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Interviews

Interview: Paolo Sorrentino

By David Gregory Lawson
November 4, 2013
The director of The Great Beauty speaks about coming to terms with the past and his distinctive brand of humor

Interview: Nathaniel Dorsky

By Max Nelson
October 15, 2013
Reaching out: a conversation with the empathic director of devotional cinema

Interview: Claire Denis

By Nick Pinkerton
October 10, 2013
The French auteur discusses Bastards, family, and Faulkner

Interview: Jean-Luc Godard

By Gavin Smith
October 7, 2013
Text and image: In this 1996 interview, the filmmaker rambles with purpose through his foundational filmography

Interview: Jia Zhang-ke

By Nicolas Rapold
October 2, 2013
The dauntless Chinese fimmaker explains how the wages of capitalism are avenged in A Touch of Sin

Interview: Harry Dean Stanton and Sophie Huber

By Margaret Barton-Fumo
September 23, 2013
The director and subject of Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction talk music and animals

Interview: Brian De Palma

By Margaret Barton-Fumo
September 3, 2013
The master speaks! Exchanging words with the director of Passion

Interview: Joachim Lafosse

By Emma Myers
July 30, 2013
The director of Our Children dissects the forces behind his story of a mother driven to do the unthinkable

Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer

By Nicolas Rapold
July 15, 2013
“What are you doing making a film about genocide if it’s not really disturbing?”

Interview: Sophie Letourneur

By Emma Myers
July 15, 2013
Deglamorizing the high-pressure, high-culture festival circuit, one bite at a time