Decline and fall: the French discusses her Palme d’Or–winning feature, which uses courtroom-drama tropes to fashion a dark, witty, and tender dissection of the complexities of romantic and family life
Love in the afternoon: the French filmmaker discusses her return to cinema, the productive tension between realism and expressionism, the art of the sex scene, and much more
Office culture: director Rodrigo Moreno discusses his NYFF61 standout, a matryoshka doll of a movie, crackling with dry humor, about the drudgery of office work
Earth and sky: the director and cinematographer behind the NYFF61 standout discuss their poetic, evocative portrait of a young woman whose story is inextricably linked to a sense of community and place
More please: Arnow’s comedic auto-portrait of a woman adrift in New York City is a moving exploration of romantic and existential indecision, sexual self-expression, humiliation, and the uses of first-person experience in storytelling
Life during wartime: the great documentarian discusses the making of his epic The Battle of Chile, which bore searing witness to the military coup of September 11, 1973
Growth mindset: the director discusses the third and final season of his hit show, blurring of the line between documentary and fiction, and the ongoing series he curated for Anthology Film Archives
Girl talk: the director of the ultra-pink blockbuster discusses imbuing inanimate objects with feeling, balancing cynicism and care, and, of course, irrepressible thoughts of death
Lush life: the director discusses her debut feature, the particularities of portraying Black motherhood, how she eschewed social-realist tropes, and what her (many nonprofessional) actors taught her about empathy
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