Daily Briefing. Mohammad Rasoulof, Ken Jacobs, Claude Lanzmann
David HudsonAlso: Charlie Kaufman’s writing a novel and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner’s making a movie.
Mohammad Rasoulof
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ND/NF 2012. Labaki, Giorgelli, Evans, Rasoulof, Murat
David HudsonA first roundup follows the festival’s trailer and the obligatory bit of general throat-clearing.
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Daily Briefing. Rasoulof, Lynch, Tarr, Hitchcock, Wellman
David HudsonAlso: Hoberman on It’s Halftime in America and the prospects for “an Obama-inflected Hollywood cinema.”
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Rotterdam 2012. Awards
David HudsonThree Tigers go to China, Chile/Netherlands and Serbia. Plus, more awards.
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Daily Briefing. Hedy Lamarr, Kubrick's New York and More
David HudsonAlso: Myrna Loy, Mohammad Rasoulof, Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Neil Jordan, viewing and browsing and reading and more.
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Daily Briefing. #OccupyEverything
David HudsonAlso: Jafar Panahi’s sentence upheld. Forthcoming DVDs, Sunday reads and more.
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Cannes 2011. Rushes: "Ninja Kids", "Goodbye", "Le gamin au vélo"
Daniel KasmanNow released in the US; read our review from Cannes, where it won the Grand Jury Prize.
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Cannes 2011. Mohammad Rasoulof's "Good Bye"
David HudsonUpdated through 5/21. "The political and social tension surrounding the recent imprisonment of Mohammad Rasoulof will inevitably influence the way his most recent film, Good Bye, is received at Cannes
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Cannes 2011. New Films by Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof
David HudsonHuge announcement from the Cannes Film Festival today: "Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, currently subject to legal proceedings in Iran which earned them a sentence of six years in prison and a 20
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Cinema Scope, Film Comment, Cineaste, Offscreen
David HudsonSuddenly this weekend, generous samplings from a slew of new issues from some of the best film magazines around have appeared online. In this brisk overview, let's start with Cinema Scope, in which
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Undercurrent, Midnight Eye, Panahi and Rasoulof
David HudsonThe special section in the new issue of Undercurrent on Blake Edwards, who passed away last month, opens with an earnest appreciation Adrian Martin wrote back in 1987: "What knocks on the door of Edwards
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Iranian Cinema, "Useful Life," "Petition," Baillie, Thome, More
David HudsonThe Boston Festival of Films from Iran opens tomorrow and runs through January 29 and, in his overview for the Phoenix, Peter Keough opens with a brief synopsis of "one of the best entries," Mohammad