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October 2020

Oliver Laxe discusses three films that played a role in shaping his latest feature, the acclaimed Fire Will Come.

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February 2020

Filmmaker Grant Gee looks back on three films that influenced his 1998 Radiohead documentary Meeting People Is Easy, recently released on the band’s new online archive.

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April 2018

The PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of Netherland extols the virtues of Michael Almereyda's essay-biopic.

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March 2018

The critic, programmer and author of David Lynch: The Man From Another Place considers Bertrand Bonello's terrorism thriller.

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December 2017

The esteemed film critic and author looks at Pedro Costa's "strongest film" and its place in the director's body of work as well as the wider cinematic landscape.

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November 2017

The author of "Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet" discusses the contemporary and political references hidden in the filmmaking duo's masterful biblical tale.

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December 2016

In this second installment of on set recollections, Joaquim Pinto discusses adapting his methods to Ruiz's working style.

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The director of What Now? Remind Me reflects on his time as a sound engineer with the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira.

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August 2016

The director of Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth on the Sundance winning documentary Kate Plays Christine from Robert Greene, a friend, and editor of his films.

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June 2016

The director of The Unspeakable Act considers, perhaps, Mikio Naruse's darkest film, the 1935 masterwork The Girl in the Rumor.

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