Interviews

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Interviews

Haifaa Al Mansour: ‘It’s amazing to shape art in Saudi Arabia’

by Fatima Sheriff

The Saudi Arabian iconoclast details the tribulations of making The Perfect Candidate.
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Interviews

Levan Akin: ‘A lot of people in Georgia are living secret lives’

by Jack King

The director of And Then We Danced discusses his film’s impact on the LGBT+ community in Georgia and beyond.
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Interviews

Richard Stanley: ‘I got a phone call at 3am from a guy claiming to be Nic Cage’

by Matt Thrift

The cult director discusses his long-awaited return to mainstream filmmaking with Color Out of Space.
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Interviews

Céline Sciamma: ‘I had a desire to show the birth of longing’

by Elena Lazic

The director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire discusses her monument to female artists and their intense gaze.
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Interviews

Jessica Hausner: ‘Happiness is overrated’

by Adam Woodward

The Lourdes and Amour Fou filmmaker on her unsettling English-language debut, Little Joe.
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Interviews

Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant on Portrait of a Lady on Fire

by Elena Lazic

The co-stars of Céline Sciamma’s sumptuous period romance discuss the intimate – and political – nature of the film.
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Interviews

Bong Joon-ho: ‘There is no bunker in my house’

by Prahlad Srihari

The South Korean master dissects his deliciously dark capitalist satire, Parasite.
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Interviews

Willem Dafoe: ‘I stopped eating lobster on this film’

by Adam Woodward

The screen legend on going full seadog in Robert Eggers’ paranoid fantasia, The Lighthouse.
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Interviews

Paul Walter Hauser: ‘We have to hold people in power accountable’

by Hannah Strong

The star of Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell talks making the step up for his first lead role.
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Interviews

Nicolas Winding Refn on Night Tide and the importance of extreme cinema

by Neil Fox

The director’s ongoing restoration project, byNWR, is breathing new life into forgotten cult movies.

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