MOIRÉE Podcast

Blake Williams is joined by critics Lawrence Garcia, Savina Petkova, Alexander Mooney, and Mark Asch to wrap-up our coverage of the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, including thoughts on:
- David Turpin’s Ancestors
- Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut
- Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva
- Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love
- Anna Biller’s The Face of Horror
- Matthew Rankin’s Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney
- and another look at Mike Leigh’s Tender Loving Care

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