Children‘s song: the 92-year-old filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and activist reflects on her influential body of work, currently the subject of a major retrospective at MoMA PS1
Road music: the German auteur discusses his latest tale of hauntings and doublings, which follows a morose piano student who wanders into the life of an enigmatic woman
Going express: the filmmaker discusses his contemporary reimagining of Kurosawa’s classic, working again with Denzel Washington, and what makes New York City such a rich setting and subject
Political world: the Iranian auteur speaks about his Palme d‘Or–winning latest, a typically ingenious meditation on the lasting effects of state repression
Talk to him: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 50th Chaplin Award reflects on his subversively queer cinema, his love for actors, and making films in times of authoritarianism
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