Stand!: our Sundance coverage kicks off with Maddie Whittle, Ruun Nuur, and Vadim Rizov joining to discuss SLY LIVES! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), Pee-wee as Himself, All That’s Left of You, and more
Always in style: in the second entry of our new advice column for cinephiles, critics Inney Prakash and Imogen Sara Smith offer sage career counsel and expert fashion tips
Ballad of a thin man: critic Lovia Gyarkye and Film Comment‘s Michael Blair join to discuss James Mangold‘s A Complete Unknown, Robert Eggers‘s Nosferatu, and more
Artificial heart: the great American actress discusses her role in the latest from Pedro Almodóvar, which co-stars Tilda Swinton as a dying woman who makes a daring request of an old friend, played brilliantly by Moore
Starting places: critics Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais join to discuss the undersung filmmaker’s richly heterogenous, and endlessly fascinating, body of work
That's a wrap: critics Bilge Ebiri and Lovia Gyarkye join Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from this year's lineup
Bread and roses: the two directorial pairs behind Northern Lights (1978) and Union (2024) discuss the practical, formal, and political considerations of making films about people power
In a silent way: Christopher Harris joins to discuss the origins of his filmmaking in his youthful ambition to be musician, his interest in stillness and silence as structuring concepts, and why his work is always as fun as it is challenging and erudite
Bells ring: for our final Podcast from TIFF 2024, David Schwartz, Saffron Maeve, and Robert Daniels join to discuss shorts in the Wavelenghts program, as well as features from Muhammed Hamdy, Wang Bing, and Luca Guadagnino
Off the map: critics Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, and more
Bitter pills: Madeline Whittle and Mark Asch join to discuss Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud, Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door, and more
Dig in: critics Mark Asch and David Schwartz join to kick of our TIFF 2024 coverage, discussing Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl, Raoul Peck's Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, and more
Present pasts: for the final episode of our Fanon on Screen series, filmmaker and artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and writer Adam Shatz discuss Sarah Maldoror’s Monangambeee and Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting
Next man up: for part 3 of our Fanon on Screen series, editor and organizer Cheryl Rivera and writers Clifford Thompson and Adam Shatz join to discuss Ivan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat by the Door
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