Tag: Asghar Farhadi
2022 Cannes: Vincent Lindon Leads Jury + Jasmine Trinca’s Marcel! Added to Special Screenings
How does one avoid the major gaffe like the unfortunate Palme d'or reveal that occurred at last year's ceremony? You select a person who...
2021 Telluride Film Festival: World Preems for C’mon C’mon, King Richard, Cyrano, Belfast & One Mystery Film
The titles for the 48th edition of the Telluride Film Festival have been unveiled and Peter Hedges' low-budget zoom drama The Same Storm, Reinaldo Marcus...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero
After opening the competition in 2018 with Everybody Knows, Asghar Farhadi truly is in a return to form mode with the set in Iran...
A Hero | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
Purse First: Farhadi Brings Agony and Ecstasy in Latest Social Drama
Robert Burns’ eternal passage, cribbed by Steinbeck, “the best laid schemes o’ mice and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #41. Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero
A Hero
Produced by Asghar Farhadi, Alexandre Mallet-Guy
Directed by Asghar Farhadi
Written by Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Ra'na Azadivar, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Amir Jadidi
Cinematographer: To be determined.
Release...
Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) | Review
Iran So Far Away: Farhadi Stumbles with Spanish Soap Opera
Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi (A Separation; The Salesman) makes his Spanish-language debut with...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows
Best known for winning a pair of Best Foreign Language Film for his films A Separation (2012) and The Salesman (2017) the festival opener...
Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions III: Italy’s Sorrentino, Garrone & Rohrwacher Lead Europa Europa
It’s less than a week before the official program is unveiled for Cannes 2018 and this year’s festival already promises to be one of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #18. Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows
Asghar Farhadi has quickly become the most prominent Iranian filmmaker over the past decade. After winning the Golden Bear at the 2011 Berlinale...
Tracking Shot: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Asghar Farhadi & Martin Scorsese Shooting in August
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing. With summer...
The Salesman | Blu-ray Review
Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman was his second film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film (following 2012’s A Separation),...
The Salesman | Review
Dark but Full of Diamonds: Farhadi Incorporates Miller’s Tragic Theater for Gendered Revenge
In keeping with his string of tersely titled but searing domestic melodramas,...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
The Conversation: A Cannes Opener… 2017 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
And as we await the unveiling of the Venice Film’s Festival’s 2016 program, we look ahead to what may be in store for the...
Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Aquarius, Elle & Paterson Top our 2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Yesterday's George Miller led jury pronounced Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake as the best from the 2016 competition of twenty-one films, and they gave...
Farhadi’s “The Salesman” Completes Cannes Main Comp; Mackenzie’s “Hell or High Water” in UCR
And then they were twenty-one. Shown to Cannes' head honcho Thierry Fremaux a tad too late for the initial announcement, Asghar Farhadi's The Saleman...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction
As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #23. Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman
The Salesman
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Writer: Asghar Farhadi
Another Iranian auteur who recently dipped out of his native country is Asghar Farhadi, whose 2013 title The Past...
A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...
Farhadi Not Forgotten; Cinema Guild Dig into The Past for “About Elly”
Rarely do we report on films being picked up a good half decade after the fact, but Cinema Guild's Ryan Krivoshey saw value in...
Kechiche & Guiraudie Among 2013 Louis-Delluc Prize Finalists
It's among France's prestigious award films with a legacy dating back to 1937 (see entire wiki-list of winners) and it's one that I've made...
TIFF’s Phat 2013 Line-up Includes Latest From: Chomet, Egoyan, Holofcener, Glazer, Gordon Green & Reichardt
With dramatic fare such as August: Osage County, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Dallas Buyers Club, 2013's Toronto Int. Film Festival once again...
The Past | Cannes Review
Heavy, Heavy Hangs: Farhadi’s Latest a (mostly) Worthwhile Endeavor
For his first film made outside his native country, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi unveils his latest...