Festivals

Late night: critics Sam Adams, Kayla Myers, and Alissa Wilkinson join in Park City to discuss Justice, Earth Mama, To Live and Die and Live, the doc shorts program, and more

Stay cool: our Sundance coverage kicks off with Abby Sun and Alissa Wilkinson on opening night films Kim’s Video, The Longest Goodbye, and more

Performing arts: the most thought-provoking live performances in last year’s edition of IDFA provoked fundamental questions about the nonfiction form

Parallel lines: Park Chan-wook’s epic detective story Decision to Leave is the most overtly romantic entry in Park’s often blood-soaked filmography

Group chat: Phoebe Chen, Molly Haskell, and Kelli Weston join to discuss highlights and lowlights from the festival that was, including TÁR, Saint Omer, Master Gardener and more

Through the looking glass: Jafar Panahi’s No Bears offers a timely story about the real and imagined borders—national, social, religious—that constrict the freedoms of Iranians

Love bites: Claire Denis’s first “straightforward thriller,” Stars at Noon, is a too-oblique portrait of the exploits of Western colonialists abroad

Multi-tasking: Edward Yang’s 1994 ensemble piece, A Confucian Confusion, wryly weaves references to the ancient philosophy into a relentlessly busy big-city network narrative

Tick-tock: the Swiss director discusses his anti-nostalgic approach to historical narrative, summoning an everyday sense of the past, and the central place of objects in his film, Unrest

Animal spirits: the 84-year-old filmmaker discusses the youthful verve and visual panache of his new, donkey-starring EO