Interviews
Richard Linklater: BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Linklater’s third in the unplanned series is a charmer; the director offers notes on its making.
Lav Diaz: Patiently Seeking Redemption
The maker of Cannes film NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY, talks about taking time in an all-too-impatient world.
Siegel, McGehee, Aprile: WHAT MAISIE KNEW
Six-year-old star Onata Aprile joins David Siegel and Scott McGehee in a discussion of moviemaking, relationships and Henry James.
Ying Liang: WHEN NIGHT FALLS
The embattled Chinese director talks about maternal perspective, personal trauma and the making of a film that the Chinese government doesn’t want you to see.
Amat Escalante, post-BASTARDOS
In competition at Cannes with HELI, Escalante speaks on filmmaking style, sex, death, Carlos Reygadas, painting and the image of illegal immigrants in the U.S.
Contemplating Pen-ek Rataranuang
‘Lonely people tend to like my films a lot. Happy people don’t seem to get my films,’ says the Thai director.
Ashim Ahluwalia on Magic, Re-enacted
With no allegiance to the rules, borders or expectations of moviemaking, Ashim Ahluwalia’s brilliant career path is untraceable.
Raoul Peck, in his Own Voice
‘Stop showing our sadness, our dead bodies,’ says the maker of a documentary on misguided philanthropy for Haiti.
A Year of Dreaming with Damon Packard
‘I will probably die penniless in a gutter lying in a pool of blood, broken glass and broken teeth. Unless it is possible to jump realities.’
François Ozon, IN THE HOUSE
The maverick French director speaks about bridging generational divides, the art of adaptation and his new fourth-wall breaking meta-drama.
The Art of Filmmaking: Les Blank
Bay Area filmmaker Les Blank dies at 77; a 2007 interview celebrates this prolific maker of documentaries on food, music and culture.
