All posts by Amir Ganjavie
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Slow-Burn: Director Lee Chang-dong on Storyboarding, Shooting, Lighting, and Scoring Burning
Eight years after Poetry, Lee Chang-dong premiered Burning in the Cannes Film Festival’s main competition section. Based on the short story “Barn Burning”... -
Zama: Director Lucrecia Martel Discusses Her Long-Awaited New Film
Continuing to explore her interest in lost souls, found elsewhere in her films The Holy Girl (2004) and The Headless Woman (2008), Lurcecia Martel’s... -
“Melancholy and Aggression”: In the Fade Examines Democracy’s Limitations and Human Capacity for Revenge
Fatih Akin’s Cannes hit In the Fade was recently shortlisted as one of nine finalists in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar... -
Angels Wear White: Director Vivian Qu Discusses Her Hard-Hitting Drama And The Complexity Of Social Justice
Angels Wear White is the second work by Chinese writer-director Vivian Qu—a modern-day noir that tells the story of two young victims... -
The Great Invisible: With Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas Makes Serious Stabs at the Supernatural
Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper is an attempt to evaluate cinema’s potential to represent and reflect upon the invisible. For the French auteur,... -
Upstaged by Injustice: The Salesman Is About More Than Its Titular Character, Says Actor Shahab Hosseini
Asghar Farhadi’s newest film The Salesman recently won prizes at Cannes for both Farhadi’s screenplay and for Shahab Hosseini’s lead performance. The film presents... -
Elle Director Paul Verhoeven: “Look at American Movies, There is a Total Addiction to Destruction”
Breaking new ground with a psychological rape-revenge thriller, says Paul Verhoeven, “inspires a certain kind of fear”—especially one that many denounced as “amoral” during...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2