Filmmaker Sofia Coppola is known for the dreamy quality of her visuals, awash in emotion and atmosphere. I interview the acclaimed writer-director about her new movie.
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Filmmaker Sofia Coppola is known for the dreamy quality of her visuals, awash in emotion and atmosphere. I interview the acclaimed writer-director about her new movie.
"I can't relate to 99 percent of humanity," says a character in Terry Zwigoff's perceptive 2001 cult film Ghost World (2001). Here, I interview the beloved director about how he draws great performances from his actors, his sense of humor, and his withering critique of consumer culture.
Filmmaker Albert Serra embraces the ludicrous (though you might not guess it from the sumptuous images that fill his new movie, The Death of Louis XIV). I interview the European arthouse director, who’s inspired by the spirit of unconventional filmmakers and artists like Salvador Dali, Jean-Luc Godard, and Andy Warhol.
“To me, you’ll always be a fish,” a boy tells a teenage mermaid, gently rejecting her romantic advances. It’s a bruising, funny, and relatable moment in the 38-year-old Polish writer-director’s inspired feature-film debut The Lure. In this interview, she tells me about her relationship with color, her subconscious interest in the beauty of a voice, and whether it’s possible to be happy as an adult.
Punctuated by pathos, mordant wit, and memorable dialogue between complex women, Elizabeth Rose's 14-minute, prize-winning short, The Law of Averages, focuses on a mother (Suzzy Roche) and daughter (Lucy Kaminsky) as they navigate a traumatic event.
The engaging, high-octane filmmaker David Lowery reflects on his new film, A Ghost Story. “It’s a haunted house movie that’s not scary, except at times when it is—but it’s not the ghost that makes it scary,” he says.
Through fleeting glimpses and a studio visit, a portrait of the singular songwriter and musician, Will Roan. of Amazing Baby, emerges.
With his substance abuse issues and antics, musician Pete Doherty’s life is undoubtedly a mess. Yet beyond his façade lies a poet deliberately testing limits.