Shirin Neshat Articles

Gabriel Bologna's The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (top); Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan in Allen Coulter's Remember Me (middle); Benjamin Bratt in Peter Bratt's La Mission (bottom) Also in limited release, Gabriel Bologna's horror-thriller The Black Waters of Echo's Pond opened at #23 with $250K at 204 theaters. Average per screen: a very low $619. At 338 theaters, Robert Pattinson's Remember Me [...]

Jafar Panahi's Offside Jafar Panahi, 49, the Iranian director of the Venice Film Festival winner The Circle, was arrested on Monday night along with his wife and daughter and 15 house guests following a raid at his home in Teheran, according to The Times of London. Panahi had supported opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in Iran's disputed parliamentary elections last year. The report adds that [...]

Veteran actress and London Film Festival jury member Charlotte Rampling, the star of Night Porter, The Verdict, and Swimming Pool, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images) Venice Film Festival 2009 best director winner Shirin Neshat arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth [...]

Best director winner Shirin Neshat for Women Without Men at the 2009 Venice Film Festival George Clooney, pushing The Men Who Stare at Goats and Up in the Air, and TV presenter-actress Elisabetta Canalis Toni Servillo at a photocall for Maurizio Zaccaro's Il Piccolo, screened in the Controcampo sidebar Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival Click on the photos to enlarge them.