MOIRÉE Podcast

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