Interviews

Interview Excerpt: Céline Sciamma

September 27, 2019

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

Interview: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

By Devika Girish

September 18, 2019

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

Interview: Kirill Mikhanovsky and Alice Austen

By Amy Taubin

September 16, 2019

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

Interview: Pablo Larraín

By Nicolas Rapold

September 7, 2019

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

Interview: Diao Yinan

By Wang Muyan

September 6, 2019

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

Interview: Tyler Taormina

By Jordan Cronk

September 5, 2019

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

Interview: Martin Scorsese

By Harlan Jacobson

August 20, 2019

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

Interview: Roberto Minervini

By Eric Hynes

August 15, 2019

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

Interview: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

By Devika Girish

August 12, 2019

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

With Borrowed Eyes: Abbas Kiarostami

By David Sterritt

July 23, 2019

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