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Yonca Talu

Cannes Interview: Caroline Champetier

By Yonca Talu
July 13, 2021
All together now: the veteran DoP discusses the painstaking craft behind Cannes sensation Annette

Short Take: The Wild Goose Lake

By Yonca Talu
March 3, 2020
Director Diao Yinan builds an atmosphere of ambiguity and doubt ensures that we perceive danger everywhere and trust no one

Interview: Jan Roelfs

By Yonca Talu
February 14, 2020
Luminous motion: the production designer discusses his long career and work with Peter Greenaway, Sally Potter, and others

Interview: Natasha Braier

By Yonca Talu
February 3, 2020
Darkness and light: the cinematographer of Honey Boy and The Neon Demon discusses her lenswork

Interview: Claire Mathon

By Yonca Talu
January 22, 2020
Depth of field: the cinematographer of 2019 standouts Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Atlantics on her remarkable year

Interview: Agnieszka Holland

By Yonca Talu
December 17, 2019
Truth and consequences: the filmmaker on her latest, Mr. Jones, about a heroic journalist and a brutal state apparatus

Dispatch: Lumière 2019

By Yonca Talu
December 11, 2019
Justice is served: a report from the 11th edition of the Grand Lyon Film Festival

The Big Screen: Little Joe

By Yonca Talu
December 5, 2019

Interview: Burak Çevik

By Yonca Talu
April 1, 2019
Crime and punishment: Belonging, screening April 4 at ND/NF, rises above psychological and moral judgments to navigate the complexity of family history

Interview: Patricia Mazuy

By Yonca Talu
March 7, 2019
Mountain man: the director of Paul Sanchez Is Back! on how the film portrays a microcosm of French society

Interview: Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel

By Yonca Talu
February 7, 2019
Dreaming in dystopia: the duo on their French genre-bender Jessica Forever, screening February 8 in Film Comment Selects

The Big Screen: The Wild Pear Tree

By Yonca Talu
January 28, 2019
Nuri Bilge Ceylan casts his attention onto the trials and tribulations of youth in his latest Chekhovian effort.

Interview: Manuel Alberto Claro

By Yonca Talu
January 22, 2019
Lensing the Apocalypse: the cinematographer describes working on Lars von Trier's last three films, including the recent The House That Jack Built.

Interview: Dick Pope

By Yonca Talu
January 17, 2019
Blood and horses: the British cinematographer on the strategic maneuvers required to shoot Mike Leigh's historical epic Peterloo.

Interview: Bruno Delbonnel

By Yonca Talu
January 2, 2019
Six-shooter: the French cinematographer talks about The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and details his collaboration with Joel and Ethan Coen

Interview: Matty Libatique

By Yonca Talu
December 26, 2018
High speed camera: the cinematographer of A Star Is Born and mother! talks about working with Darren Aronofsky, his inspirations, and more

NYFF Interview: Louis Garrel

By Yonca Talu
October 12, 2018
Three's company: the actor-filmmaker brings the playfulness of the stage to a comedy of manners and existence (and a little love)

Interview: Agnès Godard

By Yonca Talu
August 2, 2018
Close enough to touch: Claire Denis’s frequent cinematographer Agnès Godard reveals how she creates images of such remarkable intimacy

The Space Between Us

By Yonca Talu
April 30, 2018
Claire Denis talks about finding the melody between the notes

Interview: Juliette Binoche

By Yonca Talu
April 26, 2018
Open heart: Juliette Binoche on making the connection in Let the Sunshine In