I was very gratified by the response to last year's interview with Rob Tregenza, a Zelig-like figure of modern cinema. Our very long, multi-Zoom conversation c...
“Do you think people can change?” Ann (Joanna Arnow) asks her long-term dominant Allen (Scott Cohen) toward the beginning of Joanna Arnow’s second feature, The...
Jia Zhang-ke could fairly claim to be the most important filmmaker of his generation; he'd probably be the last person to do so. Audiences tend to scan Jia’s w...
Before we can even get on the record, before that most familiar robot warning of “This meeting is being recorded," Frederick Elmes is swapping stories about Al...
There's little precedent for what George MacKay does in The Beast, a multilingual production that required the English star to learn French for extended sequen...
Léa Seydoux tells me "it may be nicer to have eye contact." Though I was informed our interview would be audio-only––no complaints; time with the most exciting...
This month, Metrograph is running “Novel Encounters: The Films of Lee Chang-dong,” a retrospective of the filmmaker’s career to date. The program includes four...
“We are so excited to have you here and are blown away this is even happening,” I signed off on a hasty call to Coop Vidéo de Montréal, setting up an interview...
Every time I've seen The Beast there comes some point where I think Bertrand Bonello is the world's greatest under-60 filmmaker. Not quite a new stance for me ...
In Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, the Italian writer-director’s fourth narrative feature film, the past melds with the present. Art is something to be dug up, ...
