Interviews
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Steady on the wing: how Ramia Suleiman completed Leonard Retel Helmrich’s The Long Season
Filming life in a Lebanese refugee camp for displaced Syrian families, single-shot cinema master Leonard Retel Helmrich needed a like-skilled female collaborator to shoot where he couldn’t. Come the edit, he suffered a heart attack. Ramia Suleiman tells Sophie Brown how she filled the breach.
Friday 9 March 2018 -
Pat Collins: “Song of Granite is as much about humanity as it is about Irish identity”
The Irish director’s new film dramatises the elusive life of folk singer Joe Heaney. He talks to Philip Concannon about making the local universal, his horror of biopics and why he finds all the material he needs on his doorstep.
Monday 11 December 2017 -
Marsha Hunt: American girl, Un-American woman, upstanding centenarian
Marsha Hunt broke into Hollywood as a cinch-waisted 17-year-old ingenue at MGM studios, then fell foul of the blacklist at the height of her career. As she turns 100, she shares with J.E. Smyth her memories of love, combat and camaraderie on and off the screen.
Tuesday 17 October 2017 -
Austin Lynch and Matthew Booth on Gray House: a film to live in
Poised between documentary and fiction, Gray House evokes the residential space of prisoners and oil-rig workers with oblique imagery and Alvin Lucier’s architectural score. The filmmakers explain the ideas behind their project to Sophie Brown.
Tuesday 10 October 2017 -
Faith and creation: Anoushka Shankar on her score for Shiraz
The composer and sitarist tells Simon Broughton about the challenges and discoveries of writing her first film soundtrack – for the rare Indian silent film Shiraz: A Romance of India.
Friday 6 October 2017 -
Waves of sound: Jason Singh on his live score for Drifters
The beatboxer and sound artist is accompanying John Grierson’s silent documentary on a tour of British fishing towns. He tells Michael Pattison how he channels the sound of the deep and the distant past for each performance.
Thursday 28 September 2017 -
From the Magazine
Lucrecia Martel on location with Zama: “All that heroic past and brave macho stuff makes me ill”
On the set of the Argentinian director’s long-awaited new film Zama, Diego Lerer spoke to her about the radical language of the film’s source novel and how to shoot a period film on a modest budget.
Thursday 27 July 2017 -
From the Magazine
George A Romero: the Sight & Sound Interview
The original king of the zombies recalled what got him started, how his style evolved, why he remained defiant and what he thought of the new breed of pale-faced imitators, in this 2014 S&S interview with James Blackford.
Monday 17 July 2017 -
Radu Jude interview: “Scarred Hearts is like a jazz piece”
The director’s new and stylistically distinctive film uses a sanatorium setting to interrogate Romania’s Golden Age. He talks to Jonathan Romney about fragmenting narratives and exposing antisemitism.
Saturday 15 July 2017 -
From the Magazine
Bomb culture: Hany Abu-Assad’s Paradise Now
Oscar nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, Paradise Now is the subject of protests in the US because it explores the limited options for young Palestinians from a suicide bomber’s point of view. Yet Hany Abu-Assad’s film helps us to understand without condoning, argues B. Ruby Rich.
Saturday 24 June 2017
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