Film Interviews

Here you will find all of our interviews with film directors, actors, cinematographers, and more.

Orla Smith / August 5, 2020

Eva Riley on Perfect 10, her touching sibling story disguised as a sports film

Writer-director Eva Riley on Perfect 10’s tumultuous journey from script to screen, and how she realised she wasn’t making a sports or a crime movie.

B. P. Flanagan / July 25, 2020

Directors Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis discuss collaborating, using in-depth research to make fiction, and why they keep writing films about women.

Alex Heeney / July 25, 2020

Actor Orion Lee discusses his affinities with his First Cow character King-Lu, and how we prepared to play the itinerant entrepreneur.

Orla Smith / July 25, 2020

First Cow star John Magaro on the liberating experience of acting in a Kelly Reichardt film and how he got into character by cooking stews.

Alex Heeney / July 25, 2020

Cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt discusses his close collaboration with Kelly Reichardt on all her films since Meek’s Cutoff.

Alex Heeney / July 25, 2020

First-time film composer William Tyler deconstructs the instruments and methods used to create First Cow’s gorgeous score.