Interviews
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Beast director Michael Pearce: ‘I kind of felt that we’d reached peak murder mystery’
Beast is a Jersey-set serial killer thriller with fairy-tale rhythms. Director Michael Pearce talks to us about playing with genre and taking inspiration from David Attenborough.
Jamie Dunn
Monday 23 April 2018 -
Valeska Grisebach on Western: ‘I was interested in western Europe’s fantasy of eastern Europe’
It may be set in Bulgaria, but Western has both feet planted in the classic cowboy movie tradition. Now it’s being acclaimed as one the films of the year, but what brought director Valeska Grisebach back out of the wilderness?
Matthew Thrift
Friday 13 April 2018 -
How child trafficking doc Even When I Fall bucks a trend
Forget Netflix – the cinema is the place for immersive docs like Even When I Fall, the story of a circus set up by survivors of child trafficking. Producer Elhum Shakerifar explains why.
Nikki Baughan
Tuesday 10 April 2018 -
How John Ford and Ken Loach influenced my AIDs activism drama 120 BPM
Director Robin Campillo reveals some of the films that helped fire his inspiration for 120 BPM, his defiant new drama about AIDs activist group ACT UP.
Lou Thomas
Friday 6 April 2018 -
Fighting for survival: Paddy Considine and Jodie Whittaker on Journeyman
“I just felt that, for all the movies centred around boxing, nobody had really explored the theme of head injury.”
Nikki Baughan
Wednesday 28 March 2018 -
The Wound director: ‘To be out and proud is still a middle-class privilege in our society’
In our in-depth interview, South African director John Trengove tackles the controversies surrounding his provocative circumcision-ritual drama The Wound.
Taryn Joffe
Wednesday 14 March 2018 -
Pioneer of wifi, GPS and the on-screen orgasm – 10 surprising facts about Hedy Lamarr
Remembered as a screen icon and ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’, she was also a self-starting inventor whose innovations led to wifi, GPS and Bluetooth. So what else don’t we know about the secret life of Hedy Lamarr?
Joseph Walsh
Wednesday 7 March 2018 -
Black Panther and a black Bond? Ryan Coogler on his favourite film and influences
From Blade Runner to Planet Earth, director Ryan Coogler reveals the cinematic inspirations behind his Marvel spectacular Black Panther.
Lou Thomas
Tuesday 13 February 2018 -
The films that anticipated the Brexit vote
Visiting communities across the UK, the Guardian’s online video series Anywhere but Westminster took the temperature of a nation in the run-up to the EU referendum. With the films now added to the BFI National Archive, curator Ros Cranston caught up with video journalist John Domokos.
Ros Cranston
Friday 9 February 2018 -
Phantom Thread: Lesley Manville and Vicky Krieps on Paul Thomas Anderson’s sew-business romance
Oscar nominee Lesley Manville and Vicky Krieps share their experiences of working with Daniel Day-Lewis on Paul Thomas Anderson’s London-set 1950s love story Phantom Thread.
Lou Thomas
Friday 2 February 2018
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