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Parker Posey: ‘I’m nostalgic for how to really meet people. It’s so different now’

by Abbey Bender

As seminal 90s cult movie Party Girl receives a 4K restoration, Parker Posey reflects on her first starring role and nostalgia for the New York City of the past.
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Sydney Sweeney: ‘I’ve always felt that my duty is to my characters, and to my work’

by Charles Bramesco

The star of Tina Satter’s whistleblowing drama Reality speaks about the challenges of playing a real person and the concept of the modern movie star.
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Paul Schrader: ‘My movies are more on the witty clever side than the drop-your-pants funny side’

by Mark Asch

The legendary filmmaker and writer reflects on his curious horticultural drama, Master Gardener, and reveals which of his films he thinks is the funniest.
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Davy Chou: ‘This exquisite character helped me to create something more faithful to the truth’

by Hannah Strong

The writer/​director of the magical Return to Seoul explains how he drew inspiration from a close friend to create his striking protagonist.
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Priya Kansara: ‘I never thought that I’d be a comedic actor’

by Hannah Strong

Priya Kansara talks the epic prep required to play the lead role of a teen stuntwoman-in-the-making in Nida Manzoor’s Polite Society.
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Nida Manzoor: ‘As South Asian women, we don’t get to rage’

by Soma Ghosh

The writer-director behind the furious, hilarious Polite Society explains how her teenage years inspired her to create a coming-of-age action-comedy for the ages.
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Takehide Hori: ‘Everything started from my misunderstanding’

by Kambole Campbell

The writer, director, set designer, puppet builder, animator, composer and actor behind the dystopian stop-motion epic Junk Head discusses how he created a film almost single-handedly.
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Rachel Weisz and Alice Birch: ‘Siblings can be close, but this is a whole other level of codependency’

by Rafa Sales Ross

Actress and producer Rachel Weisz and writer Alice Birch lift the lid on their reimagining of David Cronenberg’s chilling twin thriller.
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline: ‘You just try to live in a way that minimises your reprehensibility’

by Charles Bramesco

The team behind the explosive eco-thriller How to Blow Up A Pipeline reflect on the nature of activism, living under capitalism and spurring audiences out of inertia.
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Albert Serra: ‘What am I trying to say, I don’t know. I just create images’

by Caitlin Quinlan

The loquacious Spanish maestro picks apart the process of his breakthrough feature of political malaise in the South Seas, Pacifiction.