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Interviews

‘Our pact with the devil was to try and pull it off’ – Ghostwatch at 30

by Simon Bland

Cre­ator Stephen Volk and direc­tor Les­ley Man­ning reflect on the chaos and unlike­ly impact of their meta-Hal­loween horror.
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Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell on The Banshees of Inisherin

by Hannah Strong

The stars of Mar­tin McDon­agh’s lat­est reflect on their reunion on the islands of Inish­more and Achill, the scars of the Irish Civ­il War, and the weight of artis­tic legacy.
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Shadows and Fog: a conversation with Park Chan-wook

by Iana Murray

The incom­pa­ra­ble South Kore­an film­mak­er reflects on his dreamy neo-noir, Deci­sion to Leave.
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Animal Instincts: a conversation with Tang Wei

by David Jenkins

She deliv­ers arguably one of the great­est per­for­mances in a Park Chan-wook film, but how did Tang Wei build the enig­mat­ic sus­pect­ed mur­der­er, Seo-rae?
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Ollie Laker: ‘More people have been up Mount Everest than to the rainforest canopy’

by Melita Cameron-Wood

For rope access and rig­ging expert Ollie Lak­er, film­ing high above the trees is just anoth­er day at the office.
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Anthony Marra: ‘For every Billy Wilder there is someone like Bertolt Brecht’

by Ben Nicholson

In his first nov­el since being named one of Granta’s Best Young Amer­i­can Nov­el­ists in 2017, Antho­ny Mar­ra turns his atten­tion to old Hollywood.
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Don Hertzfeldt on It’s Such a Beautiful Day at 10

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A dia­logue with the hum­ble, per­spi­ca­cious and very fun­ny direc­tor of one of the film mas­ter­pieces of the 21st century.
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Lena Dunham: ‘It was like we were all getting PhDs in Medieval history’

by Emma Fraser

The film­mak­er, writer and actor talks about the long jour­ney to adapt the medieval com­ing-of-age dram­e­dy Cather­ine, Called Birdy.
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The art of adapting short films into feature-length movies

by Marina Ashioti

Eddie Stern­berg dis­cuss­es the risks and chal­lenges of expand­ing his 2015 short into a fea­ture-length film.
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The Gospel According to Saint John

by Juan Barquin

The Pope of Trash on 50 years of Pink Flamin­gos and wak­ing up each morn­ing and try­ing to be nuts in new and excit­ing ways.