Interviews

Interview: Patrick Wang

By Steven Mears

November 20, 2018

Feast and famine: the director of A Bread Factory and The Grief of Others talks about his richly conceived works, self-distribution, Tyne Daly, independent film, and more

Directions: Claude Lanzmann

By Eric Hynes

November 9, 2018

The late filmmaker resisted reducing the totality of experience, or of cinema

Interview: Zoe Kazan

By Nicolas Rapold

November 8, 2018

O, pioneer: the actor talks about starring in Joel and Ethan Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and elucidates the nuances of their tragicomic style

Flow Through Me

By Amy Taubin

November 1, 2018

Willem Dafoe on his Oscar-nominated performance as Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate

Interview: Lee Chang-dong

By Dennis Lim

October 25, 2018

Vast carelessness: the Korean director's beguiling drama of lives led astray will be the one to endure from this year's edition of the festival

Interview: Paul Greengrass

By Nicolas Rapold

October 6, 2018

Fighting for our lives: the director of Norway terror attack docudrama 22 July expounds upon realism in dire times

NYFF Interview: Sky Hopinka

By Becca Voelcker

October 5, 2018

Personal journeys: the filmmaker discusses the language of travel and landscape in works like Fainting Spells, screening in the New York Film Festival

Me Time

By Devika Girish

September 24, 2018

Burning star Steven Yeun finds himself anew on screen

Interview: Jeanne Balibar

By Joan Dupont

September 13, 2018

The voice: the French star of Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara comes to New York for a series at FIAF and Anthology

Interview: Mahmoud Kalari

By Godfrey Cheshire

September 12, 2018

The illusionist: the era-spanning cinematographer shot films for Iran’s greatest auteurs, including Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Mehrjui, and Panahi