Interviews

Interview: Kirill Mikhanovsky and Alice Austen

By Amy Taubin

September 16, 2019

Risky business: the director and screenwriter behind Give Me Liberty on the difficult process of bringing their vision to the screen

Interview: Pablo Larraín

By Nicolas Rapold

September 7, 2019

Volatile in Valparaiso: the Chilean director of Neruda and Jackie discusses his latest, an unpredictable portrait of a dancer who's a force unto herself

Interview: Diao Yinan

By Wang Muyan

September 6, 2019

The director of The Wild Goose Lake philosophizes on the meaning and appeal of crime stories

Interview: Tyler Taormina

By Jordan Cronk

September 5, 2019

While we're young: Tyler Taormina's surburban-set debut comes on like a slightly surreal teen comedy before segueing into something far stranger

Interview: Martin Scorsese

By Harlan Jacobson

August 20, 2019

In this 1988 interview, the director provides an exegesis of his passion project, The Last Temptation of Christ

Interview: Roberto Minervini

By Eric Hynes

August 15, 2019

“Fear is a good thing”: the director of What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? on his powerful new doc

Interview: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

By Devika Girish

August 12, 2019

Family matters: the directors of One Child Nation on the psychological workings—and vestiges—of the decades-long Chinese policy

With Borrowed Eyes: Abbas Kiarostami

By David Sterritt

July 23, 2019

In this interview from 2000, the director discusses The Wind Will Carry Us and his unique form of poetic cinema

Interview: Gu Xiaogang

By Eric Hynes

July 16, 2019

The first-time filmmaker’s Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains has a wide scope, yet feels minutely observed

Interview: Jacques Rivette

By Jonathan Rosenbaum, Lauren Sedofsky, and Gilbert Adair

July 9, 2019

Three critics sat down with the enigmatic filmmaker shortly after the 1974 release of Celine and Julie Go Boating