Interviews

House of the Spirits

By Jordan Cronk

January 6, 2020

Pedro Costa returns with the masterful Vitalina Varela—quite possibly the most beautiful film of 2020

Interview: Agnieszka Holland

By Yonca Talu

December 17, 2019

Truth and consequences: the filmmaker on her latest, Mr. Jones, about a heroic journalist and a brutal state apparatus

Highway 61 Revisited: Robert Frank

By Marlaine Glicksman

December 10, 2019

In this extensive 1987 interview, the late photographer and filmmaker explores the backroads of art and cinema

Interview: Céline Sciamma

By Amy Taubin

December 4, 2019

Here’s looking at you: the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire on the path of love and restoring lost histories

Interview: Shannon Murphy

By Nicolas Rapold

November 18, 2019

Incisive moments: the director on her Venice standout Babyteeth, an electric debut feature

Interview: Rodrigo Prieto

By Nicolas Rapold

November 12, 2019

Family affair: the cinematographer on his approach to Scorsese’s The Irishman, a film at once epic and intimate

Interview: Gene Hackman

By Beverly Walker

November 12, 2019

In this 1988 interview, the actor speaks at length on his remarkable career

Interview: Mengqi Zhang

By Becca Voelcker

November 4, 2019

From a distance: the director of Self-Portrait: Window in 47 KM on her series of films documenting life in rural China

Life’s Work

By Devika Girish

November 1, 2019

Greta Gerwig’s energetic tour-de-force adaptation of Little Women frames the aspirations of Jo and her sisters as urgent matters of personal independence

Interview: Jessica Sarah Rinland

By Jordan Cronk

October 28, 2019

Copy that: the artist and director on her aesthetically intoxicating new film Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another