Christian Petzold on Afire, Subverting the Summer Movie, and Twin Peaks
It’s February morning in Berlin. “I’m a little out of consciousness,” Christian Petzold explains, a tad frazzled but keen to talk––and Petzold likes to talk. H...
Interviews
Lucrecia Martel on Her Brush with the MCU, Awarding Joker, and Her Upcoming Javier Chocobar Documentary
It's a crisp morning in Nyon and Lucrecia Martel is going off on one. “To arrive at a meaning you need a sentence, so that is the word order," she begins, her ...
Living with Ghosts: Alice Winocour on Revoir Paris, David Cronenberg, and Reconstructing Memories
Picking up the pieces of her life after a terrorist attack in Paris, Mia (Virginie Efira, in a César-winning performance) attempts to reconcile fragmented memo...
Robert Yeoman on Asteroid City, Embracing the Sun, and AI-Generated Wes Anderson Parodies
As both his first western and first time with sci-fi, there's never been an entry into either genre that looks quite like what Wes Anderson conjured with Aster...
Anton Corbijn on Capturing the Art Behind the Greatest Album Covers of All-Time
Having been responsible for some of the most iconic photographs since he picked up a camera nearly five decades ago, Anton Corbijn seamless transition to music...
Pietro Marcello on Scarlet, Being Inspired by Classical Cinema, and Making a Film with Love
As filmmaking gets further relegated to smaller screens, it's a breath of fresh air to have a director like Pietro Marcello crafting cinema that is best experi...
Blue Jean Director Georgia Oakley on Kelly Reichardt’s Simplicity and the Everyday Erosion of LGBTQ+ Acceptance
One of the year's most accomplished directorial debuts, Georgia Oakley’s deeply felt, grounded drama Blue Jean is set in 1988 England amidst Margaret Thatcher’...
Past Lives Director Celine Song on Choosing Your Home and the Contradictions of Time
Past Lives is a human story. The debut from playwright-turned-director Celine Song, the drama encompasses 24 years of a relationship between Nora (Greta Lee) a...
You Can’t Meditate High: Abel Ferrara on Spiritual Transformation, the State of Humanity, and Padre Pio
Even having interviewed Abel Ferrara a decade ago on the occasion of Ms. 45's re-release, an opportunity to speak with the legend still felt exciting, and bord...
Unpacking David Lynch’s Life-Long Obsession with The Wizard of Oz
"The Wizard of Oz is a film with very great power... And it’s to be expected that it has stayed with us for the past several years and that we find its echoes ...