Festivals

Imitation of life: Todd Haynes’s latest, which opens this year's NYFF, rips a tale from the tabloid headlines and turns it into a modern melodrama of desire, deception, and delusion

Out of the blue: highlights from this year’s TIFF include Miko Revereza’s Nowhere Near, Atom Egoyan’s return to form Seven Veils, the murder mystery Reptile, and more

Another green world: this year’s edition was refocused on ambitious, idiosyncratic, and auteur-driven films like Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, Harmony Korine’s AGGRO DR1FT, and Bertand Bonello’s The Beast

Stage craft: critics Lovia Gyarkye and Alex Barasch join to discuss TIFF selections Dream Scenario, Woman of the Hour, Lee, and others

What more do you want? Local critics Saffron Maeve and Adam Nayman join to discuss new films from Atom Egoyan, Cord Jefferson, Pedro Almodóvar, Bertrand Bonello, and more

Face to face: critics Chloe Lizotte and Adam Nayman join to discuss Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Dumb Money, The Boy and the Heron, and more

Open up: Mark Asch and Maddie Whittle join to discuss TIFF selections Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, The Human Surge 3, God Is a Woman, and more

Graphic images: the Romanian director—whose film was the talk of the Locarno film festival—grapples with guilt and pleasure vis-à-vis art and culture in the context of war

Virtual reality: highlights from this year's edition include Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World and Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3, both informed by our digitally-dominated daily life

Future days: in our first excerpt from this Locarno event, scholar Shane Denson joins to discuss the terrain of “post-cinema”