Tag: Atiq Rahimi

2023 Cannes: Palme Winner Julia Ducournau, Paul Dano & Rungano Nyoni Among Jury!

Ruben Östlund has a bunch of cinephile buddies to help him hand out the big daddy of all film prizes this May with the...

The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!

The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...

The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions

For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #124. Notre-Dame du Nil – Atiq Rahimi

Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile) Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi moves into the French language with his third feature Notre-Dame du Nil (Our...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: Picks 200-101

It's become a great breaking in the new year traditional here at IONCINEMA.com. We begin our countdown to the our most anticipated foreign films...

Interview: Atiq Rahimi (The Patience Stone)

French based Afghan novelist turned director Atiq Rahimi adapted his second novel for the screen which puts him in a small circle of authors...

The Patience Stone | Review

Stone Faced: Rahimi’s Concept Bogged Down By Transparency As he did with his 2004 film, Earth and Ashes, Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi adapts one of...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.