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Bubble wrapped: this year's festival attempts to avoid the controversies rocking the outside world, providing a sealed-in microclimate for duds and indulgences like Quentin Dupieux's The Second Act and Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis

Kinds of Canadians: Kevin B. Lee, Abby Sun, and Vadim Rizov join to discuss new films by Jia Zhangke, Paul Schrader, Matthew Rankin, and more

Second hand news: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson join to discuss their latest, Cannes 2024 highlight Rumours

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