A Separation: A Film From Iran

2/5/2012

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

1/9/2012

If there is a film director better at making movies about children than Majid Majidi of Iran, I don’t know …

12/24/2010

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 …

12/18/2010

Day break refers to the time of day when the guards in a Tehran prison come to the cells of …

11/14/2010

It’s hard to convey the feeling of seeing Majid Majidi‘s wondrous 1999 The Color of Paradise from Iran. We watched it on …