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Interviews

The Film Comment Podcast: Joanna Hogg & Honor Swinton Byrne on The Souvenir Part II

By Film Comment
October 1, 2021
All the world’s a set: the British filmmaker and her star join to discuss the second entry in their remarkable two-part saga of meta-autofiction

The Film Comment Podcast: Terence Davies on Benediction

By Devika Girish
September 14, 2021
Love is war: the British master discusses art, beauty, eternity, and his new film, an impressionistic biopic of poet Siegfried Sassoon

Interview: Tsai Ming-liang

By Devika Girish
August 16, 2021
Forking paths: the Taiwanese auteur discusses his latest, Days, a film that trembles with the simple pleasure and release of human touch

Cannes Interview: Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro

By Jordan Cronk
July 26, 2021
Three's company: the directors of The Tsugua Diaries discuss their playful and profound account of pandemic life

Cannes Interview: Kirill Serebrennikov

By Jordan Cronk
July 19, 2021
Sick of it all: the Russian director of the phantasmagorical Petrov’s Flu on virtuoso long takes, his background in theater, and making films under house arrest

Cannes Interview: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

By Carlos Valladares
July 16, 2021
Baby, can’t you see: the director discusses his two 2021 festival standouts Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Cannes Interview: Caroline Champetier

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

The Film Comment Podcast: New Red Order

By Devika Girish
June 22, 2021
Home of the free: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys discuss their “public secret society” and its new exhibit, which questions our relationships to indigeneity

Beyond Representation: An Interview with Genevieve Yue

By Mackenzie Lukenbill
June 14, 2021
Hidden pattern: Yue discusses her book Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality, which explores the material erasure of women in cinema

Interview: Andrew Litvack

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
May 8, 2020
More than words: the subtitler of Godard, Assayas, and others talks about the process in this accompaniment to our May-June 2020 Art and Craft article