Interviews with leading figures from the arts
theartsdesk Q&A: actor Lars Eidinger on 'Dying' and loving the second half of life
Thursday, 31 July 2025
To get Lars Eidinger "right", one must take him cloven hoof and all. He's intense, unconventional, and driven – but by what, exactly? Self-hatred, he says. Complacency, his critics say. The truth probably lies somewhere in between.
theartsdesk Q&A: director Athina Rachel Tsangari on her brooding new film 'Harvest'
Thursday, 24 July 2025
Over a decade ago, a handful of Greek filmmakers set out to reinvent the national cinema amid the country's social and economic decline. Athina Rachel Tsangari was one of the the most gifted.
theartsdesk Q&A: writer and actor Mark Gatiss...
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Having played Sherlock Holmes’s politically involved older brother Mycroft in the BBC’s hit crime series Sherlock, Mark Gatiss may not be an obvious...
Interview: Quinteto Astor Piazzolla on playing in...
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
“I still can’t believe that some pseudo-critics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango,” Astor Piazzolla once declared. “They have it...
theartsdesk Q&A: actor Emma Mackey on '...
Tuesday, 08 July 2025
Emma Mackey might have had her breakthrough role as a teenage tough cookie in Netflix's hit Series Sex Education (2019-20223), but there is also a...
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theartsdesk Q&A: director Andreas Dresen on his anti-Nazi resistance drama 'From Hilde, with Love'
The East German-born filmmaker explains why his biopic of the activist Hilde Coppi isn't bound to the 1940s |
Bleak landscapes and banjos: composer Bernard Hughes discusses his score for 'Chicken Town'
Our critic talks about his recent film project |
theartsdesk Q&A: Zoë Telford on playing a stressed-out psychiatrist in ITV's 'Malpractice'
She nearly became a dancer, but now she's one of TV's most familiar faces |
theartsdesk Q&A: Gary Oldman on playing John Cheever in 'Parthenope' and beating the booze
Exclusive: A candid interview with the master actor |
theartsdesk Q&A: film director Déa Kulumbegashvili on her startling second feature, 'April'
The Georgian filmmaker talks about her award-winning abortion drama, motherhood and her relationship with the unknown |
theartsdesk Q&A: director Leonardo Van Dijl discusses his sexual abuse drama 'Julie Keeps Quiet'
The Belgian filmmaker unfolds an all too familiar tragedy in the world of tennis |
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Miguel Gomes on his latest exotic opus, 'Grand Tour'
The Portuguese director's comic melodrama takes a fantastical journey through Southeast Asia and the history of cinema |
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on his apocalyptic musical 'The End'
The documentary director talks about his ominous first fiction film and why its characters break into song |
theartsdesk Q&A: director François Ozon on 'When Autumn Falls'
The modern French master reflects on ageing, useful lies and country secrets in his new slow crime film |
theartsdesk Q&A: Indian star Radhika Apte on 'Sister Midnight'
The actor on her breakout screen performance capturing the frantic pulse of Mumbai, and living and working between London and India |
theartsdesk Q&A: Raoul Peck, director of the documentary 'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found'
Peck analyses his approach to the anti-apartheid photographer's work and to his methods as a political filmmaker |
theartsdesk Q&A: Oscar-winner Adrien Brody on 'The Brutalist'
The much-garlanded actor on what playing the architect László Toth meant to him |
Interview: Polar photographer Sebastian Copeland talks about the dramatic changes in the Arctic
An ominous shift has come with dark patches appearing on the Greenland ice sheet |
theartsdesk Q&A: Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof on 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' - 'It became a question of self-respect'
The exiled filmmaker on authoritarian minds, reluctant radicalism and Iran's future |
10 Questions for Mark Gatiss, writer-director of 'A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone'
Gatiss explains why his eerie tale begins with its original Victorian-Edwardian author Edith Nesbit |
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson on 'Rumours'
Archetype-bending auteur Maddin and co. discuss their new film's starry, absurd G7, autobiography and artifice |
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Payal Kapadia on 'All We Imagine as Light'
An in-depth conversation with the director of the instant Indian arthouse classic |
Interview: rising star Chloe Savage on the Arctic, outer space, and igniting children's wonder for the unknown
Beautiful books take you to worlds that are intricately imagined and a feast for the eye |
Interview: Roy Haynes, Jazz Drumming Giant (1925-2024)
The jazz legend reminisces, from Satchmo to Metheny |
theartsdesk Q&A: director Jacques Audiard on his Mexican trans gangster musical 'Emilia Pérez'
The French filmmaker concocted an extravagant genre mash-up to confront the tragedy of Mexico's 'disappeared' |
theartsdesk Q&A: Anna Bogutskaya on her new book about the past decade of horror cinema
In time for Halloween, the author discusses 'Feeding the Monster' - and why she thinks horror cinema has entered a new phase |
theartsdesk Q&A: Alice Lowe on 'Timestalker' and what women rue through the ages
The writer, director, and star inserts herself into the history of love |
theartsdesk Q&A: young pianist Ignas Maknickas on appearing at the Roman River Festival and beyond
A rising talent who first performed with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra aged 9 |
The Third Man rides again - 75th anniversary of Carol Reed's noir classic
Script supervisor Angela Allen on Orson Welles and filming in a war-ravaged Vienna |
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