Film Interviews

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

B. P. Flanagan / July 25, 2020

White Lie directors Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis plunge the viewer into moral turmoil

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.

Alex Heeney / July 25, 2020

Shatz chats about his collaboration with Kelly Reichardt and how they avoid making the “feel good movie of the year.”