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“You can’t let the audience get ahead of you”: Raoul Walsh interviewed in 1972
In this fascinating interview from more than 50 years ago, the legendary Hollywood director looks back on a career working with some of the greatest names in American film history, from Gloria Swanson and Ida Lupino to James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
By James Childs
“You can’t let the audience get ahead of you”: Raoul Walsh interviewed in 1972
Interviews
“Why does a guy like me dream about making a western?”: Lisandro Alonso on Eureka
By Arjun Sajip
Interviews
“The scale of any project is secondary – it’s always about the quality of the writing”: Cillian Murphy on Small Things like These
By Sinéad Gleeson
Interviews
“For this idea to feel radical, it could not be an experimental film”: Lois Patiño on Samsara
By Arjun Sajip
Interviews
“I don't find filmmaking fun at all”: a 1973 interview with Richard Lester
By Joseph McBride
Interviews
“The power of freedom is scary to people at times”: Yorgos Lanthimos on Poor Things
By Nicole Flattery
Interviews
“It’s such an important part of history that people are so unaware of”: Lily Gladstone on Killers of the Flower Moon
By Catherine Wheatley
Interviews
“With art, you’re just out there ready to be criticised and that’s terrifying”: Savanah Leaf on Earth Mama
By Katie McCabe
Interviews
“I like feeling uncertain, displaced and unnerved”: Todd Haynes on May December
By Amy Taubin
From the Sight and Sound archive
A man for all seasons: Fritz Lang interviewed in 1967
By Axel Madsen
From the Sight and Sound archive
Nowhere to hide: Todd Haynes on [Safe]
By Amy Taubin
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
“In season, Malia is carnage”: Molly Manning Walker on How To Have Sex
By Rachel Pronger
Interviews
“We are the killers, and we have to understand that”: Martin Scorsese on Killers of the Flower Moon
By Philip Horne
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
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
“My films are all connected to one another because they are so personal”
By Catherine Wheatley
From the Sight and Sound archive
“Desire is violence”: Claire Denis on Beau Travail
By Chris Darke
Interviews
Nina Menkes: giving voice to female rage and despair
By Sophia Satchell-Baeza
From the Sight and Sound archive
Soul to soul: Isaac Julien on Young Soul Rebels
By Amy Taubin
Interviews
“One politician threatened to burn down the theatre and beat me publicly”: an interview with S.S. Rajamouli
By Arjun Sajip
Interviews
“All these prizewinning Iranian movies are complicit”: an interview with Holy Spider director Ali Abbasi
By Arjun Sajip
Interviews
“Actors don’t work to win prizes”: an interview with Song Kangho
By Thomas Flew