Interview: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on Evil Does Not Exist
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
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
By Devika GirishGoing 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
The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2024 #3
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
By Max GoldbergRefracted light: Jerome Hiler’s Cinema Before 1300 is a discursive exploration of Gothic cathedrals’ luminous stained glass and a crucial part of a retrospective at MoMA
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
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
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
Window on the world: incarcerated journalist Phillip Vance Smith, II delves into how people in prisons watch movies—the streaming devices available, the viewing options, the costs of renting a film, and more