Negotiators attempt to establish a six-week cease-fire and hostage exchange deal between Israel and Hamas before the start of the sacred Islamic month of Ramadan; Portugal holds a snap parliamentary election with a far-right party gaining traction; international films gain prominence at the ninety-sixth Academy Awards; and Chinese President Xi Jinping breaks with the thirty-year tradition of the premier’s press conference after the National People’s Congress.
Mentioned on the Podcast
J.A. Bayona, Society of the Snow
Ilker Çatak, The Teachers’ Lounge
Manohla Dargis, “‘The Zone of Interest’ Review: The Holocaust, Reduced to Background Noise,” New York Times
Matteo Garrone, Io Capitano
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Johnathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Andrea Kannapell, Hwaida Saad, and Michael D. Shear, “‘We Need a Cease-Fire,’ Biden Says.” New York Times
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Françoise Mouly, “Barry Blitt’s ‘Slappenheimer’,” New Yorker
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Celine Song, Past Lives
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Wim Wenders, Perfect Days
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