Isabelle Huppert and Tsuyoshi Ihara in a still from ‘Sidonie au Japon’
In Girard’s ‘Sidonie au Japon’ which screened at the 20th edition of the Moroccan festival this year, Huppert plays a woman who is still haunted by the memory of her late husband, which leads her on a voyage to Japan which she will never forget…
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While we may know the Australian star for his popular TV turns, including the long running American show ‘The Mentalist’, he’s a cinematic acting force to be reckoned with in Sen’s Aussie black and white moody outback noir.
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Spoiler alert: The actors gushed about each other during a press conference to promote the opening of Emerald Fennell’s stunning film, now in theaters in the U.S. and the U.K..
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Now available to stream on Netflix, NYAD by renowned doc filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, featuring two magnificent actresses, is a story everyone who has ever doubted themselves should watch. Foster and Bening sat down to talk about the film, during an insightful press conference in LA.
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As a rule, I never interview someone whose film I have yet to watch. But when I sat down with Floyd, boy was I glad I bent the rules!
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The upcoming festival also disclosed a fascinating list for their ‘In Conversation With...’ the beloved series which gives audiences a chance to meet some of the biggest names in cinema from around the world.
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Photo by Getty Images, courtesy of the BFI London Film Festival
As ‘Four Daughters’ finally opens in the U.S., I sat down with the film’s director at the London Film Festival for a dose of typically straight to the point insight into her work and the film’s necessity, in our current media landscape that likes to categorize people as just good or evil, when life is really mostly lived in shades of grey.
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When the Belgian-Congolese rapper turned filmmaker premiered his film in Cannes, earlier this year, Baloji singlehandedly changed the history of his adoptive country for the better — a lesson for all in what it takes to begin to amend the wrongs of colonialism.
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The multi-award winning documentarian who brought us ‘Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” and the Oscar-winning ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’ — among many, many more gems — sat down with me for a Selfies Interview you won’t want to miss.
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The beloved international filmmaker and artist, who spends his time between Haifa and Paris, has taken to writing op-eds in the international media, where he equates his country’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu to Machiavelli and draws parallels between Israel’s distant past with its possible undoing because of Bibi’s latest act.
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Qumra Master Michael Winterbottom is a critically acclaimed British filmmaker renowned for unconventional narratives and hard-hitting social commentary. In fact, what Winterbottom does counts as much in real life as it does on the big screen.
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The American actor may have said something during the press conference about his good friend Julian Sands, also featured in the film Malkovich is promoting at this year's Berlinale, but during our interview the tragedy of the actor who has gone missing felt like a looming presence, unspoken and indescribable.
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"We have such a large and healthy audience of our own in India, the fact is that none of the filmmakers have really felt the need to reach out to a world audience," Aamir Khan told me in 2010, "and when I say really felt the need, I mean filmmakers in Argentina perhaps, or in France or Germany, different parts of the world, don't have such big and healthy audiences of their own and so they come from a situation where they really need to reach out to a world audience and an audience in the West."
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Thirty years after Lee's film 'Malcolm X' was the first ever international production to film in Mecca, the filmmaker returned to Saudi Arabia, to bring his film full circle and inspire film lovers in the Kingdom.
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Sayed Kashua is a Palestinian writer who pens his work in Hebrew and whose latest projects include a film helmed by an Israeli filmmaker and a TV series airing on Israeli kids TV -- but don't call the man a bridge-builder, not to his face anyway!
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Before the film received one more award, this time at the Cairo International Film Festival, I sat down with the Polish filmmaker to talk cinema, inspiration and what constitutes the best soundtrack of all to him in a film.
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In his latest film, Palestinian auteur Hany Abu-Assad does what he does best -- tackles betrayal and draws us a story made in human shades of grey.
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A still from ‘Until Tomorrow’ which world premiered at Berlinale in 2022
Don’t think of this film as your ordinary Western world garden variety torment, as Asgari's oeuvre usually involves two individuals dancing a dance of impossibilities with the authorities of Tehran, trying to navigate a world that makes one's humanity a challenge.
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The American filmmaker talked about inspiration, meeting one's heroes and making personal films the audience wants to watch, at a great masterclass in Egypt. in 2021.
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A still from the short ‘Maya at 24’ by Lynne Sachs
All the great filmmakers have been artists of the lens. If you think about Hitchcock, Truffaut, Wilder, Kazan, Visconti, Fellini and endless more that make up our collective cinematic heritage, they constructed their work like one long sequence of aesthetics — sight and sound.
Lynne Sachs is no exception.
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