I’m a visiting ‘special guest’ at the Vilnius Film Festival or Kino Pavasaris (Cinema Spring) as it’s known here, and I’m waiting to meet director (and fellow ‘special guest’) […]
Interview with Director Laura Schroeder (Barrage, 2017)
Composed predominantly of stillness with erratic musical outbursts, ‘Barrage’ focuses on a tri-generational rift in feminine identity building, in which each daughter fails to completely understand her own […]
Berlinale #4: Interview with Mathieu Denis about ‘Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves’
A three-hour venture about the 2012 Quebec student protests and four fictional characters as they carried their ideas forward in the following years, and featuring an overture and […]
Berlinale #3: Interview with Julian Radlmaier about his debut feature film ‘Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog’
As the 67th International Berlin Film Festival came to a steady close, I sat down with the (relatively) young German director Julian Radlmaier about his debut feature film […]
Berlinale #2 (2017)
The festival has officially ended but my coverage is far from over. In case you missed it, I wrote a short piece at the outset of the festival […]
Interview with Director Ben Wheatley on High-Rise
Before the screening, director Ben Wheatley promised us High-Rise had everything we’d need from a film; “dog-eating, ultra-violence, and lots of fucking.” These disparate elements were certainly present, […]
Interview: Pablo Larraín On His New Film ‘El Club’
I recently had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Chilean director Pablo Larraín about his newest film El Club which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlinale in February and […]