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Interviews

Riz Ahmed and Bassam Tariq on the personal journey of Mogul Mowgli

by Leila Latif

The actor and direc­tor dis­cuss the shared expe­ri­ences that inspired their bit­ter­sweet love let­ter to their spir­i­tu­al home.
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Garrett Bradley: ‘It’s important to resist the invisibility of the prison industrial complex’

by Aaron Hunt

The direc­tor dis­cuss­es her stark inter­ro­ga­tion of the destruc­tive sta­sis of the carcer­al state, Time.
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Miranda July: ‘I’m interested in the little self-sabotaging things we do’

by Hannah Strong

Break­ing into the local post office was deep research for the art­world multi-hypenate’s superb new film, Kajillionaire.
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Kirsten Johnson: ‘I was asking cinema to keep my dad alive’

by Adam Woodward

The doc­u­men­tary mak­er attempts to cheat death with her life-affirm­ing lat­est, Dick John­son Is Dead.
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Channing Godfrey Peoples: ‘I’ve always been fascinated with lineage’

by Rógan Graham

Don’t be fooled by the sur­face-lev­el friv­o­li­ty of Miss June­teenth says its can­ny, thought­ful director.
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Amy Seimetz: ‘There is no waking up from death’

by Lillian Crawford

The direc­tor of She Dies Tomor­row opens up about how anx­i­ety and exis­ten­tial dread feed her cre­ative spirit.
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John David Washington: ‘I’m better acquainted with heights now’

by Kambole Campbell

The star of Christo­pher Nolan’s Tenet rev­els in the toil of mak­ing an exper­i­men­tal mega blockbuster.
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Shannon Murphy: ‘At film school they made me believe I couldn’t be an auteur’

by David Jenkins

The Aus­tralian direc­tor dis­cuss­es her debut, Baby­teeth, and why she’s per­fect­ly hap­py mak­ing oth­er people’s scripts.
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Claire Oakley: ‘The whole film is about describing the feelings of this young woman’

by Elena Lazic

How a fas­ci­na­tion with female desire inspired the first-time direc­tor of the excel­lent Make Up.
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Eliza Hittman: ‘I sat down with abortion providers to try to understand the story I wanted to tell’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The writer/​director on how first-hand research informed her ​‘poet­ic odyssey’, Nev­er Rarely Some­times Always.