Interviews

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Interviews

Don Cheadle: ‘Filmmaking is a very risk-averse business’

by Leila Latif

The veteran actor, musician and director speaks about his role in Noah Baumbach's White Noise, and what his long tenure in Hollywood has taught him about the world.
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Interviews

Tsai Ming-Liang and Lee Kang-Sheng on a joint career in filmmaking

by Alicia Haddick

The Taiwanese master filmmaker and his muse discuss their long-standing artistic partnership.
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Interviews

Rian Johnson: ‘Sondheim’s my guy’

by Adam Woodward

The writer/director of Glass Onion talks musicals, murder mysteries, and the sartorial secrets of master detective Benoit Blanc.
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Interviews

Luca Guadagnino: ‘I hate drama’

by Hannah Strong

The Italian director behind A Bigger Splash, Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria talks flies, flesh and Timothée Chalamet in his horror-romance Bones and All.
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Interviews

James Gray: ‘I’m supposed to show you all my vulnerabilities, that’s the reason I do it’

by Hannah Strong

The director of Armageddon Time reflects on how his childhood inspired his deeply affecting drama about societal tensions in 1970s New York.
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Interviews

Charlotte Wells: ‘Adults are locked in the roles that they perform for kids’

by Rafa Sales Ross

The Scottish filmmaker behind breakout indie Aftersun explains the complex process of portraying memory in cinema.
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Interviews

Meet Panos H Koutras: Greece’s own King of Trash

by Vince Medeiros

LWLies speak to the director of the outrageous farce, Dodo, at the the 2022 Thessaloniki Film Festival.
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Interviews

Sebastián Lelio: ‘We need better stories if we want to have better societies’

by Marina Ashioti

The Chilean director on the very contemporary political and philosophical questions at the core of literary period piece, The Wonder.
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Interviews

Chris Butler on ParaNorman: ‘We wanted it to feel like a rollercoaster’

by Callie Petch

The co-director of the weird and wonderful stop motion modern classic ParaNorman reflects on the film's legacy a decade later.
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Interviews

Ruben Östlund: ‘I was interested in beauty as a currency’

by Ella Kemp

The two-time Palme d'Or-winning provocateur chats idealism, misogyny and modeling as Triangle of Sadness hits cinemas.

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