As Toronto’s Paradise Theatre kicks off a John Waters retrospective, Adesola Thomas chats with the “Pope of Trash” about the language of the art world, rodent hijinks and why Pink Flamingos is the perfect first date movie.

Iranian filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht tells John Forde about his new documentary Celluloid Underground, the influence of Orson Welles and cinema as a revolutionary act.

With Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist out in US cinemas, the filmmaker tells Rafa Sales Ross about his poetic observation of the rhythms of nature, the importance of engaging with other art forms and why it is so very tricky to work with deer.

As La Cinémathèque française opens the first major James Cameron retrospective exhibition, Ella Kemp sits down with the visionary filmmaker in Paris to retrace his footsteps and look into the future.

With Alex Garland’s Civil War in theaters worldwide now, Brian Formo sits down with stars Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny to examine their surprisingly symbiotic journeys that led them to this moment in time in America.

With a Metrograph retrospective celebrating several new 4K restorations of his films, director Lee Chang-dong reflects to Katie Rife about his literary background, desires to defy genre conventions and the tension of our daily lives. 

Fresh from serving as jury president at this year’s Niigata International Animation Film Festival, animator Nora Twomey talks to Alicia Haddick about directing The Breadwinner and The Secret of Kells, co-founding Cartoon Saloon and the uncertain future of indie animation.

After Letterboxd reviews unleashed headlines about the use of generative A.I. in their spooky new feature, Late Night with the Devil writer-directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes open up about low-budget life, conjuring creativity and the fate of the accursed images in question. 

The People’s Joker director Vera Drew on her path from trans awakening via Nicole Kidman to improv to alt-comedy to the buzziest queer coming-of-age fair-use superhero parody of the year.

Writer-creator Mark Protosevich goes all in on film noir in his new Apple TV+ series Sugar, starring Colin Farrell as a cinema-obsessed private eye in contemporary Los Angeles.

Monkey Man writer-director-star Dev Patel shares the formative action movies, Korean vengeance thrillers and Bruce Lee biting techniques that helped shape his acclaimed debut feature.

As Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast arrives in US cinemas, the French filmmaker tells Rafa Sales Ross about his genre-bending love story, the anxiety and exaltation of being an artist today, and George MacKay’s very thorough emails.