The Most Interesting People We Chatted to in 2016
Behind every great film, song, artwork and experience, there's someone who has toiled away to make it happen. They're the folks behind your favourite fare, and theirs are the stories behind your favourite entertainment. This year, we chatted to plenty of them to find out just what makes them — and their work — tick. From Hollywood heavyweights taking on classic texts and genres to filmmaking newcomers, here's our most interesting movie chats from 2016.
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NewsReviving the Best Bits of Cinema with Quentin Tarantino
The Hateful Eight director talks bringing back westerns, 70mm film and good old cinema-going.
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NewsThe Daughter's Simon Stone and Odessa Young on Shaking Up Typical Aussie Movies
Why would an Aussie director adapt a 19th century Norwegian classic — again?
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NewsThe Witch Director Robert Eggers Talks Childhood Nightmares and Puritan Horror
Get inside the head of the first-time horror filmmaker who's getting snaps from both satanists and feminists.
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NewsHow The Jungle Book Director Jon Favreau Took Disney Beyond the Bare Necessities
We chat talking animals and tracking down Bill Murray with the actor-turned-director.
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NewsWhat the Government Doesn't Want You to See: Director Eva Orner Talks Chasing Asylum
Meet the Oscar-winning filmmaker responsible for one of the most confronting documentaries you'll see all year.
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NewsHunt For The Wilderpeople's Taika Waititi Talks Buddy Comedies and Taking On Thor
"The one thing that everyone relates to the most? Family dynamics. I don't relate to bank robbers."
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NewsIvan Sen And Aaron Pedersen Talk Goldstone and Carving a Genre for Aussie Outback Noir
We speak to the only duo to make not one, but two politically-charged Australian films with an Indigenous cop as the main character.
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NewsHow to Adapt Jane Austen for 2016 with Love and Friendship's Whit Stillman
"I hated the title Lady Susan, it wasn't Jane Austen's title."
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NewsGoing Viral and Getting James Wan's Attention with Lights Out's David F. Sandberg
The Swedish horror director caught Hollywood's eye with a two-and-a-half-minute short.
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NewsWhy Down Under's Abe Forsythe Made the Cronulla Riots Into a Comedy
There's never been a more timely moment to release a film about the Cronulla riots (even though they were ten years ago).
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NewsUnpacking Iranian Horror with Under The Shadow Director Babak Anvari
A haunting set in '80s Tehran, a time when the city was being bombed by neighbouring Iraq.
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NewsSex, Lies and Tickling: Behind the Scenes of the Year's Strangest Documentary
'Tickled' all started with a very strange online ad and prompted legal threats within a week of pre-production.
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NewsHow to Turn Your Life Into a Feature Film with The Space Between's Ruth Borgobello
Her somewhat autobiographical debut film is also the first Australian-Italian co-production.
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NewsStarring in a Road Movie with Hardly Any Script with American Honey's Riley Keough
Andrea Arnold's new road movie is "like an experience, rather than like a film".
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NewsInside the Palme d'Or-Winning Film Everyone Should See with I, Daniel Blake's Dave Johns
Meet the 59-year-old stand-up comedian whose very first (and very unfunny) feature film took Cannes.
