Interviews

Devil’s Playground: Albert Serra

By Manu Yáñez Murillo

April 15, 2020

In Serra’s explicitly imagined Liberté, an 18th-century cruising ground hosts fickle and fearsome games of desire

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

Interview: Bruce Baillie

By Film Comment

April 14, 2020

The avant-garde director, who passed away last week at the age of 88, discusses life, death, and filmmaking in this 1971 interview

Interview: Lois Patiño

By Jordan Cronk

April 9, 2020

Red sky at night: the Galician filmmaker on the unexpected discoveries that shaped his intoxicating narrative hybrid Red Moon Tide

Interview: Mohammad Rasoulof

By Amir Ganjavie

April 3, 2020

The space between: the director of the Golden Bear-winning There Is No Evil on navigating censorship and weaving together multiple stories about present-day Iran

Interview: Bernardo Bertolucci

By Amos Vogel

March 31, 2020

In this 1971 conversation with Amos Vogel, the Italian master discusses The Conformist, newly restored and in theaters now, and more

Kid Stuff: François Truffaut

By Joseph McBride & Todd McCarthy

March 24, 2020

In this 1976 interview, the master filmmaker discusses his kid-centric Small Change

Interview: Juliette Binoche

By Nicolas Rapold

March 12, 2020

Unvarnished: the actress expounds on her role opposite Catherine Deneuve in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth

Interview: Thomas Heise

By Jordan Cronk

March 11, 2020

Family plan: the director of Heimat Is a Space in Time on tracing nearly 100 years of German history

Rise Up!

By Ela Bittencourt

March 2, 2020

Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Brazilian epic Bacurau sets the world on fire with an invigorating and audacious story of resistance that feeds off of pulp and politics