Interviews
Interviews with stars, directors and VOD professionals.
Interview: The Elephant Queen directors Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone talk the environment and Apple
November 3, 2019 | David FarnorThis weekend saw the launch of Apple’s new streaming service, Apple TV+, and while the focus has been on sci-fi series See and news drama The Morning Show, one of the platform’s titles stands apart from the rest: wildlife documentary … Read More
Interview: Kantemir Balagov talks Beanpole
October 20, 2019 | Josh Slater-WilliamsWarning: The following paragraphs contain spoilers for the opening 20 minutes of Beanpole, which contain a sequence with harrowing content.
Beanpole, the extraordinary sophomore feature of writer-director Kantemir Balagov, earned the young filmmaker the Best Director prize in Un Certain … Read More
Interview: Bertrand Bonello talks Zombi Child, horror and streaming
October 18, 2019 | Anton BitelWriter/director/producer/composer Bertrand Bonello is best known on these shores for The Pornographer (2001), Tiresia (2003), House of Tolerance (2011) and Nocturama (2016) – films that often deploy a certain icy distance as an alienation effect, which stimulates viewers to fill … Read More
Interview: Joe Barton talks Giri/Haji, bridging two cultures and box set binges
October 16, 2019 | David FarnorThis Thursday sees the premiere of a new UK series that’s unlike anything you’ve seen before on British TV. Giri/Haji explores the butterfly effect of one murder over the cities of London and Tokyo, as a world-weary detective, Kenzo (Takehiro … Read More
Interview: François Ozon talks By the Grace of God
October 13, 2019 | David FarnorThe latest from François Ozon, By the Grace of God is an engrossing and topical examination of the Catholic Church abuse scandal. It tells the story three men who join together to pursue justice for the abuse they suffered as … Read More
Interview: Joe Gilgun talks Brassic, bipolar and Chorley
September 5, 2019 | Matthew TurnerLast month saw the premiere of Brassic, Sky One’s new comedy. Starring This is England’s Joe Gilgun and Our Girl’s Michelle Keegan, and co-created by Gilgun and Danny Brocklehurst, the series takes its name from slang for being “broke, penniless, … Read More
Venice 2019: The King was an “exciting challenge” for Timothée Chalamet
September 2, 2019 | David FarnorThe King was an “exciting challenge” for Timothée Chalamet, the young star of Netflix’s new film revealed at the Venice Film Festival, where the movie has its world premiere today.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Henry IV and V plays, and written … Read More
Venice 2019: The New Pope “addresses people’s cravings for something spiritual”
September 2, 2019 | David FarnorThe New Pope will address people’s cravings for something spiritual, John Malkovich promised at the Venice Film Festival press conference for the new series.
Paolo Sorrentino’s follow-up to his HBO series The Young Pope, this second season continues to … Read More
“Art can bring about change”: Cast and crew talk The Laundromat at Venice Film Festival
September 2, 2019 | David FarnorThis weekend sees the world premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s new movie, The Laundromat, and the cast and crew were at the Venice Film Festival to talk about the topical film.
It boasts a typically starry cast, led by Meryl Streep, … Read More
Interview: Stephen Bognar and Julia Reichert talk American Factory and Netflix
September 1, 2019 | Matthew TurnerNetflix’s terrific documentary American Factory charts what happens when a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in a previously shuttered General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio. Before it arrived on Netflix, the film received its UK premiere earlier this year … Read More