Interviews
CLOUD Interview: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Talks Bresson, Open Endings, and the Ambiguity in Remaking
The legendary Japanese director talks cinephilia, America, and ambiguities.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: JIMMY JAGUAR Director Bence Fliegauf Talks Demonic Myth-Making and Chaos of No-Budget Cinema
Hungarian auteur Bence Fliegauf discusses the chaotic genesis, hybrid form, and metaphysical undercurrents of his experimental, no-budget pseudo-documentary.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: THE LOVE THAT REMAINS Hlynur Pálmason and Julius Krebs Damsbo on Crafting Cinema from Intuition, Image, and Instinct
Director Hlynur Pálmason and editor Julius Krebs Damsbo unpack the intuitive, image-driven process behind 'The Love That Remains.'
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: THE VISITOR Director Vytautas Katkus on Visual Memory, Emotional Landscapes, Making Fiction Feel Real
Vytautas Katkus reflects on his transition from cinematographer to director, the collaborative roots of his filmmaking process, and how improvisation became a core method long before the camera ever rolled.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: DON'T CALL ME MAMA Director Nina Knag Talks Power, Privilege, Ethics of Desire
Norwegian filmmaker Nina Knag unpacks how her morally complex debut feature interrogates power, privilege, and female desire, blending psychological realism, social critique, and quiet provocation into an unflinching character study shaped by empathy and ethical tension.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: 2000 METRES TO ANDRIIVKA Director Mstyslav Chernov Talks Embedding with Soldiers, Cinematic Ethics, Memory of War
Director Mstyslav Chernov reflects on the ethical, storytelling, and aesthetic challenges of documenting war from within a Ukrainian platoon, offering insight into the filmmaking choices behind his visceral new documentary.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: FUCKTOYS Director Annapurna Sriram Talks Feminist Smut, Grindhouse Mythology
Annapurna Sriram discusses how her hallucinatory, sex-positive debut 'Fucktoys' reclaims grindhouse cinema through the female gaze, fusing occult symbolism, Southern grit, and unapologetic DIY energy into a radical vision of liberation.
HOT SPRING SHARK ATTACK Interview: Director Morihito Inoue Talks Jaws, Bureaucracy, and Omnipotent Screen Sharks
We discuss a killer shark satire that's fun to soak in,
VIDEOHEAVEN Interview: Alex Ross Perry on Finding Clips, Video Stores and Their Place in Social Culture
Director Alex Ross Perry digs into the history of video stores in his documentary, then goes beyond that to explore how popular culture was affected, both then and now.
THE RITUAL Interview: Director David Midell Leads Me Through the Horror
Hello! It’s Dave Canfield, your Creature Feature Preacher here with another conversation. Director David Midell has made a hell of a debut. His first feature, The Ritual, not only stars Al Pacino but the always ascendant Dan Stevens. The pair...
DANGEROUS ANIMALS Interview: Director Sean Byrne Talks Sharks and Spirituality
Director Sean Byrne has been chumming the water for a long time. His new movie, Dangerous Animals, a shark infested survival thriller, is garnering great reviews and deservedly so. It has a villain for the ages in Jai Courtney, who...
SHALL WE DANCE? Interview: Masayuki Suo and Tamiyo Kusakari Discuss Their Unexpected Love Story
A Japanese director and star reflect on the romantic classic that brought them together.
THE SHROUDS Interview: David Cronenberg, Wrapped in What the Light Reveals
When I’m interviewing someone as respected as David Cronenberg, the temptation to revisit as much of his work as I can ahead of time looms large. It’s seldom practical unless one is writing a book. Especially when the work spans...
Udine 2025 Interview: Hideo Jojo Talks Centering Women in Pink Cinema and Beyond
A pink film director explains his turn to big screen filmmaking with 'Welcome to the Village' and 'A Bad Summer'.
Udine 2025 Interview: DOLLHOUSE Director Shinobu Yaguchi Talks Disturbing Dolls, Uncomfortable Allusions, and Swinging For The Fences
One of Japan's best comedy directors takes a sharp turn towards horror in this supernatural smorgasbord.
INVENTION Interview: Filmmakers Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez on Their Multifaceted New Film
In his review of Invention, the new film from writer/director Courtney Stephens and actor/writer Callie Hernandez, Martin Kudlac discusses the many ways it explores the lines between reality and fantasy, and how those lines are oddly similar in grief and...
THE HEDONIST Interview: Nick Funess, Izzi Rojas, Jordan Somani on Flat Affect, Parents, and Stylized Editing
[Beware: light spoilers ahead.] In my review of The Hedonist, I wrote about the often hilarious flat affect line deliveries, its stylized editing, and the frankly beautiful use of Robocop references. So when I got the chance to sit down...
SXSW 2025 Interview: SLANTED, Amy Wang Talks Looking Within, Absorbing Each Other
Amy Wang, a Chinese-Australian debut director, discusses her bitingly satirical exploration of racial identity in the US.
SXSW 2025 Interview: SHE'S THE HE, Siobhan McCarthy Talks Their Trans Indie For America's Here and Now
Nonbinary filmmaker Siobhan McCarthy turned around the trans answer to bromance comedies in a mere year. Here's why.
Sound And Vision: The Big Joseph Kahn Interview, Part Two
(Click here for Part One!) In the second part of our two-article interview juggernaut with music video and film director Joseph Kahn we talk post-irony, Spielberg, Scorsese, the philosophy of laughter and how having children changes your vision on...