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Interview: Oliver Laxe on Sirât

In this year’s Cannes Film Festival, a post-screening reaction surprised tons of cinephiles following the festival’s attendees. Despite premiering after a veteran French filmmaker, Dominik Moll, with his Case 137, the most talked-about film of the second day of the festival was Sirât by the French-Spanish director, Oliver Laxe. In …

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Interview: Composer Daniel Lopatin on the Score of ‘Marty Supreme’

When discussing modern experimental electronic music, Daniel Lopatin, also known as Oneohtrix Point Never or OPN, is a prominent name in the conversation. Despite releasing acclaimed solo records, OPN also produced artists like FKA Twigs, Charli XCX, The Weeknd, and Soccer Mommy, musicians who bring electronic elements to mainstream pop. …

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Interview: Eva Victor on ‘Sorry, Baby’

For the last forty years, the Sundance Film Festival has been a crucial festival to highlight American independent cinema. Each year, when the event unveils its lineup, cinephiles, audiences, and sales agents dive into the programming to guess which of the selections will join films like Little Miss Sunshine, Memento, …

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Interview: Bi Gan on ‘Resurrection,’ his film philosophy, and M83

The young Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan is already a well-loved personality in the arthouse community. Despite his brief filmography, the director has already produced remarkable works in his career, such as Kaili Blues, Long Day’s Journey into Night, and his short film, A Short Story. Employing a poetic approach to …

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Interview with Co-Writer and Director Joachim Trier on ‘Sentimental Value’

Since his debut feature in 2006 with Reprise, Joachim Trier has become a relevant author in the arthouse circuit. His films gathered attention for the humanity, but centered on the use of Oslo, Norway, as a prominent character. Hence, Trier is mainly associated with his “Oslo Trilogy”, composed by Reprise, …

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Summertime Sadness: Interview with Chie Hayakawa of Tokyo Drama ‘Renoir’

Renoir, the sophomore feature from Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, continues her cinematic exploration of the notions of death, old age, and loneliness, preoccupations that loom over her body of work, such as in her feature debut Plan 75 (2022), the anthology film Ten Years Japan (2018), which she co-directed with …

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Interview: Director Stephen Shimek talks ‘Murder at the Embassy’

Director Stephen Shimek recently sat down with us to discuss Murder at the Embassy, his new film that’s out now in theaters and on demand. It’s a murder mystery set in 1930s Cairo starring Mischa Barton along with Mido Hamada and Richard Dillane. It’s the second installment in the Miranda …

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The Ghost in the Machine: Interview with Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke of ‘A Useful Ghost’

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature A Useful Ghost exhibits a hooky high concept, one that’s centered on a woman who dies of dust pollution and gets reunited with her grieving husband by possessing a vacuum cleaner, much to the chagrin of her in-laws. The director dresses this concept, essentially a loose …

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Neon Nightmare: Interview with Morgan Knibbe of ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’

Screening in the Before Midnight section of the 2025 QCinema International Film Festival, Dutch filmmaker Morgan Knibbe’s sophomore feature The Garden of Earthly Delights portrays a gritty, neon-tinged Manila inferno centered on a young queer protagonist played by first-time actor JP Rodriguez. A teenager named Ginto descends deep into the …

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Interview: Mido Hamada talks filming in Egypt and more for ‘Murder at the Embassy’

Travel back to 1930s Cairo in this exclusive interview with Mido Hamada, who discusses his role as the skeptical Head of Security Mamoud in the new murder mystery film Murder at the Embassy with Mischa Barton. It’s the second installment in the Miranda Green series and is a delightfully fun …

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Interview: Sonal Madhushankar Talks Ethics, AI, and Humanity in Aranya Sahay’s ‘Humans in the Loop’

In Aranya Sahay’s Humans in the Loop, technology and morality collide in a gripping story about the fine line between human judgment and artificial intelligence. The film follows Nehma, a woman deeply passionate about innovation but forced to confront ethical dilemmas that shake her sense of purpose and identity. At …

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Interview: How Charlie McDowell Brought Tove Jansson’s Beloved Novel ‘The Summer Book’ to Life

Adapted from Tove Jansson’s beloved novel, The Summer Book is a delicate and poignant film about growing up and growing old. The movie centers on young Sophia (Emily Matthews) as she spends the summer at her family’s secluded home on a Finnish island, exploring the natural world with her father …

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Interview: Yuvi Hecht on the Fantastical Themes of Revisiting the Past in ‘A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey’

In the heartfelt film A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey, two strangers, David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie), are linked by a fantastical adventure that forces them to revisit key moments from their past. As they journey back in time, they are confronted with the choices and experiences that shaped …

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Interview: Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie talk smell-o-vision and ‘Dead Lover’

Toronto-based filmmaker Grace Glowicki is no stranger to the bizarre. Recently she, along with husband Ben Petrie, starred in the schlocky, romantic gothic horror Honey Bunch which premiered at Berlin in 2025. Her feature debut, Tito, was an offbeat comedy where she herself played an agoraphobic man whose world is …

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