Interviews

Institutional critique: the great director, known for his nonfiction work, dissects married life in his new narrative feature based on the journals of Sophia Tolstoy

Old school: the great action director talks about his latest, and the way in which the “elegant simplicity” of the western provides “primal fodder for a filmmaker”

Tick-tock: the Swiss director discusses his anti-nostalgic approach to historical narrative, summoning an everyday sense of the past, and the central place of objects in his film, Unrest

Animal spirits: the 84-year-old filmmaker discusses the youthful verve and visual panache of his new, donkey-starring EO

The home and the world: the Iraqi-French director discusses his latest work of docufiction, a simultaneously personal and panoramic portrait of a Lebanon roiled by the pandemic and political crises

Truth claims: the French-Senegalese filmmaker discusses the real-life roots of her fiction debut and what it means to embody universality in a Black woman

It takes two: the Portuguese auteur discusses how his latest, an innuendo-filled sci-fi musical fantasy, parlays past injustices and present-day anxieties into a euphoric vision of the future

Save as: Academy Film Archive preservationist Mark Toscano discusses the unique challenges of restoring experimental films by artists like Stan Brakhage and Barbara Hammer, and more

Wildlife: the Ohio-based artists discuss how their “Feral Domestic" trilogy questions the porous boundaries between homelife and the outside world

Future days: the director discusses his new film, how he gets bodies to speak for themselves, and the role of art in the face of the apocalypse