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Patrick Preziosi

Nick Pinkerton prefers not to.

"Part of the urge to disconnect is tied up in trying to figure out how you can set your own agenda as a critic rather than assenting to play a role in a script that’s been imposed."
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Savina Petkova

Dea Kulumbegashvili is just beginning.

“I don’t believe in being strong. I believe in being vulnerable.”
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Shanti Escalante-De Mattei

Charles Acland takes Hollywood very seriously.

“These films don’t just sit still; they’re there for people to do something with, and you can see people doing it.”
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David G. Hughes

Camille Paglia declares cinema done.

"It lasted for a spectacular century—which is actually longer than other important movements in the arts..."
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Hugo Emmerzael

Cristi Puiu has death on his mind.

“I believe that the best position of the camera is the one where death is visible.”
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Savina Petkova

Agnieszka Holland won’t forget the past.

"There is a duty to translate this history into the feature film, which is a popular art that can reach people and wake up their imagination and emotions."
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Rhys Handley

Benedict Andrews finds the grace of truth in a cinema icon.

"We are depicting a woman who goes through fire and comes out radically transformed."
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Rhys Handley

Bertrand Bonello is thinking about freedom.

"I think the core idea of the film is this idea of freedom—it is everywhere in the ideas of French and Haitian history."
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Savina Petkova

Kantemir Balagov has a passion.

"You can be an old man at the age of eighteen, mentally or physically. It doesn’t matter that much if you don’t have a passion for life."
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Hugo Emmerzael

Nora Fingscheidt goes extreme.

"I’m still fascinated by people with extreme energy, even when it's self destructive.”
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Hugo Emmerzael

Denis Côté enjoys not knowing.

"They thought I was shooting a horror film and then I got fed up and I said it’s a film about the living."
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David G. Hughes

Dallas Sonnier is making outlaw cinema.

"We will always be the renegade Texans running around trying to stir the pot."
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Manon Girault

Richard Squires examines otherness.

"Many of our ideas are in some way inspired by the imagery we have been exposed to."
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Max Redmond Smith

Camille Vidal-Naquet and Félix Maritaud want us to feel.

"I think it’s amazing to take some people, and take them to a world of fiction, and to make them feel something that has no existence, and to create humanity."
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David G. Hughes

Iain Robert Smith studies remakesploitation.

"I remember being at a conference and one of the professors said that I’d be a really good scholar once I got over this cult stuff."