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Directors and stars discuss their upcoming movies with the Guardian film team
  • Spike Lee: ‘You hope that black people will stop being hunted down like animals’ – video

    The director has spoken about race at the Cannes film festival, where he is the first black president of the Palme d’Or jury

  • 'Fly me to the moon? No thanks': Ryan Gosling on First Man – video

    Ryan Gosling and the director Damien Chazelle talk to the Guardian's Catherine Shoard about their biopic based on James R Hansen's book First Man: The Life of Neil A Armstrong. The film follows the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 

  • Alec Baldwin

    Alec Baldwin: 'Playing The Boss Baby is more fun than playing Trump' – video

    Stars Alec Baldwin and Lisa Kudrow and director Tom McGrath discuss their new animated comedy, about a suit-wearing, megalomaniacal toddler who some suggest bears an uncanny likeness to a certain president of the United States
  • Keanu Reeves John Wick junket

    Keanu Reeves: 'I don't know, man. John Wick is fun' – video interview

    The star and director of the sequel to the hit film about a hitman upset by the death of his puppy discuss whether cinema needs to show the consequences of violence
  • Denzel Washington Fences junket

    Denzel Washington: 'We're not here because of #OscarsSoWhite' – video interview

    The star and director of Fences, adapted from the late August Wilson’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, discusses the impact of the diversity debate on his film
  • Annette Bening 20th Century Women junket

    Annette Bening: 'We can all learn a lot from Jimmy Carter' – video interview

    The star of Mike Mills’s Oscar-nominated 20th Century Women speaks of her admiration for the former president
  • Loving Jeff Nichols and Ruth Negga

    Jeff Nichols on Loving: 'Everyone's picking a side' – video interview

    The director of Oscar-nominated civil rights drama Loving discusses how society needs to rise above the lowest impulses of human nature
  • Ryan Gosling La La Land press

    Ryan Gosling on La La Land: 'The world is quick to shame you for trying' – video interview

    Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone on why the musical tends to flourish in times of real-life bleakness and the dangers of dreaming too much
  • Michelle Williams Manchester by the Sea junket interview

    Michelle Williams on Manchester by the Sea: 'Closure only comes when we die' – video

    The star of Kenneth Lonergan’s acclaimed new drama discusses why audiences can feel alienated and unattractive after watching a lot of mainstream movies
  • Marion Cotillard

    Marion Cotillard on starring with Brad Pitt in Allied: 'Chemistry creates itself' – video interview

    The star of new wartime thriller Allied joins director Robert Zemeckis to talk about the crucial ingredients of on-screen chemistry
  • David Oyelowo

    David Oyelowo: 'There's resistance to films with black protagonists' – video interview

    David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike, the stars of Amma Asante’s new film, A United Kingdom, discuss the project’s origins
  • Emily Blunt at press junket.

    Emily Blunt on The Girl on the Train: 'The vomit was not my own' – video interview

    Emily Blunt talks about her the forthcoming film adaptation of The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins’ bestseller
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    Tim Burton: 'When I first came to England I thought, Wow! I'm home!' – video interview

    The director talks on how the ‘texture, weather, seasons and age’ of the UK struck him as sympathetic after the sun and colour of a childhood in California
  • Potter

    Daniel Radcliffe: 'I'm pretty handy. I put a desk together' – video interview

    The actor talks about his two new movies: Swiss Army Man, in which he plays a flatulent corpse, and Imperium, about a gang of white supremacists
  • Sam Neill and Julian Dennison,  the central protagonists, in still image from the film.

    Sam Neill on Hunt for the Wilderpeople co-star: 'I'm grumpy, he's annoying' – video interview

    The stars of surprise family comedy The Hunt for the Wilderpeople speak about their working relationship
  • Cafe Society director Woody Allen

    Woody Allen on Café Society: 'We buy $100 worth of lottery tickets a week' – video interview

    The writer and director talks to Catherine Shoard about boredom, luxury and his 20 tickets a week lottery habit
  • Ice Age junket Ray Romano Queen Latifah

    Ice Age: Collision Course cast: 'This might confuse Texas' – video interview

    The cast of Ice Age: Collision Course, a children’s animation about the end of the ice age and the course of evolution, talk to Nigel M Smith
  • Nicolas Winding Refn

    Driving round LA with Nicolas Winding Refn: ‘I will go against good taste till I die’ – video feature

    Danny Leigh and the director motor round town, stop for a haircut and visit a parking lot where Refn recently saw a man die
  • Neon Demon junket Elle Fanning Nicolas Winding Refn

    Nicolas Winding Refn on The Neon Demon: 'Hollywood mirrors everything else' – video interview

    The director of new movie The Neon Demon is joined by his star, Elle Fanning, to speak to Benjamin Lee about making a horror set in the world of fashion
  • Salma Hayek laughing, Tale of Tales junket interview

    Tale of Tales star Salma Hayek: 'Women are more profound than men' – video interview

    Salma Heyek talks to Henry Barnes about Matteo Garrone’s fairy tale portmanteau, in which she plays a queen who will sacrifice all to have a child
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