Interviews with Directors and Artists
Toronto International Film Festival 2009
An interview with Asli Özge, director of Men on the Bridge
By David Walsh, October 10, 2009
Asli Özge is the director of Men on the Bridge, a Turkish film screened at the recent Toronto film festival. We spoke during the festival.
“The Balibo deaths represented part of the broader tragedy that befell East Timor”
Director Robert Connolly speaks with WSWS
By Richard Phillips, August 17, 2009
Robert Connolly discusses Balibo, his latest feature about the military execution of five television reporters in East Timor in 1975.
San Francisco International Film Festival 2009
An interview with He Jianjun, director of River People
By David Walsh, June 25, 2009
He Jianjun’s River People from China is a serious and honest work about young fishermen on the Yellow River. The film depicts a harsh, almost entirely joyless existence. The WSWS conducted an e-mail...
An interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking—Part 2
By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier, June 17, 2009
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career (2006). The first part was posted June 16.
An interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking—Part 1
By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier, June 16, 2009
While in the Bay Area for the recent San Francisco Film Festival, David Walsh and Joanne Laurier had a lengthy conversation with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrai...
Samson and Delilah: a searing portrait of life for Central Australian Aboriginal youth
By Richard Phillips, May 14, 2009
Samson and Delilah touches on many social issues—poverty, homelessness and substance abuse in Aboriginal communities—questions that Australian feature filmmakers have, up until now, largely chosen...
“Cinema is a lie that tells the truth about life”
Warwick Thornton discusses Samson and Delilah with the WSWS
By Richard Phillips, May 14, 2009
Samson and Delilah writer, director and cinematographer Warwick Thornton spoke with the World Socialist Web Site this month when his film screened at the Message Sticks film festival in Sydney.
“To show the beauty of this reality”
Film director Sergey Dvortsevoy speaks with WSWS
By Richard Phillips, May 6, 2009
Sergey Dvortsevoy, director and co-writer of Tulpan, spoke with the World Socialist Web Site during his recent visit to Australia.
An interview with former East German director Rainer Simon
“We wanted to make realistic films about the GDR”
By Bernd Reinhardt, April 29, 2009
At the Berlinale 2009 the WSWS had the opportunity to speak with Rainer Simon about his work as a film director in the GDR.
An interview with Jennifer Venditti, director of Billy the Kid
By Joanne Laurier, March 31, 2009
The WSWS spoke recently with Jennifer Venditti, director of Billy the Kid.
Australian writer protests new censorship measures
Frank Moorhouse speaks with WSWS
By Richard Phillips, February 9, 2009
“The Australia Council’s job is not to develop protocols but to argue for freedom of expression as a basic right and to raise concern about anything that impedes that right.”
“Filmmakers have real responsibilities to their audiences”
Bertrand Tavernier speaks with the WSWS
By Richard Phillips, January 22, 2009
Veteran filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier is one of a handful of humane and intelligent filmmakers of the post-WWII generation still working in contemporary cinema. He spoke with Richard Phillips during a ...
