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
Lush life: the director discusses her debut feature, the particularities of portraying Black motherhood, how she eschewed social-realist tropes, and what her (many nonprofessional) actors taught her about empathy
Perspective shift: history was retold and resold at this year’s Cannes, in films like Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Lisandro Alonso's Eureka, Alice Rohrwacher's La chimera, and others
Oceanic feeling: the German filmmaker talks about his latest, a slyly comedic chamber piece, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at last month’s Berlinale
Tall tales: the light of Steven Spielberg’s cinema is both illuminating and disillusioning, and in the autobiographical The Fabelmans, the auteur subjects himself to its glare
Truth claims: the French-Senegalese filmmaker discusses the real-life roots of her fiction debut and what it means to embody universality in a Black woman
Blue in the face: the best films at this year’s Locarno—like Helena Wittman’s Human Flowers of Flesh—invited contemplation rather than mere comprehension
Flying high: the last few days of Cannes contained many of this year’s high points, including Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, Albert Serra’s Pacifiction, and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
Body and soul: the prolific French actress joins the podcast to discuss her starring turns in excellent new films by Mia Hansen-Løve and David Cronenberg
