The New Extremism in the Street of Comedy: An Interview with Bruno Dumont Amir Ganjavie March 2017 Movements: Filmmaker Interviews By 2016 Bruno Dumont had directed nine feature films ranging from realist to experimental works. His major preoccupations in these movies were racism, religious fundamentalism, and questions of the sacred and t...
A Homeland Swansong: Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Cemetery of Splendor Amir Ganjavie December 2015 Feature Articles Three years since the release of his short feature Mekong Hotel (2012), Apichatpong Weerasethakul has returned to the international scene with Cemetery of Splendor (Rak Ti Khon Kaen), a mysterious and humorous ...
The Quest for Everyday Utopianism: An Interview with Corneliu Porumboiu Amir Ganjavie June 2015 Feature Articles Six years after receiving the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize for Police, Adjective (Politist, adjectiv), Corneliu Porumbiou returned to Cannes this year with The Treasure (Comoara). Telling the story of a blue-co...
When Minimalism Meets the Martial Art Tradition: An Interview with Hou Hsiao-hsien Amir Ganjavie June 2015 Feature Articles After an eight-year absence, Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien has boldly returned to feature filmmaking with The Assassin (Nie Yinniang), a Tang dynasty-set story set amidst the political conflict between th...
