Interviews
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Bird of Dusk and the irreplaceable Rituparno Ghosh: ‘He was trying to stand apart’
Premiering at this year’s London Indian Film Festival, Bird of Dusk celebrates the dazzling but tragically curtailed career of Bengali director Rituparno Ghosh. We spoke with filmmaker Sangeeta Datta about what makes Ghosh’s work so special.
Joseph Walsh
Monday 18 June 2018 -
Memories of making The Piano – 25 years of Jane Campion’s wild, windswept masterpiece
Producer Jan Chapman recalls the rocky road to Oscar and Palme d’Or glory for Jane Campion’s Brontë-esque erotic drama The Piano, set in 1850s New Zealand.
Nikki Baughan
Thursday 14 June 2018 -
How and why the BFI is rewriting the canon for our female-focused month
The BFI’s Head of Cinema and Events, Gaylene Gould, joins season programmers Anna Bogutskaya and Aga Baranowska to talk about the female-focused programming at BFI Southbank this month, planned to celebrate Vote 100.
Wednesday 13 June 2018 -
Andrew Kötting completes his ‘Earthworks’ triology with a story about a Russian boy raised by dogs. He tells Ben Nicholson about moving away from melodrama, collaborating with Iain Sinclair and making up a nonsense language for a film.
Ben Nicholson
Tuesday 5 June 2018 -
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and how to make a mighty dinosaur film
Colin Trevorrow, director of Jurassic World and co-writer and executive producer of its sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, takes us through his six steps for making a roarsome dino adventure.
Lou Thomas
Tuesday 5 June 2018 -
How we made The Truman Show – 20th anniversary
Twenty years after it became a cultural phenomenon, screenwriter Andrew Niccol remembers his inspiration behind the Jim Carrey classic – and reveals The Truman Show that could have been.
Lou Thomas
Thursday 31 May 2018 -
Lucrecia Martel on time and Zama – ‘Many shots are not what you expect’
Sound and vision make the past feel like science fiction in the new film from Lucrecia Martel, an intoxicating period drama set in colonial South America. Here Martel explains her use of time, and what makes Zama tick.
Georgia Korossi
Thursday 24 May 2018 -
Adapting Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach: ‘My advice would be don’t worry about having sex tonight’
Director Dominic Cooke counsels the troubled couple of his new film of Ian McEwan’s acclaimed novel On Chesil Beach, and tells us why so much filmmaking today is doomed to compromise.
Lou Thomas
Friday 18 May 2018 -
Michel Hazanavicius on Redoubtable: ‘I had to be able to talk about Godard’s dark side’
The Oscar-winning director of The Artist has traded the silent era for the French New Wave in his new comic portrait of its most notorious auteur. But what did it take to channel Jean-Luc?
Jake Cunningham
Friday 11 May 2018 -
The films that influenced me: Andrew Haigh
The acclaimed director behind Weekend, 45 Years and now Lean on Pete reveals the films that shaped his love of cinema.
Samuel Wigley
Tuesday 1 May 2018
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