We spoke with writer-director Lulu Wang about casting Tzi Ma to act as the fluid connection between Eastern and Western cultures, her unique use of fluorescent light to capture a modern Chinese aesthetic, and the pressure of bringing The Farewell to the competitive film market. ...
We talk with the director, who has proven to be one of the more distinctive voices in American independent filmmaking, about mixing humor and horror in the world of karate....
We discuss why it would be reductionist for Peterloo to have a central character, how the terms freedom and liberty were used in the 19th century, why the United Kingdom still has a monarch, and his relationship to Agnès Varda’s work....
Eight years on from announcing his retirement from filmmaking following the release of The Turin Horse, Hungarian maestro Béla Tarr is keeping busy....
We spoke with Rohrwacher at this year’s New York Film Festival about her third feature film, Lazzaro’s possible God-like nature, acting newcomer Adriano Tardiolo, and the links between slavery and, in the words of William Blake, “mind-forg'd manacles."...
Since his 2006 breakthrough feature The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, anime director Mamoru Hosoda has delighted audiences across barriers of age, gender and nationality with his brightly animated, colorful fantasies....
We talk with the director about the full immersion his crew of three made in the town and the coincidences he happened across that become the film’s most memorable scenes....
