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.
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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 Lawrence's #5 to 1 - 00:26 #4 - 23:30 #3 - 48:35 #2 - 1:08:10 #1 - 1:27:45 # 1:43:38 - Yay or Nay? Patrick reads a list of films that will come out in 2025. Lawrence The Damned | Roberto Minervini Kottukali (The Adamant Girl) | PS Vinoth Raj The Periphery of the Base | Zhou Tao L'Empire | Bruno Dumont Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie Öykü Bluish | Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky Caught by the Tides | Jia Zhangke Direct Action | Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell Scénarios | Jean-Luc Goddard Patrick Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps | Louise Weard Grand Tour | Miguel Gomes Direct Action Tú me abrasas | Matías Piñeiro Eliana Lazaró at Night | Nicolás Pereda Reas | Lola Arias We are Inside | Farah Kassem Miséricorde 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
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 #10 - 33:35 #9 - 43:00 #8 - 59:12 #7 - 1:17:18 #6 - 1:19:50 #5 - 1:28:24 Öykü The Periphery of the Base | Zhou Tao Les Reines du Drames | Alexis Langlois By the Stream | Hong Sang Soo Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie 100,000,000,000 (Cent mille milliards) | Virgil Vernier Eat the Night | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel Lawrence Presence | Steven Soderbergh Hard Truths | Mike Leigh By the Stream Chime | Kiyoshi Kurosawa The Other Way Around | Jonás Trueba Patrick Miséricorde Israel Palestina on Swedish TV 1958-1989 | Göran Olsson Youth (Homecoming) | Wang Bing We are Inside | Farah Kassem Los delincuentes | Rodrigo Moreno Eliana The Room Next Door | Pedro Almodovár Israel Palestina on Swedish TV 1958-1989 Dahomey | Mati Diop Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps | Louise Weard Bluish | Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky & All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia Tú me abrasas | Matías Piñeiro 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
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 Director Award@ ~32 min 00 All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia(Competion) - Grand Jury Prize@ ~51 min 10 Anora by Sean BakerPalme d'or Competition Winner@ ~ 51 min 25 You can find all of Öykü's trilingual work on Linktr.ee here!! Follow us on X (Twitter): Öykü Patrick Cannesversations (in the works ;)) 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
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: Desert of Namibia |ナミビアの砂 by 山中瑶子 Yamanaka Yoko (Quinzaine des Cinéastes | Directors Fortnight) Caught by the Tides | 风流一代 by 賈樟柯 Jiǎ Zhāngkē (Competition) An Unfinished Film | 一部未完成的电影 by 婁燁 Lóu Yè (Cannes Special Screening Section) and briefly : Black Dog | 狗阵 by 管虎 Guan Hu (Un Certain Regard) Viet and Nam by Truong Mihn Quý (Un Certain Regard) Blue Sun Palace by Constance Tsang |曾佩裕 (Semaine de la Critique | Critics Week) Coming Soon... ? Anora by Sean Baker (Competition) All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia (Competion) Miséricorde | Misericordia by Alain Guiraudie (Cannes Première) Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes (Competion) Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino (Competition) and more... 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
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 Cinéastes)@ ~2 min 50 It Doesn't Matter by Josh Mond (acid)@ ~16 min 10 The Other Way Around by Jonás Trueba@ ~29 min Armand by Halfdan Olav Ullmann Tøndel (Un Certain Regard)@ ~44 min 40 Apprendre | Elementary by Claire Simon (Cannes Première)@ ~ 51 min 40 Coming soon: Desert of Namibia |ナミビアの砂 by 山中瑶子 Yamanaka Yoko (Quinzaine des Cinéastes) Caught by the Tides | 风流一代 by 賈樟柯 Jiǎ Zhāngkē (Competition) An Unfinished Film | 一部未完成的电影 by 婁燁 Lóu Yè (Cannes Special Screening Section) Blue Sun Palace by Constance Tsang |曾佩裕 (Semaine de la Critique) and more... 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