Stories By Amir Ganjavie
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Interviews
Cannes: With Frankie, Ira Sachs Invites Audiences To Find The Extraordinary In The Ordinary
May 25, 2019Director Ira Sachs has found his greatest inspirations from cinema outside of the US. With filmmakers...
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Interviews
Cannes: In His Feature Debut, Ukrainian Director Nairman Aliev Seeks Out A Universal Story With Homeward
May 25, 2019Armed with a master’s degree and memberships to the Ukranian and European Film Academies, Nairman Aliev...
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Interviews
Cannes: Xavier Dolan Discusses Matthias & Maxime and His Quest To Convey Honesty Through What Characters Say Between The Lines
May 25, 2019Xavier Dolan is no stranger to the Cannes Film Festival. As the director of eight feature...
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Directing
Slow-Burn: Director Lee Chang-dong on Storyboarding, Shooting, Lighting, and Scoring Burning
November 14, 2018Eight years after Poetry, Lee Chang-dong premiered Burning in the Cannes Film Festival’s main competition section. Based...
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Movie News
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Nandita Das’ Biopic Manto Examines Iconclast Writer Saadat Hasan Manto
May 24, 2018Presented in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Nandita Das’ biopic, Manto, follows the most...
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Directing
Zama: Director Lucrecia Martel Discusses Her Long-Awaited New Film
May 8, 2018Continuing to explore her interest in lost souls, found elsewhere in her films The Holy Girl (2004)...
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Interviews
“Melancholy and Aggression”: In the Fade Examines Democracy’s Limitations and Human Capacity for Revenge
December 27, 2017Fatih Akin’s Cannes hit In the Fade was recently shortlisted as one of nine finalists in...
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Directing
Angels Wear White: Director Vivian Qu Discusses Her Hard-Hitting Drama And The Complexity Of Social Justice
September 27, 2017Angels Wear White is the second work by Chinese writer-director Vivian Qu—a modern-day noir that tells...
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Directing
The Great Invisible: With Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas Makes Serious Stabs at the Supernatural
March 7, 2017Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper is an attempt to evaluate cinema’s potential to represent and reflect upon...
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Acting
Upstaged by Injustice: The Salesman Is About More Than Its Titular Character, Says Actor Shahab Hosseini
January 26, 2017Asghar Farhadi’s newest film The Salesman recently won prizes at Cannes for both Farhadi’s screenplay and for Shahab...
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Directing
Elle Director Paul Verhoeven: “Look at American Movies, There is a Total Addiction to Destruction”
November 11, 2016Breaking new ground with a psychological rape-revenge thriller, says Paul Verhoeven, “inspires a certain kind of fear”—especially one...
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