In Conversation

Robert Zemeckis: ‘We’re very close to having completely synthetic actors’

By Adam Woodward

The Hollywood filmmaker talks Welcome to Marwen, performance capture and predicting the rise of Trump.

Mélanie Thierry: ‘The only thing I needed to find was her voice’

By David Jenkins

The French actor discusses the challenges of playing French literary icon Marguerite Duras.

Josephine Decker: ‘I was afraid of showing mental illness on screen’

By Hannah Strong

The emotional collateral of acting is the subject of Madeline’s Madeline, a unique new film by this exciting writer/director.

Claire Denis: ‘Robert wrote to me saying that he never expected me to be such a punk’

By David Jenkins

A journey through the wondrous and terrifying cinematic cosmos of the High Life director.

Robert Pattinson: ‘There’s Something very sensual about the way Claire shoots’

By Hannah Strong

The British actor talks us through his chameleonic career, and explains why he worships at the altar of Claire Denis.

Romain Gavras: ‘I see this film as almost the anti-Scarface’

By David Jenkins

The French filmmaker and sometime MIA collaborator chats about his gangster epic The World Is Yours.

Eighth Grade’s Bo Burnham and Elsie Fisher on tackling teenage anxiety

By Hannah Strong

We slide into the DMs of the director and star of the year’s must-see middle school movie.

Alice Rohrwacher: ‘We imagine that a good man does good, but it’s an illusion’

By Manuela Lazic

Happy as Lazzaro is an ethereal take on modern slavery and what it means to be happy. We meet its maker.

Larry Cohen: The Last Interview

By Jonathan Doyle

The late B-movie maestro reflects on his rich and storied career behind the camera.

David Robert Mitchell: ‘There’s an element of madness within this movie’

By David Jenkins

The director of Under the Silver Lake talks LA history, ’80s RPGs and filming down toilet bowls.

Richard Billingham: ‘I wanted to give a sense of what it was like to be there’

By Paul Risker

The British photographer and filmmaker opens up about his kitchen sink drama Ray & Liz.

Maggie Gyllenhaal: ‘It’s a cautionary tale about the consequences of starving women’

By Manuela Lazic

The star of The Kindergarten Teacher talks about living in the long shadow of dashed dreams.

Samuel Maoz: ‘Maybe I’m just trying to convince myself that I’m not guilty’

By Nick Hasted

The Israeli writer/director of Lebanon discusses his absurdist, long-awaited follow-up, Foxtrot.

James Cameron: ‘Soon we’ll have AI creating movies – and it’ll suck’

By David Jenkins

One of the most successful filmmakers of all time talks Alita: Battle Angel, Avatar and the future of cinema.

Barry Jenkins: ‘People of colour have been looking into the eyes of white people forever’

By David Jenkins

The Moonlight director sits down to pick apart his wonderful James Baldwin adaptation, If Beale Street Could Talk.

Joel Edgerton: ‘On a scale of 1 to 10 this project was Spinal Tap’

By Adam Woodward

The Boy Erased director chats filmmaking, family and his upcoming role in David Michôd’s The King.

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