Poser Directors Ori Segev & Noah Dixon on Underground Music, Social Anxieties, and Obsession

Hailing from the small city of Columbus, Ohio, filmmakers Ori Segev and Noah Dixon have made their directorial debut with Poser, which premiered to much acclai...

A.J. Edwards on First Love, Capturing Human Frailties with Grace, and the Brilliance of Running on Empty

Following The Better Angels and Age Out, A.J. Edwards' third feature, First Love, is both a tender tale of blossoming romance and a nuanced depiction of the pr...

Phil Tippett on Realizing His Decades-Long Passion Project Mad God

Something that genuinely can be described as a passion project, the new stop-motion animated film, Mad God has been with legendary visual effects artist Phil T...

Cristian Mungiu on R.M.N. as a Microcosm of the World and Why Cinema Isn’t a Teacher

If Cristian Mungiu isn't the most prolific filmmaker to emerge from Romanian cinema's gilded age, he does tend to cause a stir. Cristi Puiu was first in the do...

Mia Hansen-Løve on One Fine Morning and Showing a Different Side of Léa Seydoux

For Mia Hansen-Løve, the 2022 Cannes Film Festival marked a few returns. A year on from premiering Bergman Island, Hansen-Løve screened One Fine Morning, the d...

Don’t Call it Body Horror: David Cronenberg on the Prescient Vision of Crimes of the Future

It’s mid-May at the Cannes Film Festival and David Cronenberg is relaxing on the roof of the J.W. Marriot Hotel. Two days earlier, his latest film enjoyed a ra...

Terence Davies on Benediction, the Poetry of Cinema, and Life’s Regrets

His second consecutive drama about an iconic poet with a life of inner turmoil, Terence Davies' Benediction affords the filmmaker canvas to explore queerness m...

Jessie Buckley & Rory Kinnear on the Unnerving Provocation of Men, Gender Dynamics, and Fables

Alex Garland built his career on cerebral sci-fi. The novelist-turned-screenwriter-turned-director was responsible for two of the most acclaimed science fictio...

Michelangelo Frammartino on Il Buco, the Melancholy of Cave Exploration, and Italian Cinema

Slyly and majestically bringing a sense of documentary-like authenticity to his humbling, spiritual portraits of the ways humankind and nature intersect, Itali...

Eskil Vogt on The Innocents, Childhood Morality, and Joachim Trier’s Advice

Norwegian filmmaker Eskil Vogt had quite a 2021, bringing both his most recent collaboration with Joachim Trier, The Worst Person in the World (for which he wo...