asghar farhadi

  • The Rundown

Northman Reviews; Sundance Art and Commerce; Stranger Things Trailer; David Lynch to Cannes?

Stranger Things Season 4 gets its first trailer; A writer-director reflects on what happens in the year following a Sundance…

2 years ago
  • Winter 2019

How They Did It: Asghar Farhadi Lived in the Country of His Spanish-Speaking Stars to Write and Direct Everybody Knows

Before I went to Spain to make my new film Everybody Knows—a thriller which follows the tumultuous events that ensue when Laura (Penélope Cruz) returns to…

5 years ago
  • Interviews

Getting With the Program: Quad Cinema Is the Latest Addition to a Growing Wave of NYC Indie Arthouse Exhibition

"The economics of an arthouse cinema are not kind, I'll admit," says C. Mason Wells, Director of Programming at Quad…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Politically Personal: From Nowhere’s Director on Bringing Out the Humanity of His Undocumented Characters

I never thought of myself as a particularly political person, and I certainly never thought of myself as a political…

7 years ago
  • Acting

Upstaged by Injustice: The Salesman Is About More Than Its Titular Character, Says Actor Shahab Hosseini

Asghar Farhadi’s newest film The Salesman recently won prizes at Cannes for both Farhadi’s screenplay and for Shahab Hosseini’s lead performance. The…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Austin Film Festival and Writer’s Conference for Virgins: Get the Most Out of Your Experience

The four-day Writer's Conference at the Austin Film Festival, held every October since 1993, is for many the social, networking,…

7 years ago
  • Directing

“You Are a Person Seated in Court:” Asghar Farhadi Says Those Watching The Salesman Are More Than Spectators

A door opens, a crime is committed, honor is transgressed, and the conflicts in a literary classic intertwine with a…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Creative License: Paterson’s Golshifteh Farahani Talks Jarmusch and Breaking Through Iranian Self-Censorship

We all long for lives filled with extraordinary moments, signs that our individual experiences are different from everyone else's. Yet…

7 years ago
  • Movie News
  • Movie Reviews

Review: Gloria, Sebastián Lelio

Gloria, Sebastián Lelio's feature about a spirited older woman determined to get the most out of life, raises questions about…

10 years ago
  • Articles - Festival Beat
  • Articles - Festivals
  • Festivals

If Only I Could Cannes: 9 Cannes premieres to look out for (that I won’t get to see till they come to New York) by Josh Ralske

Festival de Cannes is upon us. Like me, you wish you were there. Or unlike me, you are there, which…

11 years ago