Interviews with Directors and Artists
Fred Breinersdorfer, writer of Sophie Scholl-The Final Days, speaks with the WSWS
By Richard Phillips, August 17, 2006
Sophie Scholl—The Final Days is currently screening at Australian cinemas. Directed by Marc Rothemund and written by Fred Breinersdorfer, the film powerfully dramatises the activities of the Whi...
An interview with James Longley, the director of Iraq in Fragments
By Joanne Laurier, June 29, 2006
American filmmaker James Longley’s remarkable documentary, Iraq in Fragments, screened recently at the San Francisco Film Festival (see WSWS review).
The conflict between the desire for freedom and backward religious traditions
Deepa Mehta speaks with WSWS
By Richard Phillips, May 15, 2006
India-born director Deepa Mehta spoke with World Socialist Web Site journalist Richard Phillips during a recent visit to Australia to promote Water, her latest film. As the accompanying links explain,...
“My film is not a national propaganda tool”
An interview with Tolga Ornëk, director of Gallipoli: The Front Line Experience
By Richard Phillips, December 20, 2005
Turkish director Tolga Ornëk has made six major documentaries since he began filmmaking in 1998. These include, Atatürk (1998), Mount Nemrud: The Throne of the Gods (1999), Eregli: The Heart of Stee...
An interview with Sigfrido Ranucci, director of The Hidden Massacre
By Marc Wells, December 14, 2005
On November 8, the Italian public television network RAI aired the documentary film The Hidden Massacre, which exposes the use by US forces of white phosphorous bombs on the civilian population of Fal...
An interview with Marcellino de Baggis, writer and director of Quintosole
By Marc Wells, November 11, 2005
In September the WSWS posted a review of Quintosole (“An honest look at the lives of Italian inmates”), a documentary by Italian filmmaker Marcellino de Baggis, on the social and psycholog...
An interview with Alain Tasma, director of October 17, 1961
By David Walsh, September 28, 2005
David Walsh and Joanne Laurier spoke with French director Alain Tasma in Toronto.
“You can speak your truth more easily in the theatre”
An interview with Australian playwright Hannie Rayson
By Richard Phillips, June 23, 2005
Australian playwright Hannie Rayson recently spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about Two Brothers, her latest play, which premiered in Melbourne last May and is currently playing at the Sydney O...
“To show the courage of those who resisted the Nazis”
An interview with Margarethe von Trotta, director of Rosenstrasse
By Richard Phillips, May 31, 2005
More than two years after its European premiere, Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosenstrasse is finally being shown in Australian cinemas. The movie is about the courageous action of German women who p...
“There’s something magical about music”
Singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw speaks with the World Socialist Web Site
By Richard Phillips, August 6, 2004
Marshall Crenshaw is one of the few singer-songwriters to have maintained his artistic integrity and sanity after more than two and a half decades in the fickle world of the American rock recording in...
Gillo Pontecorvo, director of The Battle of Algiers, speaks to WSWS
“Stay close to reality”
By Maria Esposito, June 9, 2004
Gillo Pontecorvo, director of the 1965 film The Battle of Algiers (see: “A timeless portrait of the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria”) spoke recently by phone to Maria Esposito from the W...
To explore one of the dark episodes in Indonesian history
Interview with Garin Nugroho, director of The Poet
By Richard Phillips, September 19, 2001
Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho spoke with the World Socialist Web Site last month when his latest film, The Poet (Unconcealed Poetry), was screened at the Asian-Pacific Film Festival in Sydney. Nu...
