Film & TV
Close to Everest
Mahyad Tousi's documentary
Cara Weavy
Creating waves
On Forugh Farrokhzad's short documentary "The House is Black"
Jason Price
Besides censorship
In her treasury of interviews with the world’s leading writers and filmmakers, Judy Stone devotes a dozen or so chapters to Iranian artists
Ari Siletz
A bridge too far
It had everything! Good guys versus bad guys, tons of explosions, and even tanks
Shahrokh Nikfar
Jafar Panahi at Melbourne Film Festival
Farid Parsa
Iran, King Kong and paradise lost
The journey across the Zagros changed Cooper forever
Ryszard Antola
Love Iranian-American style
Eshaghian’s comedy is dark
Ari Siletz
Rumi, opium and the beauty of genuine forgiveness
A review of Bijan Daneshmand’s “A Snake’s Tail”
Setareh Sabety
The forgotten generation
"The Fish Fall in Love" and "The Gaze" International Rotterdam Film Festival
Sasan Seifikar
The seducer
Omid Djalili in "Casanova"
Behrouz Bahmani
Return of the king
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson revisits 1933 horror classic
Darius Kadivar
The seducer
Omid Djalili in "Casanova"
Behrouz Bahmani
Unashamed fun
Magazine clips of movie stars in the 1970s
Pullniro
Living artists
I guess my question here is: when do we stop stressing over our parents expectations of us and pursue the path that we see fit for ourselves?
Saeideh Mohajer
President Kong
King Kong focuses on the mind of one man and his fraught relations with the West: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Peyvand Khorsdandi
Khabare bad
A personal note on the great film director, Ali Hatami
Fereidoun Farahandouz
LA radio
Video clips: Iranian radio in Los Angeles
Jahanshah Javid
Forget politics
Celebrities just before the revolution
Pullniro
Talk of Venice
Interview with Ramin Bahrani who's film "Man Push Cart" has generated quite a buzz at the Venice Film Festival
Poopak Taati
Karate
gals
Documentary: With open hands
Nezehat Arabshahi
Pink
parade
Video clips: Lesbian festival in San Francisco
Jahanshah Javid
Crash & burn
A film that leaves plenty of bold questions about race
Faye Farhang
Accelerating
freedom
Interview with filmmaker Mahvash Sheikholeslami
Farid Parsa
Ridley's
Crusade
Clash
of civilizations in Ridley Scott's latest epic, "Kingdom
of Heaven"
Darius Kadivar
Life
and Nothig More
Video: Kiarostami's "Zendegi
va deegar heech"
Dario
Tehran 7 a.m.
Video: Urine test
Dario
Aghdashloo
quits "24"
April Fools: Iranian-American star leaves hit Fox TV show amid controvery
Ken Hakarimoran
Khollywood Reporter
Simply
jealous
Our national psychological disorder
Taraneh Izadi Shahr-e
Farang
Going to the movies in Tehran
Bahram Saghari
Aghdashloo
has it all
My God, when are we going to understand that she is an actress
and she has to show she can tackle any role?
Azam Nemati
To
see or not to see
A parental dilemma on Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtle
Can Fly"
Kamal H. Artin
The
good neighbor
A film on the life of novelist Ahmad Mahmoud
Azam Nemati
The
heirs of wars
Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtles Can
Fly"
Sasan Seifikar
2,500-year-old
lady with Alzheimer's
Interview with Esmaeil Mirfakhraei
Farid Parsa
Quarrels
and lamentations of Iranian lovers
Sex, sexuality,
and relationships in Mania Akbari's "Twenty
Fingers"
Sasan Seifikar Performer's
choice
The Aghdashloo controversy
Guive Mirfendereski
Killer
mom
Photo essay: Shohreh Aghdashloo's U.S. television debut
Jahanshah Javid
We
wish you a merry Christmas
Video
Siamack Salari
Who
needs kissing?
Bollywood eveloves from tradition to trash
Niki Tehranchi
Sometimes
happiness, sometimes sorrow
Indian films are like dreams
Mahmoud
The
grand connection
A rare glimpse into the ceremonies of the Ghaderi Derwishes
of Kurdistan
Robin Jayne Goldsmith
The
best -- misrepresentation of history
On Oliver Stone's "Alexander"
M.A.R.
Miserably
lousy
Oliver Stone's "Alexander"
Trita Parsi
Forming
visions
Speaking to the founder of a rare venue to showcase children
and youth culture
Farid Parsa
Not
the last
On Theo 'an Gogh's assassination: interview with Azar Majedi
Maryam Namazi
Alexander
is back
Oliver Stone's upcoming epic on the Macedonian conqueror
Darius Kadivar
Playing
games
Review: "20 Fingers", best digital film, 2004 Venice
Film Festival
Shahla Azizi
A
film buff remembers
A book every movie fan should buy
Fereydoun Hoveyda
Seeds:
A documentary
Photo essay
Parisa Taghizadeh
Moore
Shrek
Two films
Peyvand Khorsandi
Extreme
filmmaking
People in the film business are gangsters. In Iran, it's extreme.
Jason Rezaian
The
awakening
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"
Kamal H. Artin
Nostalgia
and something less cheery
Michael Moore's fabulously effective piece of propaganda
By Sam Fayyaz
Republicans
must see
Fahrenheit 9/11 may open the eyes of Bush supporters in the Iranian-American
community
By Maziar Shirazi
Rediscovering
the lost art of laughter
"Marmoolak" tickled nerves I had forgotten I had
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
Profile:
Gita Saedi
Producer for PBS series: "The New Americans"
By
Bruce Bahmani
Kayvan
Mashayesh's Khayyam
Director of "The Keeper"
By Darius Kadivar Stung
by Marmoolak
When the film was over I was a different person
By Mehdi Khazand
Lizardmania
Photo essay: Watching the brilliant "Lizard" in
LA
By Jahanshah Javid
An
illness of her own
A review of "Crystal"
By Setareh Sabety
Hot
summer afternoons
Sahar's love affair with Uncle Napoleon TV series
By Mahsa Meshki
Left
behind
Jafar Panahi's new film raises fear and guilt
By Linda Ghassemi
A
revelation
Mystic Iran: Meaningful, beautiful documentary
By Azam Nemati
Praise
for Gibson's passion
Almost news
By Amir Nooriala
Oscar
performance
Imagine if Aghdashloo wins the Academy Award
By The Cousin
Acting
Victorian
When I translate 200-year-old English traditions into Persian,
the strangeness disappears
By Mahin Bahrami
A
Foreign Poem
Short film
By Hossein Fazeli
Bravo
Shohreh!
Touching performance adds much to "House of Sand and
Fog"
By Karim Pakravan
Major
attraction
Bam was location for 1976 film "The Desert of the Tartars"
By Darius Kadivar
Collective
sneeze
"If Iranians just sneeze together, it would be a hurricane
to destroy the regime."
By Megabiz Irani
Good
and bad
Aghdashloo's character in House of Sand and Fog was a weak
woman
By Azam Nemati
House
of Shohreh
Sneak preview: House of Sand and Fog
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani Right
direction
Hollywood's first refined portrayals of Iranian Americans
By Trita Parsi
The
last colony
Interview with filmmaker Parvin Ansary
By Brian Appleton
The
missing
Tooba, the tree of life, must be controlled, kept in fear, scrutinized
By Torange Yeghiazarian
Smack
in the middle
It is good to, for a change, leave the pride aside and imagine
ourselves in the other person's shoes
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
Simply
human nature
Would anybody want to hire us if we were all going to be known
only as terrorists?
By Cas Anvar
Garden
variety
An Iranian teaches an American a lesson about journalism. The film
skips the Iranian part
By Kambiz Foroohar
Wanting
to be found
Hamdeli i is better than hamzabaani
By Anoosh Ariapour
Between
reality and fiction
Iranian documentary cinema
By Persheng Vaziri
It's
really him
Photo essay: An Iranian in communist Russia
By Jahanshah Javid
Hate
this movie
Selling "Maryam"to the Iranian community
By Ramin Serry
Divinity
within
Stills from a documentary on Kurdish derwishes
By Jahanshah Ardalan
Hey film
fans!
FarsiFilms.com is your Iranian online Blockbuster
By Azadeh Namakydoust
Deeper
than words
In Ten, Kiarostami shows mysterious and indirect conceptualization of
love relationships
By Poopak Taati
Orson's
last sigh
Orson Welles journey from Xanadu to Persepolis
By Darius Kadivar
Retrieving
1931
A family and Prime Minister Foroughi on film
By Farhad Sepahbody
Raiders
of black gold
Hollywood and oil
By Darius Kadivar
Good
long look in the mirror
Innocence regained: American movies after 9/11
By Ahmad Sadri
Cyrus
is coming
To a theater near you
By Fiachra Gibbons
May
Day
A letter from Tehran
By A Tehrani
Winds
of war
Film depicting Nazi assassination plot in Tehran
By Darius Kadivar
In
search
of Dali's miracles
Watching Kiarostami may prove there are other alternatives
By Madame Bayaz
Till
money do us part
Milani's film bares love & marriage
By Poopak Taati
Khayyam
with popcorn
Persian poet in the eyes of Hollywood
By Darius Kadivar
Neverman
Michael Jackson
By Shirin Sadeghi
Freakumentary
On the life of Michael Jackson
By Shaparak Khorsandi
Swords-and-Sandals
Films about ancient Persia
By Darius Kadivar
The
flower and the conqueror
Barhram Beyzaei's Killing Rabids
By Mani Farhoomand
Frodo's
hunch
No man is willingly just but only when compelled to be so
By Ahmad Sadri
The
right to exist
Interview with film director Maziar Bahari
By Golnar Motevalli
Branded
in memory
To embrace or completely dismiss modern Iranian films as a
whole shows a lack of critical thinking
By Niki Tehranchi
Only
the strong survive
"Gangs of New York": Painful story of immigrants
By Nat Bartel
Branded
in memory
To embrace or completely dismiss modern Iranian films as a
whole shows a lack of critical thinking
By Niki Tehranchi
Entertainment
+
Top 10 movies of 2002
By Mani Farhoomand
Who
you talkin' to?
Iranian cinema has lost its magic
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
More
than real
Hollywood's thousand and one nights
By Darius Kadivar
I
love to be scared
Holiday movie guide
By Niki Tehranchi
Battle for the West
Review: Spartans vs. Persians
By Darius Kadivar
Tradition
and modernity
Characters in Payami's film represent extreme poles of our schizophrenic
collective self
By Ataollah Togha
So
boring, so pointless
Review: Babak Payami's "Secret Ballot"
By I.X.
My
big fat Persian culture
What's wrong with it?
By Mahyar Etminan
No
entry for Kiarostami
New visa regulations for Iranians prevent filmmaker from getting a U.S.
visa
By Jacques Mandelbaum
Practicing
care
Prerequisite to breaking out of the prison of global inhumanity
By Bill Swanson
Tears,
wall-to-wall
"The Tree That Remembers" hasn't a central thesis or focus
By Julian Samuel
The
human side
I tried to show the evolution that is taking place within families
like Shahrbanoo's all over the country
By Hamid Rahmanian
Gheysar
Bath
Photo essay: southern Tehran
By Nader Davoodi
The
missing factor
Merely representing the most downtrodden people
By Amir
Ordinary
(Muslim) woman
Shahrbanoo demystifying many cliches about Islam and Muslims in Iran
By Omid S. Marvi
Life
in focus
Documentaries at film festival
By Hamid Rahmanian
Keeping us
in check
Iranians in Iran will help us remember who we are
By Kamshad Kooshan
To
be heard
Of hope and despair: Rakhshan Bani Etemad's Our Times
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
The
crown jewel
... of Iranian cinema
By Niki Tehranchi
Va
aanjaa keh rang ham rang meebaazad
(It's about Kandahar)
By Katayoon
Ahmad,
Abu and Jafar
Thief of Baghdad
By Darius Kadivar
Hapless
symbols
Kandahar leaves the viewer angry and disappointed
By Sima Saeedi
Deev
ham deevaaye oon zamoon
"Lord of the Rings" so so
By Korosh Khalili
Wonder
and magic
Growing reputation of Iranian cinema
By Hamid Dabashi
Remaking
Alaahazrat
Make-up
By Abdollah Eskandari
Spectacular
monster
Genghis Khan according to Hollywood
By Darius Kadivar
Shekaaftan-e
sokoot
On Milani's "Hidden Half"
By Katayoon
A
very good thing
Muzaffar al-Din Shah's encounter with cinema
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Haqe
entekhaab
Thinking of her father, at a film fest
By Namdar Nasser
Alexander
the Flop
A good film that didn't sell
By Darius Kadivar
Aym
not eeraaniyan
A man's refusal to acknowledge his Iranianness
By Setareh Sabety
Limbs
of no body
World's indifference to the Afghan tragedy
By Mohsen Makhmalbaf
June 20, 2001
Moving
meditations
Shirin Neshat stirs up all of my ambivalent feelings about being Iranian-American
By Cyrus Samii
June 20, 2001
Films
with an accent
Globalization of cinema
By Hamid Naficy
June 13, 2001
Canary
in a cage
Iranian cinema has become poetry with a message of liberty
By Setareh Sabety
June 8, 2001
Success
shmuckcess
Islamic Republic -- not Iranian -- cinema
By Parviz Sayyad
June 6, 2001
Nine plays
Ta'ziyeh: Iran's indigenous theatre
May 2001
What
would Terry say?
Profiling Iranian passengers in the U.S.
By Goudarz Eghtedari
Indigenous theatre
Ta'ziyeh mourning rituals
By Peter Chelkowski
April 26, 2001
Something
about Maryam
Interview with film director Ramin Serry
By Bruce Bahmani
March 8, 2001
Hadji Baba
Persian adventure made into Hollywood film
By Darius Kadivar
March 7, 2001
Zardeh
Kuh to King Kong
A great filmmaker's early start
By Darius Kadivar
January 11, 2001
The
price of change
Can't there be change without violence?
By Najmeh Fakhraie
December 19, 2000
No
more kids stuff
"The Circle" tackles women's issues without pseudo-poetic symbolism
By Roya Hakakian
September 29, 2000
Persia?
Ancient Persia's virtual absence in Hollywood
By Darius Kadivar
August 28, 2000
Not THAT
good
Patronizing adoration for Iranian cinema
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
August 24, 2000
Free
bird
Tahmineh Milani's "Two Women"
By Jasmin Darznik
August 8, 2000
Action!
Behind the camera with Samira Makhmalbaf
Photographs by Maysam Makhmalbaf
May 18, 2000
The
red ribbon
Hatamikia's new film goes right to the heart
By Najmeh Fakhraie
May 17, 2000
Farewell
to Fardin
Death of legendary actor marks end of an era
By Farzan Navab
April 7, 2000
Aug 4, 1999
A bitter
bite
A critique of Samira Makhmalbaf's "The Apple"
By Ali Akbar Mahdi
July 29, 1999
How lucky
I am
A boy's thoughts on "Children of Heaven"
By Somm Tabrizi
June 24, 1999
The
drifter
Travelers in Bahram Bayzaie's work
By Kayvan Alikhani
March 3, 1999
Shining
rotten apple
A horrific film that must be seen
By Jasmin Darznik
February 17, 1999
Tinged
with the Color of God
Learning the ins and outs of Iranian cinema during the Fajr festival
By Laleh Khalili
February 9, 1999
Heavenly children
Majidi's film deserves an Oscar
By Reza Farahani
November 8, 1998
The New York Times : Revealing
an Iran Where the Chadors Are Most Chic
By Godfrey Cheshire
August 25, 1998
In dialogue
with Kiarostami
By Ali Akbar Mahdi
July 1997
Farewell to
Rumi
Film in planning
By Khashayar Darvich
September 1996
Searchers:
The new Iranian cinema
Iranian film has gone supernova
By Ahmad Sadri
March 1996
Chera Filme
Irani Misazand?
Commentator laments cheap nudity in Iranian films. (In Persian)
March 1996
Short stories
with high hopes
A project initiated by a group of young Iranian film makers in the U.S. |
