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Alex Garland on Men, his shapeshifting rural chiller: “All folk horror owes The Wicker Man something”
The director of Ex Machina and Annihilation, Alex Garland is back with a folk horror film for the #MeToo era. We spoke to him about Green Man imagery, body-horror effects and the influence of anime.
By Lou Thomas
Sam Raimi on 20 years of the superhero era: “I think other types of movies will rise again”
By Lou Thomas
‘An outstanding film director and a good European’: an interview with Max Ophüls
By Francis Koval
Vikings don’t cry: Thomas Daneskov on his off-grid comedy Wild Men
By Josh Slater-Williams
“She just set the screen alight”: Laura Wandel on Playground and its child star
By Jonathan Romney
Juho Kuosmanen on his train romance Compartment No. 6: “Smartphones are destroying this kind of journey and the need for other people”
By Greg Wetherall
Slaughterhouse blues: Charles Burnett on Killer of Sheep
By Armond White and Alex Cox
Harry Wootliff on True Things: “I wanted to show a woman who is in touch with her sexuality”
By Nikki Baughan
Sonita Gale on Hostile, her documentary about migrant experience in the UK
By Abiba Coulibaly
Adeel Akhtar on Ali & Ava: “When we think about all the stories we hear about Asian guys from Bradford, that’s not one of them”
By Katherine McLaughlin
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Hope Dickson Leach on her immersive new take on the gothic classic
By Heeyeon Park
Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet: “Extreme violence doesn’t interest me. It doesn’t really provoke”
By Lou Thomas
“You can have all the high-tech processes, but if you haven't a story going for you, it's nothing”: Douglas Trumbull on creating sci-fi classics
By Karen Jaehne
Fred Baillif on La Mif: “Social work is the best film school for storytelling”
By Josh Slater-Williams
Making democracy wait: how a new documentary tackles the toppling statues debate
By Callie Petch and Kelechi Ehenulo
Artificial intelligence and archive film: how The Light Surgeons put a new spin on Japan’s earliest moving images
By Georgia Korossi
Andrea Arnold on Cow: “Sometimes when you’re filmmaking, you get sent gifts from the universe”
By Brogan Morris
“My thoughts on the New Wave are not uplifting”: Truffaut interviewed in 1979
By Don Allen
Boiling Point: Phil Barantini on his one-take restaurant drama
By Lou Thomas
Why the Chinese Visual Festival mattered
By David Somerset
Luca Guadagnino on the future of film
By Thomas Flew
Sofia Coppola on the future of film
By Pamela Hutchinson
Steve McQueen on the future of film
By Kaleem Aftab
Olivia Colman on Bon Jovi, bad holidays and The Lost Daughter
By Lou Thomas
A close encounter with Steven Spielberg
By Richard Combs
Inside Rebel Dykes: the previously untold story of a punk-minded lesbian subculture
By El Hunt