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Interview with director Benoît Jacquot

Credits include Farewell, My Queen and Three Hearts French director Benoît Jacquot makes no secret of his interest in women, in a good way. At the French Film…

Interview With Director Jean-Marc Vallée

Credits include Café de Flore; Wild; and Dallas Buyers Club Music has much to say in the work of Quebecois filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée. His music choices are front…

Interview With Writer/Director Olivier Assayas

Credits include Hours; Irma Vep; and [segment in] Paris, Je t’aime Set in the rambling provincial home of a middle class French family, the latest film from Olivier…

Interview with Yung Chang

The Yangtze, that great waterway of China, starts in the Tibetan plateau and winds its way across over 6,000 kilometres to the sea at Shanghai. ‘No matter what…

Interview With Producer Patricia Lovell

Credits include Picnic at Hanging Rock; and Gallipoli There are nine Australian films ranked among the all-time top 100 posted on the ABC’s My Favourite Film site. At…

Interview with Tom Zubrycki on Temple of Dreams

Temple of Dreams is Tom’s documentary on Muslim youth Attempts to close down a youth centre in Sydney’s south-west is not the kind of news that attracts headlines,…

Interview With Writer/Director Jeff Nichols

Young American film director Jeff Nichols is barely out of school. He graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking in 2001 and has…

Interview With Actor Frankie J. Holden

Credits include Clubland and Return Home In a very engaging new Australian film due for release later this month, Frankie J. Holden plays a singer formerly married to…

Interview With Writer/Director Deepa Mehta

Credits include Water; Earth; Fire; and Midnight’s Children Over the phone her voice came across as authoritative, warm and good-humoured during our interview earlier this month. It was…

Interview With Writer/Director Cate Shortland

Credits include Somersault and Lore By the time this piece goes to print, there won’t be anybody left who doesn’t know that film director Cate Shortland, in her…

Interview (abridged) With Jeremy Irons

Credits include Lolita; Damage; Reversal of Fortune; The French Lieutenant’s Woman The voice is thoroughly English, authoritative accents delivered in a languid manner. A deep voice, all port…

Interview with Samantha Lang

Credits include The Well; The Monkey’s Mask Photography was film director Samantha Lang’s first career choice. Was it a natural progression to film? From an early age she’d…