All posts tagged "Iranian Cinema"
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Reviews
The Great Yawn of History | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 22, 2024Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Rasti Hunts for Spiritual Treasures There have been countless films about the...
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My Favorite Cake | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 17, 2024Layer Cake: Moghaddam & Sanaeeha Find Love in a Hopeless Place If ever there were a...
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Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
January 30, 2024Camera Crew: Filmmakers Become Family In Farshad Hashemi’s Quietly Defiant Meta-Movie The problem with being lonely...
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In the Land of Brothers | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
January 22, 2024Family of Straw: Amirfazli & Ghasemi Present a Trilogy of Familial Tragedies The title, of course,...
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No Bears | Review
December 20, 2022Blow-Out: Twice Told Tales Unfold in Panahi’s Layered Docufiction Borders and Boundaries and Bears, Oh My!...
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Interviews
Interview: Houman Seyyedi & Azad Jafarian – World War III
November 25, 2022In anticipation for the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I chatted with director Houman Seyyedi and screenwriter...
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World War III | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
October 11, 2022War & Fleece: Seyyedi’s Swiftly Shifting Satire Explores the Corrupting Nature of Power In one of...
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Beyond the Wall | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
September 8, 2022Blind Man’s Bluff: Jalilvand Plays Cheap Tricks with Overwrought Melodrama To crib from (of all people)...
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Leila’s Brothers | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 26, 2022How to Beat the High Cost of Living: Roustayi Ponders Poverty in Familial Melodrama “Anyone who...
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Ballad of a White Cow | Review
February 10, 2022Kismet Kisses: Moghaddam & Sanaeeha Mine Intimate Vengeance in Rich Melodrama The opening moments of Ballad...