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Interviews

Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer

By Nicolas Rapold
July 15, 2013
“What are you doing making a film about genocide if it’s not really disturbing?”

Interview: Sophie Letourneur

By Emma Myers
July 15, 2013
Deglamorizing the high-pressure, high-culture festival circuit, one bite at a time

The Noise Factor

By Larry Gross
July 10, 2013
Paul Schrader! Bret Easton Ellis! Lindsay Lohan! James Deen! Embracing the new economics of the digital age, a veteran writer-director goes DIY to create a vision of modernity’s moral emptiness

Interview: Paul Schrader

By Richard Thompson
July 3, 2013
The screenwriter on his breakout film, Taxi Driver

Interview: Xavier Dolan

By Emma Myers
June 24, 2013
Xavier Dolan parses the term "Dolan-esque" and reveals which of his movies he bought on iTunes (because he couldn't find the DVD)

Interview: Matías Piñeiro

By Jonathan Robbins
June 23, 2013
The director of Viola talks about working with friends, the women who pay him with sandwiches, and subtitles

Interview: Marco Bellocchio

By Max Nelson
June 12, 2013
The acclaimed director of Dormant Beauty, Fists in the Pocket, and Vincere discusses faith and the question of judgment in his work

Interview: Peter Strickland

By Violet Lucca
June 4, 2013
Inside the world of Berberian Sound Studio with its film- and music-besotted director

Gin-Soaked Boy

By Chris Hodenfield
May 30, 2013
Charles Bukowski interviewed by Chris Hodenfield

Interview: Jason Osder

By Nicolas Rapold
May 6, 2013
The past in present tense: uncovering the devastating clash between a militant group and Philadelphia police