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Paul Greengrass: ‘I wanted to make The Searchers in reverse’

by Charles Bramesco

The writer/​director on chan­nelling John Ford for his first for­ay into the Amer­i­can fron­tier, News of the World.
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Toxic Avenger: Emerald Fennell on Promising Young Woman

by Hannah Strong

The writer/​director shares her love of Paris Hilton and her frus­tra­tions with the way we talk about women in film.
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Franco Nero Strikes Again

by Christina Newland

The screen icon talks Taran­ti­no, the delayed Djan­go Lives!, and the time he got naked for John Huston.
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It’s All True: A Conversation with David Fincher

by David Jenkins

The mas­ter film­mak­er behind Mank on Orson Welles, Pauline Kael and real­is­ing a pas­sion project after a 30-year wait.
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Brandon Cronenberg: ‘We built a wax Andrea Riseborough’

by Leila Latif

The genre prodi­gy talks per­fect cast­ing and prac­ti­cal effects in his lat­est shock­er, Possessor.
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Alexandre O Philippe on telling the inside story of The Exorcist

by Anton Bitel

The doc­u­men­tary mak­er dis­cuss­es Leap of Faith, his spir­i­tu­al exca­va­tion of William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece.
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Steve McQueen: ‘Until things change, these stories will always be timely’

by Aaron Hunt

The direc­tor reflects on the mak­ing of his tri­umphant ode to Black cul­ture and resilience, Small Axe.
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Michael Stuhlbarg: ‘Accidents are what keep art alive’

by Adam Woodward

The renowned char­ac­ter actor reveals how Josephine Deck­er nudged him out of his com­fort zone.
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Elisabeth Moss: ‘As women, we’re expected to not be that unpleasant’

by Hannah Strong

The star and pro­duc­er of Shirley on the entice­ments of strong, com­plex female characters.
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Sope Dìrísù: ‘Fear is a very difficult sensation to replicate’

by David Jenkins

A decade of hard graft across stage, screen and TV has result­ed in a bone-rat­tling lead turn in polit­i­cal hor­ror, His House.