Tag: Babak Anvari
Arcadia | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
None of Us Strangers: Zois Probes Unrest of Our Shadows
“It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to...
It’s a Family Affair: A24 Gets into the Eggers Business with “The Front Room”
There are other Egger filmmakers in the woodwork. Brothers to the filmmaker behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman, Screen Daily reports Max Eggers...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #88. Babak Anvari’s I Came By
I Came By
With Under the Shadow (2016) and Wounds (2019) under his belt, British-Iranian filmmaker Babak Anvari made a significant move into the larger...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Babak Anvari’s I Came By
After blasting out of Sundance with breakout hit Under the Shadow (2016) and following that up with a sophomore item featuring a strung out...
Babak Anvari’s Wounds | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Celebrated debut film Under the Shadow set in the war-torn Tehran of the 1980s has a lot of things going for it beyond the...
2019 Cannes: Zlotowski, Bonello, Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz & Guadagnino in Fortnight
We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year's Directors' Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #25. Babak Anvari’s Wounds
Wounds
Babak Anvari's Sundance break out debut in 2016's Under the Shadow solidified his standing within the genre, and so it was no surprise that...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #85. Babak Anvari – Transgression
Another Sundance alumni who broke out big at the fest with Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari quickly lined up a pair of projects with...
Through the Looking Glass – the Top 50 American Indie Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
It's never too early to look into the distant future. Last week, our Nicholas Bell took a look past the 2018 calendar with Through the...
Under the Shadow | Review
Ghosts in Wartime: Anvari’s Period Piece the Horror Genre Needs
Iranian born Babak Anvari broke out with his literal assessment of class conflict in BAFTA-nominated...
Best of Fest: Sundance 2016’s Top 10 New Voices
Commonly known as a lieu that breeds new filmmaking talents, Nicholas Bell and I look back at the filmmakers who made the most noteworthy...