Interviews

Interview: Patrick Wang

June 23, 2015

The director of The Grief of Others and In the Family discusses the trauma of loss and how acting in the fringe shaped his filmmaking

Interview: Mia Hansen-Løve

By Nicolas Rapold

June 22, 2015

Dance hall days: the director of Eden discusses collaborating with her brother and how she found the beat for her nocturnal characters

Interview: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

By Emma Myers

June 19, 2015

Silent killers: the Ukrainian director of The Tribe explains the mechanics behind his debut feature about a teenage deaf mafia

Interview: Laurent Bécue-Renard

By Erin Delaney

June 17, 2015

The best years of their lives: the director of Of Men and War discusses capturing the heartrending stories of veterans experiencing PTSD

Interview: Sebastian Silva

By Emma Myers

June 12, 2015

Loathe thy neighbor: the controversial Sundance film that involves performance art, gentrification, and artificial insemination

Interview: Mia Wasikowska

By Nick Davis

June 9, 2015

The Wasikowska Way: the Madame Bovary actress discusses literary heroines and working in indies

Interview: Thom Andersen

By Nick Pinkerton

June 4, 2015

The scholar and director discusses his most recent essay films, Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams and The Thoughts That Once We Had

Cannes Interview: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

By Nicolas Rapold

June 1, 2015

The power of nightmares: the Thai filmmaker’s latest, Cemetery of Splendour, hints at painful history as it plumbs the unconscious

Interview: Josh & Benny Safdie

By Dan Sullivan

May 26, 2015

Volatile spirits: the directors of NYFF selection Heaven Knows What and Daddy Longlegs discuss the intricate role of actors in their writing process

Interview: Martín Rejtman

By Violet Lucca

May 13, 2015

The director of Two Shots Fired and The Magic Gloves discusses his films and aural fixation