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Interviews

Laura Wandel: ‘It was important that the children made this film their own’

by Lillian Crawford

The Bel­gian direc­tor of har­row­ing Cannes stand-out Play­ground on the intri­ca­cies of mak­ing a film from the per­spec­tive of kids.
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“No, not the dog!” – John McNaughton on Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

by Little White Lies

Three decades after it first shocked audi­ences, John McNaughton’s twist­ed thriller receives a 4K re-release cour­tesy of Arrow Films.
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Alexander Skarsgård: ‘I’ve always nurtured this dream of looking at a great epic Viking movie’

by Hannah Strong

As he pre­pares to unleash hell in The North­man, we pro­file the Swedish actor who realis­es his life­long dream with this Scan­dana­vian epic.
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Robert Eggers: ‘This is me trying to do Conan the Barbarian by way of Andrei Rublev’

by Charles Bramesco

The vision­ary direc­tor of The North­man talks scal­ing up pro­duc­tion, his love of Viking cul­ture, and the per­ils of work­ing with a flock of birds.
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Paul Verhoeven: ‘I identify far more with the “female” part of my brain’

by Justine Smith

The Dutch provo­ca­teur chats les­bian nuns, alter­nate real­i­ties and his undy­ing love for Quentin Tarantino.
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Juho Kuosmanen: ‘Steal from many different places and you can’t get caught!’

by David Jenkins

The direc­tor of Com­part­ment No. 6 on the joys of film­ing on loca­tion – in this case, a vin­tage pas­sen­ger train.
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Braxton Pope: ‘You’re never caught off guard with Paul’

by Sam Moore

The pro­duc­er of The Canyons and The Card Counter reflects on his expe­ri­ence work­ing with one of Hollywood’s most out­spo­ken auteurs.
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Fred Armisen: ‘I’m wimpy about pain’

by Leila Latif

As he plays an over­whelmed indie direc­tor in Judd Apatow’s Covid com­e­dy, the actor talks stunts and believ­ing there real­ly are no small parts.
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Adrian Lyne: ‘I’ve always thought that acres of flesh is incredibly unsexy’

by Elena Lazic

The mas­ter of the erot­ic thriller talks Deep Water, his long absence, and work­ing with Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas.
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Lucie Zhang: ‘The nudity was like wearing a costume’

by Josh Slater-Williams

The star of Jacques Audiard’s Parisian dra­ma reflects on her whirl­wind jour­ney from first-time actor to the Cannes red carpet.