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
Wavelengths: Amy Taubin, Genevieve Yue, and Ayanna Dozier join to discuss the history of the craft, the nitty-gritty of this niche beat, and what good writing on experimental film looks and sounds like
Going home: Carol Mansour's documentary is a heist of sorts, depicting the ways in which exiled Palestinians, denied the right of return, keep their heritage alive
Serve and volley: Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers is a tennis love triangle where the building tension between the players is consistently frustrated by their physical separation—a basic rule of the sport
Natural's not in it: the Japanese director discusses coincidence and confusion in his latest, which places the shape-shifting music of Eiko Ishibashi front and center
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
Refracted light: Jerome Hiler’s Cinema Before 1300 is a discursive exploration of Gothic cathedrals’ luminous stained glass and a crucial part of a retrospective at MoMA