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Interviews

Interviews

Daniel Blumberg: ​‘The ingredients were there to make something special and unique’

by Claire Biddles

Meeting the compositional maestro behind the complex web of sounds and rhythms in Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
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Amanda Seyfried: ‘This movie has changed me’

by Katherine McLaughlin

The star of The Testament of Ann Lee expounds on the joys of giving yourself over to cinema.
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Mona Fastvold: ‘I’m always searching for the perfect choreography between the camera and the performer’

by Marina Ashioti

The maker of The Testament of Ann Lee on creating a radical biography that’s forged in ecstatic song.
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Hard Craft

Light Touch: How Hollywood gets lit

by Gabie McFadden

Gaffer Jon Haney is responsible for literally lighting up the screen – what does that mean in the digital age?
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Tokyo International Film Festival

Keiko Tsuruoka: 'The starting line for me was the unspoken'

by Hannah Strong

The director of Saikai Paradise reveals how her friendship with her lead actor inspired her tender drama about homecoming and disconnection.
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Park Chan-wook: ‘We certainly do have other choices’

by Hannah Strong

The violently competitive world of HR and employment is the subject matter of the South Korean filmmaker’s highly prescient latest.
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Chloé Zhao: ‘There’s a desire for the language of ambiguity, of poetry’

by David Jenkins

Plato, Carl Jung and Terrence Malick are what kept the filmmaker inspired while making her jaw-dropping latest, Hamnet.
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Joachim Trier: ‘I cling to life’

by Marina Ashioti

Norway’s favourite son on how to follow-up a global hit – with another wistful, intuitive and thought film about melancholy in Sentimental Value.
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Interviews

Jafar Panahi: ‘We shouldn't look at cinema too idealistically’

by Marina Ashioti

The great Iranian auteur and winner of the 2025 Palme d’Or on his thrilling new morality play, It Was Just an Accident.
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Lynne Ramsay: ‘I love pushing people as far as I can’

by Hannah Strong

One of Britain’s most iconic and beloved directors on her striking new film, Die My Love, and why she is drawn to extreme material.
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Guillermo del Toro: ‘The world breaks your heart, but you carry on’

by Hannah Strong

Going face to face writer/​director Guillermo del Toro to find out what it’s like to finally create the film he has always wanted to make.
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Yemi Bamiro on the making of Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story

by Farah Sadek

The documentary filmmaker breathes life and love into this doc on the trailblazing photographer who helped to define the aesthetics of the ​“Black is Beautiful” movement.

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