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Interviews

Interview: Patrick Wang

By Steven Mears
November 20, 2018
Feast and famine: the director of A Bread Factory and The Grief of Others talks about his richly conceived works, self-distribution, Tyne Daly, independent film, and more

Directions: Claude Lanzmann

By Eric Hynes
November 9, 2018
The late filmmaker resisted reducing the totality of experience, or of cinema

Interview: Zoe Kazan

By Nicolas Rapold
November 8, 2018
O, pioneer: the actor talks about starring in Joel and Ethan Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and elucidates the nuances of their tragicomic style

Flow Through Me

By Amy Taubin
November 1, 2018
Willem Dafoe on his Oscar-nominated performance as Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate

Interview: Lee Chang-dong

By Dennis Lim
October 25, 2018
Vast carelessness: the Korean director's beguiling drama of lives led astray will be the one to endure from this year's edition of the festival

Interview: Paul Greengrass

By Nicolas Rapold
October 6, 2018
Fighting for our lives: the director of Norway terror attack docudrama 22 July expounds upon realism in dire times

NYFF Interview: Sky Hopinka

By Becca Voelcker
October 5, 2018
Personal journeys: the filmmaker discusses the language of travel and landscape in works like Fainting Spells, screening in the New York Film Festival

Me Time

By Devika Girish
September 24, 2018
Burning star Steven Yeun finds himself anew on screen

Interview: Jeanne Balibar

By Joan Dupont
September 13, 2018
The voice: the French star of Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara comes to New York for a series at FIAF and Anthology

Interview: Mahmoud Kalari

By Godfrey Cheshire
September 12, 2018
The illusionist: the era-spanning cinematographer shot films for Iran’s greatest auteurs, including Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Mehrjui, and Panahi