Interviews
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Interview: Eva Husson, dir. Bang Gang
For her feature filmmaking debut, French writer-director Eva Husson has created an exuberant concoction of themes that are equally timeless and eye opening. As much a feverish salutation to teenage spirit as it is a cautionary tale derived from a youth culture rife with Snapchat, digitised slut shaming and the very real combined dangers of…
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Interview: Ciro Guerra, dir. Embrace of the Serpent
Colombian auteur Ciro Guerra’s latest film, Embrace of the Serpent, first screened in the Director’s Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival (where it won the CICAE Award) and is the first Colombian film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. It recounts, through a mixture of fact and…
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Interview: Vincent Lindon, The Measure of a Man
Vincent Lindon, a powerhouse and household name of French film for decades, received widespread acclaim for his subdued, naturalistic performance in Stéphane Brizé’s The Measure of a Man. His turn as a family man struggling against the persistent tides of the economic recession saw him bag the Best Actor gongs at Cannes and the Césars.…
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Interview: Tyler Hoechlin on Everybody Wants Some!!
With his reoccurring role in the dark TV reboot of Teen Wolf, Tyler Hoechlin is one of the more recognisable faces in Richard Linklater’s new 1980s-set college campus comedy, Everybody Wants Some!! As the ridiculously competitive slugger Glen McReynolds, Hoechlin puts in a memorable performance in a large ensemble of equally unforgettable characters. Alongside Linklater’s…
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Interview: Jeremy Saulnier, dir. Green Room
With his slow-burning revenge noir Blue Ruin, Jeremy Saulnier debuted as a startlingly original and bold young director, someone to be watched. Premiering at last year’s Cannes film festival, his difficult second album is the highly impressive grunge horror of Green Room, telling the tale of a punk band trapped backstage at a murderous Neo-Nazi…
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Interview: Marc Abraham
Marc Abraham’s career has known box office success as well as critical lionising, with films such as Children of Men and Spy Game standing out for attention on a resume which covers over twenty years in the business. Having made the transition from producer to director with 2008’s Flash of Genius, his latest film I…
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Interview: Peter Greenaway
Very few people can pull off wearing a navy blue pinstripe suit paired with a dark lined open-neck shirt. Yet not everyone is Peter Greenaway. The veteran British director, an intriguing, eloquent and eminently likeable subject, has been based in Amsterdam for the last twenty years. In a conversation as eclectic as his latest film,…
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Interview: Jeff Nichols
Jeff Nichols has built the beginnings of a potentially fantastic career over the past decade blending genre elements with deep-rooted character work and subtle social commentary. When CineVue sat down with him to discuss his new science fiction thriller, Midnight Special, it seemed natural to ask whether his films begin with notions of character, message…
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Interview: Tom Geens
Less is certainly more in Tom Geens’ sophomore feature Couple in a Hole. A Scottish couple go native in the French countryside as they grieve a great loss by living off the land. The Belgian director – who made London his home 23 years ago – sat down to chat with CineVue’s Matt Anderson about…
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Interview: Daredevil: Season 2 cast
While the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to rake in billions at the box office, the studio’s early experiments in TV have been less consistently successful, farming out Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter to the network ABC with mixed results. Fortunes changed, however, when the Netflix-produced series Daredevil premièred in April last year: permanently shrugging…