This Is Not a Film with Jafar Panahi and the iguana Igi. Under house arrest[1] following accusations of spreading “propaganda against the Islamic Republic” of Iran, filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Cannes…
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Sex-starved housewives everywhere are represented by Agnes Kittelsen, who also happens to be the “perfect” housewife, in Anne Sewitsky’s Happy, Happy / Sykt Lykkelig – one of the 2011 Sundance…
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Muslim cinema at UCLA. Pictured: Brick Lane. “What we wanted to say is, if these people [Iranians, Muslims] scare you, look closer: They have parents, they have lovers, they have…
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Breaking of the fourth wall at film’s end nearly ruins Abbas Kiarostami’s otherwise effective suicide drama Taste of Cherry. Palme d’Or co-winner.
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Award-winning Iraq War-themed drama gets US distribution + veteran Oscar winner has been hospitalized + Antarctica is getting its very first movie theater.
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War-related movies were the clear favorites at the San Sebastian Film Festival, where Lifetime Achievement honors went to Woody Allen and Annette Bening.
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A trio of French film stars are among the celebrities offering support for hostages being held in Iraq + an Iranian director has been hospitalized after Moral Police arrest.
Alain Delon, Bianca di Sofia at the Cannes Film Festival screening of ‘To Each His Own Cinema’ At Cannes Film Festival, Roman Polanski blames computers for journalists’ idiocy “I believe…