Category Archives: Interviews

“We are taking culture into our own hands”: In conversation with Cinéma La Clef

Cinéma La Clef. Claire-Emmanuelle Blot   The serendipity of experiencing new ways of seeing through filmmakers who are pushing the boundaries with original stories and characters. The comfortable communal feeling of being together, although temporarily. The spontaneity to become one … Read More →

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“Continually honing my ability to imagine is an important part of my work”: Interview with cinematographer Bill Kirstein

”Happyend”, 2025, directed by Neo Sora. Zakkubalan, Cineric Creative, Cinema Inutile   There is this energy that runs as an undercurrent along with a lot of on screen teenage angst in Happyend. Neo Sora, at his debut feature film, explores … Read More →

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“It’s the emotional resonance that creates a bond with the viewer”: In conversation with production designer Vlad Vieru

”The Yellow Tie”, 2025, directed by Serge Celibidachi   The Yellow Tie is a rich, wondrous and intimate journey into a life dedicated to music, it is a film made by a son about his father, by a storyteller about … Read More →

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The details were never decorative; they served the characters’ inner life: Interview with “After the Hunt” production designer Stefano Baisi

”After the Hunt”, 2025, directed by Luca Guadagnino. Amazon Studios| MGM   After a short incursion into the daily schedule of college philosophy professor Alma Imhoff (Julia Roberts), we get comfortably acquainted with her at a dinner party at Alma … Read More →

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“Observation is everything to me”: In conversation with artist Lauren Tamaki

    Illustrations by Lauren Tamaki     Seen and Unseen, by Elizabeth Partridge, explores a grave moment in world history, the Japanese American incarceration as captured by three photographers, Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams, beautifully balancing their … Read More →

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