Podcast

Family affair: our roundtable of critics feasts on some of the buzzier TIFF titles, including Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, Aronofsky’s The Whale, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, and more

Mirror mirror: Mark Asch and Madeline Whittle join to discuss festival standouts like Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People's Children, and more

On trial: our crack team of critics discusses festival highlights Saint Omer, Corsage, The Kingdom Exodus, The People’s Joker, and more

On the verge: Amalric and Krieps, director and star of the new Hold Me Tight, discuss the narrative and cinematic balancing act of depicting a mind in flux

Explosive material: our first dispatch from TIFF touches on Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, eco-terrorist thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and more

Locked in: Gina Telaroli, Inney Prakash, and Steve Macfarlane join to discuss some highlights from the repertory calendar, including series at Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, and Maysles Documentary Center

Work and play: scholar Kevin B. Lee discusses how labor, pleasure, and the special state of attention that we call cinema

Future days: artist Hito Steyerl talks about maintaining techno-optimism and the distinction between attention and voyeurism

Pushing the limit: Julia Murat, director of the Golden Leopard-winning Rule 34, joins to discuss her boundary-pushing film

Screentime: philosopher Noa Levin and curator Giovanni Carmine join to explore the spaces and infrastructures of attention