I thought I filmed a press conference with Iranien director Abbas Kiarostami today but it was actually some russian dude. I only know because a) I met the russian dude later at the pool and was slighlty confused by the moment that followed, though not entirely clued in and b) because I went to see Kiarostami’s new film ‘Ten’ later tonight and a completely different person introduced the film with an iranien translator and everything (which in retrospect makes so much sense!)

To be fair, the ‘random russian dude’ is actually a very famous filmmaker named Nikita Mikhalkov.

Luckily my interview with Atom Egoyan this aft went much better since I didn’t slip up and start asking him about Existenz and Scanners.