Interviews

Cannes Interview: Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt

By Jordan Cronk

May 17, 2018

Puppy love: the co-directors of post-postmodern digital satire Diamantino—now screening in NYFF—probe desire, family, and football

Interview: Sergei Loznitsa

By Eric Hynes

May 16, 2018

Normalization: the director of Donbass discusses exploring the border of fiction and documentary in the Ukrainian conflict

Interview: Luise Donschen

By James Lattimer

May 3, 2018

To desire differently: the director of Casanova Gene discusses her free-form essay film and working with Malkovich

Interview: Alan Rudolph

By Margaret Barton-Fumo

May 2, 2018

Music for the masses: the jazz-influenced director who studied under Altman looks back and discusses his first film in 15 years, Ray Meets Helen

Interview: Ari Aster

By Michael Koresky

May 1, 2018

In the blood: the writer/director of Hereditary discusses the influences on his family-centric horror

Interview: Helen Mirren

By Ella Taylor

April 30, 2018

Time is on her side: the actress who defined The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Tempest, and many other films discusses her favorite roles and the nascent wave of female empowerment

The Space Between Us

By Yonca Talu

April 30, 2018

Claire Denis talks about finding the melody between the notes

Interview: Juliette Binoche

By Yonca Talu

April 26, 2018

Open heart: Juliette Binoche on making the connection in Let the Sunshine In

Interview: Tamer El Said

By Matt Morrison

April 19, 2018

The Square: the director of In the Last Days of the City retraces the long road to completing his personal Cairo chronicle of a filmmaker

Interview: Barbet Schroeder

By Devika Girish

April 18, 2018

Genocide in Myanmar: as the persecution continues, a look back at The Venerable W. which portrays a Buddhist leader of violence against Rohingya Muslims