This week The Film Comment Podcast reports on the latest premieres at the Venice Film Festival, already in full swing with the fall’s first wave of highly anticipated titles. Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold joins FC contributing editor and veteran international correspondent Jonathan Romney at an undisclosed alfresco location for an in-depth discussion of festival highlights. These include James Gray’s Ad Astra, Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy, Haifaa al-Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story. Stay tuned for another edition of our Venice podcast series.