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Girl talk: the director of the ultra-pink blockbuster discusses imbuing inanimate objects with feeling, balancing cynicism and care, and, of course, irrepressible thoughts of death

Close shave: Masc, a new program on Criterion Channel, offers a rebuttal to the transphobic charge that transition and gender nonconformity are 21st-century phenomena

Jaw dropping: this year’s edition of the Flaherty Seminar delved into the simultaneously exhilarating and elegiac experience of contemplating the past and future of queer experimental film

Blast off: Maddie Whittle and Mark Asch join for a lively debate about Christopher Nolan's new opus about the “father of the atomic bomb“

Cool heads prevail: this year’s edition—especially since a recent turn to collective curation—took a typically protean approach, yielding some audaciously uncategorizable and hybrid works

At the crossroads: three striking discoveries stood out at this year's Czech festival, including Tinatin Kajrishvili’s Citizen Saint, Naqqash Khalid’s In Camera, and Ernst De Geer’s The Hypnosis

Over the shoulder: this year's festival of rediscovered cinema, featuring a retrospective of the films of Rouben Mamoulia, was not merely a celebration of past glories, but a declaration of a peculiarly privileged present

Youth in revolt: in the work the late French filmmaker Jean Eustache, the inexorable pain of living is transformed, through autobiography, into luminous cinema

Filming the revolution: J. Hoberman joins for a deep-dive into The New Republic’s new poll of the 100 Most Significant Political Films

Sing out: a program at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles showcases the many possibilities of concert movies—both as cinema and as performance—through a range of classics