Interviews

Interview: Beata Bubenec

By Daniel Witkin

February 4, 2019

Everyday wartime: the Russian filmmaker on her harrowing, single-take doc Flight of a Bullet, screening February 7 in Film Comment Selects

Interview: Joanna Hogg

By Nicolas Rapold

February 4, 2019

Drama in small things: the director of Sundance standout The Souvenir on autobiography and subverting narrative expectations

Interview: Shengze Zhu

By Becca Voelcker

February 1, 2019

On display: the filmmaker on the world of Chinese live-streaming culture she explores in the Rotterdam award-winner Present.Perfect.

Interview: Jennifer Kent

By Devika Girish

January 30, 2019

Love in dark times: The Nightingale director on bringing together distinct (but connected) narratives of gendered and racist violence

Interview: Paul Harrill

By C. Mason Wells

January 29, 2019

A film for adults: the director of Sundance selection Light From Light on crafting non-romantic love stories for grown-ups

Interview: Dusan Makavejev

By Edgardo Cozarinsky and Carlos Clarens

January 28, 2019

The groundbreaking filmmaker passed away on January 24 at the age of 86. Read an excerpt from a 1975 interview with the director of Sweet Movie

Interview: Manuel Alberto Claro

By Yonca Talu

January 22, 2019

Lensing the Apocalypse: the cinematographer describes working on Lars von Trier's last three films, including the recent The House That Jack Built.

Interview: Helena Třeštíková

By Ela Bittencourt

January 17, 2019

The stories we tell: the Czech documentary filmmaker on creating narratives out of daily life, her recent Doomed Beauty, and how her work is (or is not) feminist.

Interview: Dick Pope

By Yonca Talu

January 17, 2019

Blood and horses: the British cinematographer on the strategic maneuvers required to shoot Mike Leigh's historical epic Peterloo.

Interview: Cameron Bailey

By Nick Davis

January 15, 2019

Time regained: the artistic director of TIFF teleports us to the heady premillennial era with a series of films from 1999