Abbas Kiarostami’s Humanist Legacy Lives on in Universal Language
Abbas Kiarostami wasn’t the first Iranian director to explore these binaries, often by using moviemaking itself as a ...
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What we saw at Sundance 2025: 12 narrative trips, animatronic buddies included
Teenagers on the range, misguided missionaries, a cerulean-faced orphan puppet? The Park City fest took many turns.
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Review: Rankin’s surreal ‘Universal Language’ defies borders
It’s not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto ...
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From Auschwitz to Gaza: The unfolding horror and its implications
In late February 1945, among the first reports on the horrors of Auschwitz was one by a Polish officer, Lt. Wacław Lipiński, ...
Timothée Chalamet Thought ‘A Complete Unknown’ Production Was ‘Cursed’: It Took ‘Five Years’ to Get Made
Timothée Chalamet didn’t even know if “A Complete Unknown” would ever get made.
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Mahmoud Abbas ends Palestinian Authority’s payments to families of terrorists
Abbas reportedly canceled the program, dubbed "pay-for-slay" by its critics, as a goodwill gesture toward Donald Trump.
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Works of several generations of Iranian contemporary artists on display at Laleh Art Gallery
TEHRAN-The 13th Art Expo of Several Generations of Iranian Contemporary Artists is underway at the Laleh Art Gallery in ...
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10 Questions for Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof on 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' - 'It became a question of self-respect'
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig director Mohammad Rasoulof: ‘It became a question of self-respect’
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the Sacred Fig. The 52-year-old has previously probed the moral cost of his ...
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The Uneven Cross-Cultural Comedy of “Paddington in Peru” and “Universal Language”
Cinematic nods abound in two tales of homecoming, one starring Paddington Bear and the other set somewhere between Canada and ...