

Casting decisions put the Bard at the centre of debate about Britishness

Barrister Geoffrey Robertson dramatises what might happen within the walls of a future courtroom

Thanks to a letter about delivery, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula was finally attributed to its great master

Nikita Teryoshin’s chilling photos of ‘The back office of war’

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, books and streaming