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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
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
Persistence of vision: critic Yasmina Price leads a panel conversation at the New York African Film Festival exploring legacy of the great filmmaker Safi Faye, who passed away in February
Riding high: Malcolm Harris, author of a history of Palo Alto, discusses the cinema of Northern California’s most disruptive region, from Muybridge’s animal locomotion studies to dot-com era techno thrillers