A deposed ruler tries to escape his country’s revolution in director Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s latest.
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My favorite films of 2014, runners-up and caveats
Given how many superb movies play Chicago every year, it’s a struggle to limit a list of favorites to just ten—or even 30.
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CIFF salutes Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President, and so can you
Noting an encore screening of this year’s Gold Hugo winner for best narrative feature
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Coming soon: Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s deceptively simple The Gardener
The acclaimed Iranian filmmaker’s latest documentary opens in Chicago this Friday.
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Under the Chador
“Aren’t you afraid?” some of my stateside friends asked before I visited Iran for the first time last February. “Only of American bombs,” I replied. Notwithstanding all of the things that are currently illegal there—such as men and women shaking hands or riding in the same sections of buses—I’m not sure I’ve ever been anyplace […]
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A Moment of Innocence
One of the best features by the prolific and unpredictable Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, this 1996 film also happens to be one of his most seminal and accessible–a reconstruction of a pivotal incident during his teens that landed him in prison for several years during the shah’s regime. A fundamentalist and activist at the time, […]
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A Time of Love
Less potent as filmmaking than The Peddler or Marriage of the Blessed, this intriguing 1990 feature by the eclectic, unpredictable Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, set in Turkey, was banned in Iran five years ago. It recounts the tale of an adulterous triangle (a taxi driver, a wife, and a man who shines shoes) in three […]