Robert Eggers likes to go in cold. “In theory, I don’t care for this,” the soft-spoken 41-year-old filmmaker says, glancing around the hotel room he’s sitting in. “If I see a trailer for ...

When I heard that Robert Eggers, one of the most ingenious directors ... there is a sexual subtext to Ellen’s act of lying to her spouse to await her final fate alone in their bedroom.

There’s a moment early in Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, when Lily-Rose Depp, last seen as the twisty pop star in The Idol, telegraphs to the audience: This will be unlike anything you’ve ever ...

But when I recently sat down with Eggers to discuss the movie, he told me that, as much as vampire tales might feel like manifestations of societal anxieties, channeling the zeitgeist wasn’t at ...