ScreenAnarchy: Interviews

Beyond Fest Chicago Video Interview: Meiko Kaji, The Legendary Lady Snowblood Herself

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Beyond Fest’s first year here in Chicago went off without a hitch. Sold out screenings brought huge crowds and created instant community amongst Music Box Theater regulars, industry professionals and excited out-of-towners. I experienced this first-hand as I arrived for a scheduled interview with the legendary actress Meiko Kaji, best known for her starring roles in Lady Snowblood (1973) and Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974) as a young woman raised to be an assassin after the murder of her parents in turn of the century Japan. Revered for their combination of elegant composition, ferocious sword play, and fearlessly violent set-pieces these two films were enshrined in the Criterion Collection in 2016. Kaji herself was a primary inspiration for Quentin Tarrantino's...

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FACES OF DEATH Interview: Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei on IP, Censorship, and Horror History

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Turning a maybe not quite beloved but certainly important cult object like 1978's faux-snuff/faux-documentary Faces of Death into a multiplex-friendly narrative film with aspirations of taking on major social media companies is no small endeavor, creatively or culturally. That's part of why it's taken director/co-writer Daniel Goldhaber and co-writer/producer Isa Mazzei's new Faces of Death almost two full years to make its way to public screens after being completed in early 2024. So when I had the chance to sit down with the creatives, there was a lot I was curious about. With Faces of Death in particular, and within the context of their other films, another of which similarly brought a more obscure source to larger audiences, and all of which seek to say...

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THE STRANGER Interview: François Ozon on Existential Authorship and Colonial Visibility

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:02:11 -0500

François Ozon reflects on the artistic and political choices behind his black-and-white adaptation of Albert Camus' canon.

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Visegrad Film Forum 2026 Interview: Uli Hanisch on Production Design as Writing, World-Building from Story and Three Decades with Tom Tykwer

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:02:11 -0500

German production designer Uli Hanisch examines production design as a narrative discipline, tracing how conceptual development, collaboration and logistical execution shape the construction of cinematic worlds.

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Visegrad Film Forum 2026 Interview: Alexander Nanau on Shooting Without a Script, Building Trust, Discovering the Story in the Edit

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:02:10 -0500

Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau examines the working methodology behind his observational documentaries, from character discovery and long-term filming to editing as the primary stage of narrative construction.

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Visegrad Film Forum 2026 Interview: Shane Mahan on In-Camera Creatures, Director-Driven Design, Workshop Craft

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Shane Mahan, creature designer, practical effects supervisor and co-founder of Legacy Effects, offers a rare inside view of contemporary creature effects practice.

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GHOST ELEPHANTS Interview: Werner Herzog and Dr. Steve Boyes Speak of Dreams, Ritual, and the Vast Mondo Wilderness

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Werner Herzog needs no introduction. He has been one of cinema's most fascinating and deliberate risk-takers for over five decades of extraordinary cinema. The enlightenments he discovers through his pursuit of the "ecstatic truth" are often intense and absurd in varying measure. Well into his 80s at this point, he has not slowed down in his filmmaking, and seemed to have no reservations traipsing around the "terra incognito" of the rugged and uninhabited Angolan wilderness along with his current documentary subject, South African biological conservationist Dr. Steve Boyes. Boyes has been an advocate and activist for the preservation of the lakes and flora and fauna of the Bié Plateau in Central Angola. Since 2015, Boyes has led the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, a collection of...

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Berlinale 2026 Interview: IN A WHISPER Director-Writer Leyla Bouzid on Queerness and Her Narrative Approach as a Tunisian Filmmaker

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:02:08 -0500

As a Tunisian queer filmmaker, one must exercise particular care when addressing an issue that remains deeply taboo in society to this day. Yet this does not prevent Leyla Bouzid from boldly portraying the increasingly precarious reality faced by homosexual people within her community. With In a Whisper, she sets the story in her own former family home, revolving around three generations of women who inhabit the same space. During a roundtable discussion near the Berlinale Palast, Bouzid shared her personal perspective on the situation of queer people in Tunisia, as well as her understanding of the characters she created. In this half-suspense, half-drama story, she weaves what she witnessed growing up in a fairly conservative social environment into the fabric of the narrative. Screen Anarchy: Why...

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Berlinale 2026 Interview: QUEEN AT SEA Director Lance Hammer on the Ethical Dilemma of Alzheimer's

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:02:11 -0500

After an 18-year hiatus, Lance Hammer makes a remarkable return to the director’s chair following his Sundance Award–winning debut Ballast. For this long-awaited project, he assembled what he describes as his dream cast, led by Juliette Binoche and the outstanding Anna Calder-Marshall and Tom Courtenay, who jointly received the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at this year’s Berlinale. The film also won the Silver Bear Jury Prize, marking recognition from Wim Wenders’ jury and audiences alike for its sensitive yet uncompromising exploration of Alzheimer’s disease. By depicting sexual behaviour involving an elderly person living with dementia, a subject many may find controversial, Queen at Sea confronts a profound ethical dilemma suspended between desire and vulnerability. The film raises urgent questions about autonomy, dignity, and...

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Watch GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE Video Interview: Director Gore Verbinski

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:02:10 -0500

It was exciting enough to see the new Gore Verbinski film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, months ahead of time at Fantastic Fest 2025. But I was shocked to hear I’d actually scored a face-to-face interview. It underscored for me just how much I love the man’s work. He’s the kind of director who does big mainstream movies about decidedly odd stuff. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was based a theme park ride and introduced one of the most eccentric characters ever. Verbiniski has been all over the genre map leaving solid marks along his path. Mouse Hunt (1997) is a marvelous bit of stunt-laden slapstick that makes great use of stars Nathan Lane, Lee Evans and Christopher Walken. The...

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BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS Interview: Director Yuen Woo-ping on Passing the Baton and Still Learning After Over 50 Years

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:02:12 -0500

There are few filmmaking visionaries whose work has touched more than Yuen Woo-ping. A triple-threat stuntman, choreographer and director, his illustrious career began hand-in-hand with Jackie Chan's, helming the seminal Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master in 1978 and supercharging the Hong Kong film industry with a new brand astonishing martial artistry and bawdy comedy. His eye for high-impact and idiosyncratic fighting styles took him to Hollywood, lending his talents to the Wachowski Sisters' Matrix series and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill diptych, projects which bookended the unprecedented international success of his iconic wirework in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. After a ten-year gap, we at Screen Anarchy were overjoyed to be able to talk to him a second time for the release of his new blockbuster, Blades of the Guardians,...

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WHISTLE Interview: Director Corin Hardy and Screenwriter Owen Egerton

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:02:11 -0500

The crowd at Fantastic Fest last year found Whistle a more than worthy festival closer. True, the film follows the tried-and-true formula of kids in a group fucking around and finding out. But man, does Whistle have fun finding out. Boasting some truly memorable, just godawful kills, this cursed object horror movie puts yet another notch in the belt of both screenwriter Owen Egerton and director Corin Hardy whose previous films The Hallow (2015) and The Nun (2018) made me eager to see this one. My own experience with Hardy’s work started with The Hallow, a chilling folk horror meets family drama. Next, I saw The Nun (2018), a religious based horror film full of atmosphere, an interesting story and the sense that a new...

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Rotterdam 2026 Interview: Guillaume Nicloux Talks About MI AMOR

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:00:02 -0500

The French writer, playwright, professor, actor and director Guillame Nicloux is no stranger to the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In the past 30 years, he visited several times, and his films have often featured in the festival's program. This year he brought a special treat for the festival: the world première of his new thriller Mi Amor, starring Pom Klementieff and Benoît Magimel as a DJ and her employer who are looking for a missing person in the Canary Islands. You can read my positive review here. The day after the première, we met Guillame Nicloux at the press center of the festival for an interview. Note that some mild spoilers for Mi Amor come up in the interview, but nothing too disrupting (I think)....

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: ON FALLING Director Laura Carreira Talks Reframing Social Realism for the Algorithmic Age

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:02:07 -0500

Laura Carreira talks about translating lived research into formal precision, articulating a contemporary vision of social realism shaped by migrant labour, algorithmic control and structural precarity.

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: Liv Ullmann on Cinema as Legacy, Responsibility and the Soul Before the Camera

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:02:07 -0500

On the occasion of receiving the European Lifetime Achievement Award at the 38th European Film Awards, Liv Ullmann reflects on cinema as legacy, moral responsibility and the enduring mystery of performance in a conversation that speaks directly to the ethical and artistic stakes of filmmaking today.

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: Alice Rohrwacher on Cinema as Future Archaeology and the Politics of Experimentation

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:02:07 -0500

Alice Rohrwacher reflects on her collaborative practice, myth-infused realism and the production realities shaping contemporary European auteur cinema.

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SENTIMENTAL VALUE Filmmakers Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt on Intergenerational Cinema, Creative Control, Why European Films Are Winning Again

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt reflect on how long-term collaboration, actor-centered process, and a resolutely European production ethos shaped a film built around time, absence, and the quiet mechanics of family power.

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SIRAT Director Oliver Laxe on Shock Therapy Cinema and Why Films Must Risk the Abyss

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:02:07 -0500

Oliver Laxe talks about fear, faith, and the physical limits he believes cinema must still be willing to cross.

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SOUND OF FALLING Director Mascha Schilinski on Transgenerational Trauma, Radical Subjectivity, Quiet Violence of Memory

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Mascha Schilinski's film moves fluidly across time, perspective, and inner states, positioning itself as a rigorously authored work.

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: RIEFENSTAHL Filmmaker Andres Veiel on Myth, Guilt, Fascist Aesthetics

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:02:07 -0500

Drawing on unprecedented access to Leni Riefenstahl's estate, Andres Veiel reflects on the long ethical labour of archival authorship, the filmmaker's complicity with power, and why confronting fascist imagery requires intellectual proximity rather than historical distance.

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: FRANZ Star Idan Weiss on Becoming Kafka, Rejecting the Biopic Formula, Trusting Agnieszka Holland's Process

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:02:07 -0500

The German actor reflects on the risks of inhabiting an over-mythologised literary figure, the freedoms and uncertainties of a fragmented docu-fiction form, and how performance emerges when authorship, history, and interpretation remain deliberately unresolved.

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Sundance 2026 Interview: BURN Writer-Director Makoto Nagahisa Wants His Sophomore Feature To Affect You

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:02:01 -0500

The 'We Are Little Zombies' director discusses his flammable new feature.

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: ARCO Director Ugo Bienvenu on Imagining the Future, Trusting Children, Avoiding Dystopia

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:32:03 -0500

French filmmaker and graphic novelist Ugo Bienvenu reflects on authorship in animation, the responsibilities of speculative storytelling, and the challenges of sustaining handcrafted cinema within a rapidly shifting global industry.

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: DOG OF GOD Directors Lauris and Raitis Ābele on Adult Animation, Rotoscoping, Blender

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:02:04 -0500

Latvian filmmakers Lauris and Raitis Ābele reflect on the making of their dark, folkloric animated feature, and discuss the creative and production choices behind the project.

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: BUGONIA Production Designer James Price

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:02:02 -0500

James Price talks about how the film's meticulously constructed world, anchored in physical reality, narrative logic, and creative risk, became a decisive element of its unsettling power.

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Rotterdam 2025 Interview: Toshiaki Toyoda

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:00:05 -0500

At the beginning of the year, at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, I interviewed Toshiaki Toyoda about his film Transcending Dimensions, which premiered at the festival. But life got in the way, because as they say, life is what happens when you are making other plans. So very belated, here is the interview with Toyoda, slightly truncated and edited for clarity. Theodoor Steen: So, let's talk about Transcending Dimensions. What ideas did you want to convey with that film? Because there is a lot going on there... Toshiaki Toyoda: I have been a film director for about 30 years. To begin with, I was depicting loads of violence in my films, as you probably know. But then as I started getting older.... then I started...

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Oscars 2026 Interview: 100 LITERS OF GOLD Teemu Nikki on Addiction Without Moralism, Comedy Without Templates, Making a Finnish "Beer Western"

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:02:12 -0500

In this candid Oscars-season conversation, Finnish director Teemu Nikki unpacks the personal roots, genre subversions, and unexpected global momentum behind '100 Liters of Gold', offering a clear-eyed look at how a deeply local story became one of the year's international contenders.

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Camerimage 2025 Interview: SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE Director Scott Cooper and DP Masanobu Takayanagi Talk Defying Expectations

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:02:11 -0500

A biopic about one of the most famous musicians in rock, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere avoids the standard life story formula to focus on the trauma of creating the album Nebraska. With Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, and Jeremy Strong as his manager Jon Landau, the movie pins Nebraska to the singer's troubled childhood relationship with his father Douglas (Stephen Graham). Writer and director Scott Cooper and cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi brought the film for a special screening to the EnergaCAMERIMAGE film festival in Toruń, Poland. The two have collaborated on five features, including Hostiles and The Pale Blue Eye. Cooper also wrote and directed the music-themed Crazy Heat, while Takayanagi shot such films as Silver Linings Playbook and the Oscar-winning Spotlight. ScreenAnarchy: What...

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Tokyo 2025 Interview: THE CHATTERBOXES Director Ken Kawai Discusses Crafting Humor From Language Barriers

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:02:03 -0500

A rising CODA director discusses his charming dramedy of communication errors.

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Golden Horse 2025 Interview: DEAR STRANGER Director Tetsuya Mariko Talks Transnational Filmmaking, New York, and Puppet Theater

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:02:11 -0500

The director of Toei's first English-language feature talks puppets, New York, and transnational dialogues.

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WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS Interview: Director Peter Mettler Talks Life, Death, and Meaningful Cycles

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:02:11 -0500

I sat down with internationally acclaimed Canadian Swiss filmmaker, Peter Mettler, to discuss his latest hybrid documentary, his seven-hour magnum opus, While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts (2025), which enjoyed its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Since then, it’s been a busy time for the filmmaker, what with the subsequent landmark retrospective at TIFF’s Lightbox in October and other screenings already scheduled around the world. The film recently screened over two days at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2025. Currently, the film will be presented in Montréal at RIDM (Montréal International Documentary Festival) in one full marathon screening on November 22 and then will be shown in two parts across November 24 and 25 at Cinéma Public. The public is invited...

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Jihlava 2025 Interview: SUPERHUMANS, Inna Shevchenko Talks Documenting the Body as a Battlefield, Shooting During an Ongoing War

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:02:11 -0500

Inna Shevchenko outlines the development of her feature documentary Superhumans, offering insight into filming inside a Ukrainian prosthetics center during an active war and the creative, ethical, and production challenges that shape the project.

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KING IVORY Interview: Ben Foster, James Badge Dale, and Michael Mando on Neo-Westerns, Playing Family, and Graham Greene

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:32:06 -0500

Peter Martin put it perfectly when he summed up King Ivory with a focus on its three leads in his article on this weekend's new releases: "James Badge Dale, who brings simmering intensity to every role, Ben Foster, who has a great swaggering sneer, and Michael Mando, who was absolutely fantastic in Better Call Saul, lead a crime picture that promises a little something extra." I had the opportunity to talk with those three incredibly talented actors and ask some broad questions about genre and thematic interests, and some more specific questions about King Ivory, which tackles the fentanyl trade's impact on some very different families. You can read our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity. below. ScreenAnarchy: So I know that...

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Video Interview: FREAKED Special Makeup Effects Wizard Bill Corso

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:02:01 -0500

I almost freaked out when I found out I was going to talk to special effects makeup legend Bill Corso. That’s not a pun, although you might think so, given that the interview was in support of Umbrella Entertainment's incredible 4K Box Set of Freaked (1993) which I’ll be reviewing separately. Any self-respecting film fan would freak out a little at the thought. He took home an Academy Award for A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) and he’s worked on almost every Jim Carey movie since. He was also Oscar nominated for both Click (2006) and Foxcatcher (2014). He’s also been a go-to guy for Harrison Ford on multiple occasions. None of this is by accident. Check out his work on The Salton Sea (2002),...

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Jihlava 2025 Interview: MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN, David Borenstein Talks Covert Filmmaking, Collaboration Under Surveillance, and Documenting Russia's Propaganda From the Inside

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:02:03 -0500

Filmmaker David Borenstein discusses the making of his covertly-produced documentary, offering an insider's view of how state propaganda and ideological control have reshaped everyday life in contemporary Russia.

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Jihlava 2025 Interview: TIME TO TARGET, Vitaly Mansky Talks Returning to Lviv, Filming War Beyond the Front Lines, Moral Freedom That Shaped His Cinema

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:02:02 -0500

Vitaly Mansky offers a candid reflection on how war reshapes both personal identity and cinematic truth, revealing the emotional and ethical tensions behind his latest documentary.

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Creature Feature Preacher Interview: THE CREEP TAPES, Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice Talk Friendship and a Sociopath

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:02:11 -0500

Video: The filmmakers talk about their friendship and how that developed into a funny but scary show.

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Morelia 2025 Interview: IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS Directors Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugas on Shooting Their Political Thriller in Secret

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:32:02 -0500

Set in 2017, It Would Be Night in Caracas depicts political upheaval through the eyes of a Venezuelan writer desperate to flee the country. As the city collapses around her, she is threatened by revolutionaries, the police, and paramilitary operatives. Based on a novel by Karina Sainz Borgo, the film was co-directed by longtime filmmaking partners Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugas. Through their Sudaca Films, the two have worked together on a half-dozen films, including Bad Hair (2013) and last year's Zafari. During the Covid pandemic, they were invited to adapt Borgo's novel by the production company Redrum. ScreenAnarchy: How did you come to this project? Marité Ugas: The novel came out in 2019. It was an immediate bestseller and translated into several languages. No...

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Beyond Fest 2025 Interview: Meiko Kaji Talks Scorpion, Snowblood, Stray Cat Rock, and the Refreshing Nature of Wearing a Costume, As Her Career Turns 60

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:02:06 -0500

The Japanese genre film legend speaks with Screen Anarchy for the first time ever.

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Serial Killer Brno 2025: YLE Head of Drama Jarmo Lampela Talks Global Growth, Creative Risk, Future of Finnish TV

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:02:02 -0500

Over 10 years at the helm of YLE Drama, Jarmo Lampela has steered Finnish television from local storytelling to global relevance. In this interview, he reflects on how streaming, co-productions, and creative risk reshaped Finland's drama landscape.

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Serial Killer Brno 2025 Interview: GENERATIONS' Anna Emma Haudal on Ghosts, Inheritance, and Hidden Traumas We Carry

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:02:01 -0500

Anna Emma Haudal unpacks the making of her series, revealing how she transformed a crime framework into a deeply personal exploration of family, shame, and the invisible threads that connect generations.

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Fantasia 2025 Interview: KAKUKAKU SHIKAJIKA, Akiko Higashimura and Mei Nagano Talk Bringing a Mangaka's Autobiographical Work To Screen

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 10:02:10 -0500

A beloved manga artist and her on-screen counterpart discuss the live-action adaptation.

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Toronto 2025 Interview: LOVELY DAY, Philippe Falardeau Talks Adapting Alain Farah's Novel, Visualizing Anxiety, Deconstructing the Wedding Film

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:02:02 -0500

Philippe Falardeau discusses the making of his bold and unconventional adaptation of Alain Farah's autobiographical novel, which reframes the wedding film as a playful yet unsettling exploration of memory, anxiety, and cultural identity.

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MY SUNSHINE Interview: Director Hiroshi Okuyama Talks Isolated Protagonists, Sensitive Gazes, Difficulty in Shooting an Ice Rink

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:02:01 -0500

The filmmaker behind a sensitive and special drama explains the considerations he made to achieve those qualities.

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Toronto 2025 Interview: TO THE VICTORY!, Valentyn Vasyanovych Talks Dystopian Comedy, Wartime Filmmaking, His Lead Role

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:02:12 -0500

Valentyn Vasyanovych discusses the making of his latest film, from stepping in front of the camera to navigating wartime production realities.

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Busan 2025 Interview: HANA KOREA, Frederik Sølberg on Directing Across Cultures, Casting Minha Kim

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:02:10 -0500

Danish filmmaker Frederik Sølberg discusses his fiction debut, an immersive and collaborative drama that bridges documentary sensibilities with narrative cinema to portray the complex realities of North Korean refugees in the South.

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Busan 2025 Interview: ALL GREENS Director Takashi Koyama Talks the High-School Drug-Dealing Dramedy You Didn't Know You Needed

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:02:11 -0500

A lively conversation with the mind behind a daring dramedy at this year's BIFF.

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Confessions of a Creature Feature Preacher Interview: TRAUMATIKA Star Rebekah Kennedy

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:02:01 -0500

Like most horror fans, I became aware of Rebekah Kennedy after seeing her in Two Witches (2021). She possessed her own unique, almost uncanny ability to project a level of menace normally associated with horror heroine royalty. But whereas, for example, Barbara Steele (Black Sunday, 1960) is most famous for embodying characters of pure evil, and Mia Goth (The X Series, 2022-2024) for embodying characters of pure madness, there is an innocence about Kennedy that makes the more obvious comparison Sissy Spacek, particularly in her role as the vulnerable Carrie (1976). In Traumatika (2025), she plays Abigail, an abuse survivor who has been demon possessed yet is still desperate to protect her younger sibling. The tagline for the film “This is not a movie you...

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Toronto 2025 Interview: Shu Qi Talks GIRL, Finding a Film Grammar for Girlhood, and What's Next

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:02:09 -0500

Hong Kong-Taiwanese legend Shu Qi discusses her directorial debut.

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Locarno 2025 Interview: DON'T LET THE SUN Director Jacqueline Zünd Discusses Heat, Humanity, and the Poetics of Minimalism

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:02:12 -0500

Swiss filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd discusses the visual language, thematic layering, and hybrid process behind her fiction debut, offering insights into a future world shaped as much by emotional estrangement as by climate collapse.

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