In Conversation

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Interviews

Zoë Kravitz: ‘Directing is what I’ve always wanted to do’

by Leila Latif

The co-writer, producer and director of Blink Twice reflects on the long journey her first feature took from idea to actualisation.
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Interviews

Margaret Qualley and Mamadou Athie: ‘A Yorgos film is much more dreamy and surreal when you’re in it’

by Hannah Strong

Two relative newcomers to Team Lanthimos reflect on learning to trust the process.
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Interviews

Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau: ‘The meaning comes in the doing’

by Hannah Strong

Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau lay out the particulars of Yorgos Lanthimos’s method with actors.
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Interviews

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons: ‘Is Yorgos okay with us giving away the secrets?’

by Hannah Strong

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons attempt to decipher the codes and meanings in Kinds of Kindness.
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Interviews

Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou: ‘It’s a constant relationship’

by Hannah Strong

The co-writers of Kinds of Kindness reflect on their enduring partnership and putting their characters through the ringer.
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Interviews

Jeff Nichols: ‘It’s a very intoxicating thing, riding on a bike’

by Hannah Strong

After getting his motorcycle license and pondering the story for two decades, the director of The Bikeriders explains what drew him to Danny Lyon's iconic photobook documenting the lives of a 1960s motorcycle gang.
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Interviews

‘It was hard to hit me in the face with the steak’ – Jon Heder on 20 years of Napoleon Dynamite

by Simon Bland

Two decades on from an unlikely cultural phenomenon, the star of Jarred Hess's lo-fi cult classic talks Moon Boots, Jamiroquai and doing his own stunts.
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Interviews

Iain Softley: ‘I had this idea in my mind, “What would the story be if these weren’t The Beatles?”’

by Michael Leader

As Sam Mendes gears up to make his behemoth Beatles biopic, the director of 1994 early-Beatles drama Backbeat reflects on the story of Stuart Sutcliffe – the Beatle who wasn't.
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Interviews

Under the Cover: Tom Humberstone

by Little White Lies

We go behind the scenes on the cover of LWLies 103: The Kinds of Kindness Issue with comic artist and illustrator Tom Humberstone.
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Interviews

Jane Schoenbrun: ‘I think of film as a medium that is going to disappear eventually’

by Esmé Holden

The filmmaker reflects on her sophomore feature film, I Saw the TV Glow, in which two teenage outsiders find comfort in a mysterious television series.

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