Prelude — In this final piece in a series of essays focusing on important Iranian films at the age of forty, I would like to return to the broader image
Prelude — We are living through an era in which the finest television series no longer stand in the shadow of cinema, not only in terms of production quality and
In its less-than-century-long history, Iranian cinema has produced a number of distinguished filmmakers, yet the world has come to associate it above all with two names: Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar
Now, in the days following the loss of the beloved Shahrnush Parsipur, perhaps the most fitting tribute is to reflect on the place she earned through six decades of creative
"We've got to get out of this house... we've got to leeeeave..."
Revisiting the film through which our beloved Abbas Kiarostami first announced himself to world cinema is, on the tenth anniversary of his passing, both poignant and instructive. Forty years on,
The distinguished novelist and literary critic E. M. Forster famously used an example to explain the difference between a story and a plot—an example you have probably heard before. In