Fool’s errands: Kelli Weston and Jessica Kiang join to unpack Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness
Born to be wild: Bilge Ebiri and Jonathan Romney join to discuss early festival selections Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Girls With the Needle, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, and many more
Bonne projection: Beatrice Loayza and Isabel Stevens join to kick off our Cannes 2024 coverage, debating new films by Quentin Dupieux, Sophie Fillières, and Agathe Riedinger
Golden hour: this year’s reimagined edition was invigorated by a selection of archival Palestinian shorts and gems such as A Grasscutter’s Tale and The Soldier’s Lagoon
Together and apart: the two directors discuss the making of their award-winning documentary, their transition from journalism to cinema, and finding the right balance between images of incontrovertible violence with those of resilience and life
Looking back: at the annual nonfiction showcase in Columbia, Missouri, the standout films all reanimated lost or repressed pasts and offered galvanizing visions of the future
The final frontier: the French director discusses his latest, The Empire, which polarized critics at the 2024 Berlinale with its blend of doofy Star Wars references and ambitious formal finesse
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