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About Elly (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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About Elly (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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ABOUT ELLY (2009) Starring Shahab Hosseini, Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mani Haghighi, Peyman Moaadi, Merila Zarei, Ra’na Azadivar, Ahmad Mehranfar and Saber Abbar. Screenplay by Asghar Farhadi. Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Distributed by Cinema Guild.  113 minutes.  Not Rated. The world at large learned about the filmmaking skill of Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi in 2012 … Continue reading →

Damián Szifrón – Argentine Director Unleashes Wild Tales, Gets Oscar Nom
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Damián Szifrón – Argentine Director Unleashes Wild Tales, Gets Oscar Nom

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Damián Szifrón Argentine Director Unleashes Wild Tales, Gets Oscar Nom by Brad Balfour Opening this Oscar weekend, Argentina’s Best Foreign Language Feature nominee Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes), lined up with breaking news of the homeland. Boy has Argentina been in the spotlight lately. Ever a media subject, Pope Francis – the former archbishop of Buenos … Continue reading →

Hany Abu-Assad On His Oscar nominated Controversial Feature Omar
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Hany Abu-Assad On His Oscar nominated Controversial Feature Omar

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Hany Abu-Assad On His Oscar nominated Controversial Feature Omar by Brad Balfour Palestinian director Hany Abu–Assad’s controversial Oscar–nominated feature Omar merges genres and uses flawed characters to dynamically illustrate the complex political realities between Israel and the Palestinian territories. Born October 11th, 1961, in Nazareth, Israel, Abu–Assad was first nominated for a Best Foreign Language … Continue reading →

Marjane Satrapi Cooks Up A Tasty Chicken With Plums
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Marjane Satrapi Cooks Up A Tasty Chicken With Plums

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Marjane Satrapi Cooks Up A Tasty Chicken With Plums by Brad Balfour Iranian-born director and artist Marjane Satrapi lives in Paris, France, and has never lived in post-revolutionary Persia throughout her adult life. Yet her home country has shaped and influenced her creative work whether it be her written and drawn graphic novels or her feature films. In 2000, an independent … Continue reading →

Asghar Farhadi – Iranian Writer/Director Gets Oscar For A Separation & Retrospective at Lincoln Center
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Asghar Farhadi – Iranian Writer/Director Gets Oscar For A Separation & Retrospective at Lincoln Center

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Asghar Farhadi Iranian Writer/Director Gets Oscar For A Separation & Retrospective at Lincoln Center by Brad Balfour Iranian director Asghar Farhadi manages to both enlighten and mystify. Maybe that’s why he’s been able to evade both the censors and jailers who police filmmakers for thought crimes against the mega-fascist Iranian state. Or maybe because this … Continue reading →

Fernando Trueba Illustrates the History of Jazz with the Oscar-nominated Chico & Rita
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Fernando Trueba Illustrates the History of Jazz with the Oscar-nominated Chico & Rita

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Fernando Trueba Illustrates the History of Jazz with the Oscar-nominated Chico & Rita by Jay S. Jacobs Spanish film director Fernando Trueba has had a long, fascinating career which has branched out in many directions.  He started out as a movie critic in the 1970s for the newspaper El Pais.  He has since worked as an … Continue reading →

Ari Folman – An Israeli Director Dances with the Dogs of War In Waltz with Bashir
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Ari Folman – An Israeli Director Dances with the Dogs of War In Waltz with Bashir

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Ari Folman An Israeli Director Dances with the Dogs of War In Waltz with Bashir by Brad Balfour Of all the films nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar this year, director Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir reaped substantial press and stirred the most controversy. A documentary fashioned as an animated film, it is as much an imagined … Continue reading →

Stefan Ruzowitzky and Karl Markovics – A Director and an Actor Make an Authentic Holocaust Film out of The Counterfeiters
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Stefan Ruzowitzky and Karl Markovics – A Director and an Actor Make an Authentic Holocaust Film out of The Counterfeiters

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Stefan Ruzowitzky and Karl Markovics  A Director and an Actor Make an Authentic Holocaust Film out of The Counterfeiters by Brad Balfour Just when you think everything that happened during the Holocaust has been chronicled, another film appears based on a true story that offers another look at that horrible experience in a way which … Continue reading →