Directors Digest — Friday 27 October 2023

This week, Channel 4 announces the end of Steph’s Packed Lunch, and Broadcast looks at the industry’s current response to sexual harassment.

News

C4 drops Steph’s Packed Lunch. (Broadcast)

BBC increases staff mental health support amid war coverage. (Broadcast)

Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien has retired from filmmaking due to illness. (Indiewire)

Features

Broadcast asks: Is the industry doing enough to prevent sexual harassment?

Amidst a new season at the BFI, Little White Lies explores ’the enduring euphoria of Powell & Pressburger’.

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Director Interviews

Indiewire speaks to Anatomy of a Fall director Justine Triet.

Also for Indiewire, Guillermo del Toro reveals what he learned shadowing The Exorcist director William Friedkin on his final film.

Passages director Ira Sachs reveals his favourite film poster designs for MUBI Notebook.

For The New Yorker, Martin Scorsese talks about the making of Killers of the Flower Moon.

Carol Morley speaks to Sight & Sound about her new film Typist Artist Pirate King.