MOIRÉE Podcast

Critics Blake Williams, Vadim Rizov, Beatrice Loayza, Forrest Cardamenis, and Jordan Cronk discuss highlights from the 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam, including:
- Charlotte Zhang’s Tycoon
- Kevin Walker & Jack Auen’s Chronovisor
- Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk’s Nightmare's Advice
- James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s The Misconceived
- Tetsuya Marayama’s ANTFILM, untitled (three moons), and Pedra e Montanha
- Stefan Koutzev’s Why hasn’t everything disappeared yet
- Xacio Baño’s After the Cities

Critics Blake Williams, Vadim Rizov, Matilda Hague, Phil Coldiron, Vikram Murthi, and Edo Choi discuss a range of short and feature-length films in the Currents section at the 2025 New York Film Festival, including:
- James Benning’s little boy
- Sharon Lockhart’s Windward
- Radu Jude’s Dracula
- Tsai Ming-liang’s Back Home
- Heinz Emigholz’s Ecce Mole
- Victor Van Rossem’s toward a fundamental theory of physics
- Jodie Mack’s Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love
- New Red Order’s Give it Back: Crimes Against Realty

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