National pastimes: as the festival enters its waning days, standout films like Roberto Minervini's The Damned, Carson Lund's Eephus, and Tyler Taormina's Christmas Eve in Miller's Point investigate how we make meaning out of the past
Time out of mind: the Iranian filmmaker and producer discusses her work with the late French-Swiss maverick, including her documentary See You Friday, Robinson as well as Godard's final two shorts, which premiered at this year's Cannes
Let there be light: Dennis Lim and Justin Chang sit down to discuss late-festival selections All We Imagine as Light,The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Viet and Nam, and more
Things have changed: Beatrice Loayza reports from the festival's midpoint, offering reactions to Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez, Jia Zhangke's Caught by the Tides, and Patricia Mazuy's Visiting Hours
Crossing the rubicon: the Italian filmmaker discusses his new Civil War–era period movie, which both restages a moment in America’s past and documents present-day Americans reflecting on the process of nation-making
Hard rain: critics Beatrice Loayza, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Caitlin Quinlan discuss Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour, Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia, Mahdi Fliefel’s To a Land Unknown, and Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope
Party down: Guy Lodge and Adam Piron offer their reactions to Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez and Sean Baker’s Anora before sharing some personal festival highlights
Body and soul: critics Robert Daniels, Miriam Bale, and Mark Asch discuss recent festival premieres, including David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, Claire Simon's Elementary, and more
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
