The LA Critics Best Director winner talks about her long process and deep research of making her "social realist" films and the next films she's making.

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Spike on keeping Oscar season in perspective, film school today, and how the success of "BlacKkKlansman" has led people to reconsider his 40 years of filmmaking.

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The "Dogtooth" and "Lobster" director talks about his unusual rehearsal process and what drew him to make a period lesbian triangle drama about Queen Anne with screenwriter Tony McNamara.

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The “12 Years a Slave” director talks about why he never shot lists, the film’s incredible opening sequence, his longtime collaboration with DP Sean Bobbitt, why Chicago is the best city to set a story, and how he identified with the widows in the original BBC series as a 13 year old black kid growing up in London.

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The "Diary of a Teenage Girl" director on why striving for clarity in films can be a bad thing.

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RaMell Ross refused to accepted the limitations of documentaries and black representational space in cinema, so he created something new.

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The "Call Me By Your Name" director talks about how Thom Yorke changed his view of film scores, being inspired by the films and youth culture of Berlin 1977, his feminism, and tackling Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks." PHOTO: Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock

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The oscar winning director goes behind the scenes of recreating the moon landing and telling the story of Neil Armstrong.

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Kazan and Dano talk about collaborating on Paul’s directorial debut.

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Lowery on subverting the cops & robbers genre to detour into the looseness of a ‘70s film, finding out "Old Man" would be Redford's last movie, wanting to make the definitive "Peter Pan," the small indie he'll make first and how his wife Augustine Frizzell's career is blowing up.

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