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Joachim Trier: ‘We need to feel that we have choices which can change our lives’

by Hannah Strong

The writer/​director of The Worst Per­son in the World pon­ders love, death and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a cos­mic order to all things.
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Franz Rogowski: ‘It was a gift to not have to explain it all through words’

by Elena Lazic

The beguil­ing star of Sebas­t­ian Meise’s Great Free­dom reflects on his career so far and the future of cinema.
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Matt Reeves: ‘I didn’t know if Rob would want to come back to a blockbuster’

by Kambole Campbell

The man behind the return of Gotham’s favourite son reveals why Robert Pat­tin­son was his first and only choice.
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Johnny Knoxville: ‘It’s not Jackass unless you’re standing on your own dick’

by Hannah Strong

The clown prince of MTV reflects on return­ing to Jack­ass 20 years after it all began, and if the new stunts still hurt like they used to.
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Clifton Collins Jr: ‘I never used peppermints with the horses’

by Emily Maskell

The star of Sun­dance hit Jock­ey speaks on the intri­ca­cy of work­ing with ani­mals and his love of movie westerns.
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Mamoru Hosoda: ‘When it comes to the internet, reality has overtaken fiction’

by Kambole Campbell

As Belle hits UK cin­e­mas, the acclaimed Japan­ese direc­tor talks Digi­mon, vir­tu­al cityscapes, and par­ent­hood in the dig­i­tal age.
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‘We got this!’ Paul Thomas Anderson and Alana Haim in conversation

by Hannah Strong

The cre­ator and star of Licorice Piz­za take us on a tour through the San Fer­nan­do Val­ley and reveal why HAIM love to walk everywhere.
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: ‘How would the female body exist without the pressure of patriarchy?’

by Anahit Behrooz

The leg­endary Cha­di­an direc­tor speaks can­did­ly about repro­duc­tive rights in his home coun­try and sup­port­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of filmmakers.
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George MacKay: ‘I find the development of morality fascinating’

by Katie Goh

One of the UK’s most promis­ing young actors reveals how con­tem­po­rary pol­i­tics influ­enced his role in Munich: The Edge of War.
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Joel Coen: How we made The Tragedy of Macbeth

by Adam Woodward

The direc­tor and his team relay the secrets of breath­ing new life into one of the most hal­lowed texts in all of history.