Peter O'Brian Talking About Making "The Grey Fox"
By: Amir Ganjavie Directed by Phillip Borsos in 1982, the Grey Fox is one of the most influential films in the history of Canadian...
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Hooman Razavi
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
Hotdocs Festival I The Dilemma Of Desire: Yes Means Yes, No Means No
By: Hooman Razavi “A Man’s eroticism is Woman’s sexuality,” Karl Kraus commented almost a century ago. Much has changed since then, as...
Ali Moosavi
- May 22, 2020
- 5 min
Hotdocs Festival: A Brief Observation
By: Ali Moosavi Leap Of Faith: William Friedkin On The Exorcist The Exorcist (William Friedkin) caused a sensation when it opened in...
Hooman Razavi
- May 20, 2020
- 3 min
The Vast Of Night (2019): I Want You To Take Me To The Ship...
By: Hooman Razavi What if we take the time capsule back to 1950 America and zoom into a derelict rural community? Could we expect to find...
Arash Azizi
- May 17, 2020
- 4 min
UK’s Israeli Film And TV Festival Goes Virtual
This year’s festival will open on Tuesday night, 8 pm UK time
Hooman Razavi
- May 16, 2020
- 3 min
Babyteeth (2019): “She Did Not Say Goodbye To Me…”
By: Hooman Razavi “We can speak and think only of what exists.” Parmenides wrote millennia ago. Babyteeth, the feature debut of...
Hooman Razavi
- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
Deerskin (2019): Meet The Beast
By: Hooman Razavi What if you come across a real serial killer rubbing shoulders with you in the street? Could we expect a sneaky smile...
Hooman Razavi
- May 13, 2020
- 4 min
On A Magical Night (2019): “I Lapsed Once…”
By: Hooman Razavi What do Night and Cinema share in common, one may wonder? It is the secrets and stories that they harbinger, and once...
Parviz Jahed
- May 13, 2020
- 13 min
The Utopian Cinema Of Parviz Kimiavi
By: Parviz Jahed Parviz Kimiavi is one of the most outstanding New Wave directors in Iran. I rewatched his documentaries and feature...
siavashrokni
- May 12, 2020
- 5 min
Love Child (2019): Intimate Portrayal Of Hope
By: Siavash Rokni Love Child begins in 2012. Its opening shot of Tehran’s landscape in the dusk with a halo of the iconic Milad tower in...
Hooman Razavi
- May 11, 2020
- 3 min
Bulletproof: BANG, BANG, BANG | 2020 Hot Docs Film Festival
By: Hooman Razavi “My intention is for Bulletproof to be both a map and a mural.” Todd Chandler commented on making his most recent...
Amir Ganjavie
- May 10, 2020
- 8 min
Let The Sunshine In: Claire Denis Says That There Is Less Hope Than When She Was A Young Girl
By: Amir Ganjavie Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In is an adaptation of Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. Now streaming...
Nancy Naghavi
- May 9, 2020
- 10 min
Swallow’s Director Carlo Mirabella-Davis On His Approach To Make A New Film About Women Pregnancy
By: Nancy Naghavi Swallow was released in the United States in middle of March, but due to the Coronavirus outbreak, its theatrical run...
Ali Moosavi
- May 9, 2020
- 3 min
The King Of Marvin Gardens (1972)
By: Ali Moosavi Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson made Five Easy Pieces (1970) together, which has deservedly been hailed as an American...
Ali Moosavi
- May 8, 2020
- 4 min
Greed (2019)
By: Ali Moosavi Michael Winterbottom is one of the most prolific filmmakers in today’s cinema. In the last twenty years he has made 26...
Amir Ganjavie
- May 8, 2020
- 12 min
Eytan Fox And The Making Of Sublet | 2020 Tribeca Film Festival
By: Amir Ganjavie Sublet is the latest film by Eytan Fox, the renowned Israeli director, who has been a regular participant at the...
Hooman Razavi
- May 7, 2020
- 3 min
KoKoLoKo: Romantic Dystopia In Oaxaca | 2020 Tribeca Film Festival
By: Hooman Razavi Does violence spice up the image with a sense of realite and politicize spectatorship? Gerardo Naranjo, second feature...
Arash Azizi
- May 6, 2020
- 3 min
True History Of The Kelly Gang (2020) | Anarcho-Freudian Fantasies In The Antipodes
By: Arash Azizi Ned Kelly, the late 19th-century Irish-Australian gang leader, has long had a hold on creative imaginations. Executed at...
Nancy Naghavi
- May 6, 2020
- 7 min
David Gutnik On Materna And The Representation Of Vulnerability
By: Nancy Naghavi With the use of network structure in its plot, Materna, the debut feature of David Gutnik, shows the lives of four...
Ali Moosavi
- May 6, 2020
- 4 min
Ryan Murphy's Hollywood (2020)
By: Ali Moosavi Recently in a highly publicized coup, Netflix engaged the services of Ryan Murphy, producer of such global TV hits as...
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