INTERVIEWS WITH FILMMAKERS
In 2014 I started writing about cinema for Jot Down Magazine, a prestigious culture publication from Spain, and from 2015 onwards I mainly did interviews with filmmakers, which can be read here. My other pieces can be read here: Jot Down and Miradas de Cine (only in Spanish).
Pawel Pawlikowski
The Oscar-winning Polish filmmaker talks about his last masterpiece, Cold War, with which he won the Best Director award in Cannes, and sheds some light about that combination of formal rigor and poetic beauty that makes his films so special.
Isaki Lacuesta
In a long and friendly chat, we submerge with Isaki Lacuesta into his extraordinary film Entre dos aguas, follow-up to his already legendary La leyenda del tiempo and winner of many accolades, including the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Jaime Rosales
The winner of the Goya award for Best Picture discusses his latest film, Petra, after presenting it in Cannes and San Sebastian, and leaves us with thoughts as powerful as this one: "the artist advances like a blind explorer who doesn't know the path he has to take. We don't advance with certainties, but tentatively, through trial and error."
Olivier Assayas
After winning Best Director in Cannes, Assayas discusses his film Personal Shopper and the entity of the film image: "the cinema is more than one of the multiple possible images, it's the only image that has the true capacity of seeing the other, of really tackling otherness."
William Oldroyd
The British filmmaker explains the secrets of his fascinating debut feature, Lady Macbeth, which won the Fipresci award at the San Sebastian Film Festival and the European Discovery award of the European Film Academy (EFA).
Ulrich Seidl
Director. Screenwriter. Producer. Voyeur. Misanthrope. Cynic. Social Pornographer. Provocateur. Pessimist. Humanist. All of these tags have been used by critics to define this Austrian filmmaker, who discusses here his latest controversial documentary, Safari, which was presented at the Sevilla European Film Festival.
Oliver Laxe
"The main question that every filmmaker asks himself, be it consciously or unconsciously, is how to capture the mystery with moving images" - says Laxe in this very long Skype interview from Morocco to Barcelona about his most recent mystery, Mimosas, with which he won Best Film at the Critic's Week in Cannes.
Whit Stillman
A friendly chat about Love & Friendship in which Stillman concludes that, although most of the things I praise in the film hadn't been planned that way, "if you have done your job well enough, people will praise you for ideas that you didn't even know were in the film".
François Ozon
François Ozon faces the giant Ernst Lubitsch in this unusual (and extraordinary) remake which adds layers of complexity to the marvellous original: The Man I Killed (1932). We sat down in San Sebastian to talk about the audacity of such a project.
Albert Serra
"Thinking you are superior to your own work, or even the author of your own work, is the first symptom of decadence". This is one of the many illuminating thoughts that fill this interview with the enfant terrible of Spanish cinema.
Gianfranco Rosi
Alberto Rodríguez
In a sunny terrace in San Sebastian, after presenting his latest film El hombre de las mil caras, Rodriguez discusses his trajectory and his future projects and confesses that he is "better at watching films than at making them".
Terence Davies
In the rush of San Sebastian press junkets, I manage to steal 30 minutes of Davies' time to ask him about the marvellously sensual camera moves of his latest film, and his profound and detailed explanations prove why he is one of the masters of movement in today's cinema.
Jonás Trueba
Pedro Costa
Terence Davies
Isaki Lacuesta e Isa Campo
Alfonso Gómez-Rejón
