Taxi — A Forbidden Film from Iran
Jaffar Panahi’s Taxi, an entry at the recent Mill Valley Film Festival has made it into at least limited distribution in …
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A Separation: A Film From Iran
A Separation, from Iran, is the most intense, informative, though claustrophobic, domestic drama you are likely to see in years. …
Children of Paradise – A Film from Iran
If there is a film director better at making movies about children than Majid Majidi of Iran, I don’t know …
The Stoning of Soraya M — A Film of Iran
Of all the terrible means human beings have used to put others to death few exceed stoning for sheer cruelty; …
Women’s Prison — Iran
Quite unlike any women-in-prison movie you might have seen, or contemplated seeing, Manijeh Hekmat’s 2002 Women’s Prison, from Iran offers no …
Day Break – A Prison Movie from Iran
Day break refers to the time of day when the guards in a Tehran prison come to the cells of …
Baran: A Movie of Afghan Immigrants to Iran
Baran, another very fine movie from Iranian master Majid Majidi [see reviews of his Color of Paradise and The Song …
The Color of Paradise — A Film from Iran
It’s hard to convey the feeling of seeing Majid Majidi‘s wondrous 1999 The Color of Paradise from Iran. We watched it on …