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From the Sight and Sound archive
A man for all seasons: Fritz Lang interviewed in 1967
By Axel Madsen
A man for all seasons: Fritz Lang interviewed in 1967
The NHS at 75
Making films for the NHS: the story behind the Hugh Laurie and Imelda Staunton training film The Strange Case of Penny Allison
By Patrick Russell
Interviews
Joanna Hogg in the hall of ghosts: “In the evenings, we’d sit there with the fire roaring and watch films”
By Sam Wigley
From the Sight and Sound archive
Nowhere to hide: Todd Haynes on [Safe]
By Amy Taubin
Interviews
The rituals of a life watching films: Jeremy Cooper on his novel Brian
By Adam Scovell
Interviews
“It’s a film about what’s kept in the body forever”: The Eternal Memory director Maite Alberdi on dementia, love and Chile’s dark history
By Georgia Korossi
From the Sight and Sound archive
“If you want to call yourself a composer, you follow every step of the instrumentation:” Ennio Morricone interviewed in 2006
By Guido Bonsaver
Interviews
Fingernails: director Christos Nikou on modern dating and his Black Mirror-style love-test drama
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
“In season, Malia is carnage”: Molly Manning Walker on How To Have Sex
By Rachel Pronger
Interviews
“It’s an examination of untruth, and he is our guide”: Errol Morris on John le Carré and The Pigeon Tunnel
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
“We are the killers, and we have to understand that”: Martin Scorsese on Killers of the Flower Moon
By Philip Horne
Interviews
“Extended realities can change how you look at the world”: Ulrich Schrauth on LFF Expanded
By Georgia Korossi
Black Film Bulletin
BFB archive revisted: Ousmane Sembene on the State of African Cinema
BFB archive revisted: Ousmane Sembene on the State of African CinemaFestivals
Fallen Leaves star Alma Pöysti on working with Aki Kaurismäki: “Everyone was surprised he made this movie”
By Leigh Singer
Interviews
Occupied City: Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter on their chronicle of Amsterdam during wartime
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Pat Collins on his John McGahern adaptation That They May Face the Rising Sun
By Georgia Korossi
Interviews
Gareth Edwards on his futuristic AI war film The Creator: “You’re always looking for that thing that’s not been done in science fiction. The little gap on the Blu-ray shelf”
By Lou Thomas
World of influence
Cult classic, not bestseller: favourite film noirs with The Streets star Mike Skinner
By Sam Wigley
Interviews
Talking with Tim Burton: “I’m like a vampire. I’ve been killed and resuscitated many times”
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
“If I drop dead now and I want to speak to you, I’ll probably appear in your Whatsapp”: Kwesi Owusu on his 1990s Afrofuturist film Ama
By Kevin Le Gendre
Interviews
Koji Fukada on his family drama Love Life: “If you have a deaf character in a film, the chances are they’re pure and angelic”
By Josh Slater-Williams
Interviews
“It was always destined to be a Ken Russell head-trip”: screenwriter Stephen Volk remembers Gothic, his psychotropic tale of the Romantics
By Adam Scovell
Interviews
Charlotte Regan on Scrapper: “I’d love to see more working-class films that are happier”
By Lou Thomas
From the Sight and Sound archive
“My life, my sexual identity, is as a feminist, but my films don’t fit easily into that category”: Bette Gordon on Variety in 1984
By Bette Gordon
From the Sight and Sound archive
Naked miracles: Lars von Trier on Breaking the Waves
By Stig Björkman
Interviews
“Talk to Me is a bit of an ouija board. It’s connected to the dead”
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
A neglected jazz movie classic: Larry Clark looks back on Passing Through and the LA Rebellion movement
By Kevin Le Gendre