Interviews

Daphne director Peter Mackie Burns returns with fine-grained drama Rialto, which follows a middle-aged Dublin dock worker going through a crisis. The Glaswegian director tells us how the likes of Chekhov, Mike Leigh and David Bowie influence his work Read more »

Disorder director Alice Winocour tells how new film Proxima, which follows an astronaut juggling space training with raising her young daughter, is still very much an "earthy" movie Read more »

The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird introduces us to his debut feature film Days of the Bagnold Summer, a sweet comedy focused on the precarious relationship between a well-intentioned librarian mother and her metalhead teen son Read more »

Shell and Iona director Scott Graham returns with third feature Run. Sitting down with The Skinny and some of the film's cast, Graham tells us how his tale was inspired by a visit to his hometown and the story of a Bruce Springsteen obsessed fisherman Read more »

Alan Partridge and The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci talks us through his Dickens adaptation, The Personal History of David Copperfield Read more »

The Witch director Robert Eggers returns with The Lighthouse, another meticulously detailed period horror. We sat down with Eggers and one-half of his cast (the legendary Willem Dafoe) to hear about the arduous shoot and Robert Pattinson peeing his pants Read more »