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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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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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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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Dev Patel: ‘Dickens’ stories are always going to be relevant’

by Hannah Strong

The star of The Personal History of David Copperfield on his love of acting and his move into directing.
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‘When people came to Rome, they only wanted to meet the Pope and Fellini’

by Matt Thrift

Fiammetta Profili reflects on her time working with Federico Fellini during his final decade.
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Kelvin Harrison Jr: ‘Black people are beaten down before we’re celebrated’

by Benjamin Akpan

The rising star of Luce and Waves talks subverting expectations and stereotypes of black masculinity.
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Money on the Street: A Conversation with the Safdie Brothers

by Charles Bramesco

The filmmaking siblings take us on a tour of New York’s Diamond District, the setting for their sensational Uncut Gems.
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Edward Norton: ‘In America now, the veil has come off’

by Adam Woodward

The writer, director and star of Motherless Brooklyn talks New York, noir and making musical acquaintances.
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Kim Longinotto: ‘I feel I’ve been cheated all my life by Hollywood’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

One of Britain’s best documentary filmmakers trades on-camera interviews for archive footage in Shooting the Mafia.
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Mati Diop: ‘It’s a unique experience to have characters come out of you’

by David Jenkins

With her eerie debut feature Atlantics, the actor-turned-director has delivered one of the year’s finest films.