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Nicholas Elliott

Interview: Nadège Trebal

By Nicholas Elliott
April 14, 2020
Long kiss goodnight: the director of the madcap Twelve Thousand on her radically imaginative take on love and sex under late capitalism

Home Movies: The Owl’s Legacy

By Nicholas Elliott
November 5, 2018
(Chris Marker, France/Greece, 1989, Icarus Films)

Interview: João Dumans & Affonso Uchoa

By Nicholas Elliott
March 17, 2017
Song of myself: the co-directors of Araby, opening at FSLC, discuss their Dubliners-influenced hybrid portrait of Minas Gerais

NYFF Interview: Michael Almereyda

By Nicholas Elliott
October 6, 2015
Just do it: the director of Experimenter talks about making the life of psychologist Stanley Milgram more than the sum of his research

ND/NF Interview: Virgil Vernier

By Nicholas Elliott
March 19, 2015
Double heart: the director of Mercuriales discusses its soulful female-centered microcosm and forging its fresh imagery

Interview: Jean Paul Civeyrac

By Nicholas Elliott
March 6, 2015
The director of My Friend Victoria discusses his approach to adapting Doris Lessing and race in France

Review: Tip Top

By Nicholas Elliott
December 30, 2014
(Serge Bozon, France, 2013)

Interview: Serge Bozon

By Nicholas Elliott
December 9, 2014
Weird on top: the director of the turbulent Tip Top identifies the darkness at the heart of the slapstick

Interview: Marin Karmitz

By Nicholas Elliott
June 18, 2014
The founder of French production and distribution group MK2 speaks about working with Godard, Chabrol, and Kiarostami

Interview: Marianne Pistone and Gilles Deroo

By Nicholas Elliott
April 21, 2014
The directors of Mouton describe their hybrid aesthetics

Interview: Rebecca Zlotowski

By Nicholas Elliott
March 7, 2014
The director of Grand Central, featured in Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, goes nuclear with Léa Seydoux and Tahar Rahim

Interview: Axelle Ropert

By Nicholas Elliott
March 7, 2014
Medicine for melancholy: critic-turned-director Axelle Ropert discusses her new film about two doctors who fall for the same woman, screening in Rendez-Vous