Interviews

Interview: Ashley McKenzie

March 7, 2018

The panic in Cape Breton: the writer/director of Werewolf discusses how she made the vicious cycle of addiction emotionally accessible

Interview: Lynne Ramsay

By Jonathan Romney

March 5, 2018

In the cut: the writer-director of You Were Never Really Here talks about the film’s post-Cannes polish and echoes of Lazarus

Interview: Christian Petzold

By Jordan Cronk

February 28, 2018

Regrettably timeless: the filmmaker’s latest, Transit, shows the stark parallels between the Holocaust and the European refugee crisis

Berlin Interview: Alexey German Jr.

By Yonca Talu

February 27, 2018

Leningrad bebop: the Russian filmmaker forges his own darkly comic vision of ’70s Soviet society in Dovlatov

Interview: Katharina Wyss

By Lily Majteles

February 25, 2018

In the spotlight: the director of Sarah Plays a Werewolf talks about getting into the mindspace of a young woman on the verge

Interview: Ildiko Enyedi

By Nicolas Rapold

February 21, 2018

Dream lover: the director of On Body and Soul discusses Freud and casting her Golden Bear–winning romance of loners, screening in Film Comment Selects

Camerimage Interview: Denis Lenoir

By Robert Horton

February 12, 2018

Linger on: the cinematographer who came of age with Olivier Assayas discusses the minutiae of changes that come with shooting and directing digitally

Interview: Valeria Sarmiento

By Jaime Grijalba

February 8, 2018

The missing pieces: Raúl Ruiz’s widow, the filmmaker Valeria Sarmiento, on solving the puzzles of her husband’s unfinished work

Sundance Interview: RaMell Ross

By Eric Hynes

February 1, 2018

Lives in full: the filmmaker on his Oscar-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Camerimage Interview: Dan Laustsen

By Robert Horton

January 18, 2018

No rules, please: the Danish cinematographer behind The Shape of Water and Nightwatch discusses digging into the details