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Interviews

Life’s Work

By Devika Girish
November 1, 2019
Greta Gerwig’s energetic tour-de-force adaptation of Little Women frames the aspirations of Jo and her sisters as urgent matters of personal independence

Interview: Jessica Sarah Rinland

By Jordan Cronk
October 28, 2019
Copy that: the artist and director on her aesthetically intoxicating new film Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another

Interview: Pedro Almodóvar

By Carlos Reviriego
October 22, 2019
Life and how to live it: the director of Pain and Glory on autobiography, drug use, nostalgia, and more

Interview: Philipp Fleischmann

By Jordan Cronk
October 17, 2019
In space and time: the experimental filmmaker on building his own cameras, the politics of light, and cinema’s uneasy standing within the art world

Interview: Feras Fayyad

By Ela Bittencourt
October 15, 2019
In the dark: The Cave tells the story of an extraordinary woman doctor caring for a besieged community in southwestern Syria

Interview Excerpt: Pedro Costa

By Jordan Cronk
October 8, 2019
Read an excerpt from a forthcoming interview with the director of Vitalina Varela, one of the most acclaimed films of the year

Interview: Kantemir Balagov

By Ela Bittencourt
October 7, 2019
Lean times: the director of Beanpole on the use of color and the influence of literature on his NYFF standout

Cracking the Code: Corneliu Porumboiu

By Jordan Cronk
October 7, 2019
Romanian puzzler Corneliu Porumboiu delights in deceit with the island crime yarn The Whistlers, screening at NYFF

Interview: Minh Quý Trương

By Laura Davis
October 3, 2019
Lost in space: a collage of archival material and improvisatory camerawork, The Tree House articulates a sense of longing from a place of exile

Matters of Life and Death: Nadav Lapid

By Jordan Cronk
September 30, 2019
The director of Synonyms looks within to portray the essence of the outlier