MOIRÉE Podcast

Blake Williams is joined by critics Darren Hughes, Daniel Kasman, Vikram Murthi, and Mark Peranson to discuss the first four days of the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, including thoughts on: - The festival's new Market - Mike Leigh's Tender Loving Care - May el-Toukhy's Woman Unknown - Yoon Dan-bi's The World Before - Zack Snyder's The Last Photograph - Géssica Généus's Marie Madeleine

In our second and final roundtable in Locarno, critics Blake Williams, Joshua Bogatin, Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal, and Öykü Sofuoğlu discuss the state of the Locarno Film Festival after their time at this year's edition, including comments on Luise Donschen's Tomorrow a Long Time Ago , Hong Sang-soo's Nowhere to Lay My Eyes , Isabelle Stever's I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming , this year's retrospective, "Red & Black: Hollywood Left and the Blacklist," and some award predictions.

In part 1 of our first roundtable in Locarno, critics Blake Williams, Öykü Sofuoğlu, Joshua Bogatin, Matilda Hague, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal discuss films from the first half of this year's Locarno Film Festival 2026, including: - Beatrice Gibson's At Night - Alessandra Sanguinetti's The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer - Denis Côté's Nobody's Violence Part 2 of this conversation will be available shortly over on Patreon for our Wave and Signal tier members, so head over there to hear our discussion of: - Nicolaas Schmidt's September Afternoon - Albert Serra's Sixteen Moments of My Life - Mohanad Yaqubi's Revolutionaries Never Die

Critics Blake Williams, Beatrice Loayza, Diego Lerer, Jorge Negrete, Eric Hynes, Maja Korbecka, Öykü Sofuoğlu, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal wrap up Cannes 2026, including: - Valeska Grisebach's The Dreamed Adventure - Emmanuel Marre's A Man of His Time - Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi's La Bola Negra - Lukas Dhont's Coward - Bruno Dumont's Red Rocks - Quentin Dupieux's Vertiginous - Awards Predictions

Critics Blake Williams, Daniel Kasman, Mark Peranson, Öykü Sofuoğlu, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal discuss some of the major premieres of Cannes 2026, including: - Na Hong-jin's Hope - Sandra Wollner's Everytime - Arthur Harari's The Unknown - Cristian Mungiu's Fjord - Andrey Zvyagintsev's Minotaur - Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell - Jia Zhang-ke's Torino Shadow

Critics Blake Williams, Savina Petkova, Öykü Sofuoğlu, Flavia Dima, Nicholas Bell, and Jordan Cronk discuss highlights from the first weekend of Cannes 2026, including: - Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland - Asghar Farhadi's Parallel Tales - Radu Jude's The Diary of a Chambermaid - Ryusuke Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden

Critics Blake Williams, Mark Peranson, Daniel Kasman, Öykü Sofuoğlu, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal discuss films from the first two days of Cannes 2026, including: - Pierre Salvadori's The Electric Kiss - Kantemir Balagov's Butterfly Jam - Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma - Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's A Woman's Life - Kôji Fukada's Nagi Notes

Blake Williams is joined by critics Maja Korbecka and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal to discuss the final days of the 2026 Berlinale, including thoughts on: - Hong Sang-soo's The Day She Returns - James Benning's EIGHT BRIDGES - Beth de Araújo's Josephine - Abdallah Alkhatib's Chronicles from the Siege - Nurith Aviv's Given Names

Blake Williams is joined by critics David Hudson, Darren Hughes, Daniel Kasman, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal to discuss some of the best films they've seen at the midpoint of the 2026 Berlinale, including: - Angela Schanelec's My Wife Cries - Lance Hammer's Queen at Sea - André Novais Oliveira's If I Were Alive - Sebastian Brameshuber's London - Tudor Cristian Jurgiu's On Our Way - Kelly O’Sullivan & Alex Thompson's Mouse - Mohammad Shirvani's Cesarean Weekend

Blake Williams is joined by critics Zachary Lewis, Daniel Kasman, Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal, Maja Korbecka, Beatrice Loayza, and Jordan Cronk to discuss some highlights from the first weekend of the 2026 Berlinale, including: - Alain Gomis's Dao - Nicolás Pereda's Everything Else Is Noise - Xu Zao's Light Pillar - Markus Schleinzer's Rose - Kai Stänicke's Trial of Hein

Critics Blake Williams, Vadim Rizov, Beatrice Loayza, Forrest Cardamenis, and Jordan Cronk discuss highlights from the 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam, including: - Charlotte Zhang’s Tycoon - Kevin Walker & Jack Auen’s Chronovisor - Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk’s Nightmare's Advice - James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s The Misconceived - Tetsuya Marayama’s ANTFILM , untitled (three moons) , and Pedra e Montanha - Stefan Koutzev’s Why hasn’t everything disappeared yet - Xacio Baño’s After the Cities

Critics Blake Williams, Vadim Rizov, Matilda Hague, Phil Coldiron, Vikram Murthi, and Edo Choi discuss a range of short and feature-length films in the Currents section at the 2025 New York Film Festival, including: - James Benning’s little boy - Sharon Lockhart’s Windward - Radu Jude’s Dracula - Tsai Ming-liang’s Back Home - Heinz Emigholz’s Ecce Mole - Victor Van Rossem’s toward a fundamental theory of physics - Jodie Mack’s Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love - New Red Order’s Give it Back: Crimes Against Realty

Blake Williams is joined by critics Mark Asch, Alexander Mooney, and Lawrence Garcia to wind down our coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, including discussion of: - Sophy Romvari's Blue Heron - Matt Johnson's Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie - Chandler Levack's Mile End Kicks - Peter Ohs's Erupcja - Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani's Bouchra - Kamal Aljafari's With Hasan in Gaza - Basma al-Sharif's It's So Beautiful Here - Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab

Blake Williams is joined by critics Mark Peranson, Adam Nayman, Edo Choi, and Daniel Kasman to discuss some of the bigger premieres screening in the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, including: - Olivier Assayas's The Wizard of the Kremlin - Richard Linklater's Blue Moon - Steven Soderbergh's The Christophers - Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine - Sky Hopinka's Powwow People - John Early's Maddie's Secret - Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery - Chloé Zhao's Hamnet - Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Blake Williams is joined by critics Daniel Kasman, Natalia Keogan, Vadim Rizov, Lawrence Garcia, and Darren Hughes to discuss highlights from the three Wavelengths shorts programmes at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, including: - Viktoria Schmid's Rojo Žalia Blau - Björn Kämmerer's CONFERENCE - Sohrab Hura's Disappeared - Mark Jenkin's I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash - Basma al-Sharif's Morgenkreis - Jorge Caballero & Camilo Restrepo's 09/05/1982 - Blake Williams's FELT

Blake Williams is joined by critics Mark Peranson, Daniel Kasman, Darren Hughes, and Edo Choi to discuss the first three days of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, including: - Alexandre Koberidze's Dry Leaf - Claire Denis's The Fence - Lucrecia Martel's Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks) - Gianfranco Rosi's Below the Clouds

A wrap up of Cannes 2025, grafting together two separate conversations. First, Blake Williams is joined by critics Flavia Dima and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal to discuss Nadav Lapid's Yes in some depth. A second recording session featuring critics Beatrice Loayza, Abby Sun, Elena Lazic, and Vadim Rizov rounds out our discussion of the following films: - Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne's Young Mothers - Bi Gan's Resurrection

Critics Blake Williams, Mark Peranson, Flavia Dima, Daniel Kasman, Öykü Sofuoglu, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal discuss highlights from the midpoint of Cannes 2025, including: - Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme - Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent - Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident - Lav Diaz's Magellan - Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest - Julia Ducournau's Alpha - Hlynur Pálmason's The Love That Remains

Critics Blake Williams, Mark Peranson, Flavia Dima, Daniel Kasman, Öykü Sofuoglu, Vadim Rizov, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal discuss films from the first weekend of Cannes 2025, including: - Oliver Laxe's Sirât - Richard Linklater's New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) - Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love - Christian Petzold's Mirrors No. 3 - Ari Aster's Eddington

Critics Blake Williams, Daniel Kasman, Jordan Cronk, Vadim Rizov, Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal, and Elena Lazic discuss films from the first two days of Cannes 2025, including: - Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning - Sergei Loznitsa's Two Prosecutors - Mascha Schilinski's Sound of Falling - Robin Campillo & Laurent Cantet's Enzo