Cannesversations

Jun 06 2024 18 ep. 75 mins

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Cannesversations is a film podcast in which Eliana and Patrick (Twitter) deep-dive each episode into one film that has played at some point during the Cannes Film Festival.

During the festival, we loop you into the most recent discussions from the festival site, giving you a first impression of the variety of films that splash across the Croisette.

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Cannes 77 Finale: Palme d'or Winner Anora (Sean Baker) & All we Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) & Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)

Jun 06 2024 93 mins

On this episode, we (Eliana & Patrick) catch up one week after the festivities to wrap up our Cannesversations coverage of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.In this episode, we are joined by Öykü Sofuoğlu, independent film critic and podcast guest regular, to discuss:Post-festival impressions and the following films:Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes(Competion) - Best Dir

Cannes 77 : Desert of Namibia |ナミビアの砂 (山中瑶子 | Yamanaka Yoko) & Caught by the Tides | 风流一代 (賈樟柯 Jiǎ Zhāngkē) & An Unfinished Film | 一部未完成的电影 (婁燁 Lóu Yè)

May 23 2024 65 mins

Welcome back to our coverage of the 77e of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 4!We (Eliana & Patrick) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events.In this episode, we are joined by Łukasz Manikowski, an independent film critic and programmer for the annual Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, which will take place

Cannes 77: Une Langue Universelle (Matthew Rankin) & It Doesn't Matter (Josh Mond) & The Other Way Around (Jonás Trueba) & Armand (Halfdan Olav Ullmann Tøndel) & Apprendre (Claire Simon)

May 23 2024 62 mins

Welcome back to our coverage of the 77e of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 3!We (Eliana & Patrick) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events.In this episode, we catch up on day eight of twelve to discuss the following films:Une Langue Universelle | Universal Language by Matthew Rankin (Quinzaine des Cinéast

Cannes 77 : Ma Vie Ma Gueule | This Life of Mine (Sophie Fillières) & Bird (Andrea Arnold)

May 18 2024 62 mins

Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 2!We (Patrick and Eliana) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events.In this episode, we talk on day four of twelve to discuss the festival's Quinzaine de Cinéastes opening film, Ma Vie Ma Gueule | This Life of Mine by Sophie Fillières & compet

Cannes 77 : Opening Remarks + Le Deuxième acte | The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux)

May 16 2024 37 mins

Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival!We (Patrick and Eliana) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events.In this episode, Jakob Jurisch joins us on day two of twelve to discuss the festival's opening film, Le Deuxième Acte | The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux), other festival controversies, and fil

Les Enfants du Paradis | Children of Paradise (1945) by Marcel Carné

Apr 04 2024 128 mins

This week, Patrick and Eliana discuss Marcel Carné’s 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise), which appeared in the 2011 Cannes Classics section. Filmed during the Nazi Occupation of France and released as the first film following its liberation, the film has continued to charm audiences in France and abroad with its gorgeous set design, iconic actors, and wit-in

Our Top Ten of 2023 - Part 2 : #5 to #1

Jan 04 2024 87 mins

For the last episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana, and Patrick are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu (this marks Öykü’s second time on the podcast; check out our Cannes episode on About Dry Grasses and May December) and Lawrence Garcia to look back at their favorite films of 2023.Follow Öykü & Lawrence on Twitter/XBelow, you'll find our Top 5 films.Top 5�

Our Top Ten of 2023 - Part 1 : #10 to #6

Dec 31 2023 93 mins

For the last episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana, and Patrick are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu (this marks Öykü’s second time on the podcast; check out our Cannes episode on About Dry Grasses and May December) and Lawrence Garcia to look back at their favorite films of 2023.Follow Öykü & Lawrence on Twitter/XBelow, you first find all our honorable m

Working Girls (1986) by Lizzie Borden

Oct 18 2023 108 mins

This week Eliana and Patrick delve into Lizzie Borden's 1986 dramedy Working Girls about a day in the life of a group of young sex workers in a middle-class brothel in 1980s Manhattan.A milieu rarely ever depicted on the big screen in American cinema (in their Criterion essay So Meyer stresses that it was not until Sean Baker's Tangerine in 2015—three decades later—that the liv

Visage [臉 | Face] (2009) by 蔡明亮 Tsai Ming-Liang

Sep 02 2023 92 mins

On this episode of Cannesversations Patrick and Eliana discuss Tsai Ming-Liang's 2009 in-competition Cannes film, Visage (臉 | Face). Commissioned by the Louvre Museum and sprinkled with the ghosts of Nouvelle Vague and Truffaut's own muses, the Taiwanese director's own muse, Lee Kang Sheng, wades through halls of grief and desire while directing a film based on the incandescent a