Nick Chen
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How Alejandro G Iñárritu made the strangest Netflix film of 2022
The surreal project has critics divided – is it artful genius, or a bloated mess? We asked Iñárritu himself to share some insight → Read More
Noah Baumbach wants you to confront your mortality
‘It’s about the fear of death’: the director talks to Nick Chen about his new apocalyptic thriller, White Noise – a remake of Don DeLillo’s ‘unfilmable’ novel of the same name → Read More
James Gray’s Armageddon Time is not just a white guilt movie
The director returns this month with his anti-capitalist new memoir film, Armageddon Time – his first feature since 2019’s Ad Astra → Read More
Paul Mescal on social media, masculinity, and new film Aftersun
The actor talks to Nick Chen about his new role in Aftersun – a story of fatherhood, divorce, and the ‘twisted pain’ of emotional repression → Read More
How Sebastián Lelio made a Netflix film that’s actually good
The director talks to Nick Chen about his dreamy new thriller The Wonder, working with Florence Pugh, and the art of ‘delicious cinematic pleasure’ → Read More
Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness is so funny, it’ll make you puke
The acclaimed Swedish director talks us through his new gross-out satire, Triangle of Sadness: ‘When the audience walk into a Ruben Östlund movie, I want them to feel like they’re going to experience a ride’ → Read More
Aubrey Plaza is throwing herself at John Waters’ feet
As her new film Emily The Criminal is released in the UK, the actor talks to Nick Chen about scamming, the curse of Netflix, and why she’ll do ‘anything’ to be in John Waters’ new film → Read More
Inside Guy Maddin’s sexy, surreal new augmented reality show
The cult filmmaker’s latest project is Haunted Hotel – a voyeuristic new AR exhibition that can be found in the corridors of London’s BFI → Read More
After Yang: An uncanny sci-fi about robots, clones and racial identity
As the long-awaited film is finally released in the UK, Korean-American filmmaker Kogonada talks about the complex personal experiences that inspired it → Read More
Save the Green Planet! Why Ari Aster is remaking a Korean sci-fi comedy
Nick Chen delves into the rumours that the American director is redoing Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 sci-fi comedy about alien conspiracy theories → Read More
Funny Pages is a gritty comedy about failed comic-book artists
Owen Kline tells Nick Chen about his offbeat coming-of-age film, which was co-produced by the Safdie brothers → Read More
The Feast is a chilling welsh-language eco-horror
‘Like Greta Thunberg gone wrong’: Director Lee Haven Jones and actress Annes Elwy discuss their disturbing new horror film, set in a remote, mountainous corner of Wales → Read More
Nitram, the polarising film about Australia’s deadliest mass shooting
Lauded at Cannes but lambasted Down Under, Justin Kurzel tells us about his controversial new film Nitram, which documents the events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre → Read More
The sacred story of Khat, Ethiopia’s natural ‘spiritual’ drug
Jessica Beshir’s psychedelic new documentary, Faya Dayi, explores the history of Khat – a mystical green leaf discovered by Sufi imams on their search for “eternal life” → Read More
Jacqueline Lentzou is the new romantic of Greek Weird cinema
The Greek filmmaker talks astrology, working with Paul Thomas Anderson, and her emotional new film Moon, 66 Questions → Read More
Il Buco, an eerie docu-drama about Italy’s secret underground caves
Michelangelo Frammartino’s hypnotic new film takes us 700 metres into Calabria’s Bifurto Abyss → Read More
Vicky Krieps on cows, ‘female acting’ and Bergman Island
The actress discusses her meta role in Mia Hansen-Løve’s smart, lyrical new film, Bergman Island. ‘I like to be surprised,’ she tells Nick Chen. ‘As long as I stay curious, I know I’m alive’ → Read More
New Belgian drama Playground is like The Sopranos, but with children
Director Laura Wandel discusses her new film, which captures the claustrophobic terror of a being a kid at school → Read More
The story of Happening, an ‘intimate’ abortion thriller set in 1960s France
We talk to director Audrey Diwan about her nail-biting drama, which won Venice Film Festival’s top prize last year → Read More
Compartment No 6 is an offbeat twist on the road-trip romance
Actor Seidi Haarla discusses her role in the new Compartment No 6: a Finnish love story that won the Grand Prix at Cannes → Read More