Cinematographer Joshua James Richards talks adapting to a director’s vision and creating a sense of place in God’s Own Country and The Rider. This is an excerpt from our ebook God’s Own Country: A Special Issue, which is available for purchase here.
Film Interviews
Interviews with female directors / Index of Interviews
Here you will find all of our interviews with film directors, actors, cinematographers, and more.
Director Francis Lee and stars Josh O’Connor and Alec Secareanu on making God’s Own Country
Writer-director Francis Lee, who won the Sundance World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize for Directing, discusses his feature debut, God’s Own Country, a touching story of first love, with its two stars, Josh O’Connor and Alec Secareanu.
‘I’m fascinated by the industrialization of the birthing process’: Director Heather Young on Milk
Canadian writer-director-editor Heather Young discusses her short, Milk. Watch the film for free here. Young has since made a great feature debut, Murmur, which we interviewed her about here.
‘It was exciting to see the possibilities that should be there for all’: Alanis Obomsawin on Our People Will Be Healed
Documentarian Alanis Obomsawin discusses depicting community, gaining the trust of her subjects, and centering their voices in her 50th film on contemporary indigenous issues in Canada.
Ruben Östlund: ‘It’s more interesting to have someone do something stupid or amoral out of pure candour or naivety’
Ruben Östlund on his Palme d’Or winner The Square, the mechanisms of empathy, the state of contemporary art, and the pleasures of tragi-comedy.
‘Cutting at right angles’: Frederick Wiseman on Ex Libris: New York Public Library
Frederick Wiseman on the making of his exquisite Ex Libris: New York Public Library, which is about the role of the library in society.