The maker of the excellent film Cobain: Hell, Brent Morgen is back with another musical documentary, going even further with the great David Bowie as the theme. Here we are talking not just about the musician Bowie, but about the creative person as a whole, about this inexhaustible creator practicing different arts and using his own body as a canvas to express what overwhelmed from the inside.

However, Morgen prefers to show us all this not in a strictly linear fashion, but rather in a free flow of time that begins with Bowie’s teenage years and continues until the last interview with him shortly before his death. In fact, from this we hear only the voice of the artist, as a report and at the same time a summary of all the others that have sounded on the screen during this time. And it’s impressive: unpublished archival footage, old interviews and, of course, original live footage of Bowie transforming his rock/pop star image on stage with unimaginable audacity for any era. Morgen, for his part, puts his hand back in, fiddling with colors, filters and editing to create a psychedelic ensemble befitting his otherworldly hero’s colorful, transcendent imagination.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film, which received four Oscar nominations and finally a gold statuette for Best International Film, is released this week. The hero of the Japanese film director is Yusuke, a theater director who suddenly loses his beloved wife. In deep grief, he accepts an invitation to go to Hiroshima to stage his version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Daily communication with the members of the troupe, as well as with his taciturn young guide, will help him move to a new level and get a little closer to redemption.

Hamaguchi keeps his imagery and cinematic interference in general to a minimum, filming and editing sparingly to give his (masterpiece) script all the punch. Modern loneliness, the difficulty of human relationships and communication itself, as well as the drama of loss, are contrasted here with Chekhov’s text and the magnetism it radiates, bordering on obsession. Three hours of duration is, of course, enough, but an attentive viewer is rewarded even more.

David Gordon Green’s contemporary trilogy, which revived the legend of Michael Myers, concludes with a film that rides on the same wave as the previous two. Four years have passed since the bloodthirsty killer last appeared in the small town where Laurie Stroud (Jamie Lee Curtis) now lives peacefully with her young granddaughter Alison. The latter will have an affair with Corey, an introverted youth who is treated like an outcast. As his behavior gets more and more bizarre, a new wave of murders breaks out as Michael Myers and Laurie meet (inevitably) for a final showdown. Gordon Green stays true to the traditional slasher, adding just the right amount of humor to his killer mix. Fans of the genre and the movie series will definitely like it.

Veteran Steven Frears signs the film, written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, with his famous stylish style. The main character here is Sally Hawkins as Philippa, an amateur historian who sets out to destroy what she sees as the wrong public image of King Richard III. Her investigations will eventually lead her to a parking lot in Leicester, where she will “meet” a Shakespearean hero whom she already sees clearly through the eyes of her imagination. Two experts in the idiosyncratic dramedy genre – Friars and Coogan – meet with one of the most ideal heroines, Sally Hawkins, to hand over the reins of this strange story to her. It’s nice to see a result that teaches a lesson in perseverance that can sometimes bring down even the tallest walls.

Moving from television to the big screen for the first time, Briton Tom George is directing an action-adventure comedy with an impeccable cast. In 1950s London’s West End, plans for a film adaptation of a popular play are cut short when a key crew member is killed. Then the out-of-world Commander Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) takes action, with a willing rookie constable (Sears Ronan) on his side. The two will find themselves embroiled in a mysterious game of suspects, trying to solve the mystery while putting themselves in danger.