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Steve McQueen on 12 Years a SlaveThe film’s brutality made its own director look away, but to call it a movie about slavery is, he feels, to miss the point.
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Alfonso Cuarón Answers All Your Questions About GravityThe real-life science behind the filmmaking, butting heads with his advisers, and much more.
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Alfonso Cuarón on Making GravityHe believes movies aren’t about telling stories as much as making intense, lingering moments.
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Listening to BeckHe’s still making music. Differently from anyone else.
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‘I Just Want to Feel Everything’: Hiding Out With Fiona Apple, Musical HermitTalking and texting and inebriating and listening to music and staying up late and generally spending a lot of hanging-out time with one of America’s most mesmerizing and (ordinarily) most reclusive songwriters.