Film Comment

Stage craft: critics Lovia Gyarkye and Alex Barasch join to discuss TIFF selections Dream Scenario, Woman of the Hour, Lee, and others

What more do you want? Local critics Saffron Maeve and Adam Nayman join to discuss new films from Atom Egoyan, Cord Jefferson, Pedro Almodóvar, Bertrand Bonello, 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

Open up: Mark Asch and Maddie Whittle join to discuss TIFF selections Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, The Human Surge 3, God Is a Woman, and more

Work it out: programmer and librarian Elena Rossi-Snook and filmmaker Brett Story join for a conversation about the labor movement on screen

Think piece: A.I. scholar Andrea Rizzoli and critic Kevin B. Lee join to discuss the limitations and possibilities of A.I. as applied to art and cinema

Future days: in our first excerpt from this Locarno event, scholar Shane Denson joins to discuss the terrain of “post-cinema”

Blast off: Maddie Whittle and Mark Asch join for a lively debate about Christopher Nolan's new opus about the “father of the atomic bomb“

Filming the revolution: J. Hoberman joins for a deep-dive into The New Republic’s new poll of the 100 Most Significant Political Films

A little perspective: the musician and filmmaker talks about his new series, a madcap coming-of-age caper about a Black giant who confronts a broken capitalist world

Between the lines: collector Robert M. Rubin and bibliographer Erin McGuirl join to discuss the ways in which unique screenplays and other "exformation" can help rewrite film history

Speaking nearby: the scholar and filmmaker joins to discuss a new artist book exploring and expanding her 2015 film, Forgetting Vietnam

The long day closes: Justin Chang, Dennis Lim, and Rachel Rosen offer an overview of the festival that was, and discuss late premieres from Catherine Breillat and Hong Sangsoo

Party’s over: our critics discuss latter-day selections including Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days, and more

Spotlight: Mark Asch, Miriam Bale, and Kevin B. Lee talk about the theme of performance in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Víctor Erice’s Close Your Eyes, Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, and many more

Mirror mirror: the director of festival standout May December discusses his inspirations, the film’s use of the zoom lens, his thoughts on camp, and more

Table talk: critics Lovia Gyarkye, Abby Sun, and Kelli Weston join to discuss Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Todd Haynes’s May December, and more

Zone defense: Jonathan Romney and Giovanni Marchini Camia join to discuss Jonathan Glazer’s much-anticipated The Zone of Interest and Lisandro Alonso’s experimental western Eureka

Digging in: critics Beatrice Loayza, Inney Prakash, and James Wham join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster, Wim Wenders’s Anselm, and more

Moi non plus: Jessica Kiang and Jordan Cronk open the proceedings with some discussion of early Cannes films and preview the movies they're most excited about seeing