Both Sides of the Blade (aka Fire): Claire Denis

The movie was both developed and shot during different stages of lockdown in France, but Denis said the unusual process actually helped to bring her and her cast closer together, making them a filmmaking family.

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The: Jimmy Akingbola

It was a massive audition I thought I’d messed up. But apparently they said I was their first choice.

Both Sides of the Blade: Binoche on Claire Denis New Film

“It was very difficult to do these scenes, they worked us more than we worked them, and they even ate us up inside, but we did it with courage, with fury,” said Binoche, referring to the title of the book, “Avec amour et acharnement” by Christine Angot.

Blonde: Andrew Dominik about his NC-17 Marilyn Monroe Film

The filmmaker confirmed his intention to make an NC-17 movie, and he called all the reactive hoopla to the rating “a bunch of horseshit.”

Peter von Kant: Ozon on Honoring and Betraying Fassbinder

Denis, whom I admire and know well after working with him on In the House (2012) and By the Grace of God (2018), was the perfect actor to embody this demigod with feet of clay, this ogre who was at once tender and brutal.