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Interviews

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.
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Léa Mysius: ‘I wanted to film reality – from this came the fantastical’

by Emily Maskell

The direc­tor of olfac­to­ry won­der, The Five Dev­ils, reflects on mak­ing a film about potions, mem­o­ry and the sense of smell.
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Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace: ‘We picked up enough detective skills that we could work for Bellingcat’

by Callie Petch

The music doc­u­men­tar­i­ans dis­cuss piec­ing togeth­er a his­to­ry of the LES scene which birthed LCD Soundsys­tem, The Strokes, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.