Further watching: Grace is Gone

A quiet film that honours the dead

Armando Ianucci in the thick of it

Political satire In The Loop was the big winner at the Bafta Scotland Awards, presented at the Glasgow Science Centre

Gang film audiences to be frisked

Security guards have been brought in to frisk cinemagoers wanting to watch 1 Day, a film about Britain’s inner city gangs

Avatar: how they did it

Creating the 3-D film meant inventing technology to give computer-generated characters realistic human expressions

James Cameron back in at the deep end

The Titanic director has finally resurfaced, with his $230m new film, Avatar. He says it will mess with people’s minds

The bird in the Boosh

She made her name in gritty Spanish realist roles. So how come Veronica Echegui is fooling around on film with the Mighty Boosh?

Biteback

Michael Haneke on The White Ribbon

The greatest director of his generation is surprisingly optimistic — despite his haunting new take on the last century

Winslet's is worth £60m to Britain's economy

The actress was the first to be 'audited' by UK Film Council as it seeks to put a monetary value on the UK's creative industries

Robert Pattinson: trapped in the Twilight zone

Following the success of Stephenie Meyer's books and film, we uncover the dark obsession the actor can’t put to rest

A Christmas Carol

Even Dickens, who didn’t hesitate to call a character "Fezziwig", would have found parts of this adaptation over the top

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot began shooting Inferno, which was to be a psychodrama about a jealous middle-aged man

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Too shallow for satire and not funny enough for comedy, the infantile Goats is really just a silly absurdist movie

Welcome

The ordeals faced by illegal migrants have been better highlighted in quite a few films than in this French drama

Paper Heart

Paper Heart is not the worst lo-fi love story you’ll ever see, but it’s shown up by all those genuine true-life tales