Podcast appearances and mentions of Claire Denis

For the final episode of our Isabelle Huppert Spotlight, we watched two movies with a colonial setting: Rithy Panh's The Sea Wall (2008), based on the novel by Marguerite Duras, and Claire Denis' White Material (2009). Disturbing eroticism as a lens on colonial class and racial dynamics is something the films share, as well as white colonial failure, while Huppert in White Material emerges as an AU Scarlett O'Hara whose indomitable capitalist will has become delusional monomania. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we discuss a couple of indie movies, current release Mile End Kicks (set in 2011) and Big Night from the mid-90s (set in the 1950s).  Time Codes: 0h 00m 25s:    UN BARRAGE CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE (2008) [dir. Rithy Panh] 0h 21m 13s:    WHITE MATERIAL (2009) [dir. Claire Denis] 0h 40m 23s:    FEAR AND MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO – Chandler Levack's Mile End Kicks (2025) and Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott's Big Night (1996) +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: "Sunday" by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's piece on Gangs of New York – "Making America Strange Again" * Check out Dave's Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join! 

On this episode, we dial down the sharpness and celebrate cinematic blurriness.Going against the common assumption that blur is only for backgrounds, a new book by Professor Martine Beugnet explores the power and poetics of the blurred image. Originally published in French in 2017, Blur (2026) is part of the Cutaways series from Fordham University Press, where authors take a close look at one particular cinematic theme or motif.Martine has published widely on film theory and aesthetics since the early 2000s, with highly influential books such as  a monograph on director Claire Denis, Proust at the Movies, Cinema and Sensation: French Cinema and the Art of Transgression and dozens of articles, book chapters and edited collections. She is currently Professor in Visual Studies at Université Paris Cité but she spent more than a decade of the early part of her career teaching here at the University of Edinburgh.Martine tells Pasquale about the process of having her work translated and the appeal of the short format volume. She talks about her choice of film examples which range from mainstream Hollywood cinema to experimental film, silent cinema to contemporary works. Discussion then turns to the many ways in which filmmakers employ blur, whether it's to create ambiguity, to delineate a sense of character subjectivity or to shift back and forth in time.Films mentioned in the discussion include Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie, 1965), La captive (Chantal Akerman, 2000), Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015) and In Water (Hong Sang Soo, 2023).

"Psycho" gefilmt aus der Perspektiv vum Duschrideau: Dat ass ee vun de villen zitatwierdege Sätz aus der Jane Schoenbrun hirem verréckte Metaslaher "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma", ma vläicht och eng gutt Manéier, de Metakino, deen oft zu Cannes leeft, op ee gemeinsamen Nenner ze bréngen. Well gëschter Feierdaag war, de Festival de Cannes awer keng Paus kennt, ënnerhalen sech de Jeff Schinker an de Marc Trappendreher haut direkt iwwert eng ganz Partie Filmer: nieft der Jane Schoenbrun hirem Metahorrorfilm hëlt de Jeff Schinker déi zwee éischt Wettbewerbsfilmer "Nagi Notes" vum Koji Fukoda an "La vie d'une femme" vun der Charline Bourgeois-Taquet ënnert d'Lupp, wärend de Marc Trappendreher eis Spannendes aus de Masterclasses vum Peter Jackson an der Claire Denis bericht.

Cette semaine: Beau Travail de Claire Denis et Les scènes fortuites de Guillaume Lambert. Deux Denis Lavant pour le prix d'un!

Ce mercredi, The Cinema Show était en direct, de 19h à 20h30, pour vous parler des dernières sorties ciné.

Émission mémoires, colonialisme et traces. Afrique, adieu. Tes masques de bois n'ont plus dans leurs yeux l'éclair d'autrefois. Afrique, adieu, là où tu iras les esprits du feu danseront pour toi. Afrique, adieu. Belle Africa, ton cœur samba saigne autant qu'il peut, ton cœur s'en va. Enfin bref, il est 19h...Dispo aussi sur appeul, spoti, etc et on da tube :Au programme cette semaine :* Ghost Elephants, nouveau documentaire de Werner Herzog, à la recherche des éléphants mythiques d'Angola, avec le naturaliste Steve Boyes* Le Cri des gardes, de Claire Denis. Crise néo-coloniale et fantômes.Coups de cœur:THOMAS: La vie future (William Cameron Menzies)DOC ERWAN: Un tout petit monde (David Lodge) + revoir Garde à vue (Miller)MARGAUX: Combat de nègre et de chiens (Bernard-Marie Koltès)PLAYLISTPrégénérique / Ghost ElephantsHenry Mancini / Baby Elephant Walk (Hatari OST)Tindersticks / Children's Theme 1

Irreversible, Baise-moi, and Trouble Every Day dives into the New French Extremity—films that reject comfort and weaponize the body. Gaspar Noé's Irreversible (2002), starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, uses reverse chronology, long takes, and disorienting camerawork to turn violence into an inescapable experience; its Cannes premiere sparked walkouts and lasting debate over form and ethics. Baise-moi (2000), directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi and starring Raffaëla Anderson and Karen Bach, blends punk rage with exploitation aesthetics, igniting censorship battles over its explicit sex and violence while challenging gender power dynamics. Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day (2001), with Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo, reframes desire as pathology through slow, arthouse horror. Once reviled, now studied, these films remain confrontational landmarks.Disclaimer: The following may contain offensive language, adult humor, and/or content that some viewers may find offensive – The views and opinions expressed by any one speaker does not explicitly or necessarily reflect or represent those of Mark Radulich or W2M Network.Mark Radulich and his wacky podcast on all the things:https://linktr.ee/markkind76alsohttps://www.teepublic.com/user/radulich-in-broadcasting-networkFB Messenger: Mark Radulich LCSWTiktok: @markradulichtwitter: @MarkRadulichInstagram: markkind76RIBN Album Playlist: https://suno.com/playlist/91d704c9-d1ea-45a0-9ffe-5069497bad59 

Le Cri des gardes, le nouveau film de Claire Denis, est sorti mercredi 15 avril en salles. C'est l'adaptation de Combat de nègre et de chiens, la pièce du dramaturge Bernard-Marie Koltès : un huis clos, de nuit, dans la chaleur africaine, filmé comme une tragédie grecque – un homme qui vient chercher le corps de son frère, assassiné sur un chantier.

Le Cri des gardes, le nouveau film de Claire Denis, est sorti mercredi 15 avril en salles. C'est l'adaptation de Combat de nègre et de chiens, la pièce du dramaturge Bernard-Marie Koltès : un huis clos, de nuit, dans la chaleur africaine, filmé comme une tragédie grecque – un homme qui vient chercher le corps de son frère, assassiné sur un chantier.

Son dernier film LE CRI DES GARDES sortait en salles ce mercredi 8 avril. Pour l'occasion, on a voulu se pencher sur la filmographie de Claire Denis, qui s'est toujours intéressée au corps et au désir masculin, dès ses débuts avec CHOCOLAT, en passant par BEAU TRAVAIL.Animation, son : Mariana AgierParticipantes : Mariana Agier, Noémie Attia, Victoria FabyRéalisation, montage : Mariana AgierGénérique : © SorocinéMusique : Antonin Agier et Hugo CardonaHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

durée : 00:58:45 - À l'occasion de la sortie du film "Cri des gardes" de Claire Denis, nous partons à la rencontre de l'acteur Isaach de Bankolé et au travers de sa filmographie aussi riche qu'éclectique. - réalisation : Susana Poveda, Denis Soula - invités : Isaach de Bankolé Acteur ivoirien Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Il était présenté comme « le plus ancien prisonnier politique de France ». De fait, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah passa plus de 40 ans en prison, avant d'être libéré et de retourner au Liban en juillet 2025. Pourquoi ce militant libanais marxiste pro-palestinien fut-il condamné à la perpétuité dans les années 80 et pourquoi resta-t-il aussi longtemps en prison ? Un documentaire fait la lumière sur cette ténébreuse affaire qui mêle terrorisme, barbouzerie et pression américaine. Nous recevons Pierre Carles, le réalisateur de L'affaire Abdallah, en salles en France, le 8 avril. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah fonde au Liban le FARL, l'organisation marxiste des Fractions armées révolutionnaires libanaises, et prend les armes en juin 1982 après l'invasion du Liban par Israël. Ce sont les FARL qui vont revendiquer l'assassinat de l'attaché militaire à l'ambassade des États-Unis à Paris Charles Ray, le 18 janvier 1982, et celui du deuxième conseiller à l'ambassade d'Israël Yacov Barsimentov, le 3 avril suivant. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, lui, n'est arrêté qu'en 1984 pour possession de faux passeport. Deux ans plus tard, une première décision de justice le condamne à 4 ans d'emprisonnement. Mais, un nouveau procès devant une cour spéciale composée exclusivement de magistrats est organisé, à l'issue duquel ce militant marxiste pro-palestinien est condamné, à la surprise générale, à la perpétuité. Les gouvernements français successifs ont, depuis 1999, rejeté neuf demandes de libération anticipée. Jusqu'à juillet dernier, la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah et son retour au Liban. Le documentaire de Pierre Carles montre comment les autorités et les médias ont fait d'Abdallah un « terroriste idéal », utilisant une « fake news » et cédant aux pressions américaines. À l'affiche de notre cinéma également ce samedi, une interview d'Isaach de Bankolé, à l'affaire de Le cri des gardes, le nouveau long métrage de Claire Denis. Musiques : Sisters with me de Tom Misch (Playlist RFI) et Peaux miroir de François and the Atlas Mountain.

Najnovejši film norveškega režiserja Kristofferja Borglija, Drama, na prvi pogled deluje kot romantična komedija. V filmu spremljamo mlad par, Emmo in Charlieja, ki ju upodobita hollywoodska zvezdnika Zendaya in Robert Pattinson. Emma in Charlie sta tik pred poroko, nakar njuno predzakonsko srečo pretrese temačna skrivnost iz Emmine preteklosti. Tako v njun odnos vdira vse večja negotovost, priprave na veliki dan, kot so izbira rož in testno fotografiranje, pa se zaradi vse večje napetosti spremenijo v bolečo farso. Zendaya in Pattinson se izkažeta kot dobri izbiri za preobračanje arhetipov romantičnih junakov. Oba sta prvi večji uspeh doživela s popularnimi franšizami, Zendaya s Spider-Manom, Pattinson pa s sago Somrak. S svojo slavo, glamurjem in izkušnjami sta kot nalašč za glavni vlogi v romantični uspešnici. Vendar pa življenjepis obeh igralcev polnijo tudi sodelovanja s sicer komercialnimi, a bolj umetniško usmerjenimi režiserji, kot so Luca Guadanino, Christopher Nolan, brata Safdie, Lynne Ramsay in Claire Denis. Prav ti eklektični projekti lahko gledalcem služijo kot zanesljiv namig, da Drama ne bo še en povprečen film o mladi ljubezni in prikupnih poročnih zapletih. Emma je na videz rahločutno, lepo dekle s posrečenimi nerodnostmi, Charlie pa deluje kot tipičen angleški nevrotičen romantičen junak z razmršenimi lasmi in rahlim strniščem. V uvodnih minutah režiser spretno prikaže zgodovino para ob pomoči utrinkov njunega odnosa, po katerih nas popelje Charlie, ko vadi svoj poročni govor. Tako se lahko hitro prepričamo o globini in povezanosti njunega odnosa in kemiji med igralcema. Zendaya se izkaže z morda svojim do zdaj najboljšim igralskim nastopom, saj ji večplastnost Emmine osebnosti, njeno čustveno stisko, osamljenost in konfliktne občutke uspe prikazati z rahločutno in zadržano igro. Tudi Pattinson se dobro vživi v ljubečega, a obsesivnega Charlieja, ki s svojo paranojo poskrbi za večino komičnih trenutkov v filmu. Borgli film zgradi s kratkimi prizori in hitrimi rezi, ki nas prestavljajo iz filmske sedanjosti v pretekle dogodke ali pa namišljene scenarije. Večina dejanske drame v filmu se tako zgodi v glavah osrednjih likov. V odsotnosti pripovedovalca postane nezanesljiva sama pripoved, obenem pa nas vpogled v vsiljene misli likov kot občinstvo neprestano opozarja na pristranskost njunega doživljanja. Poudarjanje subjektivnega je tudi ena največjih kakovosti filma in glavni razlog, zakaj uspe Drama v svoji melodramatičnosti in satiričnem tonu podati tudi relativno pomenljiv razmislek o odnosih. Glavna šibkost filma je, da v celoti sloni na prepričljivosti izhodiščnega zapleta oziroma na tem, da se nam bo Emmina izpoved zdela dovolj pretresljiva, da upraviči vse nadaljnje peripetije. Brez tega bi dogajanje lahko izpadlo preveč banalno, liki pa povečini hinavski in vzvišeni. Predvsem karikiranost stranskih likov film zadrži v nekoliko površinski obravnavi predsodkov in strahov, ki lahko posežejo v neki odnos. Kljub temu pa je Drama zabaven in estetsko zadovoljiv film, ki ob suvereni režiji, lepi fotografiji in odlični igri ponuja tudi zanimiv komentar na sodobne odnose ter širšo družbeno moralo in vrednote. Piše: Vanja Gajić Bere: Maja Moll

durée : 00:29:11 - Les Midis de Culture - par : Marie Labory - Presque quarante ans après le lui avoir promis, Claire Denis et Isaach de Bankolé mettent en oeuvre le souhait de Bernard-Marie Koltès de voir sa pièce “Combat de nègre et de chiens” portée au cinéma. - réalisation : Laurence Malonda - invités : Claire Denis Réalisatrice et scénariste française; Isaach de Bankolé Acteur ivoirien

Nénette et Boni est un film de Claire Denis sorti en 1996. Claire Denis, on la connaît, mais peu. Discrète, cette réalisatrice française nʹen est pas moins incontournable de notre histoire du cinéma contemporain. Son univers, où les corps se mêlent, où les problèmes de société affleurent en filigrane, où elle raconte des histoires de vie dʹaujourdʹhui et dʹhier avec finesse, porte en lui la patte dʹune grande dame. Cinéma parfois sec, jamais pittoresque, cʹest un cinéma exigeant. Les termes les plus utilisés pour décrire lʹœuvre de Claire Denis : étrange, opaque, marginal, intellectuel. Pourtant, rien de très compliqué dans cette histoire de Nénette et Boni qui a reçu le Léopard dʹor à Locarno en 1996. Nénette et Boni cʹest un frère et une sœur, à Marseille. Elle a 15 ans, elle est enceinte. Il a 19 ans, il est pizzaiolo. Il fantasme sur la boulangère. Leur mère est morte. Leur père le sera bientôt. Ils vont apprendre à se connaître autour de ce bébé à naître. Avant le tournage, Claire Denis décrit son projet comme " une sorte de mélo marseillais, avec des personnages qui sont des stéréotypes, plutôt dans la tradition des santons de Provence. Elle pose ses personnages, ne sʹencombre pas de dialogues trop verbeux, dʹexplications, elle les suit sans juger, les filme au plus près de leurs corps dans une mise en scène fragmentaire puis les abandonne et nous avec. En regardant ses films, on est souvent surpris, puis on se laisse aller et ses films entrent dans nos vies pour ne plus nous lâcher. Claire Denis ce nʹest plus tout à fait du cinéma, cʹest une expérience de vie. Portrait et pas de côté, cʹest tout lʹart de Claire Denis quʹon vous raconte. REFERENCES Présentation de Nénette et Boni par Claire Denis à la cinémathèque https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIeuE5TT7K8 Les entretiens de CinéDV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkesk07WCcQ MAL, Cédric, Claire Denis : Cinéaste à part, et entière…, Editions de Verneuil, Le cinéma de Claire Denis https://vie-de-campus.unige.ch/application/files/5317/4048/6612/201304_ccu_clairedenis_revue_web.pdf

durée : 01:48:21 - Comme un samedi - par : Arnaud Laporte - Pour sa carte blanche dans "Comme un samedi", Claire Denis convie Alice Diop, Béatrice Dalle et Pascal Danaë. Une émission sous le signe du très très grand cinéma, et d'une promesse. - réalisation : Alexandre Fougeron, Sam Baquiast - invités : Claire Denis Réalisatrice et scénariste française; Alice Diop Cinéaste; Béatrice Dalle Actrice française; Pascal Danaë Auteur, compositeur, interprète; And Also the Trees Groupe de rock anglais

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La cinéaste Claire Denis fait l'objet d'une rétrospective à la Cinémathèque, en collaboration avec Visions du Réel et le FIFDH. Réalisatrice de 17 longs-métrages de fiction, elle présentera son dernier film, Le Cri des gardes en avant-première au Capitole en sa présence. Le Cri des gardes est une adaptation de la pièce de théâtre "Combat de nègre et de chiens" de Bernard-Marie Koltès. Dans ce huis clos en Afrique, Horn (joué par Matt Dillon), un patron dʹun complexe de construction, tente en vain de négocier avec Alboury (Isaach De Bankolé), un homme venu récupérer le corps de son frère ouvrier, le tout sous la surveillance de gardes armés. "Le Cri des Gardes", à la Cinémathèque (Capitole), ce mardi 17 mars à 20h, en présence de la réalisatrice Claire Denis est l'invitée de Pierre Philippe Cadert.

durée : 00:56:23 - Certains l'aiment Fip - À l'occasion du festival "Chefs op' en lumière" 2026 dont elle est la présidente du jury, entretien avec une directrice de la photo passionnée qui a travaillé avec Claire Denis, Ursula Meier, Catherine Corsini, Henri Alekan, Peter Handke, André Téchiné ou Marc Fitoussi. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les autres épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France.

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema's greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating. Add in a few silly tangents and a fun game at the end of the episode and you've got yourself a podcast we truly hope you love. On episode 131 of the Director Watch Podcast, the boys are joined by AwardsWatch Associate TV Editor Karen Peterson to discuss the final film in their Claire Denis series, High Life (2019) In the final look into the cinematic world of Claire Denis, we see the guys, alongside Karen, give into what is widely known as the director's most celebrated modern film, about a futuristic, sci-fi film that examines the flaws and humanity of those who have harmed or destroyed other human beings. Set on a spaceship travelling to the ends of our galaxy, carrying a group of dangerous group criminals being experimented on by a crazed, horned up doctor, Denis examines if these humans who have committed the most heinous crime should be treated like decent members of society, and what it is life to care for life at the end of the space and time; it's simple beautiful as well as complexly unique in terms of style and story, essentially Denis at her best. Ryan, Jay, and Karen break down their thoughts on the film, Robert Pattinson's performance, if these characters deserve a second chance, "the box" scenes, what this film says about being a parent, as well as the boys' rankings of Denis' filmography and a preview of their newest series. You can listen to the Director Watch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, YouTube and more. This podcast runs 2h03m. The guys will be back later this week to begin their series on the films of Warren Beatty with a review of his first film, Heaven Can Wait. You can rent it via iTunes and Amazon Prime rental in preparation for the next episode of Director Watch. Till then, let's get into it. Music: MUSICALIFE, from Pond5 (intro) and "B-3" from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema's greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating. Add in a few silly tangents and a fun game at the end of the episode and you've got yourself a podcast we truly hope you love. On episode 130 of the Director Watch Podcast, the boys discuss the next film in their Claire Denis series, Let the Sunshine In (2017). Over the last couple of years, Denis has had a bit of a renaissance with her contemporary work, exploring complex stories with female characters at the forefront, mostly portrayed by the incredible Juliette Binoche. In their first collaboration together, the duo takes us on a journey of a woman who is uncertain in the male relationships she's in, but knows that she wants more than ever to not be alone, forcing herself into situations that aren't healthy. By doing this, they show how heartbreaking it can be to grow old alone without someone to share a life with. Ryan and Jay break down their thoughts on the film, how grateful they are in the relationships they are in, how lonely it must be to grow old without a partner, Binoche's performance, and a couple of fun tangents as well. You can listen to the Director Watch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, YouTube and more. This podcast runs 1h55m. The guys will be back next week to conclude their series on the films of Claire Denis with a review of her film, High Life. You can rent it via iTunes and Amazon Prime rental in preparation for the next episode of Director Watch. Till then, let's get into it. Music: MUSICALIFE, from Pond5 (intro) and "B-3" from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema's greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating. Add in a few silly tangents and a fun game at the end of the episode and you've got yourself a podcast we truly hope you love. On episode 129 of the Director Watch Podcast, the boys discuss the next film in their Claire Denis series, White Material (2009). Within the latest film of the Denis series, she heads back to Africa to explore a family drama set in the background of an unstable, unknown country, but as the film plays out, seems to be more interested in what is in the background rather than the characters that are focused on within the film. Instead of making a "white savior" movie, Denis is using this film as a honest, reflective look at her own place within this world as a white woman, commenting on the violent world that surrounds these white characters, and mirrors her own childhood. While it's not her best film, it's her most personal, and a bold piece of filmmaking that isn't looking for a pat on the back, but rather exposing the flaws within power dynamics in a part of the world we will never be able to fix or understand. Ryan and Jay break down their thoughts on the film, Denis' relationship to the source material, the violence in the background of the film, the lingering questions about the open ending, as well as plenty of fun tangents post-Thanksgiving for the boys, highlight some of their favorite films they've been catching up with lately. You can listen to the Director Watch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, YouTube and more. This podcast runs 1h57m. The guys will be back next week to continue their series on the films of Claire Denis with a review of her film, Let the Sunshine In. You can rent it via iTunes and Amazon Prime rental in preparation for the next episode of Director Watch. Till then, let's get into it. Music: MUSICALIFE, from Pond5 (intro) and "B-3" from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema's greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision-making process so fascinating. Add in a few silly tangents and a fun game at the end of the episode and you've got yourself a podcast we truly hope you love. On episode 128 of the Director Watch Podcast, the boys discuss the next film in their Claire Denis series, 35 Shots of Rum (2008). Sometimes when you are planning a series, you don't think about the connections between the directors and their films, so this week is a happy surprise as Denis' 35 Shots of Rum is inspired by Yasujirō Ozu's film Late Spring, a film they covered earlier this year. Following a father-daughter relationship that is challenged by the arrival of a younger man who wants to date the daughter, Denis uses Ozu's masterpiece to reflect the racial, societal changes within France and Japan, as well as the differences between the two co-dependent family members, and the need for both to move on with their lives, no matter how heartbreaking it is. Ryan and Jay breakdown their thoughts on the film, its relationship to Ozu, how each film is different, as well as random thoughts on films from this year, Thanksgiving food, Jay's recent family vacation, and the pull quote that broke the internet this past week. You can listen to the Director Watch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more. This podcast runs 1h50m. The guys will be back next week to continue their series on the films of Claire Denis with a review of her film, White Material. You can rent it via iTunes and Amazon Prime rental in preparation for the next episode of Director Watch. Till then, let's get into it. Music: MUSICALIFE, from Pond5 (intro) and "B-3" from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema's greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating. Add in a few silly tangents and a fun game at the end of the episode and you've got yourself a podcast we truly hope you love. On episode 127 of the Director Watch Podcast, the boys are joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson discuss the next film in their Claire Denis series, Beau Travail (1999). Jumping ten years into Denis' filmography, the boys hit the film of the series with Beau Travail, a film that follows the story of a section of French Foreign Legion soldiers training in the desert of Djibouti. What can seem like a macho, male dominate setting it quickly, slowly shown to be a memory piece about longing, desire, regret, attention, and more as she centers the film on a Adjudant-Chef Galoup and his evolutionary yet repressive time within the group. In doing this, Denis created a defining piece of filmmaking that cemented her legacy in cinema, giving us one of the greatest films of all time. Ryan, Jay, and Erik break down the film, its themes of sexual repression, how things that are super straight and masculine can be something else entirely, the ending featuring "The Rhythm of the Night," and an update on where Madonna was at in 1999. You can listen to the Director Watch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, YouTube and more. This podcast runs 2h07m. The guys will be back next week to continue their series on the films of Claire Denis with a review of her film, 35 Shots of Rum. You can rent it via iTunes and Amazon Prime rental in preparation for the next episode of Director Watch. Till then, let's get into it. Music: MUSICALIFE, from Pond5 (intro) and "B-3" from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema's greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating. Add in a few silly tangents and a fun game at the end of the episode and you've got yourself a podcast we truly hope you love. On episode 126 of the Director Watch Podcast, the boys discuss the first film in their Claire Denis series, Chocolat (1988). One of the most singular, influential filmmaker of modern independent, French cinema is the subject of the boy's new series, Claire Denis. Known for making immersive, emotional films about repression and love, Denis' first film explores her childhood through the lens of a young girl who sees her country, France, imposing their will onto the people of Africa, at the same time her Mother's starts a longing, flirtatious relationship with the family's household servant. It's a stunning debut, instantly setting the bar high for the series and Denis' career. Ryan and Jay break down their thoughts on the film, the idea of who this film is being shown through, Denis' personal connection to the story, the central romance, their cultural, racial ties at the center of the film's conflict, and a story about Ryan's recent trip to the theater that you'll want to hear. You can listen to the Director Watch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, YouTube and more. This podcast runs 1h29m. The guys will be back next week to continue their series on the films of Claire Denis with a review of her film, Beau Travail. You can rent it via iTunes and Amazon Prime rental in preparation for the next episode of Director Watch. Till then, let's get into it. Music: MUSICALIFE, from Pond5 (intro) and "B-3" from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

This episode we discuss the week of September 4th 1999. We talk about the album, Fly, from The Chicks and the movie, Beau Travail, from director, Claire Denis. With special guest, Owen Spiegel. Fly Beau Travail

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema's greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating. Add in a few silly tangents and a fun game at the end of the episode and you've got yourself a podcast we truly hope you love. On episode 125 of the Director Watch Podcast, the boys discuss the final film in their Hughes Brothers series, The Book of Ell (2010). In their final collaboration as an artist pair, the Hughes Brothers take a dive into the end of the world, action genre where a man is roaming from town to town, searching for the haven of humanities last chance for hope within a broken country, where water is a privilege and knowledge is a weapon. In a making a film about the hunt for the last bible on Earth, the brothers tackle the rotten core of our humanity when faced up against each other, and the lust for power something as simple as a book can bring out of people. This plus it's just a cool idea for an action movie where Denzel Washington is being the best movie star on the planet and Gary Oldman is doing his villain thing that he does so well. But the real question with The Book of Eli is, why isn't it an all timer, why does it look the way it does, and why was this the last film the Hughes Brothers made together? Ryan and Jay breakdown all these questions, as well as look at the careers of Washington, Oldman, and Mila Kunis, what they learned from this series, what the Hughes Brothers are doing now, give their series rankings for the sibling duo, and preview their next director series. You can listen to the Director Watch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more. This podcast runs 2h22m. The guys will be back next week to begin their new series on the films of Claire Denis with a review of her film, Chocolate. You can rent it via iTunes and Amazon Prime rental in preparation for the next episode of Director Watch. Till then, let's get into it. Music: MUSICALIFE, from Pond5 (intro) and "B-3" from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

A world-cinema fixture who's earned the support of Martin Scorsese, M. Night Shyamalan, Olivier Assayas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Béla Tarr, Claire Denis, Christian Petzold, Tilda Swinton, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi––among many others––Carlo Chatrian reshaped the festival landscape with his work as artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival and Berlinale, his influence such that an abdication of his position at the latter in 2023 caused an honest-to-God outcry. He is now serving as director of the National Cinema Museum in Turin and, for the last couple weeks, also acted as head of the international competition jury at the Tokyo International Film Festival. While we were both there, I sought the opportunity to ask him about these responsibilities, and found myself engaged in a rigorous serious conversation about where he sees cinema culture at the moment, where it might be headed, and––amidst all this––reasons to be hopeful.

In Kathryn Robson's Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film (Liverpool UP, 2025), happiness (and the question of how to define, measure and facilitate it) has become a key theme in political, economic and social discourses in recent decades in France and elsewhere, yet research on happiness in French culture and film has been limited. Given that happiness is clearly gendered, this book looks critically at the ways in which contemporary French women's writing and film give voice to and critique conceptions of happiness. Analysing French and francophone women's writing (including Nina Bouraoui, Hélène Cixous, Annie Ernaux, Camille Laurens, Leïla Slimani, Delphine de Vigan) and film (including Claire Denis, Céline Sciamma and Agnès Varda), I focus on five main areas: images of happiness in consumer and Internet culture; happiness and intimacy in the family and the home; queering happiness; migrated happiness, and happiness and ageing. Whilst the 'happiness turn' is problematic, the desire for happiness, however fraught, matters and I show how representations of happiness in contemporary French women's writing and film offer alternative conceptions of happiness that enable us to rethink happiness in more critical, diverse and inclusive terms. Author Dr. Kathryn Robson is a reader in French at Newcastle University and the author in 2019 of I Suffer Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women's Writing and in 2004 Writing Wounds: The Inscription of Trauma in Post-1968 French Women's Life-writing. Host Gina Stamm is Associate Professor of French at The University of Alabama. Their research is concentrated on the environmental humanities and speculative literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, from surrealism to contemporary science fiction and feminist utopias, in Metropolitan France and the francophone Caribbean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Kathryn Robson's Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film (Liverpool UP, 2025), happiness (and the question of how to define, measure and facilitate it) has become a key theme in political, economic and social discourses in recent decades in France and elsewhere, yet research on happiness in French culture and film has been limited. Given that happiness is clearly gendered, this book looks critically at the ways in which contemporary French women's writing and film give voice to and critique conceptions of happiness. Analysing French and francophone women's writing (including Nina Bouraoui, Hélène Cixous, Annie Ernaux, Camille Laurens, Leïla Slimani, Delphine de Vigan) and film (including Claire Denis, Céline Sciamma and Agnès Varda), I focus on five main areas: images of happiness in consumer and Internet culture; happiness and intimacy in the family and the home; queering happiness; migrated happiness, and happiness and ageing. Whilst the 'happiness turn' is problematic, the desire for happiness, however fraught, matters and I show how representations of happiness in contemporary French women's writing and film offer alternative conceptions of happiness that enable us to rethink happiness in more critical, diverse and inclusive terms. Author Dr. Kathryn Robson is a reader in French at Newcastle University and the author in 2019 of I Suffer Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women's Writing and in 2004 Writing Wounds: The Inscription of Trauma in Post-1968 French Women's Life-writing. Host Gina Stamm is Associate Professor of French at The University of Alabama. Their research is concentrated on the environmental humanities and speculative literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, from surrealism to contemporary science fiction and feminist utopias, in Metropolitan France and the francophone Caribbean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

In Kathryn Robson's Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film (Liverpool UP, 2025), happiness (and the question of how to define, measure and facilitate it) has become a key theme in political, economic and social discourses in recent decades in France and elsewhere, yet research on happiness in French culture and film has been limited. Given that happiness is clearly gendered, this book looks critically at the ways in which contemporary French women's writing and film give voice to and critique conceptions of happiness. Analysing French and francophone women's writing (including Nina Bouraoui, Hélène Cixous, Annie Ernaux, Camille Laurens, Leïla Slimani, Delphine de Vigan) and film (including Claire Denis, Céline Sciamma and Agnès Varda), I focus on five main areas: images of happiness in consumer and Internet culture; happiness and intimacy in the family and the home; queering happiness; migrated happiness, and happiness and ageing. Whilst the 'happiness turn' is problematic, the desire for happiness, however fraught, matters and I show how representations of happiness in contemporary French women's writing and film offer alternative conceptions of happiness that enable us to rethink happiness in more critical, diverse and inclusive terms. Author Dr. Kathryn Robson is a reader in French at Newcastle University and the author in 2019 of I Suffer Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women's Writing and in 2004 Writing Wounds: The Inscription of Trauma in Post-1968 French Women's Life-writing. Host Gina Stamm is Associate Professor of French at The University of Alabama. Their research is concentrated on the environmental humanities and speculative literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, from surrealism to contemporary science fiction and feminist utopias, in Metropolitan France and the francophone Caribbean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In Kathryn Robson's Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film (Liverpool UP, 2025), happiness (and the question of how to define, measure and facilitate it) has become a key theme in political, economic and social discourses in recent decades in France and elsewhere, yet research on happiness in French culture and film has been limited. Given that happiness is clearly gendered, this book looks critically at the ways in which contemporary French women's writing and film give voice to and critique conceptions of happiness. Analysing French and francophone women's writing (including Nina Bouraoui, Hélène Cixous, Annie Ernaux, Camille Laurens, Leïla Slimani, Delphine de Vigan) and film (including Claire Denis, Céline Sciamma and Agnès Varda), I focus on five main areas: images of happiness in consumer and Internet culture; happiness and intimacy in the family and the home; queering happiness; migrated happiness, and happiness and ageing. Whilst the 'happiness turn' is problematic, the desire for happiness, however fraught, matters and I show how representations of happiness in contemporary French women's writing and film offer alternative conceptions of happiness that enable us to rethink happiness in more critical, diverse and inclusive terms. Author Dr. Kathryn Robson is a reader in French at Newcastle University and the author in 2019 of I Suffer Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women's Writing and in 2004 Writing Wounds: The Inscription of Trauma in Post-1968 French Women's Life-writing. Host Gina Stamm is Associate Professor of French at The University of Alabama. Their research is concentrated on the environmental humanities and speculative literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, from surrealism to contemporary science fiction and feminist utopias, in Metropolitan France and the francophone Caribbean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

In Kathryn Robson's Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film (Liverpool UP, 2025), happiness (and the question of how to define, measure and facilitate it) has become a key theme in political, economic and social discourses in recent decades in France and elsewhere, yet research on happiness in French culture and film has been limited. Given that happiness is clearly gendered, this book looks critically at the ways in which contemporary French women's writing and film give voice to and critique conceptions of happiness. Analysing French and francophone women's writing (including Nina Bouraoui, Hélène Cixous, Annie Ernaux, Camille Laurens, Leïla Slimani, Delphine de Vigan) and film (including Claire Denis, Céline Sciamma and Agnès Varda), I focus on five main areas: images of happiness in consumer and Internet culture; happiness and intimacy in the family and the home; queering happiness; migrated happiness, and happiness and ageing. Whilst the 'happiness turn' is problematic, the desire for happiness, however fraught, matters and I show how representations of happiness in contemporary French women's writing and film offer alternative conceptions of happiness that enable us to rethink happiness in more critical, diverse and inclusive terms. Author Dr. Kathryn Robson is a reader in French at Newcastle University and the author in 2019 of I Suffer Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women's Writing and in 2004 Writing Wounds: The Inscription of Trauma in Post-1968 French Women's Life-writing. Host Gina Stamm is Associate Professor of French at The University of Alabama. Their research is concentrated on the environmental humanities and speculative literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, from surrealism to contemporary science fiction and feminist utopias, in Metropolitan France and the francophone Caribbean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/french-studies

Claire Denis, Isaach de Bankolé, Matt Dillon, and Tom Blyth discuss The Fence with NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim at the 63rd New York Film Festival. In Claire Denis's absorbing and intimate film, set at a white-run construction site in West Africa, Albouny (Isaach de Bankolé) demands the return of his brother's body, killed in a mysterious work accident, but the site's foreman (Matt Dillon) is clearly hiding the truth. The 63rd New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex.

The loneliness of eternity. The horrors of the 20th century. Nick Cave's hair. Yes, this week Pop Screen is tackling the biggest things possible with Wings of Desire, in which Wim Wenders's observations of Berlin, fondness for the poetry of Rilke and Bad Seeds fandom combined to form one of the most unlikely masterpieces of the 1980s.Join Joe and Graham as they discuss Wenders's wayward, rewarding career and the notes of unexpected reality in this grand fantasy - from Peter Falk's supporting turn as himself to Solveig Dommartin's real-life trapeze skillz. We also talk about the film's sequels and remakes, Claire Denis's talent for novelty casting decisions, which era of Nick Cave's work appeals to us the most, and why every sufficiently highbrow artist needs their own Berlin period.For a more sustained taste of heaven, you should donate to our Patreon, where you'll get a bonus episode of this show every month plus an end-of-month round-up podcast, Last Night..., that isn't available anywhere else. All this and weekly written articles on The X-Files, The Twilight Zone and the various things Doctor Who's cast and crew get up to away from the show in Outside the Blue Box. Follow us on Bluesky, Instagram and Facebook to find out more.

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 322: Beau Travail Released 24 September 2025 For this episode, we watched Claire Denis's 1999 story of three men in the French Foreign Legion, drawn in part from Herman Melville's unfinished novella Billy Budd. The film stars Denis Lavant, Michel Subor and Grégoire Colin and Denis also wrote the script along with Jean-Pol Fargeau. It has an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and it's at number seven in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll. We also feature an exclusive clip from Tom's new podcast All British Comedy Explained. Check it out here. https://podfollow.com/all-british-comedy-explained Next time we will be discussing 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode, you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can stream it via Apple TV+ (UK) or Apple TV+ (USA). Blood Shine https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/blood-shine The One I Love https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/70299863 https://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-snowman-live-w-erin-gibson-bryan-safi/ BEST PICK the book is available now from all the usual places, and the paperback is out now. From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101 UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108 US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434 Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4 To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com, or find us on Bluesky. You can also visit our website at https://bestpickpod.com and sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n. If you enjoy this podcast and you'd like to help us to continue to make it, you can now support us on Patreon for as little as £2.50 per month.

Josh and Jamie got invited to attend the Toronto International Film Festival as members of the press to check out and cover some of new international art and genre cinema that will be coming out over the next few months and awards season, including new films by Park Chan-wook, Gus Van Sant, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Guillermo Del Toro, Claire Denis, Jafar Panahi, Benny Safdie, Oliver Laxe, Matt Johnson, Lav Diaz, Mona Fastvold, Bryan Fuller, Romain Gavras, Laura Poitras, Kenji Tanigaki, Rian Johnson, Christian Petzold, Alex Winter, Chandler Levack, Ben Wheatley, Nic Pizzolatto, and more! We did our best to avoid spoilers and such but be warned. Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960) + HIGH AND LOW (1963), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast Intro // 00:00-17:37 Day 1 -- SENTIMENTAL VALUE // 17:37-22:18 MAGELLAN // 22:18-28:24 SIRAT // 28:24-33:34 THE SECRET AGENT // 33:34-41:22 IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT // 41:22-51:00 HONEY BUNCH // 51:00-55:49 Day 2 -- MOTOR CITY // 55:49-1:04:52 NO OTHER CHOICE // 1:04:52-1:17:07 GOOD NEWS // 1:17:07-1:23:45 Day 3 -- THE LOST BUS // 1:23:45-1:26:38 UNIDENTIFIED // 1:26:38-1:28:46 THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE // 1:28:46-1:34:48 FUZE // 1:34:48-1:39:26 JUNK WORLD // 1:39:26-1:47:17 Day 4 -- DEAD MAN'S WIRE // 1:47:17-1:55:20 SACRIFICE // 1:55:20-2:00:48 THE FURIOUS // 2:00:48-2:07:26 ROOFMAN // 2:07:26-2:13:38 LUCKY LU // 2:13:38-2:17:22 HEDDA // 2:17:22-2:23:42 Day 5 -- THE BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER // 2:23:42-2:28:01 PROJECT Y // 2:28:01-2:29:42 GOOD BOY // 2:29:42-2:31:33 EXIT 8 // 2:31:33-2:32:45 ADULTHOOD // 2:32:45-2:36:20 TUNER // 2:36:20-2:43:32 Day 6 -- THE SMASHING MACHINE // 2:43:32-2:51:27 ORPHAN // 2:51:27-2:53:41 COVER-UP // 2:53:41-2:57:41 TRAIN DREAMS // 2:57:41-3:03:45 Day 7 -- RETREAT // 3:03:45-3:06:26 CAROLINA CAROLINE // 3:06:26-3:10:33 MADDIE'S SECRET // 3:10:33-3:15:23 IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS // 3:15:23-3:17:17 NORMAL // 3:17:17-3:22:16 Day 8 -- FUCK MY SON! // 3:22:16-3:30:55 THE UGLY // 3:30:55-3:36:18 WAKE UP DEAD MAN (KNIVES OUT 3) // 3:36:18-3:42:00 THE FENCE // 3:42:00-3:50:24 OBSESSION // 3:50:24-3:56:58 Day 9 -- EASY'S WALTZ // 3:56:58-4:04:08 DUST BUNNY // 4:04:08-4:09:10 LITTLE LORRAINE // 4:09:10-4:13:14 FRANKENSTEIN // 4:13:14-4:23:13 Day 10 -- MILE END KICKS // 4:23:13-4:29:36 MIROIRS NO. 3 // 4:29:36-4:34:30 Day 11 -- NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE // 4:34:30-4:50:13 Outro // 4:50:13-4:53:46 NEW SLEAZOIDS SHIRT + HAT: https://blackbeltcinema.ca/search?q=sleazoids&options%5Bprefix%5D=last WEBSITE: www.sleazoidspodcast.com/ Pod Twitter: twitter.com/sleazoidspod Pod Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/SLEAZOIDS/ Josh's Twitter: twitter.com/thejoshl Josh's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/thejoshl Jamie's Twitter: twitter.com/jamiemilleracas Jamie's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/jamiemiller

As a new People's Choice Winner has been crowned and all the stars have left Toronto, so too has Andy returned from his pilgrimage to the festival. He and Emilio got on the line to break down everything he saw, from new films from Park Chan-Wook, Richard Linklater, and Claire Denis, to the people's choice winner HAMNET. Documentaries, undistributed musicals, Cannes prize winners, we've got a little bit of everything! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone

Ep. 348: Mark Asch on Toronto 2025: Christy, Maggie's Secret, Claire Denis's The Fence, Sacrifice Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The Toronto International Film Festival began its 50th edition, and for this jubilee year, I kicked things off with critic Mark Asch, a past TIFF correspondent on the podcast who is writing for The Art Newspaper and Little White Lies. Among the TIFF premieres discussed are Christy (directed by David Michod and starring Sydney Sweeney), The Fence (directed by Claire Denis), Maggie's Secret (directed by and starring John Early), and Sacrifice (a Romain Gavras joint). Stay tuned for more on TIFF's sprawling slate! Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass

Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month.CW: Discussions of cinematic sexual assault and violence.Film Critic Lex Briscuso joins us to discuss Satoshi Kon's masterful animated psychological thriller Perfect Blue. The film follows Mima, a former J-Pop idol who has recently left the music group Cham! that made her famous and beloved in order to pursue a career as an actress. As Mima struggles to adapt to the demands of her new profession, she becomes the victim of an obsessive stalker and steadily begins to lose her grip on reality. Visceral, confounding, and richly layered with considerations about celebrity, artifice, and the toll of creating a public persona, Perfect Blue represents the very best animated cinema has to offer and showcases what the medium is capable of in the hands of a brilliant artist.We begin by unpacking the film's contemplations of public image and the fledgling internet; how Kon anticipates the production of digital avatars and how these versions of ourselves skew people's perceptions of our interiority. Then, we discuss Perfect Blue's perspective on patriarchal, predatory systems within entertainment and art, as well as how the film conveys the top-down proprietary relationships that we build around celebrity. Finally, we examine the film's core tragedy - the loss of agency and sense of self that necessary follows any participation within a larger system of public visibility and the subsequent collapse of solidarity these losses breed.Follow Lex Briscuso on Twitter.....Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish.

This month Tim is joined by film academic Dr Lindsay Hallam to discuss Claire Denis' Beau Travail (1999). –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Beau Travail is no 7 on the Sight & Sound critic's list. You can read Lindsay's own Sight & Sound Top 10 here. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– This episode includes discussions about suicide. If this issue has affected you and you'd like support in the UK you can speak with someone at the Samaritans or Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM); in the States there is the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Alternative services may be available in other countries, so please reach out. The world is better with you in it. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Hosted by Tim Coleman. A Moving Pictures Film Club podcast. You can sign up to our Patreon channel here for just £1/$1 pm. Alternatively you can make a donation to the runnning costs of the pod via Buy Me A Coffee here. Theme music by The Gideon Complex - recorded by FrEQ Audio Recordings. Bluesky: @top100pod.bsky.social  Instagram: @thetop100pod Letterboxd: The Top 100 Email: top100pod@gmail.com –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Additional music: Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0.Music promoted by Copyright Free Music - Background Music For Videos

Michael continues the current round of retro reviews with Otto Preminger's 1959 courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder. Joe revisits a signature Claire Denis picture, while Michael recommends the second season of a Netflix docuseries.

From July 4 to July 8, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish presented a series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music called Let Them Cook: Cinema of the Rice Cooker, which spotlit movies where the humble household appliance takes on a poetics and pragmatism uniquely suited to the screen. Some of the films in the series included Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light (2024), Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum (2008), Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000), Raymond Yip's Sixty Million Dollar Man (2005), Yasujiro Ozu's Good Morning (1959), and Bong Joon Ho's Incoherence (1994).  After a screening of Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill (1967)—which follows a yakuza assassin with a fetish for the smell of cooking rice—Devika recorded a panel discussion with film scholar and critic Phoebe Chen, The Philadelphia Inquirer's Bedatri Datta Choudhury, and Bon Appétit's Joseph Hernandez about the cinematic appeal of the rice cooker.

Paul and Erin share their impressions of Wes Anderson's capitalist caper THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, Danny Boyle's postapocalyptic sequel 28 YEARS LATER, Celine Song's sophomore feature MATERIALISTS, David Cronenberg's grief-stricken drama THE SHROUDS and the Netflix hit KPOP DEMON HUNTERS before delving into older features such as MILLENNIUM MAMBO, STARS AT NOON and KHOON BHARI MAANG.

Deep in the desert of Djibouti, the French Foreign Legion trains their bodies to become living weapons. This tight-knit squad of highly specialized individuals are prepping for a conflict that never finds them, where individuality is ground down into dust, and all that's left is the collective militaristic identity. The salted flats and arid landscape make for an operatic backdrop of Claire Denis' 1999 feature, Beau Travail, where bodies become the only means for outward expression, and creeping thoughts tear at the soul. An adaption of Herman Melville's novella, Billy Budd, this film follows Adjudant-Chef Galoup as he reflects on his life during his time in Africa leading a group of soldiers, and his inner tension towards a new gifted recruit, Sentain, up to where he ends up back at his home in Marseilles. This film excels in creating space for what is left unsaid, and holding onto moments that exist in-between action and reaction. Like a rocket primed for launch, all we can do is hold our breath and see what comes next. As always, thank you for listening, and we hope you enjoy our discussion. Where to watch the film: Max Criterion Channel Send us film recommendations or feedback at: lefilmpodcast@gmail.com

Abby Monteil returns with us for Claire Denis' space odyssey "High Life" together we discuss the view of assault and violence in the movie, Rob Pattinson, queuer making scifi, using Mia Goth and nihilism

We finally bring the brilliant, indelible work of Claire Denis to the pod with a discussion of her 1994 TV movie U.S. Go Home. Produced as part of the anthology series Tous les garcons et les filles de leur age… alongside work from other French visionaries like Chantal Akerman, Olivier Assayas and André Téchiné, Denis' film is an elliptical, compassionate coming-of-age story that regularly subverts expectations and never succumbs to the potentially regressive tendencies of its narrative milieu. We begin with some chatter about recent Hit Factory-featured filmmaker Edward Yang and a recent watch of his final work, Yi Yi. Then, we explore Denis' film - its lyrical formalism, its exquisite soundtrack - and how she crafts a work of simultaneously keen observation and hypnotic ambiguity. Watch U.S. Go Home on YouTubeThe Roxie theater in San Francisco is still seeking funds to help buy their building! Be sure to listen to our recent conversation with producer and Roxie board member Henry S. Rosenthal and visit the Roxie website to donate today!Get access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month.....Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish

The 80th film in the A24 catalog is the Sci-Fi space drama High Life starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Andre 3000, and Mia Goth. Directed by French filmmaker Claire Denis, High Life explores a group of convicts that were sent into space for mysterious reasons. Pattinson portrays Monte, who has a daughter at the start of the film, but also inhabits a spaceship with no one else on it. What happened to the crew he was with? How did he end up alone wandering through space? Caution: movie spoilers.Intro- 0:00 to 7:08.Film Discussion- 7:08 to 1:02:37.Film Ratings/Outro- 1:02:37 to End.Upcoming Podcast Release Schedule-5/14- Top 16 Midwestern Films, a Blind Ranking.5/21- Native Son.5/28- Hundreds of Beavers.

Get atmospheric! Get to the F***k Box! We're talking about Claire Denis' film, High Life!