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Interviews

Interview: Ognjen Glavonic

By Eric Hynes
September 6, 2018
Keep the motor running: The Load, showing in Toronto, charts an ominous road trip that shows the universal burden of war

Law of the Land

By Amy Taubin
August 27, 2018
In Ash Is Purest White, in theaters March 15, Jia Zhangke charts how one woman survives and thrives on the criminal margins

Locarno Interview: Virgil Vernier

By Jordan Cronk
August 27, 2018
Utopia is nowhere: the French filmmaker haunts another location with fragmentary character portraits and spiritual anomie in the air

Locarno Interview: Yeo Siew Hua

By Becca Voelcker
August 23, 2018
Imported dreams: the Locarno prize-winner goes beyond the marketably immaculate image of Singapore to visit the neighborhoods of migrant workers

Interview: Issa López

By Paula Mejía
August 20, 2018
Living with the dead: the filmmaker recalls how her magical film, showing in Scary Movies, draws deeply on Mexican culture and memories of grief and loss

Interview: Agnès Godard

By Yonca Talu
August 2, 2018
Close enough to touch: Claire Denis’s frequent cinematographer Agnès Godard reveals how she creates images of such remarkable intimacy

Interview: Radu Jude

By Ela Bittencourt
July 27, 2018
Slow recovery: the Romanian director of Scarred Hearts and Aferim! talks about the lasting wounds of history

Get Me Rewrite

By Nicolas Rapold
July 9, 2018
With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee forcefully corrects the record of American history once again

Interview: Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

By Mark Asch
June 27, 2018
O, hey, pioneers: the directors of Two Plains & a Fancy and L for Leisure talk about intermingling old worlds and new

Interview: Jim McKay

By Amy Taubin
June 26, 2018
Team spirit: an inspiring voice of indie film talks about his New York drama En el Séptimo Día set among immigrant restaurant workers