Memory lane: the visionary filmmaker, painter, and musician discusses his remarkable life and career on the occasion of a retrospective of restored films at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Claws of light: the prolific filmmaker discusses the central role played by his family in Philippine film history, his work on seminal films by Lino Brocka and others, and more
Institutional critique: the great director, known for his nonfiction work, dissects married life in his new narrative feature based on the journals of Sophia Tolstoy
Old school: the great action director talks about his latest, and the way in which the “elegant simplicity” of the western provides “primal fodder for a filmmaker”
Tick-tock: the Swiss director discusses his anti-nostalgic approach to historical narrative, summoning an everyday sense of the past, and the central place of objects in his film, Unrest
The home and the world: the Iraqi-French director discusses his latest work of docufiction, a simultaneously personal and panoramic portrait of a Lebanon roiled by the pandemic and political crises
Truth claims: the French-Senegalese filmmaker discusses the real-life roots of her fiction debut and what it means to embody universality in a Black woman
It takes two: the Portuguese auteur discusses how his latest, an innuendo-filled sci-fi musical fantasy, parlays past injustices and present-day anxieties into a euphoric vision of the future
Save as: Academy Film Archive preservationist Mark Toscano discusses the unique challenges of restoring experimental films by artists like Stan Brakhage and Barbara Hammer, and more
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