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Panah Pahani: ‘As Iranians, we have to craft our own spaces of peace’

by Anahit Behrooz

The writer/​director of Hit the Road reflects on find­ing com­fort in car jour­neys and learn­ing to see beyond genre.
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Wim Wenders: ‘With restoration, there’s a danger you can falsify the film’

by David Jenkins

The Ger­man mul­ti-hyphen­ate on how he’s future-proof­ing clas­sics like Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas.
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Ninja Thyberg: ‘Porn can be a mirror of our society’

by Hannah Strong

The Swedish film­mak­er reflects on how her time as a teenage anti-porn activist even­tu­al­ly led her to cre­ate the pro-sex work dra­ma Pleasure.
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Michelangelo Frammartino – ‘The purpose of art is to explore the ineffable’

by Ben Nicholson

The Ital­ian film­mak­er on his slow-cooked won­der, Il Buco, and the artis­tic joys of dis­cov­er­ing some­thing new.
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Lucile Hadžihalilovic: ‘When I make a film, something unconscious comes out’

by Katherine Connell

The French writer/​director of Inno­cence and Ear­wig explains why she tells sto­ries from a dream log­ic perspective.
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Mia Hansen-Løve: ‘I admire Bergman’s aptitude for being alone’

by David Jenkins

The Bergman Island writer/​director on the Swedish mae­stro, the inner lives of artists and the process of bring­ing dreams to life.
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H Jon Benjamin: ‘When I’m Bob, I’m a hamburger cook and not a singer’

by Charles Bramesco

The man behind Bob’s Burg­ers talks about the show’s tran­si­tion to the big screen for a mur­der mys­tery musical.
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Gaspar Noé: ‘Vortex isn’t about the death of cinema, but its evolution’

by David Jenkins

The Argen­tin­ian enfant ter­ri­ble on death, sex, his mature new film Vor­tex and why mak­ing TV shows isn’t worth his freedom.
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Warren Ellis and Andrew Dominik on This Much I Know to be True

by Greg Wetherall

The cre­ative process under Covid takes cen­tre stage in the director’s third col­lab­o­ra­tion with Nick Cave, co-star­ring his friend and fre­quent collaborator.
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Jane Schoenbrun: ‘I wanted the film to feel like we’re lost in the haze of the internet’

by Natalie Marlin

The We’re All Going to the World’s Fair direc­tor reflects on the impor­tance of allow­ing trans film­mak­ers to tell their own stories.