Iranian cinema seems to enthuse itself. Even after decades of “New Wave” Iranian films first…
Tag: Golshifteh Farahani
Invasion (Season 1) Review: Any science fiction story needs a good setup. Mostly because it…
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, mused Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov. It is so human to lie, to make things up. One does it as a matter of course, even when it is not a regular habit. It’s like a spasm in the monologue that is always running in one’s head, a sudden contraction in the verbiage – done involuntarily, almost like a sneeze. A really amusing example is a scene from 2012’s Moneyball. Brad Pitt asks Jonah Hill whether he did the player evaluation he was supposed to do.
Staying within the established lanes of its genre, playing every single scene by the books,…
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is a challenging film to watch. With little happening in terms of macro-level plot…
For extraordinarily humane film-makers like Jim Jarmusch, cinema is an open form. The quiet, observational…
