By Ali Moosavi. What drew me to Blood was that I could play the family drama aspect of it, the torment that this mother is going through, her struggle to keep her kids healthy and safe, along with the darker supernatural subtext.” Director Brad Anderson may not be as well […]
Waste and the Human-Machine Relationship: An Interview with Nikolaus Geyrhalter on Matter Out of Place
By Yun-hua Chen. They were scenes that were a bit more exchangeable; we could choose and find different ways of shooting these scenes, and we were not depending on one specific location. In the end, we found locations that could show that there is a problem.” Austrian Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter […]
Revealing the Tommy Guns: An Interview with Carlos Conceição
By Yun-hua Chen. Most of my films are about male characters going through some sort of coming of age or the process of becoming adults even if they are at different moments of life…. When you start talking about vulnerability, you can extend into different directions.” Winner of the Europa […]
“I think we killed off Jean-Luc Godard”: An Interview with Christophe Honoré
By Ali Moosavi. It is not that Jean-Luc Godard is better than Xavier Dolan. That is impossible to say, but their idea of cinema is not the same. Maybe the world today doesn’t need cinema anymore.” Christophe Honoré is a multi-talented French artist. He is a novelist, actor, director of […]
Documenting the Cinema of Iran: An Interview with Bahman Maghsoudlou
By Ali Moosavi. In Razor’s Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses, I showed their true worth and high place in the cinema. Some people who used to look down at these actresses from a high moral platform as cheap women, were crying at the screenings and saying how sorry they […]
Nocebos and Placebos: An Interview with Lorcan Finnegan on Nocebo
By Ali Moosavi. Without Name was probably the most oblique kind of minimalist film we’ve done and then obviously Vivarium is a quite surreal film…. With Nocebo it was quite a different challenge where we were basing the story in the real world in a domestic environment and then making […]
Adaptation, and the “Elite Community” of Filmmaking: An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro
By Ali Moosavi. As an overall trend I’m thinking the world is in a very precarious situation at the moment and why is it that the majority of films at this major film festival are about this elite community of film makers and artists and conductors and intellectuals? That did […]
Global Change and Local Protest in Thailand: An Interview with Sorayos Prapapan on Arnold is the Model Student (2022)
By Yun-hua Chen. After Covid, young generation started to think in a totally different way. That’s why the Bad Students movement came into being…. Young people don’t shut up anymore. They know that this country has a problem, and they are not indifferent.” The Thai filmmaker Sorayos Prapapan has an […]
‘I play with what I have’: An Interview with Juliette Binoche
By Ali Moosavi. I love what I do. It’s not being an actress… it’s being in the moment of work.” If I had to pick half a dozen of cinema’s greatest actresses working today, then Juliette Binoche would undoubtedly be among them. She is just an amazing actress and a […]
“Everything is political”: An Interview with Costa-Gavras
By Yun-hua Chen. Thriller is a way to tell a story about society. Political thrillers are movies about people in a particular situation…. Everything is political.” To celebrate the Greek-French auteur Costa-Gavras’ nearly 60 years of filmmaking, the Locarno Film Festival awarded him with the lifetime achievement award of 2022 […]