Movies
Kairostami: The Japanese Proof for Kurasowa
Abbas Kairostami’s Like Someone in Love is the first film in Japanese by an Iranian filmmaker. I don’t know whether it is the first Japanese film by any foreign filmmakers. I hope comments to this post will enlighten us on the topic. Also, if the sobriquet does not embarrass you, LSL is the first film […]
To the Lyrical Soul of Yours…
Certain films allow you to read many layers of a life articulated using a loose storyline but its eloquent poetic narrative. In a sense, they are easy to interpret and very difficult – almost impossible – to review. Terrence Malick belongs to that rare species of filmmakers who keep us engaged in their frames despite […]
To Reach You Move; To Transform Travel
Film Review: The Way (2010), Directed by Emilio Estevez, 121 minutes, English. Ways are endless. More endless are their offerings of the unexpected. It’s obvious that ways can take you to places and people. To unknown, unheard, unthought of, unimagined universes. However, where a way eventually leads you hardly matters in comparison with what it […]
A Political Myth-Making
Indeed, the popular culture of Hollywood or the American global culture forces us to see people helpless. Only the US can help and protect them from any ‘monstrosities’. After the 9/11 attack they succeeded to make us believe that they are the global police all set for an agenda with the support of media. Ben […]
Does the Big Screen Miss the Prophet?
Love and respect for the Prophet is part of the faith of Islam. There are so many representations of the Prophet in art and literature that it takes a voluminous space to chronicle them all. Resistance to the musical and literary representations from the Muslim orthodoxy has never been as vociferous as it has been […]
A Celebration of Palestinian Discontent
Michel Khleifi‘s Wedding in Galeeli tells the harrowing tale of Israeli occupation in Palestine in the context of a wedding. Those who find their land fast vanishing try to give it an outlet in whatever ways possible. Culture is, definitely, such an outlet where through the diminishing geography is reborn in the form of symbols. […]
The Circumstance 2011: What is beyond the ancestral dichotomy?
Anything that is Iranian, either being itself or being included in the broader identity of ‘the oriental’ or ‘eastern’, in the scenario of cultural criticism, will always bring that same old dialogue on the dichotomy of west and east, or liberty and religion. In addition, we are in such a political situation that considering something […]
Pilgrimage: Beyond Destination
There isn’t a thing called way; rather it is what you make when you walk, goes an Urdu saying. Le Grand Voyage is about the paths one is bound to take in a life time. Not in the obligatory sense of the ritual pilgrimage. It is rather about the paths one needs to traverse inside […]
When Istanbul Sings; We Hear Many Istanbuls
Turkish music is irresistibly intoxicating. The more you listen to it, the more it binds you inside. Once you begin to indulge in its soothing pleasure, it engages you to endless entrapment. Here, modernity cohabits with tradition as in the historic city of Istanbul, where a symbiosis between the east and the west is sharply […]
An Intriguing Tale of Faith
Of God and Men, titled Des hommes et des dieux originally in French, is a drama based on a true story. One of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2010, the movie is set in a small picturesque village in the northern mountains of Algeria. The movie narrates the events in the lives of six […]
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