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Interviews (10 posts found)
“I Hate Melodrama In My Own Life”: Tobias Lindholm on “A War”
Piers Marchant interviews Tobias Lindholm, the director of the new film "A War."
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In Conversation: Gregg Turkington
Let’s start with a fact: Gregg Turkington, on the whole, does not enjoy doing interviews. There are innumerable reasons for his position on talking to the press, but it boils down to transparency. In elaborately creating Neil Hamburger — the fictitious stand-u...
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László Nemes and Géza Röhrig
on “Son of Saul”
László Nemes' tour-de-force directorial debut, Son of Saul—which centers on the titular main character’s (Géza Röhrig) quest to bury the body of a dead boy that he claims is his lost son—is a powerful, thoughtful and inspiring representation of the horrors of ...
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Josh Mond on “James White” And The Close-Up’s Comeback
Often, when interviewing talent around the release of a film, you can count on them having settled into a rhythm of call-and-response after fielding questions from the media all day. Not so Josh Mond, writer/director of the new film James White, who told Movie...
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Kent Jones on “Hitchcock/Truffaut” and Opening Up Cinephilia
Kent Jones may be best known as a New York-based film critic and programmer, serving as the editor-at-large of Film Comment for a decade before eventually becoming the director of programming for the New York Film Festival. But Jones' love of cinema has manife...
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The Director of “Mustang” On Its Surprising Inspiration
Set in a remote Northern Turkish village on the cusp of fairy tale, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang explores the suffocating world of five teenage sisters put under house arrest after an indiscretion threatens their chastity in the eyes of the local patriarchy. ...
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Ramin Bahrani on “99 Homes” And Challenging Himself
American independent filmmaker Ramin Bahrani’s past works (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo, etc.) show a keen eye for observing the social problems associated with capitalism. Iranian in origin and with an interest in Iranian cinema, Bahrani’s work show...
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How the Dardennes Inspired John Crowley’s “Brooklyn”
This year’s awards season has already begun ascribing narratives to various directors: Ridley Scott the overdue master, Alejandro G. Iñárritu the brash visionary, Todd Haynes the committed chronicler of marginalized women. And yet, amidst all the noise, a movi...
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Interview: Hou Hsiao-Hsien of “The Assassin”
It has been 8 years since the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien’s last feature (the Paris-set Flight of the Red Balloon, starring Juliette Binoche), but The Assassin shows no lessening of his formidable artistic grip. In its patient long takes, impecca...
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Interview: Davis Guggenheim of “He Named Me Malala”
In just the time from seeing He Named Me Malala at a press screening in early September to talking with director Davis Guggenheim in early October, the documentary has already become more urgent. Certainly, the Syrian refugee crisis calls out for a humane resp...
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