Tag: Iranian Cinema

Farnoosh Samadi’s feature debut is a chilling, quietly brutal drama that examines the real-life tensions caused by patriarchal society. Set in and around Tehran, Iran’s…

The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 3 days to…

“[Abbas] Kiarostami gave the Iranian cinema the international credibility that it has today. But his films were unfortunately not seen as much in Iran. He…

“You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn’t matter if you transport them to a world of intuition…

“Abdellatif Kechiche is one of the greatest, most famous directors in France, and I love the trance-like feeling that you get with his cinema. I…

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life…

Without it yet being an actual problem, watching this felt like Asghar Farhadi has become a bit too self-aware, dangerously close to falling into the…

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

The movie section of the internet has gone a little bit Oscar crazy, which is to be expected. It’s not all bald Golden men and…