Interviews

Law of the Land

By Amy Taubin

August 27, 2018

In Ash Is Purest White, in theaters March 15, Jia Zhangke charts how one woman survives and thrives on the criminal margins

Locarno Interview: Virgil Vernier

By Jordan Cronk

August 27, 2018

Utopia is nowhere: the French filmmaker haunts another location with fragmentary character portraits and spiritual anomie in the air

Locarno Interview: Yeo Siew Hua

By Becca Voelcker

August 23, 2018

Imported dreams: the Locarno prize-winner goes beyond the marketably immaculate image of Singapore to visit the neighborhoods of migrant workers

Interview: Issa López

By Paula Mejía

August 20, 2018

Living with the dead: the filmmaker recalls how her magical film, showing in Scary Movies, draws deeply on Mexican culture and memories of grief and loss

Interview: Agnès Godard

By Yonca Talu

August 2, 2018

Close enough to touch: Claire Denis’s frequent cinematographer Agnès Godard reveals how she creates images of such remarkable intimacy

Interview: Radu Jude

By Ela Bittencourt

July 27, 2018

Slow recovery: the Romanian director of Scarred Hearts and Aferim! talks about the lasting wounds of history

Get Me Rewrite

By Nicolas Rapold

July 9, 2018

With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee forcefully corrects the record of American history once again

Interview: Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

By Mark Asch

June 27, 2018

O, hey, pioneers: the directors of Two Plains & a Fancy and L for Leisure talk about intermingling old worlds and new

Interview: Jim McKay

By Amy Taubin

June 26, 2018

Team spirit: an inspiring voice of indie film talks about his New York drama En el Séptimo Día set among immigrant restaurant workers

Interview: Kevin Brownlow

By Michael Sragow

June 14, 2018

Eyewitness news: the pioneering filmmaker and scholar talks about the conundrum of re-creation, doing justice to the silents, and chatting with Kubrick