Bite our style: Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals of Missy Elliott
Alone again or: Ben Rivers’s latest Bogancloch—a continuation of the British filmmaker’s collaboration with a hermit—is notable for its exquisite play with duration, attention, and the very form of the observational documentary
Inside out: this year’s edition was suffused with an uneasy mood, expressed by many of the standout selections, including Mickey 17, Kontinental ’25, Special Operation, and Friendship’s Death
Pain and glory: Eric Newman and Paul Thompson, editors of the Los Angeles Review of Books, join to discuss, debate, and dismantle this year’s nominees, from Anora to Emilia Pérez to Nickel Boys, and more
Bon appetit: Andrew Katzenstein, Genevieve Yue, and Michael Blair join the FC editors to dish up favorite titles from the legendary American filmmaker’s body of work
Rise up: a special retrospective series at this year‘s festival captured the revolutionary promise of the historic Afro-Asian Film Festivals of the 1950s and ’60s
Take two: at this year‘s festival, overtly political films by Bong Joon Ho and Tom Twyker struggled to meet the moment, while more ruminative fare from Lucile Hadžihalilović and Richard Linklater offered unalloyed pleasures
