Best Documentary Oscar: Michael Moore Changes Miserable Failure? + ‘Subversive’ Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi in despite house arrest and smuggled movie.
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Sex-Starved housewives and Gay Iranian refugees + veteran New Wave actress Marina Vlady: Sundance Film Festival highly eclectic film line-up.
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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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Taste of Cherry (movie 1997) review: Breaking of the fourth wall at film’s end nearly ruins Abbas Kiarostami’s otherwise effective suicide drama. Palme d’Or co-winner.
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An award-winning Iraq War drama is getting U.S. distribution + Oscar winner Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker) has been hospitalized + Antarctica is getting its first film house.
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Iranian filmmaker Abolhassan Davoodi has been hospitalized after being arrested by Iran’s Islamic police. Also: Playwright Tony Kushner is rewriting Steven Spielberg’s untitled terror drama.
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War-related movies were the clear favorites at the San Sebastian Film Festival, where Lifetime Achievement honors went to Hollywood celebrities Woody Allen and Annette Bening.
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 …