Amir Ganjavie

  • Interviews

Cannes: With Frankie, Ira Sachs Invites Audiences To Find The Extraordinary In The Ordinary

Director Ira Sachs has found his greatest inspirations from cinema outside of the US. With filmmakers like Éric Rohmer, Yasujirō…

5 years ago
  • Interviews

Cannes: In His Feature Debut, Ukrainian Director Nairman Aliev Seeks Out A Universal Story With Homeward

Armed with a master’s degree and memberships to the Ukranian and European Film Academies, Nairman Aliev now represents his native…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

Cannes: Xavier Dolan Discusses Matthias & Maxime and His Quest To Convey Honesty Through What Characters Say Between The Lines

Xavier Dolan is no stranger to the Cannes Film Festival. As the director of eight feature films (most of which…

5 years ago
  • Directing

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…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

Cannes Film Festival 2018: Nandita Das’ Biopic Manto Examines Iconclast Writer Saadat Hasan Manto

Presented in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Nandita Das' biopic, Manto, follows the most tumultuous years in the…

6 years ago
  • Directing

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),…

6 years ago
  • Interviews

“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…

6 years ago
  • Directing

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…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

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…

7 years ago
  • Acting

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…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

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…

7 years ago