Interviews

By Carlos Reviriego

October 22, 2019

Life and how to live it: the director of Pain and Glory on autobiography, drug use, nostalgia, and more

By Jordan Cronk

October 17, 2019

In space and time: the experimental filmmaker on building his own cameras, the politics of light, and cinema’s uneasy standing within the art world

By Ela Bittencourt

October 15, 2019

In the dark: The Cave tells the story of an extraordinary woman doctor caring for a besieged community in southwestern Syria

By Jordan Cronk

October 8, 2019

Read an excerpt from a forthcoming interview with the director of Vitalina Varela, one of the most acclaimed films of the year

By Ela Bittencourt

October 7, 2019

Lean times: the director of Beanpole on the use of color and the influence of literature on his NYFF standout

By Jordan Cronk

October 7, 2019

Romanian puzzler Corneliu Porumboiu delights in deceit with the island crime yarn The Whistlers, screening at NYFF

By Laura Davis

October 3, 2019

Lost in space: a collage of archival material and improvisatory camerawork, The Tree House articulates a sense of longing from a place of exile

By Jordan Cronk

September 30, 2019

The director of Synonyms looks within to portray the essence of the outlier

By Amy Taubin

September 27, 2019

Read an excerpt from an forthcoming interview with the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, one of the most anticipated films of the year

By Devika Girish

September 18, 2019

Here, there, and everywhere: the director of Terminal Sud discusses the universal resonances of his elliptical French-Algerian thriller