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Interviews

Interview: Ruben Östlund

By Violet Lucca
October 21, 2014
Psych 101: the director of Force Majeure describes his love for YouTube and philosophical debate

Interview: Mathieu Amalric

By David Gregory Lawson
October 13, 2014
The star and director of The Blue Room describes the conscious and unconscious processes of adaptation

Interview: Alice Rohrwacher

By Violet Lucca
October 10, 2014
The director of The Wonders talks about her ineffably lovely family drama and why problems can be a good thing to have

Interview: Abel Ferrara

By Nick Pinkerton
October 3, 2014
The director of NYFF selection Pasolini discusses doing justice to the Italian auteur and the responsibilities of a filmmaker

Interview: Luis López Carrasco

By Nicholas Vroman
October 3, 2014
Party's over: the director of El Futuro speaks about his film and the enduring, false optimism of post-Franco Spain

Interview: Takashi Makino

By Julian Ross
October 3, 2014
The director of 2012, a Projections selection, discusses the limits of abstraction, film versus digital, and the physicality of the live experience

Interview: Debra Granik

By Jared Eisenstat
October 2, 2014
Proud to be an American: the director of NYFF selection Stray Dog and Winter's Bone discusses the changing face of the Ozarks and the heartland

Interview: David Fincher

By Amy Taubin
September 26, 2014
The full online-exclusive Film Comment interview with the director of Gone Girl, Opening Night film of this year’s New York Film Festival

He Said, She Said

By Amy Taubin
September 26, 2014
David Fincher’s Gone Girl puts a dynamic new spin on a venerable genre—the relationship film

Interview: Lawrence Block

By R. Emmet Sweeney
September 12, 2014
Dead on: the crime novelist behind A Walk Among the Tombstones talks about getting adaptations right (and working with Wong Kar Wai)