Calum Marsh

Change Your Mind, Change Yourself: An Interview with the Dardennes

The sibling filmmakers on letting a story grow organically, the challenges of representing depression on screen, and finding variances in a repetitive structure.

'That's a Fairly Silly Question': An Interview with Mike Leigh

The acclaimed (and playfully salty) filmmaker on the evolution of style, shooting in digital, and the limits and joys of making period pieces.

'If You're Pretentious, Be Obviously Pretentious': An Interview with Frederick Wiseman

The National Gallery filmmaker talks about cultural elitism, film vs. digital, and the challenges of bringing artwork to life on screen.

'The Book is Like a Compost Heap': An Interview with David Cronenberg

The filmmaker discusses the process of writing his debut novel, great illiterate screenwriters, and finding beauty in our bodies' grislier corners.

The Uniquely Repetitive World of Jim Jarmusch

From the rat’s nest of a Lower East Side studio of Stranger Than Paradise to the ... rat’s-nest of a crumbling Detroit mansion of Only Lovers Left Alive, Jarmusch’s work always feels vaguely familiar—and yet, not quite like anything else.

Queer Pagan Punk: Derek Jarman’s Hostile Cinema

As a full retrospective of Jarman’s films opens this week in Toronto, we look at the director’s approach to queer filmmaking, which often meant more than simply telling queer stories—it meant responding, sometimes in hostile fashion, to a suffocating status quo.

|| Xavier Dolan in Tom at the Farm
Xavier Dolan’s Great Expectations

The Quebecois director talks about his film, Tom at the Farm, how his work is received in America, and why never actually gets around to watching movies.

|| Scarlett Johansson in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin
‘Own Your Own Ambiguity’: An Interview with Jonathan Glazer

The auteur behind Sexy Beast and Birth discusses his new film, Under the Skin, for which he would covertly film encounters between his star, Scarlett Johansson, and unwitting non-actors from the streets of Glasgow.

Jean-Luc Godard: The Political and the Personal

Godard Forever: Part One, a 17-film retrospective of director Jean-Luc Godard’s early work, begins this Friday at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. To mark the occasion we look at the politics and provocations that were the auteur’s long-time trademark.