Interviews

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Interviews

Jim Jarmusch: ‘Teenagers define our culture – Billie Eilish is a genius’

by Adam Woodward

Akron’s finest chats riffing on George A Romero and fearing for our future in The Dead Don’t Die.
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Interviews

Peter Strickland: ‘The Office was a big influence on me’

by Lou Thomas

The cult British writer/director discusses his surreal sartorial horror yarn, In Fabric.
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Interviews

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: ‘I wanted to give another face to the stranger’

by David Jenkins

The celebrated Chadian filmmaker on A Season in France and his humane approach to depicting migrants.
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Interviews

Gene Wilder: The Lost Interview

by Gregg LaGambina

In 2006, the founder of Filter magazine got on the phone with Gene Wilder to discuss his life and work. Here is their conversation in full, re-printed for the first time.
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Interviews

László Nemes: ‘I’m trying to push the boundaries of film language’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The Hungarian writer/director of Son of Saul discusses his beguiling follow-up, Sunset.
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Interviews

Dominga Sotomayor: ‘I wanted emotions, not big events’

by Matt Turner

The director of the excellent Too Late to Die Young talks about recreating a rural commune from her childhood.
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Interviews

Robert Zemeckis: ‘We’re very close to having completely synthetic actors’

by Adam Woodward

The Hollywood filmmaker talks Welcome to Marwen, performance capture and predicting the rise of Trump.
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Interviews

Mélanie Thierry: ‘The only thing I needed to find was her voice’

by David Jenkins

The French actor discusses the challenges of playing French literary icon Marguerite Duras.
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Interviews

Josephine Decker: ‘I was afraid of showing mental illness on screen’

by Hannah Strong

The emotional collateral of acting is the subject of Madeline’s Madeline, a unique new film by this exciting writer/director.
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Interviews

Claire Denis: ‘Robert wrote to me saying that he never expected me to be such a punk’

by David Jenkins

A journey through the wondrous and terrifying cinematic cosmos of the High Life director.

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