Flat or round, every character is ruled by a central emotion and/or the goal they’re striving to accomplish. Some are driven ...

When the Iranian director Jafar Panahi showed up at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, it struck some of us as something close to a miracle. For most of the past 15 years, since he was ...

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident is a masterwork of a revenge thriller. Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival While I have had my share of eye problems, I have never been forced to experience the ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. The third time Iranian director Jafar Panahi was arrested, it was with his wife, his daughter, and 15 of his friends.

The intense mutual admiration of Martin Scorsese and Jafar Panahi was evident today as the American and Iranian directors embraced at length. Panahi bowed to “a god of cinema.” Scorsese challenged ...

The Iranian dissident auteur, who won the Cannes Palme d’Or 2025 for 'It Was Just an Accident,' will instead record the Screen Talk, which will be made available online for free. By Georg Szalai ...

It’s no accident. After a week of visa delays, Iranian director Jafar Panahi has arrived in the U.S. Last week, Panahi, who was set to debut his Palm d’Or winner, It Was Just an Accident, at the New ...

A scene from "It Was Just An Accidnet" A Film by Jafar Panahi (Credit: Courtesy of The Cannes Film Festival) Update: Jafar Panahi, director of the highly acclaimed Iranian film “It Was Just an ...

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Iranian director Jafar Panahi has made extraordinary films despite hostility from his country’s Islamist authorities who have at various times put him behind bars, banned him from international travel ...

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The fest also confirmed that Bruce Springsteen will be at the fest in support of ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,’ Scott Cooper’s narrative film starring Jeremy Allen White. By Scott Feinberg ...