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Interviews

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Interviews

Elegance Bratton: ‘Growing up, I never saw any Black queer heroes in movies’

by Josh Slater-Williams

The direc­tor of The Inspec­tion reflects on the expe­ri­ence of trans­lat­ing his time as a clos­et­ed marine into an affect­ing drama.
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Alice Diop: ‘A fictional space could reveal my point of view’

by Leila Latif

The film­mak­er behind the remark­able Saint Omer explains how her own expe­ri­ence informed the cre­ation of her inti­mate legal drama.
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Laura Poitras: ‘I hope the audience comes out with a different perspective on the world’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er reflects on her rela­tion­ship with Nan Goldin and the ways in which art can serve as a ves­sel for activism.
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Tony Kushner: ‘Close Encounters had a huge influence on me’

by Trevor Johnston

The sage of mod­ern Amer­i­can the­atre on his tran­si­tion to becom­ing Steven Spielberg’s trusty screen­writ­ing wingman.
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Jaime Leigh McIntosh: ‘We weren’t stuck in this idea of what the 1920s should look like’

by Melita Cameron-Wood

The head of the hair depart­ment on Damien Chazelle’s Baby­lon explains how the team defied con­ven­tion in order to cre­ate a fresh vision of the roar­ing twenties.
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Hildur Guðnadóttir: ‘Music is a way to express yourself beyond words’

by Meg Walters

The Acad­e­my Award-win­ning com­pos­er behind Tár and Women Talk­ing explains how she cre­at­ed two of this year’s most inter­est­ing scores.
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Interviews

Roger Deakins: ‘With film, I used to be the first person to see a performance’

by Iana Murray

The vet­er­an cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er on his explo­sive for­ma­tive cin­e­ma expe­ri­ences and shoot­ing Sam Mendes’s mov­ing dra­ma, Empire of Light.
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Chinonye Chukwu: ‘I felt that the camera cannot be a voyeuristic lens’

by Rógan Graham

The direc­tor of Till speaks about the chal­lenges of por­tray­ing a trau­mat­ic piece of Amer­i­can Black his­to­ry on screen.
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Vicky Krieps: ‘I would close my eyes and hold Sissi on my right hand and Romy Schneider on my left’

by Marina Ashioti

The star of Marie Kreutzer’s Cor­sage reveals the demand­ing details of por­tray­ing an empress.
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How Christmas Saved The Muppets – The Muppet Christmas Carol at 30

by Simon Bland

It’s hard to image the hol­i­day sea­son with­out this zany reimag­in­ing of Dick­ens’ clas­sic tale – but as pup­peteer Steve Whit­mire explains, The Mup­pet Christ­mas Car­ol was make or break for the beloved company.