Interviews

Interview: Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe

By Jordan Cronk

May 29, 2019

I’ll be your mirror: the director and his frequent lead on Tommaso, an auto-fiction set in Rome

Interview: Adèle Haenel

By Nicolas Rapold

May 24, 2019

Flaming creature: the star of three Cannes standouts, including Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Woman on Fire, on her ability to inhabit diverse characters

Interview: Mati Diop

By Eric Hynes

May 22, 2019

Crossing over: the director on her debut feature Atlantics, a love story haunted by the failures of the global economy

Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

By Ela Bittencourt

May 21, 2019

Country life: The directors of Bacurau on how the film‘s setting in Brazil’s wild backcountry informed their blistering portrait of resistance

Cannes Interview: Jim Jarmusch

By Amy Taubin

May 14, 2019

Eternal return: the director of Cannes-opener The Dead Don’t Die on his postmodern zombie flick

Interview: José Celestino Campusano

By Jordan Cronk

May 9, 2019

Rough necks: the Argentine filmmaker on how the personal and the political inform his new Men of Hard Skin

Interview: Juliet Taylor

By Michael Sragow

May 2, 2019

Woman of character: the legendary casting director on how her knack for sensing potential remained constant over her 50-year career

Directions: New Haunts

By Jonathan Romney

May 1, 2019

Stray Dogs master Tsai Ming-liang pushes into the virtual realm and the great beyond

Interview: Nina Menkes

By Jordan Cronk

April 25, 2019

Wheel of fortune: The 1991 Queen of Diamonds, at BAM April 26, proceeds in a deceptively complex, elliptical fashion

Interview: Peter Strickland

By José Teodoro

April 25, 2019

Off the rack: In Fabric tracks a haunted dress purchased at a department store filled with eerily persuasive salespeople