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"Destroyer" Director Karyn Kusama Jan 03, 2019

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Kusmana on the using real guns, creating an unusual villain and pulling Nicole Kidman back from going almost too far in her incredible transformation.

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"Cold War" Director Pawel Pawlikowski Dec 27, 2018

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The Oscar winning director behind "Ida" talks about his extraordinary new film "Cold War."

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"If Beale Street Could Talk" Director Barry Jenkins Dec 21, 2018

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"Black love is a radical act," calling on Jenkins to create to take a bold and different approach to creating Beale Street's visual language.

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"You Were Never Really Here" Director Lynne Ramsay Dec 13, 2018

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Ramsay talks about coming back from the trauma of having been fired from a film she had already made in her head, to make one of the best films of the year.

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"Sorry To Bother You" Director Boots Riley Dec 13, 2018

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What Boots Riley learned from two decades of creating music that made making his first film such a success.

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"Madeline's Madeline" Director Josephine Decker Dec 11, 2018

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Josephine gets inside her unique multi-year process of creating the dreamy, meta world of "Madeline's Madeline," and how it relates to her new film "Shirley." PHOTO: AP/REX/Shutterstock

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"Leave No Trace" Director Debra Granik Dec 10, 2018

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The LA Critics Best Director winner talks about her long process and deep research of making her "social realist" films and the next films she's making.

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"BlacKkKlansman" Director Spike Lee Dec 07, 2018

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Spike on keeping Oscar season in perspective, film school today, and how the success of "BlacKkKlansman" has led people to reconsider his 40 years of filmmaking.

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"The Favourite" Director Yorgos Lanthimos Nov 29, 2018

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The "Dogtooth" and "Lobster" director talks about his unusual rehearsal process and what drew him to make a period lesbian triangle drama about Queen Anne with screenwriter Tony McNamara.

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"Widows" Director Steve McQueen Nov 15, 2018

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The “12 Years a Slave” director talks about why he never shot lists, the film’s incredible opening sequence, his longtime collaboration with DP Sean Bobbitt, why Chicago is the best city to set a story, and how he identified with the widows in the original BBC series as a 13 year old black kid growing up in London.

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