Olivier Assayas discusses the visual and aural aesthetic of Personal Shopper and how he shot that impressive texting set piece. This is an excerpt of the interview which appears in our case study on Personal Shopper in the ebook Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and The Struggle for Female Agency, which is available for purchase here.
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Director Susan Johnson talks Carrie Pilby
Director Susan Johnson discusses her female Holden Caulfield film, Carrie Pilby, one of the highlights of TIFF 2016, and working with her star Bel Powley.
Interview: Hope Dickson Leach discusses her astonishing debut The Levelling
One of the highlights of last year’s TIFF, The Levelling announces a new talent on the film scene in writer-director Hope Dickson Leach. She talks to Elena Lazic about developing and designing the film, which opens in North America on March 24.
Interview: Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane on School Life
Directors Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane discuss their documentary film In Loco Parentis about a modern boarding school, Headfort School in Ireland. Neasa Ní Chianáin has continued to explore innovative pedagogy on film with her documentary Young Plato.
Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror
Mary Angela Rowe’s review of Raw. Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn’t about the horror of female sexuality so much as the twisted results of shoving young women into a pressure cooker of experiences and expectations.
Hello Destroyer explores the thin line between hockey menace and model
Kevan Funk’s Hello Destroyer is a hockey movie where the drama is not in the game, but in how its violence has consequences that ripple off the ice.