Interviews

Romanian puzzler Corneliu Porumboiu delights in deceit with the island crime yarn The Whistlers, screening at NYFF

Lost in space: a collage of archival material and improvisatory camerawork, The Tree House articulates a sense of longing from a place of exile

The director of Synonyms looks within to portray the essence of the outlier

Read an excerpt from an forthcoming interview with the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, one of the most anticipated films of the year

Here, there, and everywhere: the director of Terminal Sud discusses the universal resonances of his elliptical French-Algerian thriller

Risky business: the director and screenwriter behind Give Me Liberty on the difficult process of bringing their vision to the screen

Volatile in Valparaiso: the Chilean director of Neruda and Jackie discusses his latest, an unpredictable portrait of a dancer who's a force unto herself

The director of The Wild Goose Lake philosophizes on the meaning and appeal of crime stories

While we're young: Tyler Taormina's surburban-set debut comes on like a slightly surreal teen comedy before segueing into something far stranger 

In this 1988 interview, the director provides an exegesis of his passion project, The Last Temptation of Christ