If you build it: a pervading sense of mourning is the most coherent thing about Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, an otherwise largely unfocused and self-important movie
Watch the stars: the photographer and filmmaker discusses his new adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel, the film’s compelling use of first-person point of view, and his interest in capturing what he calls “adjacent images”
In a silent way: Christopher Harris joins to discuss the origins of his filmmaking in his youthful ambition to be musician, his interest in stillness and silence as structuring concepts, and why his work is always as fun as it is challenging and erudite
Trick mirror: The Substance seems inescapably in thrall to the seductive, glossy surfaces of Hollywood beauty standards that it is supposedly skewering
Candid camera: this year's festival offered an array of welcome surprises, including highlights like Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Nicolás Pereda Lázaro at Night, and more
Midnight confessions: the novelist and filmmaker discusses his new noir comedy, which follows a young man who returns to his hometown in the French countryside and finds himself embroiled in an unpredictable (and increasingly dangerous) game of lust
Debris slide: highlights from this year's edition included Brady Corbet's sweeping historical drama The Brutalist, Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua's surveillance thriller Stranger Eyes, and Alex Ross Perry's prismatic portrait of the iconic ’90s band Pavement
Bells ring: for our final Podcast from TIFF 2024, David Schwartz, Saffron Maeve, and Robert Daniels join to discuss shorts in the Wavelenghts program, as well as features from Muhammed Hamdy, Wang Bing, and Luca Guadagnino
Off the map: critics Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, and more
Bitter pills: Madeline Whittle and Mark Asch join to discuss Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud, Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door, and more
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