Tag: Foreign Films Interview
Interview: Samuel Maoz – Foxtrot
It's been almost a full decade since Venice Golden Lion 2009's Lebanon (check out our 2009 interview), so it was with considerable anticipation and curiosity as...
Interview: Mani Haghighi – Pig | 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival
A thematic combination of his two last works A Dragon Arrives! (2016) and 50 Kilos of Sour Cherries (2016), Mani Haghighi's latest film follows the...
Interview: Bavo Defurne & Yves Verbraeken – Souvenir
We met with director Bavo Defurne and screenwriter Yves Verbraeken following the premiere of their sophomore collaboration Souvenir at the Toronto International Film Festival...
Interview: Lav Diaz – Season of the Devil (Ang Panahon ng Halimaw)
Economically shot by this auteur's standards (half the length of 2016's A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery), Lav Diaz's just under four opus cleverly...
Interview: Andrey Zvyagintsev – Loveless
A master of complex family dramas, with Andrey Zvyagintsev's latest we are witness to abandonment and neglect via an intense investigation of the family torn apart...
Interview: Joachim Trier – Thelma
Not unlike the festival strategy unveiling for Reprise back in 2006, the Toronto International Film Festival was the lieu for the North American premiere to...
Interview: Ruben Östlund (The Square)
This weekend, Magnolia Pictures release Swedish auteur Ruben Östlund's latest film, The Square. Winner of this year's Palme d'Or at the 70th Cannes Film...
Interview: Jesse Noah Klein (We’re Still Together)
"in finding each other, they begin to learn over the course of the film, how it is they should be communicating..." - Jesse Noah...
Interview: Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama)
We sat down with Bertrand Bonello shortly after the North American premiere of his controversial new film Nocturama, which competed at the 2016 Toronto...
Interview: Amat Escalante (The Untamed)
After three features steeped in what would could describe as hyperrealism, Amat Escalante makes a slight deviation, introducing towards fantastical elements in his fourth feature film....
Interview: Isabelle Huppert – Paul Verhoeven’s Elle
There’s never been a performer quite like Isabelle Huppert, the elusive and enigmatic center of auteur art-house cinema since she broke out in 1977...
Interview: Anne Fontaine (The Innocents)
I sat down with Anne Fontaine shortly after her latest film, The Innocents (formerly “Agnus Dei”) premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The increasingly...
Interview: László Nemes & Géza Röhrig (Son of Saul)
Jacques Audiard's Dheepan might have claimed Cannes most coveted prize, but the Palme d'Or moment belongs to Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes. Truly a groundbreaking...
Video Interview: Nina Hoss (Christian Petzold’s Phoenix)
I sat down with Nina Hoss after the premiere of her new film Phoenix at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Her sixth collaboration...
Video Interview: Fabrice Du Welz – Alleluia
We sat with Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, where his latest feature, Alleluia, played in the Vanguard line-up...
Video Interview: Mia Hansen-Løve – Eden
The morning after the world premiere of Eden at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, I arrived at a bar not yet open, located just...
Video Interview: Olivier Assayas – Clouds of Sils Maria
Though director Olivier Assayas' latest project, Idol's Eye, looks to have been shelved due to funding issues, his film Clouds of Sils Maria is...
Video Interview: Lisandro Alonso & Viggo Mortensen (Jauja)
Lisandro Alonso and Viggo Mortensen are oddly like magnets - figures that on one side might resist one another, yet on the opposite sides...
Video Interview: Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure)
I'd argue that he was a mostly known as a film festival favorite yet art-house oddity entity beforehand, which is certainly is no longer...
Interview: Hossein Amini (The Two Faces of January)
Continuing in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith's set of globetrotters and vacationing daytrippers who dip their toes not only in foreign backdrops, but in...
Interview: George MacKay (Duane Hopkins’ Bypass)
It has been a rather long, almost interminable wait, but finally, Duane Hopkins' sophomore feature will finally be making its world premiere debut at...
Video Interview: Marco Bellocchio (Dormant Beauty)
Like most of his contemporaries making their first films in Italy during the 1960s, director Marco Bellocchio has been telling stories rich in social...
Chainsaws & Drumsticks: Interview with the Quinzaine’s Edouard Waintrop
What first caught my attention when Edouard Waintrop announced the make-up of the 46th edition of the Directors' Fortnight (also known as La Quinzaine)...
Interview: Atiq Rahimi (The Patience Stone)
French based Afghan novelist turned director Atiq Rahimi adapted his second novel for the screen which puts him in a small circle of authors...
Interview: Ziad Doueiri (The Attack)
Lebanese writer/director Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut - '98, Lila Says- '04) finally returns behind the camera for his third feature, an adaptation of the...
Interview: Alejandro Landes (Porfirio)
Every year, about a week after Cannes' Competition and Un Certain Regard line-ups are unveiled, the Directors Fortnight throws down a list of another...
Interview: Yorgos Lanthimos – ALPS
"When the end is here the ALPS are near." Concluding my trio of interviews with the folks from ALPS, we have acclaimed co-writer/director Yorgos...
Interview: Ariane Labed – ALPS
We can note that it wasn’t too shabby a year for Ariane Labed. The French non-actress barely spoke the Greek language when she won...
Interview: Aggeliki Papoulia – ALPS
First introduced to international auds as the eldest daughter in Yorgos Lanthimos’ freakshow family portrait known as Dogtooth (2009), Aggeliki Papoulia returns to the...
Interview: Gaspar Noe – Enter the Void
Noe’s subjective camera spends much of the first half in the hands of Oscar, while we watch the world through his eyes, and the second half of the film overhead, racing through hundreds of rooms with masked cuts. It lends an incomparable theatricality to the experience.
Interview: Paz de la Huerta and Nathaniel Brown – Enter the Void
Clearly good friends, their relationship in real life seems to reflect their relationship in the film. They are brother and sister, however, this is a Gaspar Noe film, so there’s always something a little off. Their very close relationship is mired by the tension of implied incestuous feelings throughout, even though those feelings are never consummated.
