The Most Interesting People We Chatted to in 2016

Sarah Ward
Published on December 18, 2016
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    Reviving 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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    The 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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    The 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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    How 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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    What 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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    Hunt 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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    Ivan 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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    How 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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    Going 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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    Why 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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    Unpacking 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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    Sex, 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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    How 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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    Starring 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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    Inside 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.

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