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Interviews

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Interviews

Panos Cosmatos: ‘Nicolas Cage is a very special creature’

by David Jenkins

The Cana­di­an film­mak­er on the mak­ing of his heavy met­al psy­cho-hor­ror, Mandy, and work­ing his one of his act­ing heroes.
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Agnès Varda: ‘I’ve always enjoyed sharing people with audiences’

by David Jenkins

The loqua­cious god­dess of French cin­e­ma reflects on her extra­or­di­nary career ahead of the release of her new film, Faces Places.
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Bart Layton: ‘By the time I made contact with the real guys, they were in prison’

by Daniel Schindel

The Amer­i­can Ani­mals direc­tor dis­cuss­es his uncon­ven­tion­al approach to putting true sto­ries on screen.
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Barry Keoghan: ‘Acting is therapeutic, but it also messes with your head’

by Hannah Strong

The Irish ris­ing star talks Amer­i­can Ani­mals, shoplift­ing and how play­ing a cer­tain type of char­ac­ter can lead to hav­ing weird dreams on set.
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John Gallagher Jr: ‘There’s an obligation to tell these stories’

by Hannah Strong

The US film and tele­vi­sion actor dis­cuss­es play­ing a con­ver­sion ther­a­py pas­tor in Desiree Akhavan’s The Mise­d­u­ca­tion of Cameron Post.
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Brett Haley: ‘I do like The Backstreet Boys, I wanna put that on record’

by Hannah Strong

The direc­tor of Sun­dance hit Hearts Beat Loud talks about his favourite bands, Stephen Sond­heim, and pro­vides an impas­sioned defence of com­pi­la­tion soundtracks.
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Interviews

Lauren Greenfield: ‘Authentic culture is being destroyed by capitalism’

by Thomas Curry

The award-win­ning doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er dis­cuss­es her lat­est chron­i­cle of cap­i­tal­ist Amer­i­ca, Gen­er­a­tion Wealth.
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Interviews

Debra Granik: ‘This film is about the difference between want and need’

by David Jenkins

The direc­tor of Leave No Trace talks about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a total dis­con­nect from the system.
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Sara Driver: ‘You dream a film before you make it’

by David Jenkins

The New York artist-film­mak­er dis­cuss­es her inti­mate new pro­file of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Hal Hartley: ‘I try to juxtapose the male gaze with female independence’

by Matt Thrift

The pro­lif­ic inde­pen­dent film­mak­er reflects on his career ahead of Hen­ry Fool’s 20th anniversary.

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