Get to know Jia Zhangke, cinema’s essential chronicler of the epochal upheavals in China’s recent history. In the following interview, recorded in 2025, Jia discusses key influences like Sergei Eisenstein and Michelangelo Antonioni, the spontaneity he unlocked by switching from celluloid to digit...

Get to know Hong Kong action legend Sammo Hung, who put his own stamp on martial-arts cinema both in front of and behind the camera. In the following interview, recorded in 2024, Hung revisits his training at the China Drama Academy, reflects his early work as a stunt performer for King Hu, and e...

Get to know body-horror master David Cronenberg, the director of THE SHROUDS. In the following interview, Cronenberg discusses his vision of the body’s inseparable unity with the mind, how personal grief informed his latest film, the appeal of conspiracy theories, and the role of longtime collabo...

Get to know the director of VERMIGLIO, a stunning tale of secrets and subtle change in World War II–era Italy. In the following interview, director Maura Delpero recounts her path to filmmaking and the lessons she learned beginning her career in documentary. That experience would shape her approa...

Get to know Alain Guiraudie, the director of the tantalizing comic thriller MISERICORDIA. In the following interview, Guiraudie (who is also a novelist) reflects on the differences between filmmaking and writing fiction, his fond fascination for small-town life, his goal of exploring eroticism th...

This interview with director Payal Kapadia was recorded in 2024.

Get to know Tim Blake Nelson, whose versatile directing career has run in parallel to his acclaimed acting work. In the following interview, Nelson discusses a transformative early encounter with the films of Sergio Leone, his experiences learning from other filmmakers as an actor, and his motiva...

Get to know Jem Cohen, the unclassifiable independent filmmaker whose work explores art, music, and the cities that shape our lives. In the following interview, Cohen describes how he moves between different formats (Super 8, 16 mm, digital) and modes of filmmaking (documentary, collage, street p...

This interview with director Leos Carax was recorded in 2024.

This interview with director Lubna Playoust was conducted in 2024.

This interview with director Catherine Breillat was recorded in 2024.

This interview with filmmaker Wim Wenders was recorded in 2024.

This interview with actor and director Isabella Rossellini was recorded in 2024.

This interview with director Ryusuke Hamaguchi was conducted in 2024.

This interview with director Jerzy Skolimowski was recorded in 2023.

This interview with director Bertrand Bonello was conducted in 2024.

This interview with directors Neo Sora and Bill Kirstein was conducted in 2024.

This new interview with filmmaker Bette Gordon was recorded in 2020.

This interview with director Nuri Bilge Ceylan was recorded in 2024.

This interview with director Lila Avilés was recorded in 2024.

This interview with director Isabel Sandoval was recorded in 2021.

This interview with director Christian Petzold was recorded in 2023.

This interview with director Lina Rodriguez was recorded in 2023.