By Ali Moosavi. I love what I do. It’s not being an actress… it’s being in the moment of work.” If I had to pick half a dozen of cinema’s greatest actresses working today, then Juliette Binoche would undoubtedly be among them. She is just an amazing actress and a […]
“Everything is political”: An Interview with Costa-Gavras
By Yun-hua Chen. Thriller is a way to tell a story about society. Political thrillers are movies about people in a particular situation…. Everything is political.” To celebrate the Greek-French auteur Costa-Gavras’ nearly 60 years of filmmaking, the Locarno Film Festival awarded him with the lifetime achievement award of 2022 […]
A Little Lynch for Fletch: An Interview with Kyle MacLachlan
By Ali Moosavi. I think with movies sometimes whether the movie is good or bad isn’t necessarily the criteria anymore. It becomes about do you want to spend time in the world of that movie.” Kyle MacLachlan’s name will forever be associated with the role of agent Dale Cooper and […]
Facing the Consequences: An Interview with Michael Winterbottom on Eleven Days in May
By Yun-hua Chen. The idea from the beginning was that we wanted to be very simple, as a sort of a memorial for those children that died, and focus on their families, the mothers, brothers and sisters who loved the children, and focus on what they miss about the them […]
US Sport and Its Complexities: Filmmakers Tommy Walker and Ross Hockrow on Kaepernick & America
By Anees Aref. What makes this story one of those things you want to grab a hold of, is that you’re able to utilize sports, which a huge portion of our society spends an extraordinary amount of time diving into. So, if you can use that to bring in the […]
The Ugliness Beneath Beauty: An Interview with Ruben Östlund on Triangle of Sadness (2022)
By Yun-hua Chen. When historians talk about [the fall of the Roman Empire], it was a very slow process at the end of which Rome is not the center of Europe or the center of the world anymore. Slowly power is shifting and going somewhere else, so the end of […]
House of Darkness and the Post-#metoo Vampire Film: A Conversation with Neil LaBute
By John Talbird. I’ve dabbled in Stoker lore a few times. I adapted Dracula for the stage, I worked on a Syfy series called Van Helsing…. So I’ve tried to stretch that myth as many ways as I can and it amazingly can stretch very far as you’ve probably seen […]
Navigating History and Audience: An Interview with Ari Folman on Where is Anne Frank (2021)
By Yun-hua Chen. The biggest challenge was how to portray the last seven months of Anne Frank’s life into images that can be accessible to children without going graphically too deep in terms of what really happened. This is how I found the solution through a lot of parallel visual […]
At a Concentration Camp, Two Women in Love: Magnus Gertten on Nelly & Nadine
By N. Buket Cengiz. “It was a mission that felt almost impossible, which is a good thing for a documentary filmmaker.” Once, Nelly Mousset-Vos is a successful classical singer, and Nadine Hwang, the daughter of the Chinese ambassador to Spain, lives in the bohemian circles in Paris. On the Christmas […]
Finding That Simple Place: An Interview with Katie Holmes on Directing Alone Together
By Matthew Sorrento. It was important to show the true experience of what happened [during the pandemic], which was New York thriving, it seemed, then, all of the sudden, complete shutdown – just disbelief that something like that can happen so quickly to a city that brings so much joy […]