Love on the rocks: Both Sides of the Blade is Claire Denis’ latest exploration of the dissonances between body and language—or, as critic Leo Goldsmith puts it, “discourse and meatspace”
Group chat: Jonathan Romney and Jessica Kiang join to run down their most anticipated films at Cannes, including David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Claire Denis’s The Stars at Noon, and more
First we take Manhattan: Jessica Kiang and Edo Choi join to discuss and debate festival highlights, including Claire Denis’s Fire, Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, Ulrich Seidl’s Rimini and more
Light touches: this year’s slate was dotted with life-affirming standouts like Claire Denis’s Fire, Mikhaël Hers’s The Passengers of the Night, and more
Claire Denis's High Life, Alex Ross Perry's Her Smell, Christian Petzold's Transit, Jafar Panahi on the process of secretly making movies, plus the not-so-secret gay history of a cult film magazine and Ari Aster on The Last Temptation of Christ
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