Here is a preview of our interview with director Mike Leigh on Peterloo, from our new ebook Peterloo in Process: A Mike Leigh Collaboration. To find out more and to purchase the book, click here. To read a review of the book, click here. After falling in love with Peterloo at the Toronto International Film […]
Film Interviews
Interviews with female directors / Index of Interviews
Here you will find all of our interviews with film directors, actors, cinematographers, and more.
Jon Gregory Interview: Editing a Mike Leigh film
Jon Gregory discusses the challenge of editing battle scenes in Peterloo and what he has learned from decades of working with Mike Leigh.
Production designer Suzie Davies on Mike Leigh and ‘actors surgeries’
Production designer Suzie Davies discusses how her production design plays into Mike Leigh’s rehearsal process with what she calls ‘actors surgeries.’
DP Dick Pope on the ‘magical mystery tour’ of working with Mike Leigh
Cinematographer Dick Pope walks us through a career of collaboration with Mike Leigh on films such as Peterloo, Vera Drake, and Naked.
Interview: The director and star of Firecrackers blaze onto our screens
Canadian rising stars Jasmin Mozaffari and star Michaela Kurimsky discuss Mozaffari’s evocative, energetic debut, Firecrackers. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
‘I wanted to give faces to the refugees’: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on A Season in France
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun discusses his latest film A Season in France, which follows a refugee and his family as they hope to be granted the permission to stay in France.