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Sunset Song – An Interview with Terence Davies
Some films are theses, others are poems, others are content to be great drama. Terence Davies’ films, in their sweep, formal lyricism and great, euphoric magnitude, are songs, and so it’s both apt and...
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Tickled – An Interview with David Farrier and Dylan Reeve
One of the most widely-hyped documentaries to play this year at the Melbourne International Film Festival is Tickled, which sees New Zealand journalists David Farrier and Dylan Reeve follow the very...
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On Richard’s Side – An Interview with Andrew Wiseman
Some films exist outside of the realm of cinematic excellence or narrative glory—some films exist in a space of advocacy, with the intention of telling a necessary and oft unheard human story. Shot...
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The Last Family – An Interview with Jan P. Matuszynski
The Last Family is director Jan P. Matuszynski’s first dramatic feature after the documentary Deep Love (2013). The 32 year-old has proven his versatility as a director with shorts like Afterparty...
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Operation Avalanche – An Interview with Matt Johnson
Operation Avalanche, Matt Johnson’s follow-up to the widely-acclaimed The Dirties, is another fake documentary film starring Johnson and collaborator Owen Williams, once again as young would-be...
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The Devil’s Candy – An Interview with Sean Byrne
The Devil’s Candy is Sean Byrne’s follow-up to his celebrated horror debut The Loved Ones (2009). It focuses on a family of metal fans who move into a new house with a terrible secret, and swaps the...
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Scarred Hearts – An Interview with Radu Jude
In recent years, Radu Jude has established himself as one of the most consistent, original, and thought-provoking directors working today, whilst distinguishing himself amongst the few concerned with...
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O Ornitólogo – An Interview with João Pedro Rodrigues
Breaking onto the scene with his feature film in 2000, O Fantasma, João Pedro Rodrigues has since established himself as one of the most lauded filmmakers in contemporary Portugese cinema. As a...
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Slava (Glory) – An Interview with Directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s work as co-directors has spanned a series of short films, and continues with Slava (Glory), the second instalment of a trilogy of features beginning with 2014’s...
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Life, Animated – An Interview with Roger Ross Williams
Roger Ross Williams won the 2010 Oscar for Short Documentary with Music Plays Prudence, about a Zimbabwean singer mistreated for her physical disability. Significant as this achievement was, it...
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Apprentice – An Interview with Junfeng Boo
Junfeng Boo’s Apprentice is the third feature from Singaporean director Junfeng Boo, about a man (newcomer Fir Rahman) assisting with executions in a Malay prison. Selected for Un Certain Regard, the...
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Godless – An Interview with Ralitza Petrova
When this interview took place, Ralitza Petrova’s Godless had just premiered as one of the few feature debuts in the Official Competition at Locarno Film Festival. In the time since we sat down to talk...
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By the Time It Gets Dark – An Interview with Anocha Suwichakornpong
With the premiere of her second feature, By the Time It Gets Dark (Dao Khanong), at Locarno Film Festival, Anocha Suwichakornpong continues to define herself as one of Thailand’s most important and...
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Critical Interventions – An Interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum is one of the most recognisable and respected voices in film criticism, renowned for his eloquence, insight and inextinguishable passion for cinema. In his four-plus decades of...
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Bangkok Nites – An Interview with Katsuya Tomita
Katsuya Tomita’s career as a filmmaker has been defined by an obsession with the complexities of identity, as exploring the breadth of such an idea. His previous work, Saudade, was set in his hometown...
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Wet Woman in the Wind – An Interview with Akihiko Shiota
Akihiko Shiota has spent a great deal of his time in film exploring interpersonal dynamics, flipping status quos, and playing around with power in relationships. His latest work, Wet Woman in the...
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An Afternoon with Anurag Kashyap
On a rare sunny afternoon in Melbourne, I found myself in the exuberant company of a select group of cinephiles at a cozy restaurant opposite Luna Park in St. Kilda. Though it might be difficult to...
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Sydney Latin American Film Festival 2016 – An Interview with Programmer...
The Sydney Latin American Film Festival, now in its 11th year, is screening the best cinema from the region across five days at Dendy Opera Quays. Ahead of its launch this week, we caught up with...
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57 Lawson – An Interview with Ben Ferris
Ben Ferris is the creative director of the Sydney Film School, and the founder of independent arts company Artemis Projects. His new film, 57 Lawson, is a docu-fiction drama set in a housing...
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Dead Hands Dig Deep – An Interview with Jai Love
Perhaps the most unsettling film in the Sydney Underground Film Festival lineup this year is a documentary about Edwin Borsheim, a little known musician from small-town California. Directed by 19...
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