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From Kurosawa to King: Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” Hits Cannes
Season 1 Episode 116
Spike Lee flips the script on High and Low with Highest 2 Lowest, a bold, musical, and morally charged reimagining starring Denzel Washington. Fresh …
1 year, 3 months ago
From Palme to Oscar: How Cannes Took Over Awards Season
Season 1 Episode 115
How did a scrappy indie like Anora go from Palme d’Or winner to Best Picture champ? We trace the surprising rise of Cannes as Hollywood’s ultimate Os…
1 year, 3 months ago
Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme: Beautiful Chaos or Just Overstuffed?
Season 1 Episode 114
We just walked out of The Phoenician Scheme at Cannes, and we're still trying to process it. Wes Anderson's most chaotic, violent, and confusing film…
1 year, 3 months ago
Memory, Mystery, and Mourning: The Secret Agent at Cannes
Season 1 Episode 113
We caught Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent at its noon premiere in Cannes, and it’s still unfolding in our heads. A slow-burn period thriller…
1 year, 3 months ago
Love in Leather: Pillion at Cannes
Season 1 Episode 112
Fresh from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, we dive into Pillion, Harry Lighton’s bold and brutally tender BDSM romance starring Alexander Skarsgård an…
1 year, 3 months ago
Feral & Falling: Die My Love at Cannes
Season 1 Episode 111
Jennifer Lawrence unleashes pure chaos in Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love — a wild, sweaty descent into postpartum madness. We unpack the psychosexual fre…
1 year, 3 months ago
Breathless Again: Linklater’s Love Letter to Godard
Season 1 Episode 110
We dive into Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, a black-and-white cinematic time machine that reimagines the making of Breathless. Is it a heartfelt…
1 year, 3 months ago
Bricks and Bruises: Harris Dickinson's Urchin Shocks Cannes
Season 1 Episode 109
We just left the screening of Urchin, Harris Dickinson’s raw and riveting directorial debut, and we’re still reeling. In this episode, we unpack Fran…
1 year, 3 months ago
Kristen Stewart Breaks the Surface: The Chronology of Water at Cannes
Season 1 Episode 108
Last night at Cannes, Kristen Stewart unveiled her directorial debut — The Chronology of Water — and it hit like a wave. We dive into the raw, poetic…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ari Aster’s Eddington: America Unmasked at Cannes
Season 1 Episode 107
Live from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, we dive into Eddington — Ari Aster’s incendiary pandemic-era Western starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pasc…
1 year, 3 months ago