Many films – even classics such as Eraserhead and Chungking Express – remain surprisingly unavailable online to UK audiences. We asked film-makers from Martin McDonagh to Charlotte Wells to pick their favourites

Conjuror of the bizarre Strickland outdoes himself with this tale of a sonic performance collective who stick microphones into food – and other places

Gwendoline Christie and Asa Butterfield star in this stylish and deeply odd confection about ‘sonic cooking’

From Steve McQueen doing Lynda La Plante to Alfonso Cuarón’s return to childhood, our chief film critic selects the highlights of this year’s festival

A new Halloween radio play from Peter Strickland stars Romola Garai, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Julian Barratt and Jane Asher – one of the original actors in Nigel Kneale’s 1970s TV version

From Bruegel to Nabokov and The Silence of the Lambs, butterflies have flitted through our imaginations and into our culture. Patrick Barkham pins up the choice specimens – and finds out why new film The Duke of Burgundy is awash with them

British director Peter Strickland has made three acclaimed fiction films. He had no interest in making a concert film. Then Björk came calling. He explains how their visions merged for Biophilia Live