Out of the blue: highlights from this year’s TIFF include Miko Revereza’s Nowhere Near, Atom Egoyan’s return to form Seven Veils, the murder mystery Reptile, and more
Face to face: critics Chloe Lizotte and Adam Nayman join to discuss Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Dumb Money, The Boy and the Heron, and more
By Emerson Goo Garden of forking paths: Yui Kiyohara’s latest follows the intersecting paths of three women, in the process painting a portrait of their town as a ruin in the making
The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2023 #3
What more do you want? Local critics Saffron Maeve and Adam Nayman join to discuss new films from Atom Egoyan, Cord Jefferson, Pedro Almódovar, Bertrand Bonello, and more
Signs of the times: the most useful films for this moment of labor unrest in the film industry are those made in close connection with the workers on the front lines
Spit take: a collection of newly restored shorts from the Sudanese Film Group strain against the didactic dictates of a state-sanctioned national cinema
I Can Has Cheezburger: the artist duo discuss their latest mash up of pop-culture touchstones, a surprisingly perceptive analysis of the political and cultural moment
Graphic images: the Romanian director—whose film was the talk of the Locarno film festival—grapples with guilt and pleasure vis-à-vis art and culture in the context of war
Virtual reality: highlights from this year's edition include Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World and Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3, both informed by our digitally-dominated daily life
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