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David Gregory Lawson

João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata

By David Gregory Lawson
June 17, 2015
Memory and empire: an interview with the co-directors of The Last Time I Saw Macao about the ghosts that haunt their latest collaboration, IEC Long

Interview: Jessica Hausner

By David Gregory Lawson
March 20, 2015
Through a 19th-century suicide pact, the director of Amour Fou reworks the period picture and plumbs the uncertainty of knowing others

Interview: Mathieu Amalric

By David Gregory Lawson
October 13, 2014
The star and director of The Blue Room describes the conscious and unconscious processes of adaptation

Rep Diary: Two by Richard Linklater

By David Gregory Lawson
September 16, 2014
Outsider art: parsing the similarities between It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books and The Newton Boys

Interview: Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza

By David Gregory Lawson
August 26, 2014
Blindness and redemption, Sicilian style: the directors of Salvo discuss their expressionistic thriller

Interview: Catherine Breillat

By David Gregory Lawson
August 25, 2014
Power, seduction, and lies: Breillat speaks about color, love, and working with Kool Shen in Abuse of Weakness

Interview: Bong Joon Ho

By David Gregory Lawson
June 27, 2014
First class: the director of Snowpiercer and The Host explains how to achieve a heady mix of violence and social commentary

ND/NF Interview: Jessica Oreck

By David Gregory Lawson
March 24, 2014
Into the woods: the director of The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga discusses her visually sumptuous exploration of the past inside the present

Interview: Denis Villeneuve

By David Gregory Lawson
February 26, 2014
From Bourgeois to Hitchcock: the director of Enemy speaks about mothers, discomfort, and the fantastique

Rep Diary: Je t’aime, je t’aime

By David Gregory Lawson
February 19, 2014
The tyranny of memory: Alain Resnais's tale of time travel and romance gone awry

Notebook: The Unity of All Things

By David Gregory Lawson
January 14, 2014
Love in the time of collider: Alexander Carver and Daniel Schmidt’s heady experimental debut feature unfolds mostly at an underground particle accelerator

Rep Diary: Cousin Jules

By David Gregory Lawson
December 2, 2013
Action movie: Dominique Benicheti’s 1973 documentary records the rhythms of country life

Review: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here

By David Gregory Lawson
November 13, 2013
The long dark night of the Soviet soul—in Kabakov 3D

Interview: Paolo Sorrentino

By David Gregory Lawson
November 4, 2013
The director of The Great Beauty speaks about coming to terms with the past and his distinctive brand of humor

View Finder: Pierre Lhomme on Le Joli Mai

By David Gregory Lawson
September 19, 2013
The exceptional cinematographer remembers Chris Marker and a vérité revolution

Review: Blue Caprice & A Teacher

By David Gregory Lawson
September 4, 2013
Shot in the back: two studies of taboos, one aesthetic

Review: The Last Christeros

By David Gregory Lawson
August 30, 2013
Men of God and the land in post-revolutionary Mexico

Seventies Pick: The White Dawn

By David Gregory Lawson
August 22, 2013
(Warner Archive, $18.95)

Rep Diary: Cinema of Resistance

By David Gregory Lawson
August 22, 2013
Revolutionary films from yesterday and today

Review: The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear

By David Gregory Lawson
August 5, 2013
Tales of despair and hope in a former Soviet republic