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View ArticleThe Best Films of 2022
EOMy "top 10" of the year as submitted to and published on Sight & Sound. For the full list of the 97 voters and their picks go here. – EKEO (Jerzy Skolimowski)Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)See...
View ArticleSi j'avais 4 dromadaires (Chris Marker, 1966)
Playing at Closeup Cinema in London on January 29, 2023. There'll be some surprise shorts screened before Marker's film. – EKMarker's underseen masterpiece, Si j'avais 4 dromadaires [If I Had Four...
View Article25 Fireman's Street (István Szabó, 1973)
25 Fireman's StreetIstván Szabó, 1973 | 98 minsUK premiere of the new restoration at Close-Up Cinema (London) on May 28, 2023István Szabó's agile camera is an uninvited guest peeking into the private...
View ArticleCry of Midnight (Samuel Khachikian, 1961)
Playing in Berlin (Sinema Transtopia) on May 11, 2023.In 1961, the Iranian-Armenian Samuel Khachikian, a figure of enormous talent known for his strong female characters and the use of crime cinema...
View ArticleRouben Mamoulian: A Touch of Desire
Silk Stockings | publicity stillRouben Mamoulian: A Touch of Desire (1926-1957)Retrospective at Il Cinema Ritrovato, June 24-July 2, 2023Known for his ability to encode his vision in light, movement,...
View ArticleCherike-ye Tara [The Ballad of Tara] (Bahram Beyzaie, 1979)
The Ballad of Tara Bahram Beyzaie's seamless blend of myth, symbolism, folklore and classical Persian literature in The Ballad of Tara is unparalleled in its complexity. Yet, apart from Downpour...
View ArticleRouben Mamoulian, Lost and Found (André S. Labarthe, 2016)
Rouben Mamoulian, Lost and FoundFree admission screening of the film at Il Cinema Ritrovato, on June 23, 14.30, Sala Scorsese.When it comes to filmed interviews, Mamoulian is one of the well-documented...
View ArticleIl Cinema Ritrovato XXXVII – The Films
Il Cinema Ritrovato XXXVII – (Almost) All the Titles[Saut du mouton]|-|FR1903Planche à rainures|-|FR1903Descente dans la batterie|-|FR1903Une Scène à l'octroi|Velle, Gaston|FR1903Chirurgie...
View ArticlePeter Cowie on Gharibeh va Meh (1974)
"Two years in the making, it is a vast, symbolist drama, set in some remote historical period (hazy even to Iranians), and bursting at the seams with action and bloodcurdling confrontations. Why a...
View ArticleIl Cinema Ritrovato 2023: Favourites & Discoveries
The 37th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato concluded last week but its memories live on. In Silk Stockings (Rouben Mamoulian, 1957), a quintet of melancholic expats freshly returned from a seductive Paris...
View ArticleTranquility in the Presence of Others (Nasser Taghvai, 1969)
Tranquility in the Presence of OthersNasser Taghvai, 1969, 84 min, Persian with English subtitlesOften seen as one of the indispensable films of the Iranian New Wave, Tranquility in the Presence of...
View ArticleSven Klangs kvintett (Stellan Olsson, 1976)
Playing at Close-Up Cinema in London on September 24, 2023. – EKVoted by Swedish film critics as one of the "25 greatest Swedish films ever", Stellan Olsson's tender drama is based on a play by Henric...
View ArticleStill Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974) reviewed by John Gillet for Sight &...
Perhaps Berlin’s main achievement was to reveal the progress of the young Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Sales, with A Simple Event (reviewed from last year’s Tehran Festival) in the Forum and Still...
View ArticleThe Cow (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969) | MoMA
The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969)Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were brutally murdered on October 14, 2023. MoMA screens this film on October 26.This milestone of the Iranian New Wave portrays, with...
View ArticleDayereh-ye Mina [The Cycle] (Dariush Mehrjui, 1974)
The Cycle (Dariush Mehrjui, 1974-76)Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were brutally murdered on October 14, 2023. MoMA screens this film on November 1.This harrowing tale of poverty and drug addiction in...
View ArticleNight of the Hunchback (Farrokh Ghaffari, 1964) | MoMA
Shab-e Ghouzi (Night of the Hunchback). 1964. Iran. Directed by Farrokh Ghaffari. Screenplay by Ghaffari, Jalal Moghadam. With Ghaffari, Pari Saberi, Paria Hakemi, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz.Inspired by a...
View ArticleTabi’at-e Bijan [Still Life] (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974)
Still LifeTabi'at-e Bijan (Still Life). 1974. Iran. Written and directed by Sohrab Shahid Saless. With Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hedayatollah Navid. 93 min.An elderly railway signalman is unable...
View ArticleLa Notte Brava (Mauro Bolognini, 1959)
La Notte BravaDir: Mauro Bolognini, 1959, 95 minPlaying at Close-Up Cinema on December 30, 2023Before embarking on a career as a director, Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote the script for La Notte Brava. The...
View ArticleAnatole Litvak Retrospective at Il Cinema Ritrovato
Anatole Litvak with Deborah KerrJOURNEY INTO NIGHT: THE WORLD OF ANATOLE LITVAKAn unjustly overlooked master with an international career spanning six decades, Anatole Litvak made some of the most...
View ArticleSomething to Live For (George Stevens, 1952)
This one of the crowning jewels of American cinema, nearly as good as the best of Roberto Rossellini with Ingrid Bergman, is strangely one of the least known masterpieces of the 1950s.Imagine Ray...
View ArticleThe Walls Came Tumbling Down (Lothar Mendes, 1946)
The biblical title ("When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout and the wall fell down." Joshua 6:20) has actually very little to do with the story of this drab and...
View ArticleThe Runner Still Runs
A dazed boy is standing on the beach, hollering at the ships leaving the Persian Gulf for other worlds. The vessels of escape, carrying oil tanks and dreams, are fading ghosts on a pale horizon. To...
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