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Interviews

Interview: Mati Diop

By Eric Hynes
May 22, 2019
Crossing over: the director on her debut feature Atlantics, a love story haunted by the failures of the global economy

Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

By Ela Bittencourt
May 21, 2019
Country life: The directors of Bacurau on how the film‘s setting in Brazil’s wild backcountry informed their blistering portrait of resistance

Cannes Interview: Jim Jarmusch

By Amy Taubin
May 14, 2019
Eternal return: the director of Cannes-opener The Dead Don’t Die on his postmodern zombie flick

Interview: José Celestino Campusano

By Jordan Cronk
May 9, 2019
Rough necks: the Argentine filmmaker on how the personal and the political inform his new Men of Hard Skin

Interview: Juliet Taylor

By Michael Sragow
May 2, 2019
Woman of character: the legendary casting director on how her knack for sensing potential remained constant over her 50-year career

Directions: New Haunts

By Jonathan Romney
May 1, 2019
Stray Dogs master Tsai Ming-liang pushes into the virtual realm and the great beyond

Interview: Nina Menkes

By Jordan Cronk
April 25, 2019
Wheel of fortune: The 1991 Queen of Diamonds, at BAM April 26, proceeds in a deceptively complex, elliptical fashion

Interview: Peter Strickland

By José Teodoro
April 25, 2019
Off the rack: In Fabric tracks a haunted dress purchased at a department store filled with eerily persuasive salespeople

Interview: Joe Bini and Sam Green

By Eric Hynes
April 23, 2019
Time present and time past: a "live documentary" about the Kronos Quartet makes the foundational tension of cinema actively experienced and felt

Interview: Andrés Duque

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
April 18, 2019
Borderlands: Karelia: International with Monument portrays an ancient culture being crushed by a repressive state