Interviews

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Interviews

‘Tom understood this wasn’t a film about being tough, it was about fairies’ – Nicolas Winding Refn on Bronson at 15

by Simon Bland

The Drive director reflects on smuggling Bronson’s actual moustache out of prison and the personal story behind his ethereal biopic of the UK’s most notorious inmate.
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Interviews

Thelma Schoonmaker: ‘Powell left a little furnace burning inside of me’

by Lillian Crawford

Ahead of the BFI's landmark Powell & Pressburger retrospective, the legendary film editor speaks about her relationship with Michael Powell, the process of restoring film, and how Powell & Pressburger influenced Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Interviews

Misan Harriman: “There is grace in the process of having open wounds.”

by David Jenkins

The famed photographer turns his hand at filmmaking with a study of extreme trauma and slow healing in The After.
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Interviews

Matt Johnson: “People say ‘Now you’ve got to make the Twitter movie'”

by Simon Bland

The writer, director and co-star of BlackBerry – an irreverent take on the rise and fall of a tech giant – reflects on his third feature while making his way across Toronto.
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Interviews

Inside the grassroots biking movement at the heart of If The Streets Were On Fire

by Henry Boon

Alice Russell's new documentary captures the work of Bikestormz, a passionate community of cyclists aiming to promote community among some of the capital's most disenfranchised kids.
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Interviews

Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Chemistry is a mystery’

by Anna Bogutskaya

The Spanish filmmaker reflects on the romance at the heart of his new queer western, Strange Way of Life, and the freedom of working in a shorter format.
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Interviews

Isaac Nabwana: ‘We should tell our own stories in the way we want’

by Kambole Campbell

The wildly imaginative and highly resourceful filmmaker behind Uganda's ultra low budget studio Wakaliwood describes his own cinematic education, travelling to China to shoot Shaolin monks, and the next generation of African filmmakers.
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Interviews

How Khadija Zeggaï created the most fashionable film of the year

by Kerensa Cadenas

Ira Sachs' latest drama features steamy sex, passionate rows, and some of the best cinematic knitwear in years. We speak to the film's costume designer to find out how the film developed its signature style.
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Interviews

Louis Garrel: ‘When you make an action scene, there’s this tendency to think, “Let’s do it like Heat or Scarface”’

by Elena Lazic

The French star discusses The Innocent, his fourth feature film as a director and a quintessentially French hybrid of romantic comedy and heist thriller.
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Interviews

Harris Dickinson: ‘It was actually quite scary improvising with Lola’

by Hannah Strong

The Scrapper star on getting into character, upsetting the make-up department and improvising opposite a tenacious 11-year-old.

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