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Echoes of the Past review – Max von Sydow’s final film is coda to a Nazi atrocity

Kalavryta was a real war crime committed in Greece, but this fictional drama – featuring von Sydow in his last film role – fails to deliver much justice

Cabaret at 50: Bob Fosse’s show-stopping musical remains a dark marvel

Liza Minnelli gives a towering performance in a loose adaptation of the stage musical that broaches tough subject matter with deft ease

Peter von Kant review – gender-flipped Fassbinder does away with the bitter tears

François Ozon gives Fassbinder’s all-female 1972 drama The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant a makeover, making it lighter and more camp

HipBeat review – a male identity crisis in Berlin is pure cringe

The intoxicating, party-hard capital of Germany goes straight to the head of Samuel Kay Forrest’s feature debut – and not in a good way

Maya Shenfeld: In Free Fall review – 21st-century tech communes with the ancient

(Thrill Jockey)The Jerusalem-born sound artist’s debut invokes the transcendent via a compelling mix of analogue synths, brass and human voices

Hertha Berlin go missing in Bayern ordeal to complete week of ‘disgrace’ | Andy Brassell

Furious fans interrupted training after the cup defeat to Union Berlin in midweek and the pressure intensified on Sunday

Home review – Franka Potente makes directing debut with haunting ex-con drama

Run Lola Run star goes behind the camera for California-set film about a killer who can’t escape his past

Comets review – a lovers’ reunion charged with cosmic poignancy

A surprise reappearance throws the life of middle-aged widow into otherworldly flux in this strangely affecting drama

Could 2022 be sportswashing’s biggest year?

A year bookended by the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Fifa World Cup in Qatar could be a high point of authoritarian regimes looking to cover up their dismal human rights records

Neo rhythms: why techno music and The Matrix are in perfect harmony

The films’ heroes look like they’ve just stepped off the Berghain dancefloor – and the connection isn’t merely aesthetic. The series shares the genre’s philosophy of liberation

John Izbicki obituary

John Izbicki, who has died aged 91, was a journalist with the Telegraph for 30 years, covering the City, education and then Paris. A Jewish refugee from nazism, he arrived in Britain at the age of nine on 3 September 1939, the day that the UK declared war on Germany following the invasion of Poland.

Bliss review – Berlin sex worker falls in love with new girl in no holds barred drama

Fortysomething sex worker Sascha falls for twentysomething Maria, but a visit to her home town forces a reckoning

There Is No Evil review – passionate plea against Iran’s soul-poisoning executions

Dissident Mohammad Rasoulof blasts against his country’s profligate use of capital punishment that includes making citizens carry out death sentences

Sinne Eeg and Thomas Fonnesbæk: Staying in Touch review – a great Danish double act

(Stunt)The seamless interplay between Eeg’s vocals and Fonnesbæk’s double bass makes for unlikely but happy listening

Tom Stoddart obituary

Photojournalist who covered the civil war in Lebanon, the siege of Sarajevo, the fall of the Berlin wall and the 2003 invasion of IraqThe photojournalist Tom Stoddart, who has died from cancer aged 67, covered conflicts, catastrophes and social issues around the world for 40 years and was regarded by his peers as an outstanding practitioner.

‘We think we’re good – but we’re weak’: the making of Natural Light, the year’s most harrowing film

To cast his gruelling war drama, Dénes Nagy combed Hungary’s farms for people ‘with exhaustion in their face’ – then shot it in the Latvian winter. The result? Awards, praise … and fierce criticism

Natural Light review – reprisals and revenge in chilling examination of the toll of war

Documentary director Dénes Nagy explores how conflict erodes loyalty, morality and human consciousness in his award-winning first feature

Xavi heading home to Barcelona in chronicle of a coaching job foretold | Sid Lowe

Club legend twice rejected offers but finally he is coming back as a defender of the faith and symbol of hope for the future

Modern pentathlon was at risk long before a horse was punched. How to update it? | Andy Bull

Simply replacing horse riding with cycling, as proposed, would not tackle the Olympic sport’s anachronistic make-up

Coldplay review – lasers, confetti and Ed Sheeran in extravagant return

Shepherd’s Bush Empire, LondonChris Martin and co bring out the big guns, and pack an arena-sized show into an intimate theatre, to mark the launch of teen-pop new album Music of the Spheres

NFL ‘combine’ has become a key pillar in gridiron’s global marketing strategy | Paul MacInnes

Hopefuls from the UK, Germany, Japan and across the world have a shot at glory via the International Player Pathway

My Little Sister review – fierce and fraught family drama

Nina Hoss and Lars Eidinger give finely acted performances as they play twins brought back together through illness – but who is saving who?

‘No established disco would have played this music’: 30 years of legendary Berlin club Tresor

A new compilation surveys the enduring influence of a German landmark that fuelled a techno revolution from a damp, fungi-riddled bank vault on the old East side

Bach to the future …. how the cello suites survived obscurity to capture the world

They’re one of the greatest glories of classical music but the Cello Suites took many decades to be appreciated and understood. Steven Isserlis tells the story of ‘one of the pillars of western civilisation’

Next Door review – Daniel Brühl’s vanity-free actor project props itself up at the bar

Brühl plays a version of himself as a self-involved actor waylaid by a man who knows a lot about him, but there’s a stagey undertow

Gladbach get Hütter up and running as Rose suffers on return | Andy Brassell

Marco Rose returned to Borussia Mönchengladbach with Dortmund on Saturday but it was his replacement at Borussia-Park who was victorious

Public Service Broadcasting: Bright Magic review – mood music, from Weimar to Bowie

(Play It Again Sam)Berlin is the inspiration for the band’s inventive if melancholy fourth album

Toronto film festival 2021 roundup – from poets to deadly parasites

While overshadowed by its flashier film festival rivals, there were still gems to be found at Tiff 2021, from Terence Davies, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Pearce and more

Roxanne de Bastion: You & Me, We Are the Same review – risk meets reward

(Nomad Songs)The rising singer-songwriter’s ambitious second outing fuses psych, new wave and pure vocals, with a little help from Bernard Butler

Jane Campion: #MeToo felt like ‘end of apartheid’ for women

Speaking before the premiere of The Power of the Dog in Venice, director and star Benedict Cumberbatch discuss toxic masculinity and recent success of female film-makers

Boy Meets Boy review – walking-and-talking romance never gets anywhere

Yet another Before Sunrise imitator – this time with two men who have 15 hours to spend together in Berlin – falters because of a subpar script and annoying characters

The Big Scary ‘S’ Word: why are people so terrified of socialism?

In a new documentary, film-maker Yael Bridge looks back and forward to see why some people have been so repelled by socialism and how things might change in the future

Manchester’s Space Afrika: ‘We’re totally ourselves – Black artists in the 21st century’

The duo’s groundbreaking music takes the mischievous appeal of their home city’s sound and adds a fresh dose of dark ambience

Jude Law: ‘I remember being told not to get above myself. Such appalling British advice’

In Sean Durkin’s new film The Nest, Law plays an 80s broker whose financial deals destroy his marriage. He and the director talk about making his character likable – and how US can-do culture changed class-ridden Britain

I’m Your Man review – Dan Stevens is the perfect date in android romance

Near-future tale of a woman who accepts a male ‘companion’ robot played by Stevens is laboriously told and not really funny enough

Wildland review – Danish crime drama with the makings of a big hit

When 17-year-old Ida goes to live with her aunt and cousins, she quickly becomes embroiled in a ruthless family

Composer-pianist Max Richter: ‘Creativity is activism’

The German-British composer explains why his new album, Exiles, addresses the refugee crisis – and is played by an orchestra who break all the rules

The Guardian view on the future of cinema: don’t panic… | Editorial

Streaming platforms are transforming the way films are watched. But traditional movie-going and sofa viewing can coexist

Nazis, fear and violence: when reporting from Berlin was dangerous

Our Germany correspondent salutes the man who did his job 100 years ago, when it was far more perilous and unpredictable

Ahed’s Knee review – patchily brilliant account of Israeli trauma

Nadav Lapid’s film begins with some distinctively original sequences about his movie-directing hero, but sinks into anguished monologuing

Cosha: Mt Pleasant review – confident and carefree come-to-bed beats

(Ashtown Lane)The Irish singer seizes artistic control in an album charged with heated possibilities, sensual new love and sexual self-belief

Jenni Olson: ‘I remember walking out of the movie theatre like, “Yeah, I’m a cowboy!”’

How did a little girl who loved Westerns grow up into an icon of queer cinema? As she wins a Teddy award, the filmmaker talks about a life devoted to the movies

Naomi Osaka pulls out of Berlin tournament raising doubts over Wimbledon

Berlin WTA grass court tournament seen as Wimbledon tune-upWorld No 2 has spoken of need to address her mental healthNaomi Osaka has officially withdrawn from the bett1open grass court tournament next week in Berlin, an event she had intended to compete in as a warm-up before Wimbledon.

My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields: ‘We wanted to sound like a band killing their songs’

The band have released only one album since 1991 classic Loveless, yet their influence remains undimmed. Their frontman discusses destroying buildings with noise, losing his mojo – and preparing new music

Vanquish review – Ruby Rose slugs it out on a motorbike

Rose has the poise to carry this action movie about an alpha mama collecting money from narcotics nasties, but it’s cartoonish

My New York Year (aka My Salinger Year) review – bafflingly insipid literary memoir clunks hard

Based on Joanna Rakoff’s book, this simpering knock-off of The Devil Wears Prada is so wet you could shoot snipe off it

Van Morrison: Latest Record Project Volume 1 review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Exile/BMG)The veteran bluesman loudly wakes up the sheeple with this boring and paranoid double album, reminiscent of a dinner party with a bitter divorcee

Charlatan review – a fascinating, frustrating tale of bottled-up emotion

Agnieszka Holland once again proves she is the real deal with this austere biopic of a faith healer in 1930s Czechoslovakia

European roundup: Atlético slip again as Inter close in on Serie A title

Darmian scores late Inter winner, Atalanta into top fourSchalke ends winless run, Depay scores twice for LyonAtlético Madrid returned to the top of La Liga with a 1-1 draw away to Real Betis but did so at the expense of losing yet more players to injury, leaving their title hopes hanging by a thread.

Chris Power: 'You burn reality to fuel the fiction'

The critic and author on writing about writers, his 20-year-long fascination with Berlin, and the political manoeuvres of the Putin era

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‘People go a funny colour and keel over’: Briony Greenhill on leading the world’s most intense singing lessons

After discovering the creative joys of collaborative vocal improvisation, the Suffolk singer wants to help people reach into their hearts and bring out their voices

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Plus: long-distance loans, another cracker of the late-comeback-and-win genre and winning with seven menMail us your questions or tweet @TheKnowledge_GU“The other day, the Wordle answer was MOUNT, which got me thinking – is Mason Mount the only footballer (present or former) whose first and second name are recognised five-letter words in the dictionary and therefore legitimate potential answers in Wordle?” asks Joe Hutton.

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