Interviews

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

“Fear is a good thing”: the director of What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? on his powerful new doc

Family matters: the directors of One Child Nation on the psychological workings—and vestiges—of the decades-long Chinese policy

In this interview from 2000, the director discusses The Wind Will Carry Us and his unique form of poetic cinema