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Richard Billingham: ‘I wanted to give a sense of what it was like to be there’

by Paul Risker

The British photographer and filmmaker opens up about his kitchen sink drama Ray & Liz.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal: ‘It’s a cautionary tale about the consequences of starving women’

by Manuela Lazic

The star of The Kindergarten Teacher talks about living in the long shadow of dashed dreams.
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Samuel Maoz: ‘Maybe I’m just trying to convince myself that I’m not guilty’

by Nick Hasted

The Israeli writer/​director of Lebanon discusses his absurdist, long-awaited follow-up, Foxtrot.
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“Time is very cruel, only some films survive” – Béla Tarr on Sátántangó at 25

by Greg Wetherall

The legendary Hungarian auteur reflects on the making of his 1994 opus.
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James Cameron: ‘Soon we’ll have AI creating movies – and it’ll suck’

by David Jenkins

One of the most successful filmmakers of all time talks Alita: Battle Angel, Avatar and the future of cinema.
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Barry Jenkins: ‘People of colour have been looking into the eyes of white people forever’

by David Jenkins

The Moonlight director sits down to pick apart his wonderful James Baldwin adaptation, If Beale Street Could Talk.
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Joel Edgerton: ‘On a scale of 1 to 10 this project was Spinal Tap’

by Adam Woodward

The Boy Erased director chats filmmaking, family and his upcoming role in David Michôd’s The King.
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Lee Chang-dong: ‘Today we are living in Murakami’s world’

by Matt Thrift

The South Korean maestro talks literary inspiration and his mysterious new psychodrama, Burning.
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Mahershala Ali: ‘There’s been a systematic diminishing of voices of colour’

by Rowan Woods

One half of the cross-country buddy comedy Green Book muses on changing political attitudes in Hollywood.
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Richard E Grant: ‘Acting is like juggling with jelly and water’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The loquacious actor (and latter-day perfumer) discusses his stellar turn as a silver-tongued grifter in Can You Ever Forgive Me?