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Interviews

Denis Villeneuve: ‘I’m obsessed by the idea that humans can evolve’

by Anton Bitel

Quebec’s mod­ernist sci-fi mae­stro talks big screens and small ges­tures, and how he brought the arid world of Arrakis to life.
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Lashana Lynch: ‘A lot of nations need to own up to their history’

by Leila Latif

The British star of ear for eye on why the con­ver­sa­tion around race needs to extend beyond the Black community.
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Jeymes Samuel: ‘Movie westerns have lied to us our whole lives’

by Rógan Graham

The singer-song­writer known as The Bul­litts slinks into the role of film­mak­er with his super fun revi­sion­ist west­ern, The Hard­er They Fall.
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J Mascis: ‘In the early days, venues banned us for being too loud’

by Greg Wetherall

With the release of Freakscene – The Sto­ry of Dinosaur Jr, the front­man reflects on the band’s roller­coast­er journey.
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Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine on their movie inspirations

by Al Horner

The pair’s new con­cept album ​‘A Beginner’s Mind’ takes its cues from an eclec­tic list of films, from Mad Max to The Silence of the Lambs.
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Sam Spruell: ‘We had to leave set when the polar bears arrived’

by Adam Woodward

The British char­ac­ter actor talks tox­ic mas­culin­i­ty and film­ing in sub-zero tem­per­a­tures for Andrew Haigh’s The North Water.
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Tallulah Greive: ‘Working-class women aren’t homogeneous’

by Josh Slater-Williams

The star of the riotous Our Ladies talks clas­sism, tak­ing teens seri­ous­ly and why Der­ry Girls com­par­isons are off base.
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Nia DaCosta: ‘Candyman turns the white-saviour narrative on its head’

by Leila Latif

The indus­tri­ous direc­tor reveals how she put a per­son­al stamp on her Jor­dan Peele-pro­duced refit of a hor­ror classic.
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Sian Heder: ‘A disability is only a disability if society makes it so’

by Charlie Little

The direc­tor of CODA dis­cuss­es work­ing with the Deaf com­mu­ni­ty for her ten­der com­ing-of-age drama.
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Elia Suleiman: ‘I was a street kid who became a bum – but a thinking bum’

by Trevor Johnston

The Pales­tin­ian film­mak­er dis­cuss­es his new film It Must Be Heav­en and find­ing humour in human displacement.