Love in dark times: The Nightingale director on bringing together distinct (but connected) narratives of gendered and racist violence
Category: interviews
sundance dispatch: as told to g/d thyself
Astral traveling: The spirit of Afro-futurism is beautifully embodied in the all-star collective The Ummah Chroma’s short film
me time: “burning” star steven yeun finds himself anew on screen
Since ending his seven-year stint on The Walking Dead, Steven Yeun has established himself as a rising film actor with a fearless, adaptive talent…
interview: barbet schroeder
For the final installment of his so-called “trilogy of evil,” which began in 1974 with General Idi Amin Dada, Barbet Schroeder … More
down by the river—leonor teles
At the 2016 edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, 24-year-old Leonor Teles became the youngest ever recipient of the … More
interview: kantemir balagov
Kantemir Balagov hails from the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic of the Russian North Caucasus, a fraught multi-ethnic region rarely represented in the … More
new directors/new films ’18 interview: valérie massadian
Six years ago, Valérie Massadian won the Locarno Film Festival’s best first feature prize for Nana (2011), a revelatory portrait of a … More
new directors/new films ’18 interview: stephen loveridge
One of the most telling insights in Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., Stephen Loveridge’s documentary about the fiercely outspoken Sri Lankan-British rapper known as M.I.A., … More
the ideology of kinko’s: a conversation with lady bird cinematographer sam levy
To the protagonist of Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, her hometown of Sacramento is the “Midwest of California”– dull, provincial and devoid … More
nyff 2017: the rider & chloé zhao Interview
The Great Wide Open An Interview with Chloé Zhao (The Rider) By Devika Girish At one point in The Rider, Chloé … More
