Interview

Pylyp Illienko

by Sean Price Williams

Yuri Illienko’s son discusses the duel between his father and Parajanov that almost derailed a classic of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema.

by Savina Petkova

The Czech star on her surrealist collaborations with New Wave filmmaker Juraj Herz.

by Michelle Carey

An interview with the renowned editor about her beguiling directorial work, including her lyrical new feature and her newly restored oneiric debut.

by Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh

The Iranian artist on the passions that transformed her into an international multihyphenate.

by Sierra Pettengill

On the everyday magic of Satanism in the New York filmmaker’s debut feature documentary.

by Gary Indiana

From the archive: a 1983 interview between two New York icons, the filmmaker Paul Morrissey and critic Gary Indiana.

by Nick Pinkerton

An interview with the holy trinity of director, star, and cinematographer of Harvest.

by Gabriel Jandali Appel

How the 24-year-old director Alek Keshishian captured Madonna’s world tour, on and off stage.

by Marie-Julie Chalu

A conversation with the filmmaker about her late sister’s dynamic portraits of those living on the margins of Senegalese society.

by Nick Pinkerton

An interview with the author of Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness.

by Edo Choi

An interview with the ascendant filmmaker on her audacious sophomore feature.

by Elena Saavedra Buckley

An interview with the two creative forces behind the meta-medical inquiry Invention.