Double vision: how long can we maintain the ruse of championing artistic freedom and civil liberties in cinemas surrounded by hundreds of cops and A.I.-powered cameras and staffed by underpaid workers?
Gather round: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s 1989 film is a mellow, neorealist true story about a greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo who took a troop of poor Chinese exchange students under his wing in 1987
National pastimes: as the festival enters its waning days, standout films like Roberto Minervini's The Damned, Carson Lund's Eephus, and Tyler Taormina's Christmas Eve in Miller's Point investigate how we make meaning out of the past
Time out of mind: the Iranian filmmaker and producer discusses her work with the late French-Swiss maverick, including her documentary See You Friday, Robinson as well as Godard's final two shorts, which premiered at this year's Cannes
Let there be light: Dennis Lim and Justin Chang sit down to discuss late-festival selections All We Imagine as Light,The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Viet and Nam, and more
Things have changed: Beatrice Loayza reports from the festival's midpoint, offering reactions to Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez, Jia Zhangke's Caught by the Tides, and Patricia Mazuy's Visiting Hours
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