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A revolutionary political drama, a romantic dramedy, and a Star Wars film are the three great Hulu movies to watch this ...
Following The Last of Us season 2 finale, HBO is moving on with Jesse Armstrong's movie Mountainhead, which is already giving ...
For more on Pelayo and Covadonga, see Chapter 3 of my Sword and Scimitar: For more on the Reconquista in general, see Chapter 6. All historic quotes cited in this video are sourced in the book.
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was given a hero's welcome by supporters on his return to Tehran on Monday after winning the ...
Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hadn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than ...
with Mohammad Rasoulof’s Iranian drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig right behind with six. Rasoulof’s depiction of an Iranian family torn apart by conflicting loyalties to an increasingly ...
The Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof was in a Tehran jail when he hit on the idea for his Oscar-nominated film The Seed of the Sacred Fig. He was in solitary confinement for signing a petition ...
Acclaimed director Mohammad Rasoulof filmed The Seed of The Sacred Fig in defiance of Iran’s strict filmmaking laws. It’s earned him an Oscar nomination — and a prison sentence. Faced with a ...
The conditions in which The Seed of the Sacred Fig was made were impossibly prohibitive. Rasoulof had to direct the film secretively from afar and, when the shoot was completed, his looming eight ...
Mohammad Rasoulof is now comfortably able to participate in the stateside awards season for his 2025 Best International Feature Oscar nominee, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” But that was not an initial ...