Cannesversations (Eliana Resnick and Patrick Fey)
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| 06 Jun 2024 | Cannes 77 Finale: Palme d'or Winner Anora (Sean Baker) & All we Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) & Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) | 01:33:03 | |
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:
You can find all of Öykü's trilingual work on Linktr.ee here!! Follow us on X (Twitter):
Thanks for listening! Comments or suggestions or want to get in touch? -> cannesversations@proton.me Credits: Image: Cannes 77e poster © Shochiku Co., Ltd. – Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991) / Graphic creation © Hartland Villa + Official Anora Image Sound: Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive. Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny | |||
| 04 Feb 2025 | Our Top Ten Films of 2024 - Part 2 | 01:54:58 | |
For the second part of the first episodes of Cannesversations this year, Eliana and Patrick (X | LB) are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia to look back at their favorite films of 2024. Follow Öykü (X | LB) & Lawrence (X | LB) on Twitter/X or Letterboxd Our Part 2 Top 10 Films discussion begins with
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We wish all of you a happy year of the Snake!~ Credits: Image: An amalgamation of all films mentioned Sound: Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive. Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny | |||
| 18 Oct 2023 | Working Girls (1986) by Lizzie Borden | 01:48:14 | |
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 lived reality of sex workers would take center stage of a major US feature film again), Borden, with her observational eye and collaborative filmmaking process, circumvents the common dichotomous portrayal of prostitutes as either glamorized or pitiable, shedding light on the profession that proves both sympathetic to its characters and discerning of the mundanity of their profession—ultimately highlighting the autonomy women can exercise while embracing that the world's oldest profession is just that—a profession. Resources:
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| 18 Aug 2023 | Western (2017) by Valeska Grisebach | 01:29:11 | |
This week on Cannesversations, Eliana and Patrick discuss Valeska Grisebach’s self-described "dance with the Western genre," the 2017 Cannes Un Certain Regard film Western. Considered by some to be part of the second generation of the Berlin School and by others to be one of the distinct voices of the New Austrian Cinema, Grisebach distinguishes herself through her filmmaking approach by favoring a collaborative process with her actors in the conceptualization of scenes. Strangely enough, this does not take away from her directorial signature style, yet rather establishes her as one of the leading filmmakers of world cinema concerned with narrative realism. Western implements documentary-style filmmaking techniques to speak to the subsisting undercurrent themes of colonization and masculinity with contemporary panache and vigilant subtlety. Credit/ Resources:
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| 23 May 2024 | 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) | 01:02:42 | |
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:
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Thanks for listening! Comments or suggestions or want to get in touch? -> cannesversations@proton.me Credits: Image: Cannes 77e poster © Shochiku Co., Ltd. – Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991) / Graphic creation © Hartland Villa & Une Langue Universelle Press Image Sound: Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive. Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny | |||
| 04 Jan 2024 | Our Top Ten of 2023 - Part 2 : #5 to #1 | 01:27:47 | |
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/X Below, you'll find our Top 5 films. Top 5
At the end of the second episode, we asked Öykü and Lawrence about writings they are proud of or happy with. Öykü interviewed Radu Jude for Mubi’s Notebook, which you can find here, and Lawrence referred to his 15,000-word deep dive into David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return. Make sure to check both of them out! We wish all of you a happy year of 2024 and are hopeful for many more episodes to come in the new year! | |||
| 02 Sep 2023 | Visage [臉 | Face] (2009) by 蔡明亮 Tsai Ming-Liang | 01:32:57 | |
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 and timeless biblical Salomé. Through long durational takes, absurd situations, and a composed acumen of transience, Tsai's cinema captivates with just one face, leaving behind a body of work that lends itself in equal parts to theatrical and institutional dissemination. Resources/Credits:
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| 18 May 2024 | Cannes 77 : Ma Vie Ma Gueule | This Life of Mine (Sophie Fillières) & Bird (Andrea Arnold) | 01:02:27 | |
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 & competition film Bird by Andrea Arnold. Coming soon:
Thanks for listening! Comments or suggestions or want to get in touch? -> cannesversations@proton.me Credits: Image: Cannes 77e poster © Shochiku Co., Ltd. – Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991) / Graphic creation © Hartland Villa + Official Bird Poster Sound: Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive. Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny | |||
| 29 May 2023 | Cannes 76 : The Zone of Interest & Close your Eyes (Cerrar los Ojos) & Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell | 01:05:52 | |
Patrick and Eliana are joined by Giancarlo to talk about films on day eleven of the Cannes Film Festival: Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, Victor Erice's Close your Eyes (Cerrar los Ojos), and Pham Thien An's Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell. Jonathan Glazers' The Zone of Interest, Victor Erice's Close your Eyes (Cerrar los Ojos), Pham Thien An's Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
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| 16 May 2024 | Cannes 77 : Opening Remarks + Le Deuxième acte | The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux) | 00:37:05 | |
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 film anticipations. Coming soon:
For those who are German speakers, you can also find Patrick and Jakob on moviebreak.de and can listen to their German-language podcast coverage here! Thanks for listening! Correction: Ma vie Ma gueule English title is This Life of Mine* If you have any comments or suggestions or want to get in touch: cannesversations@proton.me Credits: Image: Cannes 77e poster © Shochiku Co., Ltd. – Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991) / Graphic creation © Hartland Villa Sound: Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive. Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny | |||
| 24 May 2023 | Cannes 76: "About Dry Grasses", "The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed", "May December" | 00:45:01 | |
Patrick and Eliana are joined by Öykü to talk about films on day nine of the Cannes Film Festival: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's About Dry Grasses, Joanna Arnow's The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, and Todd Haynes' May December. Cannes 76: "About Dry Grasses", "The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed", "May December"
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| 27 Jan 2025 | Our Top Ten Films of 2024 - Part 1 | 01:39:32 | |
For the first episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana and Patrick (X | LB) are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia for the second year to look back at their favorite films of 2024. Follow Öykü (X | LB) & Lawrence (X | LB) on Twitter/X or Letterboxd Our Part 1 Top 10 Films discussion begins with
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Eliana
Part two of our top 10 films of 2024 will be coming soon! We wish all of you a happy 2025 Credits: Image: An amalgamation of all films mentioned Sound: Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive. Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny | |||
| 04 Apr 2024 | Les Enfants du Paradis | Children of Paradise (1945) by Marcel Carné | 02:08:05 | |
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-infused characters, a result of the core collaboration between set designer Alexandre Trauner, screenwriter Jacques Prevert, and composer Joseph Kosma. Spectatorship and performance are at the heart of this farcical and bittersweet film, where four men vie for the radiant yet fugacious Garance as she flits between them, and they amongst themselves on the grand Boulevard du ‘Crime.’ It is a film about action and re-action, the verbal and the non-verbal, in a city too small for undying dreams. Resources: Affron, Mirella Jona. "Les Enfants Du Paradis: Play of Genres." Cinema Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1978, pp. JSTOR. Ebert, Roger. “Children of Paradise.” RogerEbert.com, Forbes, Jill. Les Enfants Du Paradis, British Film Institute, 1997. Mancini, Marc. "Prevert: Poetry in Motion Pictures." Film Comment, vol. 17, no. 6, 1981, pp. 34-37. JSTOR. Nye, Edward. Deburau. Pierrot, Mime, and Culture, Routledge, 2022. Picherit, Hervé. “A Strange Child of Paradise: The Artistry of Arletty’s “Self” in Les enfants du paradis.” Camera Obscura, Vol. 32, No. 1, Duke University Press, 2017. Reid, Tina. “Marcel Carné on Children of Paradise: Forty-Five Years Later” The Criterion Collection, 20 Sept. 2012, Sadoul, Georges. "The Postwar French Cinema."Hollywood Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 3, 1950, pp. JSTOR. Sellier Geneviève. « Les Enfants du paradis dans le cinéma de l'Occupation.” 1895, revue d'histoire du cinéma, n° 22, 1997, pp. 55-66. Turk, Edward Baron. Child of Paradise. Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema, Harvard University Press, 1989. Sound: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive. | |||
| 04 Aug 2023 | Festen (1998) by Thomas Vinterberg | 01:22:15 | |
This week Patrick and Eliana discuss Thomas Vinterberg’s 1998 Cannes Jury Prize winner, Festen (The Celebration). The inaugural Dogme 95 film is filled with frenetic energy that put Denmark back on the filmmaking landscape as it attempted to break free from that which was mainstream and conventional. Resources:
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| 23 May 2024 | 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) | 01:05:44 | |
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 this year between November 11-20 in Warsaw, Poland. Check it out! We catch up on day nine of twelve to discuss the following films:
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You can find Łukasz's work on Senses of Cinema, Asian Movie Pulse, MUBI Notebook, etc! For Polish speakers, you can read his recent Jia Zhang Ke Caught by the Tides review here! You can also follow him on X. Thanks for listening! Comments or suggestions or want to get in touch? -> cannesversations@proton.me Credits: Image: Cannes 77e poster © Shochiku Co., Ltd. – Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991) / Graphic creation © Hartland Villa + Official Bird Poster Sound: Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive. Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny | |||
| 17 May 2023 | Cannes 76: Rivette's "L'Amour Fou" & Maïwenn's "Jeanne du Barry" | 00:38:54 | |
Patrick and Eliana talk about expectations and films on day two of the 76th Cannes Film Festival and Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou and Maïwenn's Jeanne du Barry. We still need a jingle! Rundown of the Festival and Expectations 00:00 Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou 00:27:46 Maïwenn's Jeanne du Barry 00:31:53 | |||
| 03 Jun 2023 | Cannes 76: Palme d'Or Anatomy of a Fall, L'été Dernier & La Chimera - Festival Finale | 01:24:40 | |
Patrick and Eliana wrap up our coverage of the 76th Cannes Film Festival and discuss the closing ceremony, Justine Triet's Palme d'Or winner- Anatomie d'une Chute (Anatomy of a Fall), Catherine Breillat's L'été Dernier (Last Summer), and Alice Rohrwacher's La Chimera. Palme d'Or winning Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) & L'été Dernier (Catherine Breillat) and La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
You can follow Patrick and Eliana on Letterboxd! ~Until next time! Sound:
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| 22 May 2023 | Cannes 76: "Occupied City", "Anselm", "Youth (Spring) 春" & "Monster" | 00:48:37 | |
Patrick and Eliana talk about films on day four of the 76th Cannes Film Festival: Steve McQueen's Occupied City, Wim Wender's Anselm, Wang Bing's Youth (Spring) 春 and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster. Excuses for uploading this much later than we had hoped! Cannes 76: "Occupied City", "Anselm", "Youth (Spring) 春" & "Monster"
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| 31 Dec 2023 | Our Top Ten of 2023 - Part 1 : #10 to #6 | 01:33:49 | |
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/X Below, you first find all our honorable mentions, followed by our individual Top 10-6 films. Honorable Mentions Öykü
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At the end of the second episode, we asked Öykü and Lawrence about writings they are proud of or happy with. Öykü interviewed Radu Jude for Mubi’s Notebook, which you can find here, and Lawrence referred to his 15,000-word deep dive into David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return. Make sure to check both of them out! We wish all of you a happy year of 2024 and are hopeful for many more episodes to come in the new year! | |||
| 27 Jul 2023 | All That Jazz (1979) by Bob Fosse | 01:17:43 | |
Eliana and Patrick have decided to keep Cannesversations afloat by riffling through the abundance of films historically screened at the Cannes Film Festival. This week we discuss Bob Fosse and his 1979 Palme d'Or winning All that Jazz and give our take on the legacy of the unapologetically frank choreographer whose personal and professional brilliance gave us this timeless spectacle. Resources:
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