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“We did a real séance on Zoom”: Rob Savage on video call horror Host
Director Rob Savage explains how he made his timely Zoom-based horror under the constraints of lockdown.
By John Bleasdale
Expanding realities: An interview with Ulrich Schrauth, the man behind the LFF’s XR and immersive programme
Expanding realities: An interview with Ulrich Schrauth, the man behind the LFF’s XR and immersive programme“This is a story about people trying to get their freedom”: Channing Godfrey Peoples on her debut feature Miss Juneteenth
By Jourdain Searles
“Foreigners in a foreign land, finding a sense of hope”: Hong Khaou on Monsoon
By Devika Girish
“People can justify awful things through their faith”: Antonio Campos on The Devil All the Time
By Philip Concannon
“Alan Moore pushed me to think less about the killer and more about the spirit of the times”: Bong Joon Ho on Memories of Murder
By Tony Rayns
“I don’t know how anyone could feel secure in the world as it is right now”: an interview with Charlie Kaufman
By Jonathan Romney
Mathieu Kassovitz on La Haine: “I made the movie because kids die”
By Kaleem Aftab
Ladj Ly on Les Misérables: “Film is a tool. It changes things.”
By Elena Lazic
Walkabout – Half a century on, Luc Roeg remembers the outback shoot
By Elena Lazic
She Dies Tomorrow: Amy Seimetz on her timely contagion film
By Josh Slater-Williams
“I’m drawn to survivors”: Francis Lee on Ammonite
By Isabel Stevens
The misfit-education of Michaela Coel
By Gaylene Gould
Racism in the UK film industry: what needs to change, and who needs to change it?
By Naomi Obeng
Bringing up baby: Hosoda Mamoru on Mirai
By Nick Bradshaw
Bringing up baby: Hosoda Mamoru on Mirai
By Nick Bradshaw
Meet whiplash Wilder: Billy Wilder interviewed in 1967
By Charles Higham
“It’s about a love between mother and daughter”: Alice Winocour on Proxima and making space for mothers
“It’s about a love between mother and daughter”: Alice Winocour on Proxima and making space for mothersA man for all seasons: Fritz Lang interviewed in 1967
By Axel Madsen
The outsider: Claire Oakley on her Cornish caravan park thriller Make Up
By Nikki Baughan
About bloody time: Saint Frances is a comedy tackling tired taboos about female experience
By Nikki Baughan
“Memory is the only raw material we can turn to”: the Black Audio Film Collective on creating a Black cinema
By Julian Petley
“We have to study you in order to survive”: Horace Ové on Black and White Britain
By Sylvia Paskin
How we animated Luis Buñuel – The making of Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
By Kambole Campbell
“Everybody lives differently”: Debbie Tucker Green on Second Coming
By Ashley Clark
Bringing up baby: Hosoda Mamoru on Mirai
By Nick Bradshaw
Earl Cameron remembers his debut in Ealing’s Pool of London
By Philip Kemp
“The audience has to believe that toughness”: Gina Prince-Bythwood on The Old Guard’s female-centred action
By Hanna Flint