Nick Chen

.............I reached the semi-finals of this year's @TheAcademy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship. I was a semi-finalist in 2021 as well. I have lots of scripts if anyone's googling & finding my Twitter account.

............I spoke to Carla Simón about "Romería", stepping into magical realism, being inspired by her mother's old letters, & how her children will themselves be able to watch/read her interviews when they're older............ like this one............ anothermag.com/design-living/…

.................I spoke to Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke about "A Useful Ghost", getting the tone right for a political arthouse comedy about a haunted hoover, & the queerness of human/ghost romances: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

...........I spoke to Christian Petzold about the films that influenced "Miroirs No. 3", why bicycles are inherently cinematic, & how annoying it is when an actor criticises your script (especially when their complaint is correct): bfi.org.uk/interviews/chr…

From Rebecca to Mulholland Dr. – Christian Petzold sorts through the older films that bubbled up into his imagination as he made his enigmatic new mystery drama Miroirs No. 3. theb.fi/4eQfSSL

...........I spoke to Julia Loktev about "My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow", shooting a 5.5-hour doc entirely on an iPhone, if you look at the phone or the person when you're filming them, & what awaits in Part II: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

..............I spoke to David Lowery about "Mother Mary", asking Charli XCX to rewrite her lyrics, the power of Microsoft Word, Iris Van Herpen, & how an early draft was set on an island in the Atlantic Ocean without any dialogue: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

..........I spoke to François Ozon about "The Stranger", adapting Camus for 2026, & if it's true that Robert Smith of The Cure writes his emails entirely in capital letters: anothermag.com/design-living/…

...........I spoke to Mascha Schilinski about "Sound of Falling", her background as a magician in a travelling circus, & if it was necessary for me to have watched the film four times: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

..........I asked Rose Byrne if it's OK to hate children (including your own), what it's like to spend so much time in hotels, & if "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" could be set in Hackney: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

...........I spoke to Park Chan-wook about "No Other Choice", how being a serial killer is good for your self esteem, & rewriting S. Craig Zahler's "The Brigand of Rattleborge" into "The Brigands of Rattlecreek": dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

..............I asked Ben Whishaw about what he did yesterday: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

........my interview w/ Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura on "The Secret Agent" had to end a bit early because they received a phone call from the President of Brazil: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

........I spoke to Guillermo del Toro about the floating camera in "Frankenstein", the Netflix/Warner Bros deal, getting 35mm prints for his BFI season, & reinventing himself for "Fury" (a remake of "The Fury of a Patient Man" he's writing w/ Scott Frank): dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

.........I spoke to Noah Baumbach about "Jay Kelly", if the title is meant to sound like George Clooney, the connection w/ "Frances Ha", & some rumours he says aren't true (that it was written for Brad Pitt, & that he's doing an A24 TV show called "Hope"): dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

.........I spoke to Jafar Panahi about "It Was Just an Accident", the role of sound when you're blindfolded by an interrogator, the play "Death and the Maiden", his confusion about western audiences laughing during the hospital scene, & more: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

.............I spoke to Shih-Ching Tsou & Sean Baker about "Left-Handed Girl", being drawn to Taipei's night markets, why all digital films should be shot on an iPhone, & the pet monkey that had to be cut out of the film: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

.............I spoke to Richard Linklater & Ethan Hawke about "Blue Moon", creative jealousy, which of their films they'd do a "Nouvelle Vague" about, how often they get asked about a fourth "Before" film, & what their version of a horror movie would be: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

.........I spoke to Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Melling, & Harry Lighton about their gay biker dom-com "Pillion", how you're meant to lick a boot, how early drafts were set in Ancient Rome & on a cruise ship, & shooting a sex scene behind a Pret in Bromley: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

...........I spoke to Lucile Hadžihalilović about "The Ice Tower", being drawn to fairytales about orphans, almost casting Guillermo del Toro as the role played by Gaspar Noé, & more: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

.....I spoke to Lynne Ramsay about "Die My Love", removing the comma from the title, singing Joy Division in the end credits, if the barking dog is imitating Jennifer Lawrence, writing a movie w/ Ezra Miller, how being human is to feel like a cat, & more: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…