Claire DenisEvery podcast appearance, updated as new ones drop

This week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2023 Berlinale is currently underway. Throughout the festival, we’ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year’s selection. A couple days ago, before the festival kicked off, FC co-deputy editor Devika Girish attended the opening conference of the Berlin Critics’ Week—an autonomous sidebar to the Berlinale, organized independently by a collective of German critics, including Amos Borchert, Elena Friedrich, Petra Palmer, and Dennis Vetter. The topic of the conference was “Cinema of Care - Who Looks After Film Culture?” which included a panel discussion moderated by Devika, and featuring a stellar lineup of guests: curators Abby Sun and Marek Hovorka, and the filmmaker Claire Denis. The four had a provocative, in-depth conversation about what care looks like on the level of aesthetics, in filmmaking, and in film programming, and how we might build a sustainable and collective film culture. We’re very grateful to Berlin Critics Week for letting us share the conversation on the podcast.

On this week’s podcast edition, we spend some quality time in the company of legendary French film director Claire Denis. Since her film debut Chocolat in 1988 she has been inspired by her upbringing in West Africa and France, inspired by long-term collaborators on and off camera and managed herself to inspire to inspire other filmmakers, in the process re-writing the rule book of European cinema making along the way. Never one to stay in the same filmic universe long in this podcast we explore Juliette Binoche search for love in 'Let the Sunshine In' and then we stare into the void and desolation of space in 'High Life'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we go deep with Claire Denis' interstellar introspective inter-everything sci-fi High Life, as well as speaking to the great director of Chocolat, Trouble Every Day and Let The Sunshine In herself. Plus, we get a front seat for one of Aretha Franklin's finest performances in Amazing Grace. Discussing the films this week are Jake Cunningham, Steph Watts, Ella Kemp and Sam Howlett. Follow the team on Social Media: @jakehcunningham - Jake @efe_kemp - Ella @samhowlett_1 - Sam @_Stephwatts - Steph Produced by Jake Cunningham Edited by Mark Towers 
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We welcome one of the most iconic names in European cinema, Claire Denis, on to the podcast to talk about her latest film Let the Sunshine In. Plus, Little White Lies Contributing Editor Sophie Monks Kaufman joins the team in the studio to proclaim her love for this magical film. Isabelle (Juliette Binoche) is a stylish and accomplished artist living in Paris. Divorced and looking to find true love at last, she meets a handsome, kind and intelligent younger man who she thinks might finally be the one. But when he calls their affair a mistake and returns to his wife, Isabelle must again face the issue of mid-life loneliness. Sifting through former lovers, new admirers, jealous friends and chance encounters, will she find a fulfilling match? Or will she discover a new path to happiness along the way? Discussing the film are Sophie Monks Kaufman, Kelly Powell and Jake Cunningham Read Sophie's article 10 Great Films About Female Desire for the BFI here: https://bit.ly/2jfHOCv Produced and edited by Jake Cunningham Music supplied by incompetech.com 
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