Orchestral manoeuvres: some of the most interesting films at Venice this year—including TÁR, Saint Omer, and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed—featured women of extraordinary ability and ego
Frame rate: a long-awaited translation of the late French critic’s writings reveals a fascination with what’s included in the frame and what’s left out, and the moral and political stakes of that choice
Family affair: our roundtable of critics feasts on some of the buzzier TIFF titles, including Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, Aronofsky’s The Whale, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, and more
Mirror mirror: Mark Asch and Madeline Whittle join to discuss festival standouts like Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People's Children, and more
On the verge: Amalric and Krieps, director and star of the new Hold Me Tight, discuss the narrative and cinematic balancing act of depicting a mind in flux
Explosive material: our first dispatch from TIFF touches on Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, eco-terrorist thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and more
Light work: the Japanese filmmaker’s tireless curiosity allowed him ever new and different angles from which to tackle questions about the singularity of each cinematic moment
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