Kirsty Asher on cinema's blue chip art.

Cathy Brennan on the cinema institutions that have failed workers in the pandemic.

Tom Atkinson on a Cannes experiment.

Fedor Tot investigates why Fritz Lang's moral ambiguity influenced so many, but could be skilfully deployed by so few.

Ben Flanagan breaks down Fritz Lang's Abbey Road: the large-scale political quagmire of the two-part film The Indian Epic.

Tom Atkinson finds the Lang in one of the German auteur's most prolific spiritual descendants: Johnnie To.

Patrick Preziosi finds Lang's immediate influence in two 1950s Columbia noir films: Don Siegel's The Lineup and Edward Dmytryk's The Sniper.

Joseph Owen finds only despair and prison anxiety in the works of William Faulkner and serial killer thriller M.

Katie Hogan asks whether the woman-as-robot character in fiction can only be in the image of the Maria-bot in Metropolis.

Cathy Brennan finds that Dr Mabuse and The Wolf of Wall Street's Jordan Belfort have a lot in common.