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Build back better: Ina Archer and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur join to discuss the technical and philosophical challenges of film preservation

Underwater moonlight: French cinematographer Louvart talks about her remarkable lens-work on the new coming-of-age drama Murina

Love on the rocks: Both Sides of the Blade is Claire Denis’ latest exploration of the dissonances between body and language—or, as critic Leo Goldsmith puts it, “discourse and meatspace”

Save as: Academy Film Archive preservationist Mark Toscano discusses the unique challenges of restoring experimental films by artists like Stan Brakhage and Barbara Hammer, and more

Family matters: Jacqueline Lentzou’s drama thrives on the emotional weather systems that form when a grown child revisits an empty nest

Whole lotta shakin’: Elvis is predictably overstuffed, but not even Baz Luhrmann’s blinding glitz can overshadow the singer’s tragic legacy

Together forever: Alice Diop’s We is an associative tour of working-class suburbs, a meditation on the varying visions of French nationalism, and a grappling with the slippery politics of representing the underrepresented

Child’s play: Nathan Lee and Gavin Smith join to exchange gifts including God Told Me To, Death Race, Baby’s Day Out and more

Old ways: Qiu Jiongjiong’s first fiction feature a portrait of the artist as a historical being, subject to all the contingencies of material existence

Future shock: the designer of the new anti-capitalist sci-fi musical discusses his inventive world-building and the inspirations it draws from Rwandan culture